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Legislature

In the State Senate, Nell Soto won a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Senator Joe Baca to the U.S. Congress in December 1999, to fill the vacancy left by the death of Congressman George Brown.

Democratic Caucus Chair Jack O'Connell, was appointed to the Senate Rules Committee, replacing Patrick Johnston. Senate Minority Leader Ross Johnson stepped down as leader and was replaced by Republican Caucus Chair James Brulte. Senator Charles Poochigian was elected to replace Senator Brulte as Caucus Chair. Senator Johnson replaced Senator John Lewis on Senate Rules at the end of session.

The following State Senators are termed out of office in 2000:

	Years of Senate Service	Years of Assembly Service
Tom Hayden (D)	8	10
Teresa Hughes (D)	8	17
Patrick Johnston (D)	8	9
David Kelley (R)	8	14
Tim Leslie (R)	8-1/2
John Lewis (R)	9-1/2	10-1/2
Richard Mountjoy (R)	8-1/2	17-1/2
Cathie Wright (R)	8	12

Senator Hilda Solis won her bid for U.S. Congress, besting incumbent Matthew Martinez, and most likely will win the General Election. Senator Adam Schiff decided to run for U.S. Congress against Congressman James Rogan. A special election will be held in 2001 to replace Hilda Solis.

Senators Dave Kelley and Tim Leslie are running for State Assembly and former State Senator and Assemblymember Phil Wyman is also running for the Assembly. Also, former State Senator Larry Stirling is a candidate for State Senate, running against Senator Dede Alpert.

In the Assembly, Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa served as Speaker and Assemblymember Robert Hertzberg was elected to replace him. Audie Bock was elected to fill the vacancy caused by Assemblyman Don Perata's election to the State Senate in 1999 to fill the vacancy caused by Senator Barbara Lee's election to U.S. Congress. Assemblymember Bock was the first Green Party candidate to win a state election. Assemblymember Bock has since changed party designations, becoming an Independent. Senator Nell Soto's former Assembly seat was vacant during 2000.

The following is a list of Assembly members who are being term limited out of office and the House Resolution number which designates their retirement.

Richard Ackerman (R)	HR 62	Candidate for State Senate
Steve Baldwin (R)	HR 67
James F. Battin (R)	HR 83	Candidate for State Senate
Scott Baugh (R)	HR 66
Marilyn C. Brewer (R)	HR 72
James Cunneen (R)	HR 85	Candidate for U.S. Congress
Susan Davis (D)	HR 68	Candidate for U.S. Congress
Denise Moreno Ducheny (D)	HR 84
Richard Floyd (D)	HR 78	Unsuccessful candidate for State Senate
Peter Frusetta (R)	HR 71
Martin Gallegos (D)	HR 87	Possible candidate for Senator Solis' Senate Seat
Brett Granlund (R)	HR 79
George House (R)	HR 90
Howard Kaloogian (R)	HR 88
Wally Knox (D)	HR 81	Unsuccessful candidate for State Senate
Sheila James Kuehl (D)	HR 80	Candidate for State Senate
Ted Lempert (D)	HR 63
Mike Machado (D)	HR 76	Candidate for State Senate
Richard Margett (R)	HR 93	Candidate for State Senate
Kerry Mazzoni (D)	HR 75
Tom McClintock (R)	HR 91	Candidate for State Senate
Keith Olberg (R)	HR 77
Thomas "Rico" Oller (R)	HR 86	Candidate for State Senate
Bruce Thompson (R)	HR 64
Antonio Villaraigosa (D)	HR 95	Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles

Other Assembly members who are not returning to the State Assembly are, as follows:

Mike Honda (D)	HR 92	Candidate for U.S. Congress
Jack Scott (D)	HR 82	Candidate for State Senate
Tom Torlakson (D)	HR 74	Candidate for State Senate
Edward Vincent (D)	HR 65	Candidate for State Senate
Scott Wildman (D)	HR 73	Unsuccessful candidate for State Senate

SB 528* (Burton-D) Public employees' retirement

Provides that members of the State Legislators' Retirement System be entitled to a reduced benefit before age 60, if they have completed at least 14 years of service. Makes inapplicable to a specified class of members or retired members the reduction that would otherwise be applicable to their retirement allowance during the time that they serve in a public office.

Vetoed by the Governor

SCA 20 (Perata-D) Term limits

Provides that a person may not serve for more than 12 years as a member of the Assembly and 12 years as a member of the Senate. Provides that a person may not serve more than eight years in any statewide office or the State Board of Equalization. (These limits do not apply to any unexpired terms to which a person is elected or appointed, so long as they have not already served their maximum allowable terms.)

(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

SCR 54 (Burton-D) Legislature: adjournment

Adjourns the Senate and Assembly to meet for a session in the former State Capitol in Benicia to formally celebrate California's sesquicentennial.

Resolution Chapter 11, Statutes of 2000

SCR 64 (Burton-D) Commemoration of the First Legislature

Memorializes the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the First Session of the California Legislature.

Resolution Chapter 23, Statutes of 2000

SCR 70 (Burton-D) Ken Maddy

Memorializes the late Senator Ken Maddy and directs the Senate Rules Committee to establish a suitable commemoration upon the grounds of Capitol Park.

Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 2000

SR 21 (Burton-D) Rules Committee membership: Senator O'Connell

Elects Senator Jack O'Connell to the Senate Rules Committee, replacing Senator Patrick Johnston.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 22 (Ortiz-D) Adjournment of the Senate

Requires the Senate to convene in Sacramento on February 17, 2000, after its session at Benicia.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 23 (Burton-D) Senator Ken Maddy

Names the Senate Lounge in the Senate Chambers as the Kenneth L. Maddy Lounge.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 37 (Burton-D) Rules Committee membership: Senator Ross Johnson

Elects Senator Ross Johnson to replace Senator John Lewis on the Senate Rules Committee.

Adopted by the Senate

AB 1331 (Papan-D) Legislation tombstoning: removal of name

Removes the name of former Senator Alan Robbins from various code sections where it appears.

Chapter 375, Statutes of 2000

AB 2350 (Floyd-D) Ralph C. Dills Act: legislative employees

Includes nonsupervisory employees of the Legislature as "state employees" for purposes of the Ralph C. Dills Act.

(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

ACA 2 (Papan-D) Legislative terms

Provides that service in the Assembly is limited to six terms of two years each term, and service in the Senate is limited to three terms of four years each term. Makes the proposed term limitations applicable to any term of office as a Senator or Member of the Assembly, including, but not limited to, any term served prior to the effective date of this measure. Excludes election to a partial term that is less than one-half of the full term from the term limit.

(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

ACA 4 (Papan-D) Budget Bill: passage: vote requirement

Requires that a statute enacting a Budget bill become effective immediately upon its enactment. Provides that Budget Bill appropriations will be subject only to a majority vote of each House instead of a two-thirds vote.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACA 7 (Granlund-R) Legislature: term limits: retirement

Increases the number of years that legislators may serve, commencing with the November 2002 election. For members of the Assembly, from six to twelve years (from three two-year terms to three four-year terms). For members of the Senate, from eight to twelve years (from two four-year terms to two six-year terms). Specifies the counting of prior terms toward the term limitations and provides for staggered elections of Assembly terms. Allows legislators elected after December 2, 2002 to participate in the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and to count vested retirement credit earned under any other state or local retirement plan as credit in PERS.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACA 12 (Papan-D) Legislature: retirement

Authorizes members of the Legislature elected or serving after November 1, 1990 to elect to participate in the Public Employees' Retirement System.

Resolution Chapter 83, Statutes of 2000

ACA 15 (Leach-R) Legislature: sessions: two-year Budget

Deletes the current provision requiring the Legislature to convene at noon on the first Monday in December of each even-numbered year and instead requires the Legislature to convene in regular session at noon on the first Monday of January of each odd-numbered year and each house to immediately organize. Also requires that each session of the Legislature shall adjourn sine die by operation of the Constitution at midnight on December 15 of that year instead of at midnight on November 30 of the following even-numbered year. Provides that no bill may be passed by either house on or after November 1 of each legislative session unless the bill was vetoed by the Governor. Requires, in each odd-numbered calendar year, commencing in 2001, that the Governor submit to the Legislature a Budget for the two-year period commencing July 1, and that the Budget Bill passed by the Legislature also encompass that two-year period. Makes various conforming changes, including provision for the calculation of the state school-funding obligation on a two-year basis.

(Died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

ACA 18 (Papan-D) Legislature: terms: retirement

Requires a periodic election in each Senate and Assembly District to determine whether legislative term limits shall apply in that district for the succeeding two Senate terms or three Assembly terms. Permits legislators to join the Public Employees' Retirement System.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACR 75 (Thompson-R) Report on the Legislature

Provides, commencing with the 2000 calendar year, and every five years thereafter, that the President pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly report on the condition or state of the Legislature at a joint session of the Senate and Assembly convened immediately prior to adjournment of the Legislature for the July 4th holiday.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 120 (Thomson-D) Legislature's 150th celebration: Benicia

Commends the City of Benicia for hosting the Legislature's celebration of California's sesquicentennial at the Benicia State Capitol.

Resolution Chapter 25, Statutes of 2000

ACR 127 (Leonard-R) Charles R. Imbrecht

Commemorates the life of the late former Assemblyman Charles Imbrecht.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

HR 7 (Papan-D) Assembly Rules 22.5 and 69.1

Creates the Assembly Legislative Ethics Committee and provides for membership and policy for the committee.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

HR 44 (Steinberg-D) Reconvening of the Assembly

Requires the State Assembly to reconvene in Sacramento on February 17, 2000, after its celebration of the sesquicentennial at Benicia.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 52 (Cardoza-D) Assembly Sergeant-of-Arms

Elects Ronald E. Pane as the Assembly Sergeant at Arms.

Adopted by the Assembly

Alcoholic Beverage Control

SB 607* (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law: military exemption

Exempts distilled spirits sold by brandy manufacturers, distilled spirits manufacturers, rectifiers, importers, and distilled spirits wholesalers from the excise tax where the alcoholic beverages are sold to specified instrumentalities of the armed forces of the United States located within the geographical boundaries of the state.

Chapter 609, Statutes of 2000

SB 1232 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions

Modifies an existing tied-house exception to allow an on-sale licensee that also has an ownership interest in a winery to purchase a specified portion of the wine products sold at the on-sale establishment directly from the same licensed winegrower, rather than from a wholesaler.

Chapter 162, Statutes of 2000

SB 1293 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: Napa County wine

Provides that no wine that is produced, bottled, labeled, offered for sale, or sold in this state may use, in a brand name or otherwise, on any label, packaging material or advertising, the name "Napa," any viticultural area appellation entirely within Napa County, or any similar name, as specified, unless the wine meets certain federal regulatory standards for appellation of origin in Napa County. Makes various findings and declarations with respect to the necessity of preserving the integrity of the "Napa" appellation and states legislative intent to assure consumers that wines produced or sold in this state with brand names or advertising referring to Napa appellations in fact qualify for the Napa Valley or Napa County appellation of origin.

Chapter 831, Statutes of 2000

Similar legislation was AB 683 (Wiggins-D), which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

SB 1423 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions

Authorizes wineries and brandy manufacturers to advertise the name and location of restaurants that sell their products, as specified.

Chapter 205, Statutes of 2000

SB 1511 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: licenses

Establishes a new license category in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act for the American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts located in Napa County and operated by a nonprofit entity.

Chapter 231, Statutes of 2000

SB 1957 (Burton-D) Alcoholic beverages

Prevents beer manufacturers from terminating beer wholesalers solely because of the wholesaler's failure to meet an unreasonable sales goal or quota, as specified, and requires beer manufacturers to pay compensation to a beer wholesaler for unreasonable denial of sale or transfer of brands.

Chapter 1083, Statutes of 2000

SB 2085* (McPherson-R) Alcoholic beverages: use on school grounds

Provides for a one time eight day exemption from provisions of current law prohibiting the use of alcohol on school grounds by permitting alcoholic beverages to be served on the campus of the Monterey Peninsula College from June 15 - 22, 2000, in connection with the 100th anniversary of the United States Open Golf Championship Tournament at Pebble Beach, California.

Chapter 39, Statutes of 2000

AB 220 (Washington-D) Community-based alcohol education programs

Creates a new account in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund to finance local grants of up to $300,000 for community-based alcohol education programs for youth. Preference for awarding grants will go to cities and counties with more than 700 retail liquor licenses within their boundaries.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 377 (Wesson-D) Alcoholic beverages: licensees

Prohibits the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control from adopting a rule or regulation that permits a licensee to offer any premium, gift, or free goods to a consumer in such a way that will encourage the purchase or consumption of alcoholic beverages by minors and that is conditioned on the purchase of an alcoholic beverage.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 772 (Wesson-D) Alcoholic beverages: beer

Deletes ale, porter, brown, stout, lager beer, small beer, and strong beer from the definition of "beer."

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1223 (Cox-R) Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions

Revises provisions of existing law to, among other things, permit the removal of brands of alcoholic beverages that are owned or sold by the licensee from any place belonging to an off-sale retailer for the purpose of replacing alcoholic beverages on or restocking shelves or refrigerated boxes.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1525* (Thomson-D) Alcoholic beverages: licenses: beer manufacturers

Allows a beer manufacturer or winemaker to purchase advertising from, or on behalf of an on-sale license located in Yolo County and also addresses certain advertising restrictions "tied-house" restrictions, and licensing limitations pertaining to alcoholic beverages, as specified.

Chapter 7, Statutes of 2000

AB 1604* (Wesson-D) Alcoholic beverage licensees: advertising restrictions

Adds the holder of a distilled spirits manufacturer's license or a distilled spirits manufacturer's agent's license to the list of those eligible to purchase specified advertising space.

Chapter 424, Statutes of 2000

AB 1932 (Davis-D) Alcoholic beverages: advertisement: prohibition

Prohibits the advertisement of any alcoholic beverage on any outdoor billboard located within 1,000 feet of any public or private elementary school, junior high school, or high school.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2187 (Aanestad-R) Alcoholic beverages: local ordinances: open containers

Allows local governments to prohibit the possession of open containers of alcoholic beverages in city- or county-owned parks or public places, if the respective local government has enacted an ordinance prohibiting the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in those areas.

Chapter 381, Statutes of 2000

AB 2520 (Thomson-D) Alcoholic beverages: permits: winegrowers

Permits the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage control to issue a certified farmers' market sales permit to allow a licensee under a winegrower's license to sell wine produced and bottled by the winegrower at certified farmers' market locations, under specified conditions.

Chapter 384, Statutes of 2000

AB 2551 (Thomson-D) Alcoholic beverages: gifts or free goods

Changes the amount allowed beer manufacturers to give away brand identified items. Requires the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to report to the Legislature regarding the level of industry compliance with giving away advertising specialties of certain value.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2759 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Tied-house restrictions: licenses

Makes technical changes and code maintenance to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Code, as specified.

Chapter 979, Statutes of 2000

AB 2777 (Granlund-R) Alcoholic beverages: licensees: advertising

Broadens an existing tied-house exception to allow a distilled spirits manufacturer to purchase advertising from, or on behalf of, an on-sale licensee who is an owner or major tenant of any of five specified venues. Grants a tied-house exception to Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Chapter 980, Statutes of 2000

AJR 13 (Wiggins-D) Wine: excise tax: labels

Memorializes Congress to support the public's right to become informed regarding the health effects of wine consumption based on the latest scientific findings as approved by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and to oppose a tripling of the excise tax on wine as being unwarranted, harming the California wine industry, and unnecessarily eroding the industry's ability to compete with foreign producers in the global and domestic marketplace.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

Horseracing

SB 239 (Perata-D) Workers' compensation: jockeys

Authorizes the establishment of a nonprofit public benefit corporation to be known as the California Jockey Injury Compensation Fund, which will be responsible for securing workers' compensation insurance coverage on a blanket basis on behalf of all licensed trainers for the benefit of all jockeys, apprentice jockeys, exercise riders, and pony riders licensed by the California Horse Racing Board and performing services at a facility recognized and approved by the California Horse Racing Board. Requires the fund to make this insurance coverage available and in effect by January 1, 2001, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

SB 336 (Karnette-D) Horse racing: lottery

Requires the chairperson of the California Horse Racing Board to meet at least semiannually with the chairperson of the California State Lottery Commission and the executive director of the California State Lottery to determine how the California State Lottery and the horse racing industry may work to further the goals of the Horse Racing Law, and declares the intent of the Legislature in enacting this provision.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 912 (Knight-R) Horse racing

Authorizes the California Horse Racing Board to adopt regulations that disqualify any horse in a race that tests positive for a prohibited drug substance upon a finding that the prohibited drug substance had the potential to significantly affect the horse's performance during the race. Requires any owner, trainer, or stable employee opposing a disqualification on that basis to bear the burden to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the drug substance was insufficient to have significantly affected the horse's performance during the race.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1825 (Kelley-R) Horse racing: minimum license fees

Provides for a minimum of $40 million per year in license fees paid to the state by racing associations and fairs for support of the Network of California Fairs, the California Horse Racing Board, and the Kenneth L. Maddy Equine Research Facility at University of California, Davis.

Chapter 342, Statutes of 2000

SB 1887 (Vasconcellos-D) Horse racing: impact fees

Exempts the Santa Clara County Fair from paying an "impact fee" to northern California private racing associations, and provides for a license fee education to the racing associations beginning in 2001 in an amount equal to the impact fees received by the racing associations from the fair during the 2000 calendar year. Also provides that specified on-track license fees applicable to wagers made within the enclosures of thoroughbred racing associations in the Counties of Alameda and San Mateo shall be permanently reduced, beginning in 2002, by an additional sum equal to the actual amount of impact fees respectively received by each association from the Santa Clara County Fair in 2000.

Chapter 779, Statutes of 2000

SB 2054 (Senate Governmental Organization Committee) Horse racing

Makes numerous technical, clarifying, and conforming changes in order to update and condense, where possible, current horse racing statutes found in the Business and Professions Code.

Chapter 1082, Statutes of 2000

AB 354 (Reyes-D) Horse racing: 21st District Agricultural Association

Forgives the 21st District Agricultural Association (Fresno County Fair) for existing loans received from the State of California for financing improvements at the association's fairgrounds and provides that no further payments are required effective January 1, 2000.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

Similar legislation was AB 721 (Briggs-R), which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 493* (Floyd-D) Horse racing

Requires that any quarter horse or fair racing association conducting barrel racing, show jumping racing, or steeplechase racing pay to the quarter horsemen and women's organization a certain percentage of the purse amounts for purposes of representing the horsemen and women conducting these races; authorizes the California Horse Racing Board to establish, by regulation, California-bred Quarter Horse Championship races, and to supplement the purses for these races from existing revenues derived from a percentage of wagers placed upon imported quarter horse races, and; authorizes a quarter horse racing association and its participating horsemen and women to financially participate in a local, regional or national marketing program.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1256* (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Fairs: funding

Provides that 98 percent of annual satellite wagering license fee revenues in excess of $11 million be transferred to the Fair and Exposition (F&E) Fund up to a total of $13 million, and any amount in excess of that be split with 50 percent going to the General Fund and 50 percent remaining with the F&E Fund.

Chapter 53, Statutes of 2000

AB 1317 (Cardoza-D) Horse racing: out-of-state races

Clarifies that racing associations may form a partnership, joint venture, or any other affiliation with other entities licensed by the California Horse Racing Board to accept out-of-state wagers on horse races conducted in California.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1405 (Wesson-D) Horse racing: advance deposit wagering

Allows "advance deposit wagering" on horse races, subject to approval of the California Horse Racing Board.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1876 (Vincent-D) Horse racing: drugs

Enacts the California Horse Racing Regulatory Improvement Act of 2000, which establishes a specified administrative adjudication procedure applicable to enforcement actions of the board. Provides for the designation of two administrative law judges with power to grant interim orders and call stewards and other expert witnesses as specified. Provides that the board may revoke a license for up to three years for a single violation of these provisions, and increase the maximum monetary penalty to $25,000 per violation.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1902 (Vincent-D) Horse racing: interstate licensing compact

Authorizes the California Horse Racing Board to enter into an interstate licensing compact for the purpose of establishing uniform requirements among the party states for the licensing of individuals involved with the horse racing industry.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2341* (Floyd-D) Horse racing: paint horses

Requires that any quarter horse or fair racing association conducting barrel racing, show jumping racing, or steeplechase racing pay to the quarter horsemen and women's organization a certain percentage of the purse amounts for purposes of representing the horsemen and women conducting these races; authorizes the California Horse Racing Board to establish by regulation California-bred Quarter Horse Championship races, and to supplement the purses for these races from existing revenues derived from a percentage of wagers placed upon imported quarter horse races, and; authorizes a quarter horse racing association and its participating horsemen and women to financially participate in a local, regional or national marketing program.

Vetoed by the Governor

Similar legislation was AB 493 (Floyd-D), which died on Senate Inactive File.

AB 2344 (Floyd-D) Horse racing: imported races

Increases the number out-of-state and international horse races California racing associations and fairs may simulcast and accept wagers upon, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2352 (Floyd-D) Horse racing: racing weeks allocation

Authorizes the California Horse Racing Board to allocate additional weeks of quarter horse racing to the California Exposition and State Fair in Sacramento, or its lessee; exempts quarter horse and harness racing associations from the eight percent license fee paid to the state on out-of-state wagers; and requires 0.5 percent of the total handle on imported harness racing meetings to be deducted from the amounts available for owner purses and distributed to the California Standardbred Sires Stakes Program.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2569 (Margett-R) Horse racing: imported races

Modifies the definition of "California-bred standardbred horse," as specified, and allows harness racing associations to simulcast and accept wagers upon additional harness horse races.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2753 (Strickland-R) Horse racing: proposition wagers

Broadens the definition of "propositional wagering" to include wagers on propositions approved by the California Horse Racing Board that are based on the result of all live horse races, instead of just quarter horse race. Deletes the requirement that a wager must be placed within seven days of the transmission of a race, and establishes state license fee rates for this type of wager.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2760 (Wesson-D) Horse racing

Provides labor and housing law reforms that will provide backstretch workers more employment rights, as specified. Makes legislative findings and declarations.

Vetoed by the Governor

Other Gaming Legislation

SB 228* (Burton-D) Gambling: slot machines

Authorizes the transportation of slot machines on any vessel regularly engaged in interstate or foreign commerce so long as the machine is rendered inoperable or is not accessible for use while the vessel is within the territorial jurisdiction of California.

(Died at Senate Desk)

SB 639 (McPherson-R) Gambling: charitable raffles

Permits raffles to be conducted by private, nonprofit organizations, as defined, for the purpose of providing financial support for beneficial or charitable works.

Chapter 778, Statutes of 2000

SB 1838 (Burton-D) Gaming

Exempts a person leasing a gambling establishment in existence prior to July 1, 2000, that is owned by a publicly traded racing association from the provision in the Gambling Control Act that generally prohibits a person from being licensed to own a card club if that person has any financial interest in a company, either within or outside of this state, that is engaged in a form of gambling that is illegal in California.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 2053 (Senate Governmental Organization Committee) California State Lottery

Requires the California State Lottery Commission to adopt and publish competitive bidding procedures for the award of any subcontract of more than $100,000. The California State Lottery Commission is currently required to do this for any primary procurement or contract if more than $100,000. Also finds and declares that this bill furthers the purpose of the California State Lottery Act of 1984 and makes other minor technical changes.

Chapter 509, Statutes of 2000

SB 2173 (Senate Revenue And Taxation Committee) Taxation: lottery prizes

Clarifies that amounts received by a state lottery prizewinner pursuant to assignment of the right to receive future payments of lottery prize awards are exempt from state and local taxes. States that these provisions are declaratory of existing law.

Chapter 180, Statutes of 2000

SCA 12 (Perata-D) Gambling

Provides that, notwithstanding existing prohibitions regarding lotteries and casinos, the Legislature may authorize licensed gambling establishments to operate and offer for play player-pool banked card games, provided that no licensed gambling establishment participates or otherwise shares in any of the proceeds of the player-pool bank.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SJR 23 (Polanco-D) Indian gaming

Requests the U.S. Attorney General and the U.S. Attorneys for California not to try and stop the tribal gaming operations approved in Proposition 5 until after the March 7, 2000, primary election and requests the President to issue an executive order permitting the tribes to continue their gaming operations until appropriate legislation is enacted.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 317 (Floyd-D) Gambling Control Act: gambling establishments

Authorizes the player-pool banked 21 in licensed California card clubs. Allows card clubs to play other controlled games (i.e., Pai Gown, Pan, Super Pan 9) as either player-pool banked or player banked, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

Similar legislation was AB 1429 (Floyd-D), which failed passage on the Senate Floor; and AB 2319 (Floyd-D), which died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee.

AB 621 (Floyd-D) Casino: definition

Defines "casino" to mean a place where gambling or wagering is conducted and the players' wager against the house, with the house collecting losing bets and paying winning bets.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 948 (Wesson-D) Gambling: devices and supplies

Provides that the term "slot machine or device" or "gambling device" will not be construed to include any parts, EPROM chips, diagnostic tools, jackpot verification kits, and other ancillary parts and supplies that are not installed on a slot machine or device. These parts and supplies may lawfully be shipped to or from any tribal gaming facility in this state as specified.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1408 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) California State Lottery

Authorizes the California State Lottery Commission to allow winners of less than $25 to claim the prize from any lottery game retailer.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1416* (Wesson-D) Gambling establishments

Defines what constitutes a prohibited "banking or banked game," and exempts from this definition those games played in licensed card clubs in which the rules of the game utilize a player-dealer position, provided the opportunity to occupy this position continuously and systematically rotates among all seated players and preclude a person or entity from maintaining or operating as a bank during the course of the game.

Chapter 1023, Statutes of 2000

AB 1801 (Runner-R) California State Lottery: advertising

Requires the California State Lottery Commission to ensure the overall estimated odds of winning some prize or prizes in a particular lottery game are posted in all television and print advertising conducted by the California State Lottery Commission, exclusive of outdoor advertising displays, signs, or banners, related to that game.

Chapter 131, Statutes of 2000

AB 2179 (Wesson-D) Gambling: prohibited online gambling games

Prohibits Internet gambling and authorizes the State Attorney General to bring action against violators. Provides that any person who aids and abets, or plays, bets at or against a prohibited online gambling game for money, checks, credit or any other representative of value while physically located in California is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2565 (Zettel-R) Public postsecondary education: lottery funds

Increases the percentage of State Lottery funds that can be used for bond repayments for education technology infrastructure from 25 to 50 percent. Creates, in statute, a Technology and Telecommunication/Communications Program. Requires the Chancellor's Office to submit to the state an annual report on the program. Also, exempts the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges from the State Department of Information Technology approval process.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2788* (Granlund-R) Gambling establishments: licensing

Deletes the requirement that private card clubs located in a county that authorizes such activities conduct an election prior to July 1, 2000, to allow for the continued operation of a gambling establishment as a private club, as specified, and makes several other non-substantive changes to the Gambling Control Act.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2847 (Firebaugh-D) Gaming Policy Advisory Committee

Modifies the composition of the Gaming Policy Advisory Committee from 10 members to 16 members with a prescribed membership, as specified. Enacts various changes to the Gambling Control Act.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2866* (Migden-D) State government

Among other things, permits monies in the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund (IGSDF) to be used to implement the terms established by the Tribal Labor Relations Ordinances. The Budget Bill appropriates $400,000 to IGSDF for this purpose.

Chapter 127, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

ACA 27 (Thompson-R) Gambling: ban on further expansion

Provides that the Legislature, the people by initiative statute, the Governor or appointees of the Governor, an administrative agency, or local government may not authorize the operation of any form of gambling, or any gambling or wagering game or derivation thereof, that is not lawfully conducted as of the effective date of this measure, any increase in the number of slot machines on tribal lands beyond the total number of machines that have been approved by operation of previously executed and ratified tribal-state gaming compacts, or any increase in the total number of bingo parlors, horse racing or wagering facilities, California Lottery retailers, card clubs, tribal casino facilities, or any other category of gaming establishment.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

Public Employees

SB 311 (Perata-D) Public Employees' Retirement System: benefits

Raises the annual cost-of-living adjustment for retired state members of the State Public Employees' Retirement System from a maximum of two percent to a flat three percent, compounded annually.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 325 (Brulte-R) State employees

Authorizes certain appointees of the Governor, who elect not to participate in the State Public Employees' Retirement System, the option of participating in the State Peace Officers' and Firefighters' Defined Contribution Plan. Establishes the employer contribution rate for appointees choosing this option at seven percent of the appointee's compensation, and the employee contribution rate at five percent of compensation.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 396 (Ortiz-D) PERS: deferred retirement option plan

Authorizes the State Public Employees' Retirement System Board of Administration to establish a deferred retirement option plan, as specified.

(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 498 (Schiff-D) Public employees' retirement

Increases the retirement benefit limit for local safety members from 75 percent to 90 percent of final compensation for members who retire on and after January 1, 2000.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 528* (Burton-D) Public employees' retirement

Makes numerous clarifying and technical amendments to the laws the State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) is charged with administering. The majority of these amendments are made necessary by the enactment of SB 400 (Ortiz) of 1999. Authorizes the PERS board member who is an elected official of a contracting agency to designate a deputy to act in his/her place on the board.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 683 (Perata-D) Employment relations: state

Continues the provision of an expired Memorandum of Understanding, which relates to arbitration or fair share fees. If the Governor and the employee organization reach an impasse in negotiations, the state may implement any or all of its last, best, and final offer, as specified.

Chapter 879, Statutes of 2000

SB 739 (Solis-D) Public Employment Relations Board: shop agreements

Revises the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the bargaining and employee relations law governing cities, counties and special districts in California. The significant provisions of this bill are as follows: (1) transfers jurisdiction for the resolution of unfair labor practice charges and representation disputes to the State Public Employment Relations Board; (2) authorizes an agency shop agreement to take effect either through a negotiated agreement between a public agency and a recognized employee organization or without a negotiated agreement if a petition is signed by 30 percent of the employees in the applicable bargaining unit and the agency shop agreement is approved by a majority of the employees; (3) applies the petition procedures to the rescission of agency shop agreements, and repeals existing limitations on the duration of agency shop fee agreements, authorizing agency fee deductions indefinitely beyond the expiration of collective bargaining agreements.

Chapter 901, Statutes of 2000

SB 972 (Baca-D) State employees: compensation increase

Provides that state employees not covered by a memorandum of understanding be given a salary increase every July 1, by an amount equal to changes in the California Consumer Price Index.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1312 (Ortiz-D) Deferred Retirement Option Program

Establishes the Deferred Retirement Option Program as a voluntary program in the State Public Employees' Retirement System for members of any bargaining unit that has agreed to make the program applicable, for specified excluded state employees, and for those local members whose employing agency elects to be subject to the program, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

Similar legislation was AB 2030 (Correa-D), which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

SB 1327 (Escutia-D) Employees: inspection of personnel records by employees

Repeals various statutes that give employees access to their personnel records and replaces them with a standard provision that applies to both public and private sector employers, as specified.

Chapter 886, Statutes of 2000

SB 1378 (Brulte-R) Supervisory and managerial salary differential

Requires that all state supervisory and managerial employees be paid at a salary range that is higher than the salary range of the highest paid subordinate over which the supervisor or manager has authority.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1446 (Hughes-D) Public retiree benefits: purchase power protection

Increases the State Public Employee's Retirement System purchasing power protection allowance from 75 percent to a level of 80 percent for state members who retire before July 3, 2001, and to school members. Specifies that the cost of the increase in allowances will be paid from the state and employer assets.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1638 (Burton-D) Public employees' retirement: minimum benefits

Provides a minimum retirement allowance for retired state employees who retired with final salaries lower than $28,000 and had ten or more years of state service.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1694 (Ortiz-D) Public employees' retirement: membership election

Allows members of the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) who become employed by the state in a bargaining unit that represents educational employees or that supervises or manages such employees, to remain in the STRS, and allow state members of the State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) employed by the State Department of Education who are subsequently employed in service that requires membership in the STRS to remain in the PERS.

Chapter 880, Statutes of 2000

SB 1695 (Ortiz-D) Public Employees' Retirement System: benefits

Provides an alternative death benefit for only local firefighter members who die after January 1, 2001, and have 20 years or more of credited state service.

Chapter 855, Statutes of 2000

SB 1697 (Ortiz-D) State employees' retirement: retiree benefits increase

Increases the monthly allowances of retired state members, except as specified, and survivors of those members by an unspecified percentage.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1763 (O'Connell-D) Civil service examinations

Provides eligibility for legislative exempt employees, who meet specific criteria, to request and participate in deferred/promotional civil service examinations for one year following separation from service. Sunsets January 1, 2006.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1880 (Sher-D) Pharmaceutical assistance program study

Requires the State Public Employees' Retirement System, in consultation with the State Department of Health Services, to contract for a study to determine the feasibility of aggregating the purchase of prescription drugs, and to ensure access to all programs by licensed pharmacies, for various groups, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1928 (Haynes-R) Public retirement fund investments: foreign companies

Requires State Public Employees' Retirement System and State Teachers' Retirement System to report on the extent to which they are invested in foreign companies that pose threats to national security, and encourages the boards of these pension funds not to invest in those companies.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1950 (Lewis-R) Military leave

Revises state provisions to conform to recent changes in federal law to provide that inactive duty training also qualifies for paid leave for public employees.

Chapter 928, Statutes of 2000

SB 1998 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) Public employees' retirement and health benefit programs

Makes a variety of minor and technical changes to the Government Code sections relating to the State Public Employees' Retirement System.

Chapter 1002, Statutes of 2000

SB 2009 (Solis-D) State employee actions: appeals

Prohibits a state agency from using state resources to appeal any judgment of a superior court in favor of a state employee in an adverse action or an action alleging discrimination.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 2025 (Burton-D) Persons with disabilities: administrative proceeding

Amends the State Civil Service Act, as it applies to the employment of disabled persons, to provide the same definitions of specified terms as are set forth in the Fair Employment and Housing Act and clarifies who bears responsibility for costs and/or attorney's fees in writ of mandate proceedings inquiring into the validity of any final administrative order or decision by the State Personnel Board.

Chapter 1048, Statutes of 2000

SB 2122 (Ortiz-D) Retirement systems: investments: information sharing

States that the State Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System are authorized and encouraged to cooperate and share information that may assist them in developing and implementing appropriate investment strategies, with the advice of investment experts, as specified. Specifies that confidential information or documents relating to investments in the possession of either system would not lose their confidential status due to the fact that the information or documents are shared with the other system or with investment advisors. Deletes obsolete provisions.

Chapter 320, Statutes of 2000

SCA 16 (Burton-D) Public retirement systems

Provides that expenditures for administration and personnel of any retirement system that receives regularly scheduled contributions from the state shall be subject to appropriation therefor in the annual Budget Act, and authorizes the Governor or the Rules Committees of both houses of the Legislature, once every five years beginning in January 2005, to cause an independent actuarial review to be conducted of such a public pension or retirement system, as specified.

(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

AB 107 (Knox-D) Public employee retirement system investments

Prohibits new or additional investments by the State Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System, on and after January 1, 2001, in tobacco companies and requires a divestment of those existing investments by July 1, 2002.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 227 (Wildman-D) Public Employees Retirement System: benefits

Provides a general ad hoc increase in amounts ranging from one percent to five percent of the monthly allowances of state members of the State Public Employees' Retirement System who retired or died between January 1, 1981 and December 31, 1989.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 230 (Baldwin-R) State employer expenses

Requires that statements of earnings and deductions accompanying payroll warrants (a.k.a. pay stubs) include specified information and amounts considered "Employer Payroll Allocation Costs."

(Died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

AB 334* (Pescetti-R) State employees: compensation increase

Requires that, notwithstanding existing law, the salaries of persons employed in permanent positions in the state civil service be indexed to the California Consumer Price Index for the previous calendar year, as determined by the State Department of Industrial Relations, and requires those salaries to be adjusted as of July 1 of the applicable fiscal year to reflect any increase in the consumer price index. Authorizes the Governor to suspend the indexing of those salaries under specified circumstances.

(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 345 (Vincent-D) California Workforce Investment and Economic Development Act

Creates the California Workforce Investment and Economic Development Act of 1999, to enact the provisions of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998. Establishes a new state department to act as a local agency and a new state council to implement the provisions of this act.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 350 (House-R) State employees: compensation increase

Appropriates a sum from the General Fund, unallocated special funds, federal funds, and any other fund from which state employees are compensated that is sufficient to provide all state employees with a salary increase of 10 percent.

(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 379 (Cardoza-D) State employees: longevity pay

Provides that on January 1, 2000, employees who are exempt from collective bargaining under the Ralph C. Dills Act will receive longevity pay equal to a percentage of the employee's gross monthly salary based on the employee's length of time in state service, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 419 (Firebaugh-D) Public Employees' Retirement System: benefits

Establishes a retroactive disability retirement effective date if a retirement application is filed within nine months of discontinuance of service and the member has been continuously disabled from the date of discontinuance of service.

Chapter 346, Statutes of 2000

AB 448 (Floyd-D) Retirement

Allows a contracting agency of the State Public Employees' Retirement System, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding, to amend its contract to provide the same retirement formula applicable to a subgroup, to all other employees in the same member classification.

Chapter 882, Statutes of 2000

AB 638 (Thompson-R) State employees: holidays

Designates September 9, 2000 as "Admission Day," an observable state holiday for non-elected state employees in lieu of the second Monday in October (Columbus Day) for the Year 2000, provided that all recognized employee organizations agree to observe the holiday. Specifies that because September 9, 2000 falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday will be the holiday in lieu of the day observed.

(Failed passage in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 649* (Machado-D) State employees

Makes various changes in the state negotiated Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) contracts for 1999-2001. These MOU contracts need technical clean-up. Also included are two provisions reflecting other negotiated agreements.

Chapter 402, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

AB 688 (Steinberg-D) State employment: health benefits

Requires the employer's contribution to the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act to include any increases in health benefits plan costs for specified state employees payable from January 1, 2001, to July 2, 2002.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 773 (Leach-R) Firefighter safety clothing and equipment: reimbursement

Appropriates $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the Commission on State Mandates to reimburse state-mandated costs for structural and wildland firefighter's safety clothing and equipment, as specified.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1009* (Correa-D) Public employees' retirement: purchasing power protection

Among other things, increases from 75 percent to 80 percent the purchasing power protection provided to retirees of local contracting agencies of the State Public Employees' Retirement System. Becomes operative July 1, 2000.

Chapter 483, Statutes of 2000

AB 1335 (Havice-D) State employer-employee relations: fact-finding

Provides that if a mediator is unable to effect settlement of a dispute within 15 days of his/her appointment and declares that fact-finding is appropriate to resolve the impasse, either party may request that the issues at impasse be submitted to a fact-finding panel, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1411 (Longville-D) Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act

Establishes the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights which will permit firefighters to engage in political activity in the same manner and requires the same procedures and conditions for the investigation and interrogation of a firefighter that could lead to punitive action. Defines firefighter to include a firefighter, paramedic, or emergency medical technician.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1436 (Briggs-R) Public employment: Selective Service Act

Prohibits a male who is 18 to 26 years of age, inclusive, from being employed by a state agency unless he has complied with the Selective Service Act.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1829 (Correa-D) Public Employees' Retirement System

Increases to $5,000 the death benefits for state and school members of the State Public Employees' Retirement System who retire on or before July 3, 2001.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1856 (Kuehl-D) Harassment: liability of employees

Provides that employees of any entity covered by the California Fair Employment and Housing Act are personally liable for their acts of harassment, regardless of whether their employer knows or should have known of the conduct that fails to take immediate and appropriate corrective action.

Chapter 1047, Statutes of 2000

AB 2019 (Wildman-D) PERS: benefits

Requires the State Public Employees' Retirement System to provide state annuitants that retire on or before July 3, 2001, and their family members, with vision care benefits comparable to those provided to active state employees. State employees who retire after this date will not be covered unless they negotiate this benefit in future collective bargaining agreements.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2118 (Bock-I) Public retirement systems: merger study

Requires the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) to prepare and submit a report to specified legislative committees by July 1, 2001, to determine the feasibility of merging STRS into the State Public Employees' Retirement System.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2222 (Kuehl-D) Civil rights: disability

Enacts the Prudence Kay Poppink Act which clarifies the definitions of "mental disability," "physical disability" and "medical condition" for the purposes of California's civil rights laws, limits an employer's ability to require medical or psychological examinations, or make certain medical or disability-related inquiries; and requires an employer to engage in a good faith, interactive process to determine reasonable accommodations for a disabled employee or applicant.

Chapter 1049, Statutes of 2000

AB 2285 (Florez-D) PERS: rehabilitation facilities

Includes public or private nonprofit corporations that operate a rehabilitation facility for either a regional center for the developmentally disabled, or for the State Department of Rehabilitation, in the definition of "contracting agency" eligible to contact with the State Public Employees' Retirement System for retirement and health benefits coverage for its employees.

Chapter 357, Statutes of 2000

AB 2331 (Floyd-D) Public employees: compensation earnable

Clarifies that the number of days that can transpire between active membership in a retirement system operated under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 and other public retirement systems in order to qualify for reciprocity is 180 days.

Chapter 966, Statutes of 2000

AB 2338 (Floyd-D) Public employees

Allows the City of Long Beach to provide a two percent at age 50 retirement formula to its miscellaneous members, as specified, and requires local agencies that participate in the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act to pay the full employer contribution for annuitants who retire for disability or employees who have at least 20 years of service credit with the employer but retire from the state or other contracting agency.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2383 (Keeley-D) Public employee health benefits: retiree health benefits

Allows employees of local agencies that contract with State Public employees' Retirement System who are employed part-time to participate in the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act.

Chapter 874, Statutes of 2000

AB 2410 (Machado-D) Wages: state employees

Makes various changes in the disbursal of payroll to state employees. Requires state employees who are discharged to be paid immediately and requires overtime to be paid in a timely manner.

Chapter 885, Statutes of 2000

AB 2458 (Wesson-D) Public employees' benefits

Makes criminalists and print analysts in the State Department of Justice state safety members rather than miscellaneous members of the State Public Employees' Retirement System.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2463 (Wiggins-D) Retirement: retiree health benefits

Permits specified state retirees and family members, who, for certain reasons were not covered by the state health benefits as active state employees, to enroll in the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act.

Chapter 904, Statutes of 2000

AB 2584 (Margett-R) Crimes: state and local public safety officials

Creates a new special misdemeanor for assault with intent to cause serious bodily injury on a public safety official (code enforcement officer) with a maximum jail term for assault or battery of one year in the county jail; also creates a new special alternate felony-misdemeanor of battery on a public safety official causing injury requiring medical treatment.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 2615 (Rod Pacheco-R) Public employees' retirement: special death benefits

Increases the special death benefit allowance paid to eligible survivors of deceased members of the State Public Employees' Retirement System who died as a result of work-related injury or illness.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2619 (Pescetti-R) State employees: reinstatement

Requires that a state employee who is reinstated after being separated for being absent without leave will be paid salary for the period between the time the employee filed for reinstatement and the date of the reinstatement.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2621 (Rod Pacheco-R) Preretirement death benefits

Provides that, for purposes of calculating or recalculating the preretirement special death benefit, the deceased member's final compensation is to be deemed to increase when the compensation is increased for his/her final job classification and membership category.

Chapter 1031, Statutes of 2000

AB 2642 (Calderon-D) Public employees' retirement: benefits

Allows contracting agencies of the State Public Employees' Retirement System that are fully funded, to provide local miscellaneous members with a retirement formula of 2.5 percent at age 55 or a 2.7 percent at age 55. Provides that member contributions will increase from seven percent to either eight or nine percent.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2672 (Bock-I) State employees: out-of-class work: compensation

States that it is the intent of the Legislature that state employees be compensated financially for accepting responsibility for additional work that would otherwise be required to be performed by a higher level employee.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2701 (Jackson-D) State employees: medical examinations

Requires that (1) a decision to order a medical examination be based on a reasonable factual belief that the employee is medically unable to perform the work of his/her present position, (2) the appointing power give the employee at least 15 days' written notice of exam, (3) notice will not be required until the day of the exam if the appointing power has reasonable suspicion that the employees inability to perform may be caused by the use of illegal substances, and (4) an employee not be submitted to more than two medical exams in any 12-month period, except as specified. Makes declarations of existing law related to the Confidentiality and Medical Information Act.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2745 (Kaloogian-R) Public retirement fund investments: national security

Enacts the California State Investment Transparency and Disclosure Act, which encourages the boards of the State Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System not to invest in foreign companies that pose threats to national security.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2815 (Kuehl-D) Unemployment insurance: disability benefits

Allows employees of the State of California, the California Legislature and the California State University to be covered by the State Disability Insurance Program.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2823 (Cardoza-D) State employees: deferred compensation

Requires the state to match up to five percent of excluded state employees' contributions to a deferred compensation plan or tax-sheltered annuity.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2840 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Service credit costing

Consolidates several current methods for determining the cost of purchasing service credit into two existing approaches; (1) establishes a three-year window period in which State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) members will be able to purchase additional service under either the current costing methodology or the new methodology, whichever results in a lower cost for the member; and (2) requires the PERS to inform members, at least once during 2001 and 2002 and in September of 2003, that the right to purchase service credit under the current formulas will expire on December 31, 2003.

Chapter 489, Statutes of 2000

AB 2866* (Migden-D) State government

Among other things, requires a state agency that enters into a personal services contract for certain types of workers to include provisions for employee benefits that are valued at least 85 percent of the state employer cost of providing comparable benefits to state employees performing similar duties. The types of workers covered by this requirement include persons that provide janitorial and housekeeping services, custodians, food service workers, laundry workers, window cleaners, and security guards.

Chapter 127, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

ACR 135 (Wesson-D) State employee merit awards

Approves merit award payments authorized by the State Department of Personnel to specified individuals whose proposals have resulted in annual savings to the state.

Resolution Chapter 122, Statutes of 2000

Other State Government

SB 128 (Polanco-D) State property

Authorizes the Director of the State Department of General Services, with the approval of the Director of the State Department of Transportation, to sell, lease or exchange specified property, as specified.

Chapter 763, Statutes of 2000

SB 220 (Peace-D) Appropriations: reversions: exemptions

Limits the liquidation period for appropriations involving cooperative work agreements to eight years, and defines and establishes criteria for cooperative work agreements.

Chapter 364, Statutes of 2000

SB 266 (Chesbro-D) Public contracts: bids

Requires public agencies in California, other than the University of California, to include in the bid notice the time, date and location of any mandatory pre-bid site meetings. Before the date of the site visit, the project documents must be physically available to any interested bidders and provided to construction trade journals, which are often published by local builders' exchanges. Provides that at least five calendar days must elapse between the time the notice is published and the pre-bid site meeting is held.

Chapter 159, Statutes of 2000

SB 280 (Bowen-D) State buildings and publicly-funded schools: standards

Requires all new public buildings and state office buildings to exceed current energy efficiency standards and to be constructed and/or renovated to utilize some form of cost-effective "green" building methods, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 300 (Poochigian-R) Governmental liability: permits

Provides that a state agency is liable to a private property owner for a temporary taking of the owner's real property if the state agency is responsible for a delay in the issuance of a development permit affecting the use of the real property, and the delay is the result of a final decision, as defined, of the state agency that is later determined by a court to be legally erroneous. Provides that a delay that occurs as a result of the normal development approval process or as a result of litigation challenging a final decision by a state agency constitutes a temporary taking under those provisions if the final decision of the state agency is later determined by a court to be legally erroneous. Also declares that it is intended to supersede the holding of the California Supreme Court in Landgate, Inc. v. California Coastal Commission, 17 Cal. 4th 1006, with regard to any claim arising on or after its effective date.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 388 (Peace-D) State fiscal analysis

Continues the existing requirement that the State Legislative Analyst's Office prepares dynamic revenue estimates, and deletes requirements that the State Department of Finance continue its current dynamic revenue-estimating model.

(Died in Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)

SB 483 (Baca-D) Surplus state property

Requires the State Department of General Services (DGS) to lease 110 new acres to the City of Chino for 55 years without consideration. Stipulates that the State Department of Corrections will receive 50 percent of any rents received by the city on the land. Requires DGS to sell 210 acres to Chino Redevelopment Agency.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 675 (Sher-D) Infrastructure plan: funding

Clarifies the information that is required to be included in a proposal for funding state infrastructure identified in the Governor's five-year infrastructure plan, including clarifying that updated reports should address capital outlay projects and infrastructure projects.

(Died in Conference Committee)

SB 784 (Baca-D) Surplus state property: state hospitals: Indian tribes

Requires the Director of the State Department of General Services, in the event that a state hospital is permanently closed or taken out of service, to give the same priority provided to local governmental agencies to acquire surplus state land, to any federally recognized Indian tribe located within seven miles of the facility, under terms that are no less favorable, if any, than those available to any city or county government under state law.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 875 (Escutia-D) State intellectual property

Requires the Director of the State Department of General Services to create an advisory committee to develop recommendations on how the state should organize and manage its intellectual property, and report to the Governor, the Legislature, and the state's other constitutional officers by August 31, 2002. "Intellectual property" is defined as including "inventions, industrial designs, identifying marks and symbols, electronic publications, and literary, musical, artistic, photographic, and film works."

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 915* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Capital outlay: state budgeting

Requires the Governor, as a supplement to the annual budget, to submit to the Legislature, on or before January 10 of each calendar year, the Capital Outlay and Infrastructure Strategy containing a comprehensive, multiyear planning system and a budgeting, implementation, and monitoring system, a five-year capital outlay and infrastructure plan, and a financing plan.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 984 (Polanco-D) State holidays: Cesar Chavez Day

Provides that March 31, "Cesar Chavez Day," be observed as a paid holiday for state agencies and permits schools to observe a minimum day, and one hour of instruction on the life and work of Cesar Chavez to students, as specified. Requires the State Commission on Improving Life Through Service to administer a Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning grant program, which will provide grants to Americorps or Conservation Corps activities that engage school pupils in community service on Cesar Chavez Day. Appropriates $5 million annually from the General Fund for the grant program. Appropriates $1 million from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop a model curriculum on the life of Cesar Chavez, and, upon approval of the State Board of Education, to distribute the curriculum to each school.

Chapter 213, Statutes of 2000

SB 1028* (Speier-D) State Budget: nonprofit vendors

Appropriates funds in the amount necessary to compensate nonprofit vendors who contract with the state for goods delivered or services rendered for any portion of the fiscal year 1999/2000 until enactment of the 1999 Budget Act.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1049 (Murray-D) State contracts: small businesses

Increases, from $50,000 to $100,000, the value of contracts that may be awarded to small businesses through an "informal" bid process.

Chapter 775, Statutes of 2000

SB 1109 (Burton-D) Vessels: bar pilots

Requires a vessel owner and its operators to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless, a bar pilot from any liability and expenses in connection with any civil claim suit as action arising out of the pilot's performance of the pilotage services, except for acts of willful misconduct. Specifies that this defense and indemnity obligation will be limited, applying to the extent liability is legally imposed upon the vessel owner, taking into account any liability limits to which the person or entity is entitled under any statute, regulations or other applicable rule of law. Provides that this defense and indemnity obligation also extends to any organization of pilots to which the pilot belongs, and their officers and employees.

Chapter 786, Statutes of 2000

SB 1136 (Vasconcellos-D) Technology

Replaces two existing state agencies, the State and Consumer Services Agency and the State Trade and Commerce Agency, with the expanded E-Governance and Consumer Services Agency and the Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency, respectively. Effective January 1, 2003, places the State Department of Information Technology within the E-Governance and Consumer Services agency. Establishes, within the State Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency, a Science, Technology, and Innovation Division to be headed by a Deputy Secretary of Science, Technology, and Innovation. The new division will assume responsibility for several existing offices and functions within the Agency, and including responsibility for a new California Research and Funding Council and Small Business Competitiveness Council. Requires the California Spaceport Authority to designate spaceports based upon applications by various entities, including special districts, and defines various terms for this purpose.

Chapter 1056, Statutes of 2000

SB 1242 (Ortiz-D) Building standards: tactile signage

Requires all building structures and facilities that are leased or rented by any municipal, county or state government to be made accessible to persons with disabilities.

Chapter 989, Statutes of 2000

SB 1318 (Alpert-D) Public records: confidentiality

Extends the protections provided by the current "Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence" program to victims of stalking, and revises certain notification procedures relating to termination of certification as a program participant.

Chapter 562, Statutes of 2000

SB 1370 (Ortiz-D) Civil action or administrative adjudications

Makes evidence of negotiations to settle a pending civil action or administrative adjudication inadmissible in that action or adjudication, with specified exceptions. Makes the settlement negotiations in a pending civil action or administrative ajudication confidential where the persons participating in the negotiations execute a written agreement stating that they are confidential and will protect the negotiations from civil discovery, with specified exceptions.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1412 (Haynes-R) Public libraries: direct loans to minors

Specifies that the existing policy public libraries are required to adopt concerning public access to videotapes adhere to the standards of the motion picture industry for access to motion pictures in theaters. Requires, upon request of a parent or guardian of a minor, a public library to disclose the title of an item loaned to the minor, if the parent or guardian received a bill for a late fee or lost item.

(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1436* (Johnston-D) Claims against the state: appropriation

Appropriates $2,009,031.47 from various funds and accounts to the executive officer of the State Board of Control for the payment of 314 claims against 46 state departments.

Chapter 85, Statutes of 2000

SB 1437* (Johnston-D) Judgments and settlement claims against the state

Appropriates $3,545,000 from the General Fund and the Motor Vehicle Account in the State Transportation Fund to the Attorney General to pay various claims against the state.

Chapter 166, Statutes of 2000

SB 1458 (Lewis-R) Inspector Generals

Places postgovernment employment restrictions covering Inspector Generals of the State Youth and Correctional Agency and the State Department of Veterans Affairs.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1509 (Haynes-R) State contracts: religious organizations

Changes state contracting law to allow religious organizations to contract with or receive grants from state agencies without altering their religious character.

(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)

SB 1536 (Knight-R) Centennial of Flight Commission

Creates the California Centennial of Flight Commission in the office of the Secretary of State to develop and recommend to the Governor and the Legislature, no later than March 1, 2002, a Centennial of Flight Celebration Program commemorating the centennial anniversary of the Wright brothers' first successful flight on December 17, 2003, and California's contribution to the development and history of flight. Provides that the provisions of this bill will become inoperative on July 1, 2002 and repealed on January 1, 2003.

(Died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

SB 1542* (Schiff-D) Turning Point Academy

Authorizes the Adjutant General, until July 1, 2002, to develop, establish, and operate the Turning Point Academy for the purpose of providing a comprehensive and meaningful military academy experience for minors residing in California who are 15 years of age or older and who have committed a firearms-related offense at school or a school activity off school grounds. Specifies that the academy will consist of an intensive program of treatment, physical training, education, drug screening, and counseling services for eligible wards of the juvenile court.

Chapter 366, Statutes of 2000

SB 1592 (O'Connell-D) State Board of Fire Services: composition

Reduces the voting membership of the State Board of Fire Services from 18 to 16 and a quorum to nine members. Revises the selection process for the volunteer firefighter and the fire service labor representative on the State Board of Fire Services. Provides that the State Board of Fire Services may not meet more often than quarterly.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1617 (Leslie-R) Public libraries: Internet: harmful material

Requires every public library that provides public access to the Internet to purchase, install, and maintain computer software for use on all computers available for use by children under 18 years of age, or in the case of a library that has only one computer available for use by both adults and children under 18 years of age, for use on that computer that is designed to prohibit access to harmful matter on the Internet, as specified.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1667* (Alpert-D) Education and government

Adds, among other things, provisions to prevent future liability to the state when districts use joint powers authority. Allows school districts to further take advantage of master contracts and agreements established by the State Department of General Services for the acquisition of information technology, goods and services, without further competitive bidding. Makes other technical and clean-up changes necessary to implement the Budget.

Chapter 71, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

SB 1700 (Brulte-R) State general obligation bonds

Updates provisions of the State General Obligation (G. O.) Bond Law and facilitates implementation of previously authorized borrowing structures. Specifically, the bill (1) authorizes the State Treasurer to refund high coupon G. O. bonds issued prior to 1988, and (2) facilitates the negotiated sale of variable rate bonds. Makes other technical, clarifying changes to state bond law.

(Died on Assembly File)

SB 1761 (Figueroa-D) Health: automatic external defibrillators: state buildings

Requires the State Department of General Services (DGS), in consultation with the Emergency Medical Services Authority, to conduct a study regarding the purchase and placement of automatic external defibrillators in state buildings. Requires DGS to submit a report on the study and recommendations to the Legislature, the Governor, and specified state agencies on or before December 1, 2001.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1778 (Johnston-D) State property: surplus

Annual surplus property bill sponsored by the State Department of General Services.

Chapter 770, Statutes of 2000

SB 1813 (Speier-D) State Department of Transportation: contract disputes

Revises the process for resolving a dispute between the State Department of Transportation and its contractor or subcontractor, as specified, and makes related changes.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1846 (Speier-D) State procurement: gasoline

Requires the State Department of General Services (DGS) to examine the feasibility of purchasing gasoline from outside the state for use by state agencies and requires that DGS, after July 1, 2001, seek to purchase gasoline from new sources within or outside the state.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1868 (Solis-D) State contracts: small businesses

Provides that a small business may have revenue from providing services as an agent or broker for purposes of certification as a "small business" under the Small Business Procurement and Contract Act.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1888 (Hayden-D) Public contracts: sweatshop labor

Extends existing law that prohibits state agencies from procuring foreign goods made by forced labor, convict labor, or indentured labor to include goods made by abusive forms of child labor or exploitation of children in sweatshop labor.

Chapter 891, Statutes of 2000

SB 1893 (Perata-D) Public contracts: purchasing preferences

Requires state agencies and school districts to purchase agriculture products produced in California, if the cost and quality are equal or superior to those produced outside California. Specifies that if California products are not found to be equal, preference is to be given to products produced in other states over foreign products, if the cost and quality are equal.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1894* (Peace-D) Claims against the state: appropriation

Appropriates $122,149,000 from the General Fund and $35,000 from the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund to pay mandate claims.

Chapter 177, Statutes of 2000

SB 1958 (Lewis-R) Public entities: liability

Provides that an independent building inspector employed by a private entity, but authorized by a city or county building department to inspect buildings and report to the building department according to regulations established by the building department, and will be deemed a public employee while performing building inspections under the direction of the building department.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 2012 (Speier-D) Emergency broadcasting funds

Appropriates $5 million to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services for matching fund grants to public television and radio stations to install digital broadcasting equipment. Requires stations receiving funding to dedicate an emergency broadcast channel.

Chapter 1087, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

Governor item vetoed $3 million.

SB 2016* (McPherson-R) State property: Salinas

Authorizes the State Department of General Services to transfer, without charge to the City of Salinas, all interests held by the state in a former State Employment Development Department building at 342 Front Street in Salinas.

Chapter 449, Statutes of 2000

SB 2027 (Sher-D) Public records: disclosure

Creates a procedure for appealing to the State Attorney General (AG) a denial by a public agency of a written request for disclosure of public records (in addition to a court action, available under current law). Allows a court to award up to $100 per day (maximum of $10,000) when the public agency's action resulted in the denial of plaintiff's right to access the requested records. Allows a public agency against whom the AG has rendered an adverse opinion to engage outside counsel in defense of a lawsuit resulting from the denial of access to public records, and expressly states that the AG is not precluded from representing the public agency on other matters. Specifies that the AG will be immune from suit or discovery in any suit for any action taken as a result of review under this bill.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 2047 (Polanco-D) Civil rights: outreach

Authorizes state and local agencies to engage in outreach programs to increase participation by California's small business sector and increase diversity in state contracting and procurement. Requires state agencies to collect data and report to the Legislature on the level of participation by minority, women, and disabled veterans business enterprises in contract and procurement activities. Specifies that the reports will be due July 1 of each year and are to include the dollar values of contract awards for specific categories of contractors.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 2061 (Schiff-D) State Theatrical Arts Resources Partnership

Establishes the State Theatrical Arts Resources Partnership within the California Film Commission in the State Trade and Commerce Agency.

Chapter 700, Statutes of 2000

SB 2067 (Bowen-D) Records

Requires the Secretary of State, in consultation with the State Department of General Services, to approve and adopt uniform statewide standards for the purposes of storing and recording permanent and nonpermanent documents in an electronic format.

Chapter 569, Statutes of 2000

SB 2088 (Hughes-D) Public contracts: job order contracting

Authorizes job order contracting by school districts and other public entities.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 2110 (Knight-R) Disabled veterans: contracting preferences

Requires state agencies, in evaluating bid submissions, to give a five percent preference, until January 2004, to bids by any disabled veteran business enterprise that is a prime contractor.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 2112 (Polanco-D) Hollywood Entertainment Museum

Appropriates $2 million to the California Arts Council for allocation to the Hollywood Entertainment Museum.

(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 2144 (Perata-D) Bay pilots

Specifies additional times during which vessels traveling in the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, or Suisan are exempt from state pilotage provisions. Exempts incidents involving pilots aboard vessels of less than 300 gross tons from review and disciplinary action unless the law requires the pilots to be aboard such vessels.

Chapter 394, Statutes of 2000

SB 2151* (Polanco-D) California Arts Council: Walt Disney Concert Hall

Appropriates $10 million from the General Fund to the council for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in the Performing Arts Center in the City of Los Angeles.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 2177 (McPherson-R) Bay pilots

Applies existing provisions of law relative to the regulation, licensing, and management of pilots for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisan to persons who pilot vessels into or out of the waters of "Monterey Bay."

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

SB 2181 (Perata-D) State Lands Commission: enforcement powers

Authorizes the State Lands Commission (SLC) to issue cease and desist orders against any activity determined to do harm to public health or safety or the environment. Places a representative of SLC on the Harbor Safety Committee for various large harbors, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, and San Diego.

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

SCA 5 (Murray-D) Constitutional amendments and revisions: vote requirement

Requires the approval of two-thirds of the voters voting on any proposed amendment or revision of the Constitution for it to take effect.

(Died in Senate Elections and Reapportionment Committee)

SCA 9 (Peace-D) Capital financing

Requires the Governor to submit a three-year capital expenditure plan in conjunction with the annual Budget.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SCA 13 (McPherson-R) Office of Secretary of State: nonpartisan office

Specifies that the Office of the Secretary of State shall be nonpartisan.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 4 (Solis-D) Women's History Month and International Women's Day

Designates March 2000 as Women's History Month and urges celebration of International Women's Day on March 8, 2000.

Resolution Chapter 38, Statutes of 2000

SCR 21 (Speier-D) Joint Committee on Government Oversight

Creates the Joint Committee on Government Oversight and authorizes it to act as an investigating committee to review the effectiveness of government programs and policies. The committee's existence will terminate on November 30, 2000.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 42 (Murray-D) Sister state: Western Cape Province, South Africa

Seeks to establish a sister state relationship between California and the Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Resolution Chapter 2, Statutes of 2000

SCR 44 (Vasconcellos-D) California Science and Technology Week

Designates the week of November 14 to 20, inclusive, 1999, as California Science and Technology Week.

Resolution Chapter 1, Statutes of 2000

SCR 61 (Alpert-D) California Girls and Women in Sports Week

Recognizes female athletes, coaches, officials, and sports administrators for their important contribution in promoting the value of sports in the achievement of full human potential and proclaims February 6 through 12, 2000, inclusive, as California Girls and Women in Sports Week.

Resolution of Chapter 34, Statutes of 2000

SCR 62 (Poochigian-R) Armenian genocide remembrance

Designates April 24, 2000, as "California Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923."

Resolution Chapter 60, Statutes of 2000

SCR 63 (Johannessen-R) State Department of Parks and Recreation

Commends the State Department of Parks and Recreation for the maintenance of the Benicia State Capitol Building and for their assistance in facilitating the legislative session held there on February 16, 2000.

Resolution Chapter 22, Statutes of 2000

SCR 65 (Burton-D) San Francisco Bar Pilots

Honors the former and current members of the San Francisco Bay Pilots for their important role, throughout California's history, in the enhancement of maritime commerce, protection of cargoes, and safeguarding the fragile environment of the bays and rivers on which they have served.

Resolution Chapter 24, Statutes of 2000

SCR 73 (Vasconcellos-D) California Science and Technology Week

Designates the second week of November 2000, and every year thereafter, as California Science and Technology Week.

Resolution Chapter 84, Statutes of 2000

SCR 76 (Vasconcellos-D) State Department of Information Technology staff

Congratulates and commends Elias Cortez, the Director of the State Department of Information and Technology, and his staff, for his and their contribution to California and its citizens and encourages Mr. Cortez to direct his talents and his staff toward future information technology challenges.

Resolution Chapter 131, Statutes of 2000

SCR 98 (Burton-D) Joe Serna, Jr. Building

Concurs with the Sacramento City Council in officially dedicating the City of Sacramento building located at 1001 I Street in Sacramento as the "Joe Serna, Jr. Building" in memory of Sacramento's late mayor.

Resolution Chapter 159, Statutes of 2000

SR 27 (Burton-D) Holocaust Memorial Project

Encourages all people of this state to remember the victims of the Holocaust on Sunday, May 7, 2000.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 29 (Murray-D) Digital Divide

Makes findings and declarations about the relative lack of computer accessibility by low-income and minority households, a phenomenon known as the "digital divide," and resolves that the State of California should provide support, encouragement, and incentives to close the digital divide.

Read and adopted

SR 34 (Hayden-D) Biotechnology

Requests the Senate Office of Research to review the level of state assessment, monitoring, oversight, independent research and regulation of the biotechnology industry to be completed by January 1, 2002.

Adopted by the Senate

AB 174 (Firebaugh-D) California Teleconferencing Public Network

Establishes the California Teleconferencing Public Network in state government, to promote and facilitate domestic and virtual electronic communications for the people of California. Requires the Director of the State Department of Information Technology to designate, no later than May 1, 2001, a two-way video and audio teleconferencing site located in each of the 80 state Assembly districts, and requires that the network be operational by July 1, 2001, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Information Technology Committee)

AB 260 (Wright-D) Exposition Park Authority and California Science Center

Reorganizes the administrative and management structure for Exposition Park in Los Angeles, as specified.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 362 (Cedillo-D) State property: donation to the United States

Authorizes the Director of the State Department of General Services to donate either of two properties located in the City of Los Angeles and owned by the State of California to the United States General Services Administration for the purpose of building a courthouse.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 505 (Wright-D) Administrative procedures

Modifies provisions relating to the Office of Administrative Law and the adoption of regulations, moves the Office of Small Business Advocate from the State Trade and Commerce Agency to the Office of Planning and Research in the Governor's Office, and creates the Governor's Small Business Reform Task Force.

Chapter 1059, Statutes of 2000

AB 544 (Reyes-D) Director of General Services: facility location

Requires the director of the State Department of General Services to give priority to downtown locations when considering a location for a state-owned office.

(Died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

AB 551 (Longville-D) State funds: interest

Appropriates to the State Controller for allocation to local governmental agencies, on a pro rata basis, interest earned in excess of $1,000 on funds that, were it not for a delay in enactment of the State Budget, would have been transferred to the control of local agencies.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 581 (Firebaugh-D) Information technology: study

Revises the composition of the committee on state-owned property within the State Department of General Services (DGS) and requires the committee to prepare and submit an interim report to the Legislature and the Governor on or before May 1, 2001, that makes recommendations on specified information technology issues. Requires DGS to conduct and submit to the committee, on or before march 1, 2001, a study that assesses state information technology resources for the purpose of maximizing public access to information technology where appropriate, as specified. Appropriates $100,000 from the General Fund to DGS for the purposes of the department study and report.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 674 (Wiggins-D) Personal services contracts

Allows a state contractor to give cash payments to employees in lieu of benefits.

Chapter 895, Statutes of 2000

AB 903 (Cardenas-D) Native American lands: legislative intent

Declares the Legislature's intent to take the action necessary to repeal obsolete and unconstitutional statutes that regulate or impose restrictions on Native American lands.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 938* (Dutra-D) Escheat: military awards

Exempts all escheated property consisting of military awards and decorations delivered to the State Controller from public sale, and requires that the subject military awards and decorations be held in trust for the State Controller at the California National Guard Museum and Resource Center.

Chapter 16, Statutes of 2000

AB 943 (Dutra-D) California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission

Assigns additional educational requirements to the California Debt and Investment Advisory Committee and requires local agencies to provide the necessary data.

Chapter 687, Statutes of 2000

AB 998 (Wayne-D) California Museum of Latino History, Art, and Culture

Authorizes the fund allocated in the Budget Act of 1999 and the Budget Act of 2000 for the California Museum of Latino History, Art, and Culture for capital outlay and related purposes, to be used for museum operations.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1004* (Papan-D) Unclaimed property: sending of notices

Provides that the restrictions on the State Controller's 1999 Budget Act support appropriation do not apply to the sending of notices to apparent owners of unclaimed property, as provided in Section 1531(d) of the Code of Civil Procedures.

Chapter 5, Statutes of 2000

AB 1068* (Ducheny-D) Department of Parks and Recreation: Admission Day

Appropriates $895,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Parks and Recreation, in augmentation of Item 3790-001-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2000 (Chapter 52, Statutes of 2000), for costs associated with the celebration of Admission Day.

Chapter 570, Statutes of 2000

AB 1128 (Ackerman-R) Private property: taking

Provides that for the purpose of any law, including any constitutional provision, that requires just compensation for the taking of any private property, that requirement will apply upon the making of a final decision affecting private property rights. Provides that a final decision, for that purpose, occurs upon the last date that an agency may make or review any agency action, as defined, prior to the bringing of any action or proceeding in any court to challenge the validity of the agency action. Provides that upon the existence of any final decision, any person who claims that an agency action entitles the person to just compensation for affected property rights may exercise any administrative or judicial right or remedy to obtain that compensation, separately from any claim relative to the validity of the agency action, and the agency or court will process the claim for just compensation without regard to the validity of the agency action.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1256* (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Fairs: funding

Chapter 53, Statutes of 2000

AB 1377 (Gallegos-D) Public contracts: interagency council

Requires, on or before April 1, 2001, the Secretary of State and the State Consumer Services Agency, in conjunction with other state agencies, to establish an Interagency Council on State Contracting and Business Partnerships to solicit advice from the business community to increase small business access to state contracts, to encourage partnerships between prime contractors and small business subcontractors and to take positions on regulations and legislation affecting the business community. Specifies that the Interagency Council on State Contracting and Business Partnerships will be in effect for one year from date of establishment.

(Died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

AB 1394 (Margett-R) Public contracts: design-build

Provides that a public entity may use design-build procurement for general building projects if it provides specified information about the cost and time of completion of the project to the public and requires all bids to include specified information about subcontractors. Also provides that design-build procurement may not be used for general engineering projects.

(Died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

AB 1448 (Cox-R) Public contracts: architectural and engineering services

Enacts statutory provisions to implement a proposed amendment to the California Constitution related to public contracting for architectural and engineering services, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

AB 1493* (Nakano-D) Recording documents; restrictive covenants

Modifies the stamp or coversheet that is required to be placed on a declaration, governing document or deed, which states that any discriminatory restriction violates the law and is void, by (1) adding a provision stating that lawful restrictions under state and federal law on the age of occupants in senior housing or housing for older persons shall not be construed as restrictions based on familial status, and (2) reducing the required font size and color of the notice. Establishes a procedure whereby an owner of property may seek to remove any discriminatory restriction from a document by filing an application with the State Department of Fair Employment and Housing, and record the modified document.

Chapter 291, Statutes of 2000

AB 1504 (Margett-R) Public contract termination: cause and notice requirements

Requires public entities to meet specific requirements when terminating a contract.

(Failed passage in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

AB 1507 (Washington-D) Notaries public: renewal of commission

Establishes procedures and authorizes a fee for renewal of a notary public commission.

(Died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

AB 1543 (Correa-D) Native Americans: infrastructure and public works

Provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to create alternatives for Native American Tribes in California to finance and develop infrastructure and public works.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1683 (Assembly Information Technology Committee) Public records: Internet data bases

Allows a state or local agency to maintain a searchable Internet data base as long as the home addresses or telephone numbers of elected or appointed officials cannot be accessed by that data base by a search for title or position.

(Died at Senate Desk)

AB 1684 (Assembly Information Technology Committee) Public contracts

Makes various substantive and clarifying changes to the Public Contract Code relative to the procurement of materials, supplies, equipment, information technology, and services.

Chapter 918, Statutes of 2000

AB 1759 (Papan-D) Public records: Internet reports

Requires every state agency that maintains an Internet site to make available on the site a list of reports prepared by that state agency that are subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1779 (Pescetti-R) Cemeteries

Establishes the California Historic Cemetery Commission (CHCC) and sets the membership, terms, meeting requirements, and that members shall serve without compensation. Specifies that the CHCC will sunset in 2006.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1822 (Wayne-D) Administrative Procedure Act

Modifies the Administrative Procedures Act to clarify state rulemaking provisions, as specified.

Chapter 1060, Statutes of 2000

AB 1856 (Kuehl-D) Harassment: liability of employees

Chapter 1047, Statutes of 2000

AB 1889 (Cedillo-D) State funds: unionization

Prohibits public employers or state contractors from using state funds to discourage or encourage unionization.

Chapter 872, Statutes of 2000

AB 1936 (Papan-D) State contracts: claims against the state

Makes it explicit that state agencies must pay invoices on the date required by the contract and within 45 days of receipt of an undisputed invoice, or be subject to late penalty fees.

Chapter 151, Statutes of 2000

AB 1954 (Jackson-D) Armories: homeless shelter

Revises the list of armories to be made available as temporary shelters and expands the time frame of the Temporary Emergency Shelter Program, as specified.

Chapter 958, Statutes of 2000

AB 2000 (Villaraigosa-D) California Commission on Human Relations

Creates a statewide human relations commission to foster greater tolerance of diversity in California, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2014 (Runner-R) Library construction

Requires the California State Library Research Bureau to conduct an evaluation, as prescribed, of joint-use projects that may be funded pursuant to the recently approved Library Bond Act of 2000 and requires the State Librarian to submit a primary report on that evaluation to the Governor and the Legislature by no later than six months after the completion of at least three joint-use projects, and a final report by no later than one year after submission of the preliminary report.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2020* (Leach-R) Infrastructure financing

Creates the California Twenty-First Century Infrastructure Investment Fund to finance state and local infrastructure on a pay-as-you-go basis by transferring specified amounts from the General Fund into the new fund each year. Increases the percentage of General Fund revenues transferred into the fund incrementally from one percent in 2000-01 to five percent in 2006-07 and thereafter. Provides that the percentage increases will be reduced in any year in which General Fund revenue growth is less than three percent. States that the fund is to be used for capital outlay related to corrections, education, parks, hospitals, transportation (including port projects), water (including water storage, delivery, and sewage and storm runoff treatment).

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

Similar legislation was AB 1701 (Leach), which died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

AB 2023 (Shelley-D) Education: California Arts Council: regional art centers

Requires the California Arts Council to establish at least four regional support centers that will promote arts education in the schools.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2099 (Migden-D) State infrastructure

Establishes the State Infrastructure Investment Account and requires the State Controller to transfer one percent of General Fund revenues to the State Infrastructure Investment Account annually.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2100 (Dutra-D) California Electronic Government and Information Act

Requires the State Department of Information Technology (DOIT) to oversee the development and maintenance of a single state Internet portal, repeals provisions requiring the posting of specified information on the Internet by state agencies and departments, and requires the Director of DOIT to convene an Electronic Government Task Force, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

AB 2122 (Briggs-R) District agricultural associations: contracts

Transfers, from the State Department of Finance (DOF) and the State Department of General Services (DGS) to the State Department of Food and Agriculture, the authority to oversee the procurement of telecommunications goods and services by district agricultural associations (DAAs), essentially allowing DAAs to buy these items without going through the DGS/DOF approval process. Grants to DGS the opportunity to put its own bid in whenever a DAA solicits bids for telecommunications goods and services.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2156 (Pescetti-R) Public contracts: bidding requirements

Requires, with respect to state agencies, specifications to provide a period of time for submission of data prior to or after the award of the contract, and provides that if no time period is specified, data may be submitted for 35 days after the award of the contract. Provides an exception to match other products in use on a particular public improvement.

Chapter 690, Statutes of 2000

AB 2163 (Cunneen-R) Information technology

Makes various changes to the State Department of Information Technology's authorizing statute, requires the issuance of digital identification by the State Department of Motor Vehicles, and provides various tax credits to Internet service providers.

(Died in Assembly Information Technology Committee)

AB 2182 (Mazzoni-D) Bidding procedures: alternative bids

Authorizes a public entity, including the Trustees of the California State University, to include alternatives that may be added or deleted from the final bid award for a public works project, and specifies how those alternatives are to be considered in awarding the contract.

Chapter 292, Statutes of 2000

AB 2301* (Lowenthal-D) State agencies: contracts

Authorizes state agencies to contract with Cooperative Personnel Services Joint Powers Authority to provide examinations and related services for state agencies, as specified, subject to approval of the Director of the State Department of General Services. Contains legislative findings and declarations that, due to unique facts and circumstances applicable to the Cooperative Personnel Joint Powers Authority, as described, this legislation is necessary.

Chapter 62, Statutes of 2000

AB 2304 (Davis-D) State contracts: personal and consulting services

Combines currently separate statutes governing consulting services and personal services contract procedures, as specified.

Chapter 759, Statutes of 2000

AB 2369 (Keeley-D) State property and contracts

Expands the authority of the Director of the State Department of General Services (DGS) to lease public land for terms longer than five years and requires DGS to report annually to the Legislature on its use of the expanded authority. Expands and clarifies the authority of DGS to resolve property issues related to encroachment and raises the minor capital outlay threshold from $250,000 to $400,000.

Chapter 528, Statutes of 2000

AB 2407 (Machado-D) State agency contracts: advance payments

Authorizes the State Resources Agency, including all boards and departments within the Agency, to make advance payments to certified local community conservation corps, as specified.

Chapter 295, Statutes of 2000

AB 2494 (Steinberg-D) State offices: location

Establishes certain priorities with respect to the siting of state office buildings in order to promote smart growth and community revitalization, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2499 (Steinberg-D) State buildings: fire protection

Requires the Director of the State Department of General Services (DGS) to ensure that adequate fire protection is provided for state-owned buildings. Authorizes the Director of DGS to provide reimbursement to a local fire district that incurs costs exceeding $1 million during a fiscal year to provide fire protection services to state-owned buildings.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2545 (Gallegos-D) Public contracts

Expresses the intent of the Legislature that all state agencies use a bidding process for professional service contracts via a request for proposal and that the winning bid be based on scope of work, as reflected, as best value for fees of service, as defined. Establishes the Interagency Council on State Contracting and Business Partnerships to increase small business access to state contracting opportunities, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

AB 2568* (Oller-R) Preston Castle: transfer of title

Requires the state to transfer title of Preston Castle located in Ione to the Preston Castle Foundation at no cost.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2583* (Cardenas-D) Claims against the state

Appropriates $48.3 million from the General Fund to the State Attorney General for allocation to pay the first of five annual payments to the United States (U.S.) government in settlement of the case of Craig Brown v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (9th Cir., 99-692).

Chapter 480, Statutes of 2000

AB 2606 (Rod Pacheco-R) Public contracting: voidable contracts

States that a public contract shall be void up to one year after the conviction for bribery or extortion of an employee or officer of the contractor or public entity.

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

AB 2624 (Cox-R) State-mandated local programs

Makes substantive changes to the Commission on State Mandates and the law requiring reimbursement of state-mandated local programs.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2636 (House-R) Official state nut: almond

Makes the California almond the official state nut.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2688 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Fairs: expenditure reporting

Authorizes the Secretary of the State Department of Food and Agriculture, in consultation with the State Department of General Services, to create an alternative expenditure reporting procedure from the State Administrative Manual that shall, at a minimum, maintain an audit trail, and maintain fiduciary responsibility by district agricultural associations, county, and citrus fruit fairs. This process will be for fairs that have annual reportable expenditures of not more than $1 million.

Chapter 938, Statutes of 2000

AB 2708 (Wesson-D) State deposits

Establishes conditions of eligibility for financial institutions, which are subject to the Community Reinvestment Act to participate in receipt of public funds.

Chapter 1036, Statutes of 2000

AB 2724 (Olberg-R) Public officials: voter-approved enactments

Prohibits public officials from using public funds for a legal challenge to a voter-approved enactment.

(Failed passage in Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

AB 2735 (Cox-R) Birth certificates

Establishes a procedure for the State Registrar to issue a new birth certificate to a person whose original birth certificate contained an error in gender identification.

Chapter 780, Statutes of 2000

AB 2761 (Brewer-R) Public entities: contracts

Provides that, in the event that a contract with a public entity contains a provision stating the date for accrual of a cause of action for breach of contract, the accrual date shall not be earlier than the date the project is completed or the conclusion of the claims resolution procedure required by the contract, whichever is later.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2786 (Bates-R) Escheated funds: affordable housing: elderly persons

Requires that all unclaimed property, including unclaimed money from a deceased person's estate, that is currently escheated to the state be, instead, deposited in the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund. Specifies that the fund is to be used for the construction, rehabilitation, or acquisition and rehabilitation of multifamily rental housing developments for elderly persons or households.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2791 (Alquist-D) School and essential services facilities: stop work notice

Grants the State Department of General Services the authority to issue a stop work order for certain construction projects.

Chapter 463, Statutes of 2000

AB 2799 (Shelley-D) Public records: disclosure

Revises various provisions in the Public Records Act in order to make available public records not otherwise exempt from disclosure, in an electronic format, if the information or record is kept in electronic format by a public agency. Specifies what costs the requester will bear for obtaining copies of records in an electronic format. Adds, to the unusual circumstances that would permit an extension of time to respond to a request for public records, the need of the agency to compile data, write programming language, or construct a computer report to extract data. Requires that a response to a request for public records that includes a denial, in whole or in part, shall be in writing, and provides that the Public Records Act shall not be construed to permit an agency to delay or obstruct inspection or copying of public records.

Chapter 982, Statutes of 2000

AB 2805 (Papan-D) Financial institutions

Requires the California Research Bureau (CRB) to provide a report, until November 30, 2004, to the Legislature addressing the disposition of all state funds, the names of financial institutions receiving state funds, including the geographic location and use of the funds, and the percentage of funds remaining in California and invested out of state. Requires the CRB to complete a study by December 31, 2001, examining, among other things, the present geographical and socioeconomic disposition of California's state funds, the efforts made by state agencies in investing state funds to ensure the funds receive the best rates, and the feasibility and social benefits of mandating that a set percentage of California's public funds be used in California.

Chapter 913, Statutes of 2000

AB 2806 (Papan-D) Public investments: financial institutions

Establishes the Community Reinvestment Act ratings and disclosure conditions precedent for financial institutions, as defined, to receive preference to participate in certain public businesses.

(Failed passage in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 2817* (Honda-D) Information technology: innovation projects grant program

Establishes the "Information Technology Innovation Grants program" for the purpose of awarding grants to state agencies to fund innovative information technology projects.

Chapter 608, Statutes of 2000

AB 2846 (Ducheny-D) State contracts

Adds to the Small Business Procurement and Contract Act the requirement that the owners of the business to be domiciled in California in order to be considered a "small business."

(Died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

AB 2863* (Assembly Budget Committee) Claims against the state

Appropriates $1,438,365.38 from various funds and accounts to the executive officer of the State Board of Control for the payment of 322 claims against 41 state departments.

Chapter 1014, Statutes of 2000

AB 2866* (Migden-D) State government

Among other provisions, makes various changes in existing law concerning the State Department of General Services contracting and administrative functions.

Chapter 127, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

AB 2890* (Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency, And Economic Development Committee) Public contracts

Makes various clarifying and technical changes to the statutory procedures that govern state procurement of goods and services. Deletes various obsolete provisions relative to memorandums of understandings signed in 1998.

Chapter 776, Statutes of 2000

AB 2936 (Assembly Information Technology Committee) Data centers

Makes permanent the State Department of Information Technology and the Hawkins, Teale, and Health and Welfare data centers.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2943* (Olberg-R) Secretary of State: filing fees

On and after July 1, 2001, reduces or deletes specified filing fees. Provides that, if the Secretary of State determines that there are insufficient revenues to the Business Fees Fund in the 2002-03 fiscal year, or on an annual basis for each fiscal year thereafter, to provide the necessary funding for the Secretary of State's budget as proposed in the annual Governor's Budget, the Secretary of State may establish fees for the filings described above to support that proposed budget, effective each July 1.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACA 10 (Vincent-D) Office of Secretary of State: nonpartisan office

Specifies that the Office of the Secretary of State shall be nonpartisan.

(Died in Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

ACA 16 (Cox-R) Public contracts: architectural and engineering services

Provides that the state and all other governmental entities are permitted to contract with private entities for architectural and engineering services for all public works of improvement, without regard to funding source, whether the project is programmed by specified entities, or whether the project is part of a state-owned or state-operated system or facility.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACA 23 (Torlakson-D) Public library facilities: general obligation bonds

Provides for an exception from the property tax limitation for property taxes to pay the interest and redemption charges on bonded indebtedness incurred by a city, county, city and county, or district for the construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of public library facilities, including the furnishing and equipping or the acquisition of real property approved by a majority of the voters voting on the proposition, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

ACR 8 (Battin-R) California Hispanic Heritage Month

Declares September 15 to October 15, 2000, to be California Hispanic Heritage Month, and encourages the observance of this event in communities throughout the state.

Resolution chapter 138, Statutes of 2000

ACR 13 (Wright-D) Black History Month

Recognizes February 2000 as Black History Month, urges all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourages the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.

Resolution Chapter 19, Statutes of 2000

ACR 23 (Reyes-D) Latina History Day

Expresses support for all efforts that advance the roles of Latina women, and declares March 12, 1999, to be "Latina History Day," specifically calling attention to the outstanding and numerous contributions made by Latina women throughout history.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 29 (Wright-D) Absolutely Incredible Kids Day

Declares March 18, 1999, as Absolutely Incredible Kids Day.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 31 (Machado-D) National Boys and Girls Club Week

Proclaims April 9, 2000 through April 15, 2000, as National Boys and Girls Club Week.

Resolution chapter 28, Statutes of 2000

ACR 58 (Lowenthal-D) Jewish Heritage Week

Declares the week of May 24 to May 29, 1999, as Jewish Heritage Week.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 59 (Nakano-D) Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month

Commends Asian and Pacific Islander Americans for their accomplishments and service to the state, and recognizes May 1999 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 66 (Dutra-D) Military awards and decorations

Memorializes the State Controller to take every action necessary to ensure that satisfactory care is taken to ensure that all military awards and decorations to be held to a standard of "priceless," thus rendering all bids from private individuals "insufficient" for purposes of selling escheated property to the highest bidder at public auction under the Unclaimed Property Law. Urges that any price bid for military awards and decorations received from the California National Guard Military Museum, including military memorabilia, when appropriate, be deemed by the State Controller to be a sufficient bid, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee)

ACR 95 (Leonard-R) Federal decennial census

Requests all state residents to make themselves available to be counted during the 2000 federal decennial census.

Resolution Chapter 31, Statutes of 2000

ACR 97 (Oller-R) Mission bell: Capitol Park

Requests the State Department of General Services to place a mission bell historic trail marker and mission bell in Capitol Park in the vicinity of the monument to Father Junipero Serra.

Resolution Chapter 89, Statutes of 2000

ACR 101 (Dickerson-R) California National Guard: fire support professionals

Honors the dedicated fire support professionals of the California National Guard for their efforts during the "Fire Sieges of 1999."

Resolution Chapter 6, Statutes of 2000

ACR 107 (Wright-D) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Honors the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Resolution Chapter 20, Statutes of 2000

ACR 112 (Torlakson-D) California Fitness Month

Proclaims the month of March 2000 as California Fitness Month.

Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2000

ACR 114 (Wiggins-D) Charles M. Schulz Day

Proclaims February 13, 2000, as "Charles M. Schultz Day" on the occasion of the last original publication of the comic strip "Peanuts" in newspapers worldwide.

Resolution Chapter 14, Statutes of 2000

ACR 116 (Wesson-D) Rosa Parks Day

Proclaims Rosa Parks' birthday, Friday, February 4, 2000, and the first Monday following February 4 of each subsequent year, as Rosa Parks Day in California.

Resolution Chapter 15, Statutes of 2000

ACR 121 (Villaraigosa-D) California's Sesquicentennial Anniversary

Honors the sesquicentennial anniversary of California's statehood, and encourages the people of the state to celebrate with events paying tribute to California's history.

Resolution Chapter 26, Statutes of 2000

ACR 122 (Torlakson-D) Mentor Appreciation Day

Designates May 1st of each year as Mentor Appreciation Day.

Resolution Chapter 49, Statutes of 2000

ACR 124 (Havice-D) Gold Star Mothers Week

Declares the last Monday in May, and the week following, as "Gold Star Mothers Week."

Resolution Chapter 51, Statutes of 2000

ACR 126 (Honda-D) Day of Remembrance

Declares February 9, 2000, as Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 134 (Shelley-D) Census Day in California

Recognizes April 1, 2000, as Census Day in California.

Resolution Chapter 50, Statutes of 2000

ACR 146 (Hertzberg-D) California Nonprofits and Philanthropy Week

Designates the week of April 2 through April 8, 2000, inclusive, as California Nonprofits and Philanthropy Week.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 151 (Villaraigosa-D) Cesar E. Chavez Day

Recognizes March 31, 2000, as the anniversary of Cesar E. Chavez's birth.

Resolution Chapter 54, Statutes of 2000

ACR 153 (Davis-D) California Holocaust Memorial Week

Designates the week of April 30 through may 6, 2000, as California Holocaust Memorial Week and urges Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.

Resolution Chapter 61, Statutes of 2000

ACR 155 (Maddox-R) End of Vietnam Conflict

Makes findings and declarations relative to the 25th anniversary of the ending of the Vietnam Conflict and of ensuing contributions to American society by Vietnamese-American immigrants.

Resolution Chapter 80, Statutes of 2000

ACR 158 (Reyes-D) Cinco de Mayo

Recognizes May 5 as Cinco de Mayo and the week of May 1 through May 7 as Cinco de Mayo week. Calls on the people of California to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo, the historic date of May 5, 1862.

Resolution Chapter 74, Statutes of 2000

ACR 159 (Hertzberg-D) Israel's independence

Congratulates Israel on 51 years of statehood.

Resolution Chapter 62, Statutes of 2000

ACR 160 (Ducheny-D) California Children's Day

Proclaims the third Sunday in September as California Children's Day and encourages observance of that day by having adults spend time with children in specified activities.

Resolution Chapter 140, Statutes of 2000

ACR 161 (Nakano-D) Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month

Commends Asian and Pacific Islander Americans for their accomplishments and service to the state and recognizes May 2000 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.

Resolution Chapter 71, Statutes of 2000

ACR 162 (House-R) Pearl Harbor

Memorializes the attack on Pearl Harbor, especially to commemorate those lost and to pay tribute to those wounded.

Resolution Chapter 141, Statutes of 2000

ACR 167 (Correa-D) Little League Baseball Week

Comments Little League baseball and its participants and supporters and designates June 12 through June 18, 2000, as Little League Baseball Week.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 169 (Cox-R) Wells Fargo

Recognizes and honors Wells Fargo for its role in California history.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 171 (Romero-D) Women's Equality Day

Designates August 26, 2000, as Women's Equality Day.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 177 (Honda-D) Confucius Day

Designates September 28 of each year as Confucius Day and on that date the state recognizes and honors teachers for their dedication and hard work.

Resolution Chapter 145, Statutes of 2000

ACR 181 (Hertzberg-D) California History Month

Designates the month of September as California History Month.

Resolution chapter 126, Statutes of 2000

ACR 182 (Aanestad-R) 14 Mile House Historical Monument

Requests the State Department of Transportation to grant, without charge, an encroachment permit authorizing an appropriate historical monument and plaque dedicated to 14 Mile House to be placed within the right-of-way of State Highway Route 32, in Butte County, at a described site.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 183 (Firebaugh-D) Jalisco, Mexico: sister state relationship

Extends an invitation to the people of the State of Jalisco, Mexico, to join with California in a sister state relationship.

Resolution Chapter 148, Statutes of 2000

ACR 185 (Battin-R) Native American tribal rights

Reaffirms California's recognition of the sovereign status of federally recognized Indian tribes.

Resolution Chapter 150, Statutes of 2000

ACR 186 (Corbett-D) Personal information: investigating committee

Establishes a Joint Committee on Personal Information and Privacy.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

HR 13 (Reyes-D) Latina History Day

Expresses support of all efforts that advance the roles of Latina women, and hereby declares March 12, 1999, to be "Latina history Day," specifically calling attention to the outstanding and numerous contributions made by Latina women throughout history.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

HR 35 (Machado-D) Relative to a media code of conduct

Calls upon executives of the media industry, as well as chief executive officers of companies that advertise in the electronic media, to develop a new voluntary code of conduct, modeled on the National Association of Broadcasters code aimed at renewing our culture and making our media environment once again healthy for our society and safer for our children.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

HR 36 (Soto-D) Los Angeles County Fair Association

Recognizes and commends the Los Angeles County Fair Association for the vital role it has played in presenting the Los Angeles County Fair to local residents and beyond, as well as providing the community with activities and events that benefit the local community, and that the members of the organization's board of directors and all of those individuals affiliated with it be commended for their commitment of service.

(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

HR 43 (Strickland-R) Alaska Airline Flight 261

Expresses the deepest regret of the passing of the 88 people aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 261 and memorializes their special grace and spirit that enhanced the quality of life of all having the privilege of associating with them. Commends searchers for their response in the wake of the tragic crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 and expresses appreciation for their contributions to the search and rescue efforts required by this unfortunate event.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 48 (Pescetti-R) California Architecture Week

Proclaims the week of April 10 through April 16, 2000, inclusive, as California Architecture Week and urges all Californians to become aware of architecture, architectural design, and the architects who helped to shape our built and natural environments and create our livable communities.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

HR 55 (Pescetti-R) Mother's Day

States that Mother's Day is representative of each day, where gifts and good works of mothers deserve recognition, appreciation, and gratitude.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 60 (Vincent-D) Juneteenth: Emancipation Day

Proclaims that June 19 is hereby declared permanently as Juneteenth throughout the State of California. Urges all Californians to take this opportunity to reflect on the significant role that African-Americans have played in the history of the United States, and California in particular, and on the positive impact that African-Americans continue to make on society.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 70 (Thompson-R) International Border Checkpoints

Request the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service to permanently move the two existing checkpoints in Oceanside and Temecula to a location adjacent to the border between Mexico and California.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 94 (Pescetti-R) California Protect Our Children Month

Proclaims that October 2000 is "California Protect Our Children Month."

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 96 (Bock-I) Girls Incorporated

Recognizes the extraordinary efforts of Girls, Incorporated and the importance of the Girls' Bill of Rights in helping girls to understand value and assert their basic rights as human beings - to be respected, self-reliant, healthy and safe. Commends all people who encourage girls to take risks and to master physical, intellectual and emotional challenges so that girls may gain a sense of their own power and strength.

Adopted by the Assembly

Local Government

SB 38 (Baca-D) Religious institutions and land use

Limits land use regulations on religious assemblies and institutions.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 126 (Dunn-D) Redevelopment: Tustin Marine Corps Air Station

Requires the City of Tustin, prior to entering into or enforcing any development contract at the Tustin Marine Corps Air Station, to find that the air station reuse plan include certain conveyances of property to the Santa Ana Unified School District and the Rancho Santiago Community College District.

(Died on Senate Floor)

SB 165 (Alarcon-D) Local agency finance

Imposes accountability measures on local governments that levy special taxes and issue local bonds. Enacts the Local Agency Special Tax and Bond Accountability Act.

Chapter 535, Statutes of 2000

SB 170 (Dunn-D) Local government finance

Provides, for the 2000-01 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, excludes single-county transit districts from allocation of ad valorem property tax revenues. States that it is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to ensure that each transit district, whether located within multiple counties or entirely within a single county, is treated equally in allocation of those revenues essential to preservation of adequate and quality public service. Appropriates $630,000 from the General Fund for allocation to community college districts for reimbursement to those districts for revenue loss due to this act.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 178 (Polanco-D) Work force investment: Department of Transportation

Requires the Director of the State Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the California Institute for Smart Communities and the California State University, San Diego, upon availability of funds in the annual Budget Act, to establish a demonstration Smart Communities Strategic Investment Program within the State Department of Transportation. Provides financial assistance to local governments, school districts, institutions of higher education, community-based nonprofit organizations, or any other public agency for funding under the demonstration program based on certain criteria. Creates the 21st Century Smart Communities Fund in the State Treasury for the bill's purposes.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 225* (Rainey-R) Booking fees

Allows qualified special districts to receive state reimbursement of county jail booking fees in the same manner as cities.

Chapter 1075, Statutes of 2000

SB 242 (McPherson-R) Santa Cruz Port District: lease

Allows the Santa Cruz Port District to extend its lease with operators of the Crow's Nest Restaurant if the number of years remaining in the lease on January 1, 2000, plus the number of years by which the lease is extended, does not exceed 50 years, and as long as the district complies with statutory requirements applicable to port districts regarding leasing of property of the district.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 245* (McPherson-R) Taxation

Exempts from the sales and use tax tangible personal property purchased by a fire district if two conditions are met: gross receipts from the sale of the property or the sales price of the property is at least $25,000; and the fire district or fire company receives $750,000 or less in annual tax or assessment revenues in the fiscal year immediately preceding the year in which a purchase of $25,000 or more is made.

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 329 (Peace-D) Public agencies

Creates an elected San Diego Regional Infrastructure and Transportation Agency to control planning, air quality, ports, airports, and transportation.

Chapter 764, Statutes of 2000

SB 375 (Perata-D) Board of Port Commissioners of Oakland

Requires the Governor to appoint two additional members to the Board of Port Commissioners of Oakland, and requires the Mayor of Oakland to be an additional member of the board.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 379 (Haynes-R) County service contracts

Includes information technology, data processing, and computer-related functions within the special services for which a board of supervisors may contract.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 402 (Burton-D) Public employee relations

Provides final and binding arbitration of any matter in dispute (within the scope of bargaining under the various existing state and local acts) between any public employer in California (including the state) and employee organizations representing its firefighters or law enforcement employees.

Chapter 906, Statutes of 2000

SB 486 (Rainey-R) Abandoned vehicles: removal

Requires, with regard to abandoned vehicles on private property, any city ordinance established for removal of abandoned vehicles to provide not less than a 10-day notice, and with regard to vehicles abandoned on public property, requires the ordinance to provide not less than a 72-hour notice of intention to abate and remove the vehicle.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 560 (Monteith-R) Annexation to a city

Requires the local agency formation commission in each county to approve an annexation to a city after notice and hearing and authorizes the conducting authority to order the annexation of territory without an election if the territory meets certain requirements, including notice to prospective purchasers of the city's right to annex the property without an election.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 562 (Poochigian-R) Taxation

Clarifies that cities and counties may charge a transient occupancy tax only on that portion of the all-inclusive price that is applicable to the occupancy of the room in a hotel, inn, or other lodging accommodations, and not to any in-room product, service, or amenity that a guest may purchase or any goods, services, or entitlements included in the price of the accommodations, as specified.

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 625 (Perata-D) Airports

Expands the authorization to include joint powers authorities and special districts that operate airports as well as cities and counties that operate an airport to require a rental car company to collect a fee from its customers on behalf of the airport for use of an airport-mandated common use busing system or light rail transit system operated for the movement of passengers between the terminal and a consolidated on-airport rental car facility.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 739 (Solis-D) Public employment

Makes a variety of changes to the local government collective bargaining law known as the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act.

Chapter 901, Statutes of 2000

SB 762 (Hughes-D) Real estate fraud

Provides that the amount deducted for actual and necessary administration costs for the recording of a real estate instrument will not exceed 10 percent of the total fees paid.

Chapter 765, Statutes of 2000

SB 766* (Escutia-D) City of South Gate

Exempts adoption of a redevelopment plan for a specified area of the City of South Gate from various requirements and requires the city to create a citizens' advisory committee to advise the redevelopment agency on development of the project area.

Chapter 766, Statutes of 2000

SB 1096 (Hayden-D) Economic development

Requires the State Treasurer to convene an advisory task force composed of specified members appointed by the Governor, State Treasurer, Speaker of the Assembly, and Senate Committee on Rules, to consider strategies for ending structural conditions of poverty and unemployment in California's inner cities. Requires the State Treasurer to evaluate the task force's work and report and make recommendations to the Legislature by June 15, 2000. Sunsets January 1, 2001.

(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 1103 (Polanco-D) Mining

Prohibits a local government with less than 5,000 residents within the jurisdiction, from imposing any tax on a person engaged in the business of extracting, processing, or selling mineral resources in an area of regional significance or an area of statewide significance, as defined.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1127 (Brulte-R) Local government finance

Temporarily exempts the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency from the 1992 Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund property tax shift and requires payback of the exemption, with interest for an unknown period of years followed by reduced school aid for a period of 20 years.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1132 (Costa-D) Capital facilities fees

Allows public agencies to charge capital facilities fees to other agencies and changes grounds for lawsuits.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1142 (Dunn-D) Tustin Marine Corps Air Station

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1144 (Johannessen-R) Public works contracts

Extends the ability of the cities of West Sacramento and Davis to use design-build contracts from January 1, 2001 to January 1, 2003.

Chapter 767, Statutes of 2000

SB 1164 (Mountjoy-R) Land use

Enacts the Public Lands Protection Act, which until January 1, 2008, prohibits steep slopes on undeveloped private property in Los Angeles County from being developed or used for any purpose other than agriculture, grazing, or low-density residential use, or from being rezoned to allow development at a higher level of residential density use, unless the proposed rezoning for alternative development or use is summarized in a proposal that is submitted to the voters in a local ballot measure, and approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon. Prohibits rezoning of any portion of undeveloped private property that is zoned for low-density residential use as of January 1, 2000.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1190 (Solis-D) Redevelopment

Requires a specified proportion of moneys in a redevelopment agency's Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund to be expended over the duration of a five-year implementation plan to assist housing for persons of low and very low income.

(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 1267 (Polanco-D) Leaf blowers

Prohibits the sale of a leaf blower unless it meets State Air Resources Board emission standards. Prohibits, after January 1, 2001, a leaf blower from being sold unless it complies with American National Standard Institute Standard B 175.2, is affixed with a label identifying the maximum noise level that may be produced by the leaf blower, and complies with State Air Resources Board emission standards.

Makes other restrictions regarding leaf blowers.

(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1314* (Peace-D) Limits on Marks-Roos Act bonds

Allows local officials to issue more Marks-Roos Act bonds for multi-phased private developments under limited conditions.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 1321* (Senate Local Government Committee) First Validating Act of 2000

Enacts the First Validating Act of 2000, validating the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, specified districts, agencies, and entities.

Chapter 24, Statutes of 2000

SB 1322* (Senate Local Government Committee) Second Validating Act of 2000

Enacts the Second Validating Act of 2000, validating the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, specified districts, agencies, and entities.

Chapter 229, Statutes of 2000

SB 1323 (Senate Local Government Committee) Third Validating Act of 2000

Enacts the Third Validating Act of 2000, validating the organization, boundaries acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, specified districts, agencies, and entities.

Chapter 230, Statutes of 2000

SB 1327 (Escutia-D) Inspection of personnel files

Repeals various statutes that give employees access to their personnel records and replaces them with a standard provision that applies to both public and private sector employers.

Chapter 886, Statutes of 2000

SB 1334 (Senate Local Government Committee) Local agency assessments

Conforms certain provisions in the Winegrape Pest and Disease Control District Law, the Open Space Maintenance Act, the Benefit Assessment Act of 1982, the Community Services District Law, the Tree Planting Act of 1931, the Landscape and Lighting Act of 1972, the Drainage District Improvement Act of 1919, the Pedestrian Mall Law of 1960, the street Lighting Acts of 1919 and 1931, the Municipal Lighting Maintenance District Act of 1927, and provisions relating to habitat maintenance assessment districts, fire suppression assessments, mosquito abatement or vector control districts, and geologic hazard abatement districts to the statutory procedures for levying assessments pursuant to Articles XIIIC and XIIID of the California Constitution.

Chapter 262, Statutes of 2000

SB 1350 (Senate Local Government Committee) Local Government Omnibus Act of 2000

Enacts the Local Government Act of 2000, and makes a number of clarifying and minor, non-controversial changes to local government laws.

Chapter 506, Statutes of 2000

SB 1375 (Alarcon-D) Redevelopment: territorial jurisdiction

Provides that the territorial jurisdiction of the redevelopment agency of a city over a project area within territory subsequently annexed to another city or included within the boundaries of a new city remains with the city redevelopment agency unless the territorial jurisdiction is transferred to the redevelopment agency of the other city pursuant to specified procedures.

Chapter 610, Statutes of 2000

SB 1386 (Alpert-D) Alcohol and drug assessment programs

Allows counties to create a program to access criminal offenders whose crime substantially involved alcohol and substance abuse and to create a report on those offenders that the court can used in sentencing such offenders.

Chapter 165, Statutes of 2000

SB 1395 (Monteith-R) Real Estate Commissioner: subdivided lands

Makes exclusions from the provisions of the Subdivided Lands Act under specified conditions.

Chapter 279, Statutes of 2000

SB 1396 (Burton-D) Local government finance

Returns the excess Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund revenues to local agencies in Marin County.

Chapter 611, Statutes of 2000

SB 1410 (Speier-D) County employees' retirement: benefits

Provides that in San Mateo County, subject to board of supervisors' approval, calculation of a member's allowance under the two percent at age 55-1/2 formula will be based on all of the member's eligible service credit; and in this county, subject to board of supervisors' approval, death benefits and survivor's allowances may be payable to a member's surviving domestic partner.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1447 (Hughes-D) Public office: volunteer firefighters

Repeals the exemption that allows volunteer firefighters to serve on boards that govern the fire departments in which they volunteer.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1476 (Peace-D) San Diego Unified Port District

Grants and conveys in trust to the San Diego Unified Port District in the County of San Diego all the right, title, and interest of the State of California acquired and held by the state pursuant to specified deeds. Provides that the lease of the lands being conveyed from the State Lands Commission to the district will terminate on January 1, 2001.

Chapter 302, Statutes of 2000

SB 1477 (Lewis-R) Local government assessment ballots

Clarifies the confidentiality status and tabulation process of assessment ballots under Proposition 218 assessment proceedings.

Chapter 220, Statutes of 2000

SB 1493 (Lewis-R) Local agency funds

Provides guidelines for county treasurers regarding the distribution of an investment pool's interest earnings.

Chapter 168, Statutes of 2000

SB 1508 (Figueroa-D) Local health care districts

Extends the January 1, 2001 repeal date that permits local health care districts to transfer their assets to for-profit corporations to January 1, 2006, and requires the Legislative Analyst to review and report all transactions to the legislature by January 1, 2005.

Chapter 169, Statutes of 2000

SB 1559 (Kelley-R) County sanitation: sanitary districts

Authorizes a sanitary district board to increase the compensation board members receive for attending a district board meeting or for rendering services to more than the $100 per day limit pursuant to specified procedures.

Chapter 86, Statutes of 2000

SB 1563 (Leslie-R) Land surveyors

Makes various changes to laws governing the practice of engineering and land surveying. Requires county recorders and county surveyors to provide filing data, as specified, to individuals requesting such data under specified conditions.

Chapter 678, Statutes of 2000

SB 1578 (Alarcon-D) Peace officers: City of Los Angeles: public library

Extends that specified peace officer authority provided designated persons who are not peace officers to exercise the power of arrest, execute a search warrant, or receive criminal history information, to persons employed by the Public Library Department of the City of Los Angeles who are designated as library public officers by local ordinance.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1581 (Escutia-D) TEA formula allocations

Prohibits the amount of ad valorem property tax revenue allocated to a qualifying city under the Tax Equity Allocation formula from being reduced on the basis of additional property tax revenues received by that city under an agreement with the county in which that city is located, under which additional service responsibilities are exchanged in consideration for additional property tax revenues. Incorporates additional changes in Section 98 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, proposed by SB 1883, to be operative only if SB 1883 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2001, and this bill is chaptered last.

Chapter 171, Statutes of 2000

SB 1587* (Johannessen-R) Trinity County: trial court funding

Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, the alleged obligations of Trinity County to the state in the total amount of $224,917, as specified, with respect to trial court funding is excused in the interests of justice, and directs the State Department of Finance to withdraw its demand in that amount and to adjust its financial records accordingly.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1597 (O'Connell-D) Harbors and ports

Clarifies that both commercial and non-commercial vessels can use "harbors of safe refuge" along the coast, and that these harbors may charge fees for their services.

Chapter 282, Statutes of 2000

SB 1605 (Poochigian-R) Supplemental local law enforcement funding

Appropriates annually $250 million from the General Fund to the Controller to fund the supplemental local law enforcement funding provisions, as specified, and extends operation of those provisions indefinitely.

(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1637* (Burton-D) Property tax revenue shifts: limitation

Caps the shift of property tax revenues from counties to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund over a three-year period.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1640 (Burton-D) County employees' retirement: Marin County: safety status

Authorizes the Board of Supervisors of Marin County to meet and confer pursuant to the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act with the appropriate recognized employee organization to reach agreement on any conditions to be required of employees or the employee organization seeking to have safety status made applicable to those specified employees. Requires any payments made by county employees on behalf of the employer to cover all or part of the increased cost of safety retirement to be determined upon actuarial advice from the retirement board's actuaries, and approved by the board of retirement.

Chapter 172, Statutes of 2000

SB 1642 (Figueroa-D) Housing: jobs

Adds a requirement that the State Department of Housing and Community Development and regional councils of government, when determining regional fair shares of housing, incorporate measures to improve the balance of jobs and housing within each region's employment centers.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1695 (Ortiz-D) Retirement benefits: firefighters

Provides an alternative death benefit for any local firefighter member of State Public Employees' Retirement System who dies after January 1, 2001 and has 20 years or more of credited state service.

Chapter 855, Statutes of 2000

SB 1696 (Ortiz-D) County employees' retirement: retroactive benefit increases

Authorizes a board of supervisors or governing body of a district to apply any formula retroactively to service credit earned during a designated period prior to the adoption of the formula and subject to approval by the employee representatives, authorizes collection of additional contributions attributable to that formula during the designated period.

Chapter 495, Statutes of 2000

SB 1708 (Kelley-R) Streets

Allows local officials to form a "loan repayment assessment district" under the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 and then levy annual benefit assessments to repay state loans for water or sewer improvements.

Chapter 253, Statutes of 2000

SB 1714 (Brulte-R) Zoning ordinances: radio antennas

Provides that any ordinance adopted by the legislative body of any city or county that regulates amateur radio station antenna structures will not preclude amateur radio service communications but will reasonably accommodate amateur radio service communications. Requires the Director of the Office of Planning and Research to prepare and publish a technical assistance bulletin for use by local officials and planners in the preparation and adoption of local ordinances regulating amateur radio service antennas, to prepare a model ordinance on local regulation of those antennas, and to report to the Legislature and the Governor regarding any recommendations for changes to state statutes regarding state or local amateur radio service antenna regulation.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1753 (Brulte-R) Local law enforcement funding

Appropriates $180 million from the General Fund to the Controller to be allocated to district attorneys, county sheriffs, and city police chiefs for the purpose of funding technology grants and technology-related acquisitions to enhance public safety.

(Failed Passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1756 (Kelley-R) Fire districts: board of directors

Raises the fire protection district board of directors' compensation limit from $75 to $100 for board meeting attendance and authorizes the district board to increase that amount by ordinance.

Chapter 121, Statutes of 2000

SB 1883 (Sher-D) Property taxation: revenue allocation: TEA formula

Adjusts the calculation of Tax Equity Allocations to no- and low-property tax cities in Santa Clara County to reflect increased tax effort in those cities.

Chapter 419, Statutes of 2000

SB 1884 (Chesbro-D) Building and zoning ordinances: school districts

Makes building and zoning ordinances of a city or county applicable to the location or construction of school facilities of a charter school that are outside the territorial boundaries of the school district that granted the school's charter, and provides that these provisions apply only to property within the geographic jurisdiction of the school district.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1895 (Poochigian-R) Water supply infrastructure

Enacts the Local Public Agency Water Supply Infrastructure Act. Requires the State Department of Water Resources to establish a grant and loan program to enable local public agencies to carry out programs and projects to increase local water supplies, as prescribed. Requires the department, for funding purposes, to give preference to projects and programs that meet specified criteria, and makes an appropriation from an unspecified source to carry out the grant and loan program.

(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)

SB 1916 (Leslie-R) State Board of Forestry & Fire Protection: El Dorado Hills

Requires the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to continue to provide fire suppression services for two years in former state responsibility area (SRA) territory located within the boundaries of any city incorporated on or after January 1, 2001, and requires this territory, during this two-year period, to continue to be subject to the Board of Forestry's SRA classification process. Becomes operative only if the City of El Dorado Hills (to be located in western El Dorado County) is incorporated between January 1, 2001 and July 1, 2004.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1919 (Chesbro-D) Property tax revenue shift: fire district relief

Expands the 1992-93 shift of property tax revenues to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund to also include any appropriation for fire protection under the Fire Protection District Law made by a special district's governing board.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1936* (Schiff-D) Supplemental local law enforcement funding

Extends the Citizens Option for Public Safety (COPS) program for five additional years, until January 1, 2005, and declares the Legislature's intent to appropriate at least $242.6 million in fiscal years 2001-02, 2002-03, and 2003-04 to the COPS program during this period. Imposes on cities and counties new deadlines, requirements and penalties related to the COPS programs spending and reporting.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 1956 (Polanco-D) Water: biosolids

Prohibits a local government from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing an ordinance, regulation, or resolution that prescribes standards in addition to, or more restrictive than, certain federal regulations or general waste discharge requirements for biosolids land application adopted by the state board, but authorizes a local government to adopt standards in addition to, or more restrictive than, those certain federal regulations or general waste discharge requirements under specified circumstances, and authorizes any interested person to petition the state board for review of the action of the local government.

(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1958 (Lewis-R) Public entities: liability

Provides that an independent building inspector employed by a private entity, but authorized by a city or county building department to inspect buildings and report to the building department according to regulations established by the building department, is deemed a public employee while performing building inspections under the direction of the building department.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1966 (Brulte-R) Elections: county and municipal initiative measures

Makes explicit that a city or county may refer a proposed initiative to the appropriate local government entity for a report on specified aspects of the initiative.

Chapter 496, Statutes of 2000

SB 1982 (Alpert-D) Local government finance: reform

Makes legislative findings and declarations with respect to the fiscal difficulties of local governments, and declares the intent of the Legislature to address local government issues involving, among other things, property tax revenue allocations, state-mandated local programs, and local government revenue sources in reforming the fiscal relationship between the state and local governments.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SB 2000 (Polanco-D) Local government

Declares the intent of the Legislature with respect to local government, including identifying stable and reliable revenue sources, delivering vital services, mitigating state-mandated local costs, recommending land use policies, considering all local revenue sources in reforming fiscal relationships, and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of government programs.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SB 2001 (Poochigian-R) Local planning: public notice

Requires the notice procedures for a hearing for a permit or modification of a permit for a drive-through facility also be incorporated whenever a local agency considers the adoption or amendment of policies or ordinances affecting drive-through facilities.

Chapter 785, Statutes of 2000

SB 2008 (Solis-D) County employees' retirement law: benefits

Modifies survivor benefits in the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 as they relate to payments to survivors and the payment of partial monthly payments outside of the probate process.

Chapter 497, Statutes of 2000

SB 2017 (Perata-D) Local planning

Requires the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments to develop criteria to evaluate whether local governments are accepting their fair share of housing starts and participating in regional congestion. Requires the two agencies, with input of stakeholders, to identify regulatory and other barriers to achieving a balance between housing and jobs in the region, and to report to their recommendations to the Legislature by January 1, 2002. Appropriates $250,000 from the General Fund to these agencies.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 2024 (Lewis-R) Property tax revenue shifts

Limits, for the 2001-02 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the reduction and transfer amount of a county, or a city or a special district in that county, to 40 percent of the total of ad valorem property tax revenue that would be allocated to that local agency in the absence of reduction and transfer requirements. Applies the adjustment requirement which the Director of the State Department of Finance uses to adjust one of the formulas used in computing the state's constitutional obligation to fund school districts and community college districts to modifications in property tax revenue allocation requirements that are made by "qualified provisions," and defines "qualified provisions" to include both the prior enactment currently specified by the adjustment requirement and provisions proposed to be added by this bill.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 2040 (Chesbro-D) Building standards

Requires the California Building Standards Commission, in consultation with the State Fire Marshal, to conduct a study on the hazards to public safety presented by marinas within the state and make a specified report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2002.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SB 2048 (Leslie-R) Infrastructure improvement

Declares the intent of the Legislature to appropriate $250 million from the General Fund to the State Controller for local grant allocation to cities and to counties for the purpose of improving, construction, or acquiring infrastructure, including, but not limited to, water systems, sewage systems, roads, and parks.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SB 2057 (Morrow-R) Highways: funding

Allows county supervisors to issue bonds, notes, and other debt instruments for ten-year terms, backed by revenues from special taxes or parcel charges.

Chapter 179, Statutes of 2000

SB 2064 (Costa-D) Conflicts of interest

Expands the definition of "remote interest" as applies to certain public officials and employees and their financial interest in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any board of which they are members.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 2080 (Leslie-R) Local government finance

Reduces property tax allocations to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund by $250 million and allocates those property tax revenues to cities, counties, and special districts on a proportionate basis.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 2088 (Hughes-D) Public contracts: job order contracting

Authorizes job order contracting by school districts and other public entities.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 2095 (Johnston-D) Water recycling

Requires any local public or private entity that produces recycled water and determines that within 10 years it will provide recycled water within the boundaries of a local agency, to notify the local agency of that fact. Requires a local agency, within 180 days of receipt of notice, to adopt and enforce a specified recycled water ordinance, unless the local agency adopted a recycled water ordinance or other regulation requiring the use of recycled water in its jurisdiction prior to January 1, 2001.

Chapter 510, Statutes of 2000

SB 2096* (Poochigian-R) Cemetery districts

Creates an exception authorizing the Visalia Public Cemetery District to acquire a mausoleum that was originally constructed by the City of Visalia in 1965, if the cemetery district complies with specified criteria.

Chapter 68, Statutes of 2000

SB 2113 (Burton-D) Redevelopment: San Francisco

Authorizes the Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco, subject to approval of the board of supervisors of that city and county, to incur indebtedness exclusively for Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund activities until January 1, 2014, or until the agency replaces all of the housing units demolished prior to the enactment of the replacement housing obligations, whichever occurs earlier, and to receive tax increment revenues to repay indebtedness incurred for those activities until no later than January 1, 2044. Prohibits the agency from incurring that indebtedness until the Director of the State Department of Housing and Community Development certifies the net difference between those housing units destroyed prior to January 1, 1976, and those rehabilitated, developed, or constructed, prior to that date.

Chapter 661, Statutes of 2000

SB 2117 (Johnson-R) Redevelopment

Authorizes the City of Tustin and the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency to negotiate and award design-and-build contracts, notwithstanding certain competitive bidding requirements, for various improvements that support redevelopment at the Tustin Marine Corps Air Station if the contracts are entered into within seven years after the execution of a deed or lease in furtherance of the conveyance by the United States Department of Defense to the city or the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency of the property on which the improvements will be located.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 2132* (Dunn-D) Health services

Appropriates $24,803,000 from the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund for the 2000-01 fiscal year, and provides for the allocation of $22,324,000 of that amount through the California Healthcare for Indigents Program and $2,479,000 of that amount through the Rural Health Services program. Limits the use of those funds to the reimbursement of uncompensated hospital emergency services.

Chapter 826, Statutes of 2000

SB 2137 (Leslie-R) Highways: El Dorado County

Authorizes the El Dorado County Transportation Planning Agency to contract with a public or private entity to conduct a study to examine feasibility of financing the construction of improvements on Route 50 in El Dorado County. Transfers an unspecified amount from an unspecified source to the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund and appropriates those funds from that account to the Director of the State Department of Transportation for allocation by the director to the agency for the purpose of funding the study.

(Died in Senate Transportation Committee)

SB 2204 (Soto-D) Land use

Permits Williamson Act contract recissions located within the Counties of San Bernardino and Riverside, to be exchanged for agricultural easements in the Chino Basin.

Chapter 431, Statutes of 2000

SB 2206 (Brulte-R) Public employees' retirement

Authorizes Riverside County to provide retirement benefits to county peace officers in a particular bargaining unit that are different from the benefits provided to other county peace officers.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SCA 6 (Rainey-R) Local government finance

Enacts the Taxpayer Right to Know and Government Accountability Act, and prohibits the Legislature from directing the allocation of revenue that is derived from a local general or special tax. Makes changes to allocation of revenues to counties and cities derived from taxes imposed pursuant to the Vehicle License Fee Law. Establishes as a constitutional entitlement the local taxing authority of cities, counties, and cities and counties existing under specified statutes as of the effective date of the constitutional amendment. Makes requirements of local governments, in connection with each budget period, to provide for public input.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SCA 7 (Polanco-D) Charter counties: supervisors

Provides that, in a county with a population of more than 5 million, the charter will provide for a governing body of 9 or more members, for a salary not to exceed that of a superior court judge, and for a limitation on the expenditures of the governing body and its staff.

(Died in Assembly Elections and Reapportionment Committee)

SCA 10 (Perata-D) Public safety services

Amends the California Constitution to provide for the Citizens Public Safety and Security Act of 2000. Prohibits a local government from entering into any agreement with any person to perform an essential public safety service that is ordinarily performed by a peace officer or firefighter.

(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SCA 14 (Haynes-R) County assessors

Specifies that, in any county with a population of 25,000 or more, the assessor will be elected to a four-year term and may not serve more than two terms as the assessor.

(Failed passage in Senate Elections and Reapportionment Committee)

SCA 17 (Polanco-D) Local government finances

Declares the intent of the people to protect local government finances and assure certainty for future local government budgeting.

(Died on Senate Floor)

SCA 18 (Alpert-D) Local government finance

Makes findings and declarations of the state electorate with respect to the role of local governments in implementing programs and providing public services, the importance of the fiscal soundness of local governments, and the equitable distribution of local tax revenues.

(Died in Senate Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SCA 21 (Alarcon-D) Public finance

Enacts the Local Initiative Accountability Act of 2000. Requires any initiative proposed by the voters of a local governmental entity that would provide for the sale of bonds or the imposition of any tax to also provide specified accountability measures.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 24 (Runner-R) Local government

Specifies that bank in-lieu taxes will be allocated to cities and counties rather than to the General Fund.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 83 (Cardenas-D) Business licensing

Prohibits any city, including a charter city, city and county, or county, from requiring an employee to obtain a business license or home business occupation permit for, or imposing a business tax or registration fee based on income earned for services performed for an employer by the employee in an employment relationship.

Chapter 1070, Statutes of 2000

AB 96 (Shelley-D) Retirement benefits

Creates a new local membership classification with regard to the Public Employees' Retirement Law, designated "local sheriff," that subject to contract amendment, applies to specified employees of the sheriff's office in San Francisco County. Provides that persons in the local sheriff classification will no longer be included in the county peace officer classification, and amends the definition of local safety members to include persons in the local sheriff classification.

Chapter 871, Statutes of 2000

AB 112 (Florez-D) Local government: tobacco settlement

Requires the State Treasurer to establish a specified fund and accounts for deposit of Tobacco Recovery Moneys that are allocated to any city, county, or city and county and specifies the disposition of those moneys, including authorization for the city, county, or city and county to use the money, pursuant to resolution of its governing body, for any of certain specified purposes.

(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)

AB 115 (Maddox-R) Law enforcement

Annually appropriates $100 million from the General Fund to the State Controller to fund the supplemental local law enforcement funding provisions, and extends the operation of those provisions indefinitely.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 146 (Havice-D) Open meetings

Expressly provides that members of the Downey City Council may attend any open or closed meeting of the Downey Community Hospital Foundation or any successor or related entity, and provides that the attendance of less than a quorum of the Downey City Council members at such a meeting will not be a standing committee of the city council under the Ralph M. Brown Act.

(Failed passage in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 147* (Strom-Martin-D) Local agencies

Authorizes the City of Sebastopol, subject to approval of two-thirds of the voters voting on the issue at an election, to levy a transactions and use tax pursuant to the Transactions and Use Tax Law at a rate of 0.125 percent for general revenue purposes.

Chapter 264, Statutes of 2000

AB 185 (Hertzberg-D) Local government reorganization

Requires that, if a local agency commission approves a proposal for a special reorganization that includes the incorporation of a city with a population of more than one million, the resolution must specify that the legislative body of the city will consist of an even number of members, with at least 12 elected by districts. Requires the commission to establish initial boundaries for those districts and to specify in the resolution that the major, who must be a voting member of the council, will be elected on a citywide basis.

Chapter 762, Statutes of 2000

AB 188* (Hertzberg-D) Local government reorganization

Includes on the Commission on Local Governance for the 21st Century six nonvoting ex officio members consisting of the chairs and vice chairs of the Senate and Assembly Local Government Committees and two persons appointed by the Governor.

(Died at Senate Desk)

AB 258* (Baugh-R) Local agency formation commission: Los Angeles

Appropriates $320,000 from the General Fund to the Los Angeles County Local Agency Formation Commission, to study whether it is feasible for the Harbor Area communities to detach from the City of Los Angeles and to incorporate into their own city.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 278 (Reyes-D) County employees' retirement: benefits

Authorizes the board of supervisors in Fresno County to adopt a 2.5 percent at age 50 formula for safety members and a 2.5 percent at age 55 formula for nonsafety members in that county.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 284 (Strom-Martin-D) Local government finance

Clarifies the definition of "possessory interest, " specifies that the absence of actual physical occupation does not preclude the determination of a "possessory interest," and makes other technical changes.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 328* (Bates-R) Property tax revenue shifts: relief

Reduces the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund property tax shift for the Laguna Niguel Community Services District by $610,000 per year.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 439 (Pescetti-R) County employees' retirement

Defines "county peace officers" to include parks and recreation department employees in the Park Ranger class series in Santa Clara County who perform specified duties. Provides that peace officers in the Park Ranger class series, employed, as specified, by the County of Sacramento, may, at the election of the board of supervisors, be eligible for safety member status and receive credit as a safety member for prior service pursuant to the terms of a memorandum of understanding between the employer and employee representative.

Chapter 482, Statutes of 2000

AB 441 (Mazzoni-D) State Water Quality Control Fund

Provides that amounts owed by the Tomales Village Community Services District to the State Water Resources Control Board for payment of principal and interest in connection with a prescribed loan from the State Water Quality Control Fund to prevent water pollution will be considered a grant for the construction of necessary wastewater treatment facilities.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 448 (Floyd-D) County retirement system

Provides an optional retirement formula of two percent at age 55 available to 1937 County Employee Retirement Act counties.

Chapter 882, Statutes of 2000

AB 502 (Wildman-D) Meyers-Milias-Brown Act

Revises the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act law regarding the establishment of agency shop agreements, permitting a public agency to agree to cover managerial employees under this type of mandatory employee organization dues arrangement.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 524 (Lempert-D) Fines

Requires a board of supervisors to establish priorities of payment of fines, state or local penalties, forfeitures, restitution fines, or restitution orders imposed by specified courts upon a person for criminal offenses, and provides that restitution fines and restitution orders no less than $100 may be referred to the State Franchise Tax Board for collection. Provides that any portion of a restitution fine that remains unsatisfied after a defendant is no longer on probation or parole is enforceable by the State Board of Control.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 551 (Longville-D) State funds

Appropriates to local governmental agencies any interest earned or increment derived in excess of $1,000 from funds in the account during a period of time that, except for a delay in enactment of the State Budget, would have been transferred to those local governmental agencies.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 639 (Thompson-R) Local agency formation commissions

Requires the State Controller to review any proposed mitigation payment and conclusions used in the comprehensive fiscal analysis that is required to be prepared for any proposal that includes an incorporation. Allows the commission to recover from the interested party the costs of the State Controller's review and report only if the State Controller indicates that the information, methodologies, documentation, and conclusions used in the analysis are accurate and reliable.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 729 (Lowenthal-D) Community facilities: planning

Requires the Office of Planning and Research to establish the California Community Facilities Technical Assistance Lab to assist schools and community organizations in developing joint-use facilities.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 766 (Wiggins-D) County government

Includes Solano County within those counties whose board of supervisors would be authorized to provide for the appointment of the public administrator by the board. Authorizes the Board of Supervisors of Solano County to appoint the same person to the offices of public administrator and public guardian.

Chapter 35, Statutes of 2000

AB 774 (Cardoza-D) Redevelopment

Designates the County of Merced as the local base reuse authority for Castle Air Force Base, and repeals provisions of law creating and setting forth the powers of the Castle Joint Powers Redevelopment Agency as the redevelopment agency for the Castle Air Force Base project area.

Chapter 290, Statutes of 2000

AB 779 (Torlakson-D) Pollution

Authorizes the California Pollution Control Financing Authority, until January 1, 2007, to provide grants and loans to assist California neighborhoods suffering from high poverty or unemployment levels, or from low-income levels, to assist cities and counties in developing and implementing growth policies and programs that reduce pollution hazards and degradation of the environment, or in promoting infill development to revitalize these communities. Requires the authority to fund these grants and loans from any funds available to the authority or set aside for the authority's administrative expenses. Limits to $2,500,000 the amount that may be awarded in grants and loans. Requires the authority, commencing in 2002, and annually thereafter, to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the program.

Chapter 914, Statutes of 2000

AB 780 (Calderon-D) Local employer-employee relations

Requires each written memorandum of understanding affecting law enforcement employees of a city with a population of 100,000 or less to include a provision that establishes the due process right to a fair and impartial hearing before an impartial hearing officer for the appeal of punitive actions. Requires costs of the hearing be borne equally by the parties and provides that determinations of the impartial hearing officer are binding on the parties only if the parties agree to be bound.

(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 822* (Mazzoni-D) Taxation

Allows the City of Oakland to impose a higher property tax rate to make payments in support of pension programs approved by the voters before July 1, 1978, provided that the higher property tax rate is approved by two-thirds of the voters voting on that higher rate at an election.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 866 (Kuehl-D) Rental housing

Provides that nothing in the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act will be construed to prohibit or prevent a local agency from determining administratively the lawful rent in accordance with the act.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 915 (Dickerson-R) Local government

Distributes, for a county that does not have any incorporated cities, to the State Controller for allocation to that county, the county portion of vehicle license fee revenues and the city portions based on eight percent of the population of that county.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 943 (Dutra-D) California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission

Assigns additional educational requirements to the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission and requires local agencies to provide the necessary data.

Chapter 687, Statutes of 2000

AB 950 (Thomson-D) Housing and community development

Extends the sunset on the law allowing the creation of a joint powers agency for the purpose of meeting the housing needs of the Travis Air Force Base and preventing its relocation.

Chapter 469, Statutes of 2000

AB 958 (Scott-D) Transit design-build contracts

Authorizes transit operators to enter into a design-build contract, as defined, according to specified procedures. Requires each contract to prohibit construction or alteration of any school building without the prior written approval of the plans by the State Department of General Services. Specifies that a transit operator that uses the design-build process will be required to report to the Legislative Analyst before December 1, 2005, on each public works project procured through the design-build process and completed on or before November 1,2005, as specified.

Chapter 541, Statutes of 2000

AB 977 (Vincent-D) Local planning

Specifies that a determination of a city's sphere of influence shall not preclude the provision by the county of essential services, such as water or sewer services, to an unincorporated area within the city's sphere of influence.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1036 (Wesson-D) Local government finance

Extends the application of the State-County Property Tax Administration Loan Program to include the 2001-02 fiscal year.

Chapter 602, Statutes of 2000

AB 1167 (Frusetta-R) Local government finance

Extends the state funding capabilities for county veteran service officers (CVSO) from January 1, 2001 to January 1, 2006. Without this extension, the state's share of CVSO funding would be eliminated.

Chapter 11, Statutes of 2000

AB 1194* (Leonard-R) Local government finance

Specifies intent of the Legislature to use this bill as a trailer bill for reducing the shift of property taxes from cities, counties, and special districts.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1195* (Longville-D) Local government finance

Appropriates $32,140,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the State Department of Fish and Game, and the State Water Resources Control Board for expenditure in the 2000-01 fiscal year for specified fire suppression and detection costs, overtime compensation, and noxious aquatic weed eradication. Appropriates $809,842,000 for expenditure in the 1999-00 fiscal year for purposes of contingencies and emergencies.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1219 (Kuehl-D) Land use: water supplies

Prohibits approval of a tentative map, or a parcel map for which a tentative map was not required, or a development agreement for a subdivision of property of more than 200 residential units, including the design of the subdivision or the type of improvement, unless the legislative body of a city, county, or local agency makes a finding that a sufficient, reliable water supply is available that will meet reasonable needs of the project.

(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)

AB 1264 (Pescetti-R) City incorporation: Elk Grove

Provides direction to the Sacramento County Local Agency Formation Commission, the Elk Grove incorporation proponents, and Sacramento County with respect to determining fiscal impacts and mitigation of those impacts for the incorporation of a new city.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1266 (Pescetti-R) Local agency formation

Provides that the fiscal impacts of the incorporation of Rancho Cordova in Sacramento County will be deemed fully mitigated if the proposal that includes the incorporation requires the future incorporated City of Rancho Cordova to pay the revenue from its entire property tax base to the County of Sacramento for a period not to exceed 25 years from the date of incorporation.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1267 (Baugh-R) Public contracts

Prohibits a local agency that requires a contractor or bidder on a contract to demonstrate proof of workers' compensation insurance coverage for employees engaged in the provision of goods or services pursuant to the contract from disallowing the contractor's selection of a particular insurance carrier, or from considering a bidder's proposal on a contract more or less responsive or favorable solely because of the bidder's selection of a particular insurance carrier, provided that carrier is operating under a certificate of authority issued by the Insurance Commissioner.

(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 1331 (Papan-D) Governmental regulation

Renames, among other funds or entities, the Robbins-Nielsen County Revenue Stabilization Act of 1987 to exclude the name "Robbins."

Chapter 375, Statutes of 2000

AB 1333 (Bates-R) County employee retirement systems: governing board

Revises the number, qualifications, and terms of members of the Board of Retirement of San Diego County, and will become operative only if ratified by a majority vote of the electors of San Diego County.

(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1347 (Runner-R) Local government finance

Requires counties participating in the State-County Property Tax Administration Loan Program to reduce property tax administrative fees charged to cities and special districts by the amount of property tax revenue recovered from cities and counties pursuant to the program. Requires each county auditor to provide an accounting of property tax administrative costs each year to both houses of the Legislature, and upon request, to cities and special districts.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1396* (Villaraigosa-D) Local government finance

Makes a one-time appropriation of $212 million to local governments for fiscal relief based on a specific allocation formula, which generally allocates $200 million to cities, counties, and special districts based on last year's AB 1661 (Torlakson) formula, while $10 million goes to counties based on population and $2 million to independent recreation and park and library districts throughout the state.

Chapter 903, Statutes of 2000

AB 1402* (Mazzoni-D) Taxation

Limits amount of property tax revenues allocated by counties to their Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund to the amount needed to fulfill the basic aid requirements for schools, community colleges, and county offices of education.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1444 (House-R) County health services

Provides for retroactive reimbursement of Proposition 99, County Healthcare for Indigents Program, Hospital Services Account funding to San Luis Obispo County and Stanislaus County for fiscal year 1998-1999.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1481 (Granlund-R) Parking meters

Deletes a 30-day notification period and, instead, authorizes sealers to immediately close inaccurate meters and states findings and declarations of the Legislature regarding parking meter agencies and operators.

Chapter 511, Statutes of 2000

AB 1493* (Nakano-D) Public records

Chapter 291, Statutes of 2000

AB 1495* (Cox-R) Agency formation

Revises incorporation procedures by explaining how local officials identify costs, process proposals, and reevaluate fiscal mitigation measures. Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to create a statewide task force by March 1, 2000 and publish a set of advisory incorporation guidelines by July 1, 2000, and appropriates $75,000 for that purpose. Revises the Governor's OPR deadlines to 2001 and 2002. Incorporates changes in the Government Code proposed by AB 2838 (Hertzberg) that become operative only if AB 2838 and this bill are enacted by January 1, 2001, and this bill is enacted last.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1526 (Thompson-R) City incorporations

Requires reimbursement to new cities for services formerly provided by the state, allows cities to request the California Highway Patrol and the State Department of Forestry to provide services after incorporation, and makes changes to the local agency formation commission.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1544* (Calderon-D) Local government

Authorizes county service areas, the Inland Valley Development Agency, and municipal water districts to establish sewer and water supply facilities on specified lands related to development of certain territory within the Norton Air Force Redevelopment Project Area without approval by other agencies, except as specified, in that redevelopment project area from a requirement for the payment of just compensation for private utility property taken for public purposes. Authorizes landowners of unincorporated territory located in that redevelopment project area to petition a local agency formation commission for removal of the territory from a city's sphere of influence. Provides that a determination of a city's sphere of influence will not preclude the provision of specified services to that redevelopment project area.

Chapter 129, Statutes of 2000

AB 1556 (Correa-D) Redevelopment: El Toro Marine Corps Air Station

Prohibits the local agency formation commission in Orange County from approving any proposal including the annexation to a city of any portion of the El Toro Marine Corps Air station until transfer of fee title of that territory to the local redevelopment authority has occurred or until January 1, 2007, whichever occurs first.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1609 (Cardenas-D) Leaf blowers

Enacts the Salvador Hernandez Lira Gardener Act of 1999, which authorizes a city, county, or city and county to establish noise limitations on leaf blowers consistent with a noise level standard that is greater than 65 dBA, measured at a distance of 50 feet in accordance with testing protocol established by a particular standard of the American national Standard Institute. Prohibits local government from prohibiting use of leaf blowers meeting the established noise level standard, except between the hours of 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. on weekdays and between the hours of 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. on weekends.

(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 1613 (Lempert-D) Regional open-space district: County of Santa Barbara

Permits the formation of a regional open-space district in Santa Barbara County to be initiated by resolution of the county board of supervisors after a noticed hearing and specifies the contents of the resolution, including a requirement to call an election.

Chapter 755, Statutes of 2000

AB 1615 (Longville-D) Property tax revenue allocations

Deems correct those property tax revenue apportionment factors used in apportioning property tax revenues in the County of Riverside for fiscal years to the 1999-2000 fiscal year, inclusive, and thereafter requires that property tax revenue apportionments be made on the basis of prior apportionment factors that have been corrected, as provided, and would be required in the absence of this bill.

Chapter 604, Statutes of 2000

AB 1674* (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Capital facilities fees

Establishes a procedure for notification by municipal electric utilities to specified public agencies, of the imposition of new capital facilities fees or the increase of an existing capital facilities fee, and imposes a 120-day statute of limitation for initiating a judicial challenge to these fees.

Chapter 146, Statutes of 2000

AB 1709 (Romero-D) Firefighters

Enacts the Firefighter Health and Safety Act of 2000 and makes legislative findings and declarations regarding exposure of firefighters with health risks. Authorizes the Director of the State Office of Emergency Services to establish a matching grant program to retrofit fire apparatus rooms with diesel exhaust recovery systems using, to the extend feasible, available federal funds to match local expenditures.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1732 (Torlakson-D) Local agency procedures

Permits, until January 1, 2004, county recorders of 12 counties to accept for recordation electronic records of digitized images of recordable instruments and appropriates $100,000 to the Attorney General to develop related regulations.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1744* (Longville-D) Local government: housing elements

Extends the deadline by which Southern California Association of Governments and the Association of Bay Area Governments are to complete the housing elements of their general plans.

Chapter 117, Statutes of 2000

AB 1757* (Oller-R) Local government finance

Seeks to compensate local agencies for the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund property tax shifts enacted in the 1992 and 1993 State Budget Acts.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1806 (Robert Pacheco-R) Local government

Caps the shift of property tax from cities, counties, and special districts to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) in each county to the amount of the shift in 1999-2000, plus the amount of property taxes deposited into ERAF and allocated to community college districts in the prior year.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1817 (Correa-D) County employees' disability retirement

Provides that counties operating retirement systems under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 will grant a service-connected disability retirement to certain safety, firefighter, county probation officer, and active law enforcement employees if they develop a blood-borne infectious disease.

Chapter 138, Statutes of 2000

AB 1821* (Mazzoni-D) Government finance

Limits the amount of property tax revenues allocated by counties to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in each county to the amount needed to fulfil the basic aid requirements for counties, community colleges, and county offices of education.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1836 (Bates-R) Coroner's reports

Requires disclosure of medical information or records to a coroner without delay for specified purposes. Reduces the time for giving family members of decedents notice of a coroner's request for medical records through a subpoena, from 15 days prior to the date the records are to be delivered to the superior court to three days prior to that day. Provides that the coroner's report to law enforcement on suspected criminal deaths may only include the medical information of the decedent which is directly related to the death, and provides that provisions of the bill sunset on January 1, 2003.

Chapter 1068, Statutes of 2000

AB 1852 (Longville-D) Meyers-Milias-Brown Act

Permits a public agency that is not required to proceed to interest arbitration to implement its last, best, and final offer, if after meeting and conferring in good faith, an impasse has been reached between the parties, and impasse procedures, where applicable, have been exhausted, but would prohibit the public agency from implementing a memorandum of understanding. Provides the unilateral implementation of a public agency's last, best, and final offer will not deprive a recognized employee organization of the right each year to meet and confer on matters within the scope of representation prior to the public agency adopting its budget or as otherwise required by law.

Chapter 316, Statutes of 2000

AB 1855 (Lowenthal-D) Redevelopment

Extends several inclusionary housing provisions requiring the replacement of low and moderate income housing destroyed or removed as a result of redevelopment activities. Allows Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency to spend low- and moderate-income funds outside of the agency's jurisdiction.

Chapter 756, Statutes of 2000

AB 1867 (Papan-D) Local fiscal relief

Exempts Broadmoor Police Protection District from the requirement to shift property tax revenues to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in San Mateo County.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1880 (Brewer-R) Property tax revenue allocation

Requires that property tax revenues be transferred from the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in each county to county government in amounts necessary to bring the county government's share of property tax revenues to 15.8 percent, and the transfer of revenues are to be phased in over five years.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1913* (Cardenas-D) Local law enforcement funding

Appropriates $242.6 million for local law enforcement programs: $121.3 million to continue funding of the Citizens Option for Public Safety program; and, $121.3 million to a juvenile justice initiative to be administered by the Board of Corrections.

Chapter 353, Statutes of 2000

AB 1937 (Correa-D) Retirement: benefits

Authorizes contracting agencies of the Public Employees' Retirement System to increase retirement allowances being paid on account of their retired or deceased. Authorizes counties or districts, subject to approval by the county board of supervisors, to provide service retirement allowances for safety members based on a three percent at age 50 formula or three percent at age 55 formula, and increases allowances being paid on account of retired or deceased members by up to six percent.

Chapter 237, Statutes of 2000

AB 1941* (Strom-Martin-D) Palm Drive Health Care District

Allows the Palm Drive Health Care District, until January 1, 2004, to issue revenue bonds based on the finances of the Palm Drive Hospital instead of the district. Requires any health care district that leases or transfers its assets to a corporation to act as an advocate for the community to the corporation and to annually report to the community on progress made in meeting the community's health needs.

Chapter 798, Statutes of 2000

AB 1944 (Wayne-D) Williamson Act

Provides that, as relates to the Williamson Act, a compatible use is expressly specified within the contract only if it is specifically enumerated within the four corners of the Williamson Act contract without reference to other documents. Requires the county board of supervisors or city council to mail a notice to the Director of the State Department of Conservation of its acceptance of the landowner application for tentative cancellation, and requires the director to submit his/her comments on the proposed cancellation to the board or council.

(Died on Assembly Floor)

AB 1947 (Maldonado-R) County Employees Retirement Law of 1937

Authorizes the county board of supervisors of Santa Barbara County to make welfare fraud investigators and administrators eligible for safety membership in the county retirement system.

Chapter 379, Statutes of 2000

AB 1960* (Machado-D) Local agency formation: CEQA

Provides that, if a local agency formation commission determines that an environmental impact report is required pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for a proposal that includes a city incorporation, the commission will not charge the proponent a fee to recover the commission's costs for preparing the report. Requires the incorporated city to pay actual costs incurred, plus interest, to the commission or, if the incorporation is not successful, authorizes the commission to request reimbursement from the State Controller.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1968 (Wiggins-D) Land use: regional impacts

Authorizes cities and counties, on or after July 1, 2001, and until January 1, 2005, to enter into an agreement to plan to address land use issues on a regional level, and subjects the plan to prescribed requirements. Creates the Local Regional Planning Support Fund for deposit of any funds appropriated for purposes of the bill, and establishes a grant program through the State Office of Planning and Research to cover cost of the regional planning activities pursuant to its provisions.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1971 (Dickerson-R) Volunteer firefighters

Requires that all volunteer fire departments and those fire departments consisting of a combination of volunteer, partly paid, or fully paid members receive 100 percent reimbursement from the General Fund for responding to calls on state roads and highways and for state-mandated training. Requires that claims for reimbursement be submitted to the State Department of Finance and be paid within 60 days of receipt. Appropriates annually an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the State Department of Finance for these purposes.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1982 (Gallegos-D) Local agency assessments

Authorizes, in addition to taxes, fees and charges, that an "assessment" with a prior schedule of adjustments can be readopted, implemented and increased within that set range.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1984 (Zettel-R) Telecommuting centers

Authorizes San Diego County Board of Supervisors to provide economic incentives to owners of telecommuting center properties.

Chapter 441, Statutes of 2000

AB 2016 (Strom-Martin-D) Humboldt Bay Harbor District

Appropriates $1,580,000 from the General Fund to the State Lands Commission for allocation in the 2000-01 fiscal year to the Humboldt Bay Harbor District for the purpose of meeting local matching share requirements for federal navigation projects.

Chapter 719, Statutes of 2000

AB 2033 (Torlakson-D) Joint powers agreements

Requires joint powers authorities (JPAs) to provide notice of actions concerning bonds, and exempts a specified class of JPAs from this requirement.

Chapter 724, Statutes of 2000

AB 2041 (Dutra-D) Redevelopment: affordable housing

Allows contiguous redevelopment agencies, located within a single Metropolitan Statistical Area, to establish a joint powers authority, for the purpose of pooling low- and moderate-income housing funds.

Chapter 552, Statutes of 2000

AB 2043 (Maddox-R) Workers' compensation: injuries

Provides that in the case of certain local firefighting and law enforcement personnel, the term "injury" also includes meningitis that develops or manifests itself during a period while the person is in that service.

Chapter 883, Statutes of 2000

AB 2046 (Maddox-R) Local agency formation commission

Increases, with a county's local agency formation commission, the number of public members and makes their positions elective. Provides that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that this bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs will be made pursuant to statutory provisions.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2075 (Granlund-R) On-premises advertising

Permits business owners to modify existing on-premise advertising displays without conforming to existing local ordinances, provided that no structural changes are made to the display.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2110 (Rod Pacheco-R) Graffiti abatement

Provides that the graffiti abatement provisions which currently apply only to minors will apply to all persons.

Chapter 58, Statutes of 2000

AB 2144 (Keeley-D) Land use

Requires the City of Watsonville, the County of Santa Cruz, and the California Coastal Commission to comply with the terms and conditions of the Memorandum of Understanding entered into between those three entities and dated June 14, 2000.

Chapter 407, Statutes of 2000

AB 2146* (Bates-R) Local government finance

Reduces the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund property tax shift for the Laguna Niguel Community Services District by $610,000 per year.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2147 (Wiggins-D) Zoning ordinances: public schools

Requires school siting and expansion decisions to be more closely coordinated with city and county land use planning processes.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2176 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) County employees' retirement

Makes various changes to the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937.

Chapter 317, Statutes of 2000

AB 2219 (Battin-R) Booking fees

Provides that any city that pays booking and processing fees to another city is eligible for state reimbursement for those fees, and prescribes criteria for that reimbursement. Incorporates additional changes in Section 29550.4 of the Government Code proposed by SB 225 (Rainey), that would become operative only if SB 225 and this bill are both enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2001, and this bill is enacted last.

Chapter 1076, Statutes of 2000

AB 2220 (Battin-R) Local agency investments

Revises the maximum maturity periods for two types of debt instruments available to local agencies for investing surplus public funds.

Chapter 339, Statutes of 2000

AB 2255 (Cedillo-D) St. Vibiana's Cathedral: performing arts center

Appropriates $10 million to the State Controller for allocation as a grant to the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Restoration Foundation to provide seismic retrofit to the former St. Vibiana's Cathedral and develop it as a performing arts center for used by the California State University at Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2264* (Cedillo-D) Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure

Requires the State Department of Health Services, on or before January 1, 2002, to conduct a baseline health study of the effects of the possible exposure to soil contamination from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on the residents of the William Mead Homes public housing project, located in Lincoln Heights in the County of Los Angeles, and requires the study to focus on the health conditions of the residents of that public housing project.

Chapter 503, Statutes of 2000

AB 2271 (Correa-D) Urban revitalization

Creates an urban revitalization multiplier demonstration project in the City of Anaheim, to be funded through a specified appropriation in the Budget Act of 2000, subject to matching by local or federal funds. Requires the city to report to specified committees of the Legislature concerning the project and the extend to which a revitalization multiplier effect was created by corridor beautification efforts in public areas of the city, thereby causing the improvement of contiguous private property with private funds.

(Failed passage in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 2273* (Aroner-D) City of Richmond tidelands

Authorizes the City of Richmond, with respect to leasing any wharves, docks, or piers constructed by it, to additionally lease other aids or improvements to commerce, navigation, and other trust purposes. Increases to 55 years the term of the leases the city is authorized to enter. Authorizes the State Lands Commission to make certain conveyances of tide, submerged, and other lands, enter into agreements, execute patents, and receive and accept lands, for the purposes of effectuating enumerated exchanges, agreements, and adjustments related to the Richmond Harbor Development Area and lands included in Tideland Survey Number Eight. Authorizes the City of Richmond to terminate the public trust over portions of granted tidelands under certain circumstances.

Chapter 527, Statutes of 2000

AB 2291 (Florez-D) County employees' retirement

Allows retirees of Kern County to elect an alternate member to represent them on the county's board of retirement when the elected retired member of the board is unable to attend a meeting for any reason.

Chapter 486, Statutes of 2000

AB 2293 (Florez-D) Transportation authorities

Authorizes a county board of supervisors to designate a transportation planning agency created pursuant to the Fresno County Transportation Improvement Act to serve as an authority.

Chapter 408, Statutes of 2000

AB 2296 (Dutra-D) County design-build contracts

Authorizes, until January 1, 2006, certain counties to enter into design-build contracts, according to specified procedures, and requires each contract to prohibit construction or alteration of any project without prior written approval of the plans by the county. Requires the Legislative Analyst to report to the Legislature on the use of design-build contracting.

Chapter 594, Statutes of 2000

AB 2300 (Florez-D) Joint powers authority

Creates new procedures for validating Marks-Roos Act bonds, including closing loopholes in the sale of land-based municipal bonds issued by "roving" joint powers authorities.

Chapter 723, Statutes of 2000

AB 2302 (Cardenas-D) Redevelopment: territorial jurisdiction

Provides that the territorial jurisdiction over territory within a city and within a project area that is subsequently annexed to another city or included within the boundaries of a new city, would remain with the former city unless transferred to the latter city, and applies these provisions to redevelopment projects in disaster areas in a county or city.

Chapter 638, Statutes of 2000

AB 2314 (Ducheny-D) Infrastructure financing districts: border zone

Includes specifically public safety facilities as public capital facilities that may be financed in accordance with a prescribed procedure to finance public capital facilities in the border development zone in the Mexican border region. Permits a district to finance the purchase of sewage treatment capacity and provides that this capacity need not be physically located within the boundaries of the district.

Chapter 595, Statutes of 2000

AB 2325 (Floyd-D) Local government: fire protection: funding

Appropriates $100 million from the General Fund to the State Fire Marshall for allocation to local fire departments for purchase of equipment and funding of salaries and benefits of fire personnel.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2335* (Maldonado-R) Taxation: local agency reorganization

Permits Santa Maria's boundary change to be effective for the 2000-01 fiscal year, if the formal documents were filed by December 31, 1999.

Chapter 332, Statutes of 2000

AB 2336 (Zettel-R) Local agency contracts

Raises, for county water authorities, the limit for the cost of contracted projects requiring retention of progress payments from $5,000 to $25,000.

Chapter 126, Statutes of 2000

AB 2338 (Floyd-D) Public employees

Allows the City of Long Beach to provide a two percent at age 50 retirement formula to its miscellaneous members, and requires local agencies that participate in the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act to pay the full employer contribution for annuitants who retire for disability or employees who have at least 20 years of service credit with the employer but retire from the state or other contracting agency.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2366 (Margett-R) Public contracts: local agency design-build procurement

Provides that a local agency may use design-build procurement for general building projects if it provides specified information about the cost and time of completion of the project to the public, and requires the local agency to specify its method of selecting the winning bidder. Provides that design-build procurement may be used for public works projects that exceed a specified cost if the local agency determines that is in its best interest.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 2389 (Longville-D) Local and regional government

Creates, on and after July 1, 2001, the San Diego Regional Infrastructure and Transportation Agency, specifies membership and terms of the agency's board of directors, and specifies powers and duties of the agency.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2390 (Keeley-D) Cities: subventions

Holds constant gasoline tax allocations and vehicle license fee subventions to cities that lost population as a result of a military base closure.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2398 (Papan-D) Property tax revenue allocation: commuter rail facilities

Requires the allocation of all property tax revenues generated within a transit village development district to the city or county establishing the district.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2430 (Wiggins-D) Housing: regional housing needs: Napa County

Extends the authority and adds conditions for Napa County to transfer 15 percent of its low-income housing need to cities in the county.

Chapter 358, Statutes of 2000

AB 2438 (Brewer-R) Recordable instruments: digitized images

Authorizes recorders of San Bernardino and Orange Counties to accept digitized images of recordable instruments if requirements of existing law are met and provided that the image is transmitted over a secure telecommunications line in compliance with established security standards, and repeals that authority on January 1, 2004. Allows these two counties to continue accepting these digitized images of recordable instruments until the system used by each of these counties for digitized image electronic recordation has been approved by the State Attorney General.

(Died at Senate Desk)

AB 2450 (Thompson-R) Incorporation viability

Creates the Incorporation Viability Revolving Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury for allocation by the Director of Finance to make loans subject to specified conditions to assist with the funding of fiscal viability studies for incorporation proposals. Appropriates $2 million from the General Fund for these loans.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2495 (Ashburn-R) Counties and cities: local agencies

Declares that the state law on zoning and building codes will not be construed to provide counties or cities immunity from zoning, building, and health and safety ordinances for functions provided outside their jurisdictional boundaries.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 2508 (Washington-D) Emergency Medical Services: advanced life support units

Requires local emergency medical services agencies to utilize, at a minimum, two emergency medical technician-paramedics working in regular teams on advanced life support and mobile intensive care units.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2525 (House-R) Escheat: liability

Authorizes the county treasurer to release unclaimed money of $60,000 or less to the parent who has legal and physical custody of a minor who is a blood relative of the decedent or the decedent's predeceased spouse, without the need to appoint a legal guardian for the minor.

Chapter 333, Statutes of 2000

AB 2534 (Shelley-D) Civil rights: discrimination

Provides that nothing in the Fair Employment and Housing Act will be construed to prohibit a city, city and county, county, or other political subdivision of this state from providing or maintaining greater protections against discrimination.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2548 (Cox-R) Municipal utility districts: purchases

Authorizes the board of a district to provide for the purchase of supplies and materials, when the expenditure required exceeds $50,000, by contract let in accordance with best value at lowest cost acquisition. Requires a district that elects to purchase supplies and materials by contract let in accordance with those policies to submit a specified report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2004, and requires a district to ensure that all businesses have a fair and equitable opportunity to compete for, and participate in, district contracts awarded pursuant to its provisions and would prohibit discrimination in the award and performance of those contracts.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2566 (House-R) Health information

Makes requirements upon a local health officer, upon receipt of a physician's report that a patient has a disorder characterized by lapses of consciousness.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2614 (Oller-R) County recorders

Permits county recorders in Placer and Contra Costa Counties to accept digitized images or an electronic record of a recordable instrument under certain conditions, until January 1, 2004. Requires the State Attorney General, in conjunction with the County Recorders Association of California, to establish standards for reviewing and approving electronic recording systems and processes.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2620 (Pescetti-R) Local safety members: retirement: benefits

Adds to the definition of a "local police officer" any employee of a contracting agency employed to perform emergency communications duties for an employer that is a city of over 300,000 persons in Sacramento County.

(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 2624 (Cox-R) State-mandated local programs

Makes substantive changes to the Commission on State Mandates and the law requiring reimbursement of state-mandated local programs.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2638 (Cardoza-D) Public utilities: electrical power: irrigation districts

Prohibits an irrigation district, without the agreement of an investor-owned utility (IOU) from exercising the right of eminent domain to take property owned by the IOU if the irrigation district intends to put the property to the same use. Permits irrigation districts to build and operate electric facilities in the service territory of the IOU only upon approval of the Public Utilities Commission or upon a service area agreement between the entities.

Chapter 1042, Statutes of 2000

AB 2642 (Calderon-D) County employees' retirement

Allows counties operating under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 to provide retirement benefits based on a two percent at age 50 (with a maximum of 2.6198 percent at age 55) retirement formula, upon approval by the county board of supervisors.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2643 (Calderon-D) Los Angeles County: transit operation funding

Requires that municipal bus operators in Los Angeles County receive a proportionate share of all bus operating and capital funds budgeted, allocated or expended by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2658* (Baugh-R) Local government finance: property tax revenue allocation

Raises the percentage of property tax revenues to be allocated to school entities in certain counties, and establishes a cap on the percentage of those revenues that any county may be required to allocate to school entities.

(Failed passage in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2684 (Bock-I) State-mandated local costs

Establishes a Savings Allocation Program, which authorizes a city, county, city and county, special district, or school district when filing a claim, to submit findings to the State Controller identifying savings generated from implementation of either of two specified mandated programs and provides for allocation of savings by the Controller. Requires the Commission on State Mandates to decide any appeals of the State Controller's decision regarding whether or not a savings has occurred, and requires the Controller to report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2006, on any savings realized through this program. Repeals these provisions on January 1, 2007, unless a later enacted statute extends or deletes that date.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2717 (House-R) Tuolumne County

Permits a nonprofit hospital in Tuolumne County to enter into a joint powers authority and authorizes the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors to appoint a public administrator, veteran service officer and public guardian.

Chapter 227, Statutes of 2000

AB 2724 (Olberg-R) Public officials: voter-approved enactments

Prohibits a public officer or governing board in state or local government from using or authorizing the use of public funds to either challenge or support a challenge to the validity of a voter-approved enactment in a legal proceeding.

(Failed passage in Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

AB 2750 (Maddox-R) Public works contracts: competitive bidding

States the Legislature's intent to overturn a recent court decision concerning bidding on public works contracts, and prohibits non-contractual expenditures above a specified threshold on those contracts.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2767 (Jackson-D) Vehicles: engineering and traffic surveys

Allows local authorities to consider residential density and bicycle and pedestrian safety as additional factors in engineering and traffic surveys conducted for purposes of setting speed limits.

Chapter 45, Statutes of 2000

AB 2779 (Cox-R) Local agencies

Establishes a resolution procedure for disputes arising from mitigation of fiscal impacts of incorporations. Creates a binding contractual obligation for new cities, and is double-joined to AB 2838 (Hertzberg-D).

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

AB 2789 (Villaraigosa-D) County medical facilities

Provides that prior to accepting plans for replacement of a county hospital by construction or reconstruction of the first class, the Office of Statewide Health Planning will review the record of the hearing to determine if action of the governing board of the county regarding construction or reconstruction of a county hospital subject to the hearing is consistent or inconsistent with testimony and recommendations offered at the hearing, and, if inconsistent, to make a finding that the action of the governing board is not in compliance with content of the hearings.

(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2810* (Robert Pacheco-R) Legal document and unlawful detainer assistants

Requires legal document assistants (LDA) and unlawful detainer assistants (UDA) to only post a single multi-county bond of $25,000, instead of the current requirement to post such a bond in every county in which the LDA or UDA does business.

Chapter 386, Statutes of 2000

AB 2835 (Hertzberg-D) Transportation: urban traffic congestion advisory committee

Authorizes the Governor to create an advisory committee on urban traffic congestion composed of representatives of state agencies, local government officials, the transportation industry, and individuals interested in a comprehensive program to alleviate urban traffic congestion.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2837 (Hertzberg-D) State nonemergency telephone number system

Authorizes local public agencies to establish a "311" nonemergency telephone system designed to serve as the primary nonemergency telephone number.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2838 (Hertzberg-D) Local agency formation commissions

Renames the Cortese-Knox Local Government Reorganization Act of 1985 to the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, which makes numerous changes to the Local Agency Formation Commission Law.

Chapter 761, Statutes of 2000

AB 2841 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) County employees' retirement: employer contributions

Clarifies that overtime pay received by safety members of retirement systems being operated under the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 is excluded from the total compensation used to determine retirement contributions.

Chapter 203, Statutes of 2000

AB 2866* (Migden-D) State government

Makes changes in existing law relating to general government to implement provisions of the Budget bill for the 2000-01 fiscal year in, among others, areas of: juror fees, pilot programs, California Science Center Math and Science School, tribal labor relations ordinances, victims of crimes and homicide trials.

Chapter 127, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

AB 2885* (Cardenas-D) Supplemental local law enforcement funding

Appropriates $242.6 million for local law enforcement programs: $121.3 million for continued funding of the Citizens Option for Public Safety program, and $121.3 million for a juvenile justice initiative to be administered by the Board of Corrections.

Chapter 100, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

AB 2934 (Correa-D) Redevelopment: Tustin Marine Corps Air Station

Requires the City of Tustin, as the local base reuse entity or the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency, prior to entering into or enforcing any contract regarding the development of, or prior to conveying any property within, the area comprising the air station base reuse entity, to find, based on substantial evidence in the record, that it has implemented certain conveyances of property to the Santa Ana Unified School District and the Orange County Education Coalition. Requires that finding as a condition of entering into or enforcing any contract regarding the development of, or prior to conveying any property within, the area comprising the air station.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 2935 (Assembly Information Technology Committee) Government records

Permits counties to use new information processing technologies to record, maintain, and store records and other documents.

Chapter 924, Statutes of 2000

AB 2938 (Assembly Local Government Committee) Local agencies: services

Provides that if constitutional or statutory authority permits a city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional boundaries, the commission may authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its boundaries without regard to its sphere of influence and without requiring a change in organization.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2940 (Assembly Local Government Committee) Local Agency Omnibus Act

Adds Merced County to those counties working cooperatively with the California Central Valley International Trade Center in Tulare County and other international trade efforts. Declares the intent of the Legislature to clarify that special districts are included among local agencies that are subject to airport land use laws and related requirements. Extends negotiation periods with regard to local agencies that are parties to jurisdictional change.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

ACA 11 (Briggs-R) Local government finance: property tax revenue allocation

Caps, in the State Constitution, the property tax shifts from cities, counties, and special districts to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in each county.

(Died in Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

ACA 17 (Leonard-R) Local government finance: property tax revenue allocation

Reduces, by a Constitutional Amendment, the property tax shifts from cities, counties, and special districts to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in each county.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACA 28 (Runner-R) Taxation: Internet and local taxation

Prohibits the Legislature from reapportioning, reallocating, or directing allocation of revenue that is derived from a local general or special tax. Establishes as a constitutional grant of power the local taxing authority of cities, counties, and cities and counties existing under specified statutes as the effective date of this measure. Prohibits the state and its political subdivisions from levying or collecting a bandwidth tax, a bit tax, an electronic messaging tax, a tax upon, or a franchise fee with respect to the provision of, access to or the use of the Internet or online computer services, a sales or transactions and use tax upon a certain type of transaction involving an "off-site" electronic customer, or a sales or transactions and use tax at a rate in excess of total applicable sales or transactions and use tax rates as of a certain date.

(Died in Assembly)

ACR 133 (Torlakson-D) Traffic congestion

Sets forth membership of and goals of a specified Traffic Relief Panel for the purpose of holding town hall meetings in specified areas of California.

Chapter 104, Statutes of 2000

Immigration Issues

SB 82 (Vasconcellos-D) Medi-Cal

Extends medically necessary prenatal care to Medi-Cal income-eligible undocumented and other aliens not covered under federal laws.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 872 (Polanco-D) Education: citizenship centers

Creates the Polanco Citizenship Center Program in the State Department of Community Services and Development to provide outreach to eligible immigrant residents, citizenship instruction, and assistance with the naturalization process.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1007 (Knight-R) Undocumented aliens: notification

Requires the State Department of Corrections to notify the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service if a convicted felon who is in the custody of the department is known or suspected to be an undocumented alien prior to the release of the inmate, and to establish a procedure for releasing an undocumented alien from the custody of the department to the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service at the conclusion of the inmate's sentence. Incorporates procedures adopted pursuant to existing law.

(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1023 (Johnston-D) Worker benefits

Provides that for purposes of workers' compensation and state disability insurance, any worker who has been eligible for these programs under the rules that applied on August 21, 1996, regardless of immigration status, will continue to be eligible as long as the worker meets all other applicable requirements.

(Died in Senate Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 1722 (Hayden-D) Immigrant professionals

Adds the recruitment and teacher training of immigrant professionals, as defined, to the duties of the California Center on Teaching Careers. Establishes the Immigrant Professional Teacher Recruitment Project in the center for the purpose of recruiting and training of immigrant professionals for the teaching profession. Authorizes the awarding of three four-year grants, in unspecified amounts, to establish partnerships between campuses of the California State University and the California Community Colleges for the purpose of providing teacher preparation programs for immigrant professionals.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SJR 40 (Polanco-D) Incarceration: undocumented felons

Requests the federal government to transfer out of California's prison system and into the federal prison system, all undocumented alien felons currently housed in institutions under the authority of the State Department of Corrections.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SR 31 (Figueroa-D) Federal Central American and Haitian Adjustment Act

Urges the President and Congress to enact the proposed Central American and Haitian Adjustment Act into law.

Adopted by the Senate

AB 1858 (Romero-D) Consumer protection

Requires each member of the State Bar of California to include in all advertisements seeking employment of the member to provide services relating to immigration and naturalization, to include a statement that he/she is a is a member of the State Bar of California, licensed to practice law in the state, as specified. Violation would be cause for discipline by the State Bar of California. Increases the maximum civil penalty for violation of the immigration consultant's law from $10,000 to $100,000.

Chapter 674, Statutes of 2000

AB 2415 (Migden-D) Healthy Families Program: legal immigrant children

Makes legal immigrant children eligible for the State Healthy Families Program without regard to the availability of federal financial participation and, instead, subject to the availability of funds for that purpose in the annual Budget Act.

Chapter 944, Statutes of 2000

AB 2687 (Margett-R) Notaries public: immigration consultant services

Prohibits a notary public from entering data on an immigration form at a client's request unless the notary is also licensed and bonded as an immigration consultant.

Chapter 194, Statutes of 2000

AB 2726 (Olberg-R) Guest Worker Pilot Program

Requires the State Employment Development Department to conduct a study to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the current H-1B visa application and approval process as it relates to California employees.

(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 2876* (Aroner-D) Social services

The Omnibus Social Services Budget Trailer Bill, among other provisions, extends the sunset date for the California Food Assistance Program and Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants' benefits for legal immigrants who entered into the United States on or after August 22, 1996.

Chapter 108, Statutes of 2000

Similar legislation was AB 2417 (Firebaugh-D), which died on the Assembly Inactive File.

AB 2877* (Thomson-D) Healthy Family Programs

Omnibus trailer bill for Health and Human Services, among other provisions, extends Healthy Families eligibility for legal immigrant children for one year and allows children to enroll through June 30, 2001.

Chapter 93, Statutes of 2000

Similar legislation was SB 92 (Hayden-D), which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AJR 51 (Cedillo-D) Immigration reform

Urges the federal government to implement specified immigration reforms so that the rights of the entire nation's workers, immigrants and non-immigrants alike, are respected and protected to the fullest extent possible.

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

Federal Issues

SCR 94 (Vasconcellos-D) Norman Y. Mineta

Honors former California Congressman Norman Mineta for his public service and congratulates him on his appointment to becoming the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

Resolution Chapter 157, Statutes of 2000

SJR 5 (Murray-D) The 2000 federal decennial census

Memorializes the Congress of the United States, the President of the United States, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Director of the United States Census Bureau to take immediate and appropriate steps to ensure that statistical sampling be employed to adjust the results of the 2000 federal decennial census in order that states and other local jurisdictions will receive the appropriate and accurate amount of federal funds to which they are entitled.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SJR 7 (Baca-D) Cesar E. Chavez: commemorative stamp

Urges the United States Postal Service Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee to recommend to the United States Postal Service the issuance of a United States Postal Commemorative Stamp honoring Cesar E. Chavez.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SJR 16 (Alpert-D) Postal Rate Commission

Memorializes the United States Congress to introduce and pass legislation to strengthen the oversight power and the authority of the Postal Rate Commission.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SJR 19 (Solis-D) Education: federal funding

Requests the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that will eliminate the existing hold-harmless provisions currently in effect under the Title I of the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and to make changes to the funding formula used by those provisions so that all children receive their fair share of funding under that act.

Resolution Chapter 57, Statutes of 2000

SJR 23 (Polanco-D) Indian gaming

Urges the federal government to take no action to interfere with ongoing tribal gaming operations while the voters of California and their elected representatives are in the process of addressing the legal objections to those operations, and specifically memorializes the President of the United States to issue an executive order permitting the tribes to continue this operation, and the Attorney General of the United States and the United States Attorneys for the State of California not to seek to stop these ongoing gaming operations until after the March 7, 2000, statewide primary election.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SJR 25 (Solis-D) Filipino veterans

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to grant full veterans' benefits to Filipino veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Resolution Chapter 116, Statutes of 2000

SJR 26 (Kelley-R) Mission Creek and Desert Hot Springs Aquifers

Urges federal officials to secure funding for projects to protect the Mission Creek and Desert Hot Springs Aquifers, which are components of the Salton Sea Transboundary Watershed.

Resolution Chapter 69, Statutes of 2000

SJR 27 (Polanco-D) California-Latin America air service

Requests the federal government to assure California that the next air transport agreements between the United States, Brazil and Argentina include direct, nonstop service between California and those countries.

Resolution Chapter 136, Statutes of 2000

SJR 28 (Knight-R) High-level radioactive waste

Urges the President and Congress to request the U.S. Department of Energy not to transport shipments of high-level radioactive waste from other states through California to the proposed Yucca Mountain repository.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SJR 29 (Speier-D) Pharmaceutical advertisements

Urges the Food and Drug Administration to reverse its decision allowing pharmaceutical companies to broadcast advertisements that mention a prescription medication by name without disclosing all of the risks of that medication.

(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)

SJR 30 (Speier-D) Federal Pain Relief Promotion Act

Urges defeat by Congress or the veto of the President of the proposed Federal Pain Relief Promotion Act.

Resolution Chapter 162, Statutes of 2000

SJR 31 (Figueroa-D) Blood centers

Requests the Governor to urge the federal government to ensure that adequate reimbursement measures be implemented for all mandated safety initiatives imposed on blood centers.

Resolution Chapter 163, Statutes of 2000

SJR 32 (Haynes-R) Telephone Tax Repeal

Urges the U.S. Senate to swiftly pass, and the President to sign, the Phone Tax Repeal Act.

Resolution Chapter 117, Statutes of 2000

SJR 33 (Polanco-D) University of California: national laboratories

Declares the Legislature's endorsement of the continuation and extension of the University of California's management and operation contracts for the Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, and urges the Regents of the University of California and the U.S. Department of Energy to negotiate the contract extensions.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SJR 34 (Perata-D) Home Front National Historic Park

Request the Congress and the President to enact legislation that establishes the Rosie the Riverter/World War II Home Front National Historic Park in Richmond, California.

Resolution Chapter 137, Statutes of 2000

SJR 35 (Knight-R) National Training Center

Urges Congress and the President to act promptly with regard to the expansion of the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California.

Resolution Chapter 164, Statutes of 2000

SJR 37 (Polanco-D) Puerto Rico: political status

Request the Congress and the President to enact legislation that explains the political status options available to the citizens of Puerto Rico and allows a plebiscite to provide an opportunity for Puerto Rico to make an informed decision regarding the island's future political status.

(Died in Assembly International Trade and Development Committee)

SJR 38 (Costa-D) Importation of Argentine citrus

Urges the federal government to approve legislation prohibiting the implementation of a rule allowing importation of citrus from specified regions of Argentina, pending review and risk assessment.

Resolution Chapter 165, Statutes of 2000

SJR 39 (Knight-R) Air quality

Supports the State Air Resources Board's proposal to exclude East Kern County from the San Joaquin Planning Area and establish East Kern County as a separate air-planning area.

Resolution Chapter 166, Statutes of 2000

SJR 41 (Alpert-D) Retail electricity

Urges the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to conduct a formal evidentiary hearing, prior to deciding applications for market-based rate authority, to ensure that there is sufficient evidence that granting such authority will result in just and reasonable electricity rates and make its approval of market-based rates subject to refund.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

Similar legislation was AJR 76 (Davis), which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

SJR 42 (Morrow-R) Federal Fairness in Electricity Supply Act

Urges the enactment of the Fairness in Electricity Supply Act of 2000 to eliminate public agency preference in the purchase of electricity from federal projects. Urges the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reinstate a cap on wholesale electricity rates and hold a hearing in San Diego.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SR 33 (Polanco-D) Mexico money transmitter litigation

Requests the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois release California objectors from the pending settlement in the case entitled, "In re Mexico Money Transmitter Litigation," or disapprove that settlement as being unfair.

Adopted by the Senate

Similar legislation was SJR 36 (Polanco), which died in Senate Rules Committee.

SR 36 (Hayden-D) Plan Columbia

Expresses the State Senate's deep concern over the possibility that escalation of the U.S. drug war in Columbia and Latin America will become a quagmire and calls on the United States to take specified actions.

Adopted by the Senate

ACR 95 (Leonard-R) Federal decennial census

Requests all state residents to make themselves available to be counted during the 2000 federal decennial census.

Resolution Chapter 31, Statutes of 2000

AJR 3 (Wesson-D) Airline overbooking

Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation to prohibit airlines from overbooking flights.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 8 (Floyd-D) California Native Americans

Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to expeditiously act upon the requests already submitted to the federal government that seek federal recognition by California Indians. Also memorializes the Congress to ensure that there be a full accordance of respect to involved parties, including, but not limited to, the Ish Pahnesh United Band of Indians, also known as the Oakbrook Chumash People, on the matter of how formal determinations are to be reached as to which groups will be officially designated as California Indian Tribes.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 30 (Nakano-D) Human rights: genocide

Requests the President and Congress of the United States to declare the 21st Century, the Century for Human Rights Education, and to provide adequate funding for an educational account of mistakes made in the past century that must not be repeated by future generations. Also requests the Governor to provide funding for the California Institute for the Study of Genocide to study the causes, effects, and prevention of genocide, involve the University of California and the California State University in this effort, and emphasize the development of courses and curriculum on genocide and related human rights issues for K-12 public education.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 35 (House-R) Taxation

Urges the President and the Congress to impose any taxes, duties, imposts, or excises in accordance with the United States Constitution, to resist the usurpation of power by the executive branch, particularly with respect to the "E-Rate" program, and to restore a republican form of government.

(Refused adoption in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 37 (Longville-D) International trade: import of steel slabs

Memorializes the President of the United States and his trade representative to not include restrictions on the import of steel slabs, as specified.

(Died in Senate Industrial Relations Committee)

AJR 39 (Washington-D) Homelessness

Makes declarations as to the problem of homelessness and urges the President and Congress to develop a comprehensive plan to end homelessness.

Resolution Chapter 67, Statutes of 2000

AJR 40 (Wildman-D) Federal funding: special education

Urges the President and Congress to provide the full federal share of funding for special education purposes.

Resolution Chapter 87, Statutes of 2000

AJR 41 (Robert Pacheco-R) Internet taxation

Urges the President and Congress to act favorably in legislation pertaining to an extension of up to five years of the Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1998, provided that legislation does not prohibit the imposition of any existing nondiscriminatory taxes, and urges the President to seek a permanent global ban on tariffs on e-commerce and an international ban on special, multiple, and discriminatory taxation of e-commerce and the Internet.

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 42 (Alquist-D) Medicare prescription drug benefit

Urges Congress to enact and implement the Voluntary Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Contract in the President's fiscal year 200-01 Budget.

Resolution Chapter 121, Statutes of 2000

AJR 43 (Alquist-D) Bone and Joint Health Decade

Designates the years 2000 to 2010 as Bone and Joint Health Decade.

Resolution Chapter 81, Statutes of 2000

AJR 44 (Robert Pacheco-R) Fathers in the home

Urges the President and Congress to reject and diminish, in the strongest possible terms, the opinion that fathers are not necessary and essential to the well-being of children in our homes.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AJR 45 (Longville-D) Commercial satellites

Urges the President and Congress to review the backlog in the licensing process for the export of satellites, launch vehicles, their components and related technical information and dedicate adequate resources to address any problems in order to ensure that the space industry maintains its competitive position in the informational marketplace.

Resolution Chapter 100, Statutes of 2000

AJR 46 (Longville-D) Commercial space transportation

Urges the President and Congress to protect the leadership role our states and nation have in the commercial launching of private sector satellites and to ensure continued growth in market share by continuing federal indemnification of licensed launches and reentries until January 1, 2006.

Resolution Chapter 101, Statutes of 2000

AJR 47 (Cedillo-D) Ryan White CARE Act

Urges the Congress and President to reauthorize the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act.

Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2000

AJR 48 (Baldwin-R) Child sexual abuse

Urges the President and Congress to reject and condemn any suggestions that sexual relations between children and adults, except for legal marriage relationships, are anything but abusive, destructive, exploitive, reprehensible, and punishable by law, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 49 (Bock-I) Filipino veterans

Urges the President and Congress to grant full veterans' benefits to Filipino veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Resolution Chapter 151, Statutes of 2000

AJR 50 (Baugh-R) United Colors of Benetton

Condemns as inappropriate and insensitive to the families of the victims the practice by the international retail corporation, United Colors of Benetton, of glamorizing death row inmates through its advertising campaign for the purpose of selling Benetton's products, as specified.

Resolution Chapter 66, Statutes of 2000

AJR 52 (McClintock-R) Federal fuel tax

Urges the President and Congress to repeal the 1993 federal tax increase on fuels.

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AJR 53 (Jackson-D) Gun control

Urges the Congress to pass common sense gun legislation, including laws that will limit handgun purchases, require background checks, reinstate a specified waiting period, require child safety locks and ban specified weapons.

Resolution Chapter 70, Statutes of 2000

AJR 54 (Alquist-D) Timorese refugees

Requests the President and Congress to employ diplomatic and other resources to persuade the Indonesian government to expedite the return of all East Timorese refugees in Indonesia who wish to return home.

Resolution Chapter 72, Statutes of 2000

AJR 55 (Runner-R) Hemophilia relief

Urges the President and Congress to fully fund the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund, as specified.

Resolution Chapter 76, Statutes of 2000

AJR 56 (Longville-D) Daylight saving time

Outlines the history of daylight savings time and urges the President and Congress to allow states to operate on daylight savings time on a year-round basis.

Resolution Chapter 127, Statutes of 2000

AJR 57 (Longville-D) High-level radioactive waste

Requests the President and Congress to take appropriate action necessary to direct the United States Department of Energy not to transport shipments of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel from other states through California to the proposed Yucca Mountain repository and, with regard to high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel originating in the state, to create appropriate procedures to minimize the risk of an accident and to provide emergency response assistance to local communities.

Resolution Chapter 128, Statutes of 2000

AJR 58 (Firebaugh-D) Brownfield cleanup: tax-exempt bond financing

Requests the Congress to amend the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-exempt status for revenue bonds that are used for the acquisition of and cleanup of brownfields.

Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 2000

AJR 59 (Cox-R) Sacramento airports

Urges the President and the Congress to take whatever measures are appropriate and necessary to facilitate the designation of Sacramento County International Airport and Mather Airport as a Port of Entry, and pursue the locating of customs, immigration, and agricultural services at those airports.

Resolution Chapter 88, Statutes of 2000

AJR 60 (House-R) Social Security

Requests the President and Congress to take appropriate action to terminate the use of Social Security Trust Funds for general tax purposes, and requests that all monies borrowed from the Social Security Trust Fund be restored, as specified.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 61 (Aroner-D) Federal funding

Urges the President and the Congress to enact a federal budget that redirects sufficient amounts of money from the military budget to the states to meet critical domestic needs.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 62 (Honda-D) California Indian Tribes

Requests the expeditious appropriation and allocation of adequate funding for California tribal governments for the planning, establishment, and ongoing operation of tribal law enforcement and judicial systems in California, in order to ensure that per capital spending for California tribes at least equals the national average per capita funding for tribal law enforcement and judicial systems outside of California.

Resolution Chapter 112, Statutes of 2000

AJR 63 (House-R) United Nations

Urges the President and Congress to take specified actions regarding the United Nations

(Failed passage in Assembly International Trade and Development Committee)

AJR 64 (Kuehl-D) Show trials

Condemns the arrest and show trials of 13 Jewish men and boys of Shiraz and Isfahan, Iran.

Resolution Chapter 82, Statutes of 2000

AJR 65 (Scott-D) NASA: Budget for fiscal year 2001

Commends the actions of the members of the United States House of Representatives from California to restore full programming for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for fiscal year 2001 and strongly encourages all members of the United States Congress to actively support NASA funding for fiscal year 2001 in an amount sufficient to fully support and sustain scheduled projects.

Resolution Chapter 113, Statutes of 2000

AJR 66 (House-R) Offshore oil drilling leases

Requests President Clinton and Congress to remove the moratorium on federal offshore oil drilling leases and restrictions curtailing other exploration and production.

(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AJR 67 (Papan-D) Disaster relief

Urges the Congress of the United States to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency not to proceed with its proposed public assistance insurance requirements, or to modify its proposed regulations, as specified.

Resolution Chapter 129, Statutes of 2000

AJR 68 (Romero-D) Discrimination against women

Urges the United States to ratify the United States Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against women and declares that the Legislature of the State of California shall continue to work to ensure the elimination of discrimination against women and girls in the State of California.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 69 (Aanestad-R) National forest fire strategy

Requests that the United States Forest Service and other federal land management agencies implement a cohesive strategy to reduce the overabundance of forest fuels and requests the United States Departments of Agriculture and Interior to immediately draft a national prescribed fire strategy for public lands.

Resolution Chapter 152, Statutes of 2000

AJR 72 (Thompson-R) Boy Scouts of America

Urges Congress to affirm the charter of the Boy Scouts of America and the President to reaffirm his support for the Boy Scouts of America.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AJR 73 (Kaloogian-R) Federal estate tax

Requests the President to sign specified legislation repealing the federal estate tax.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 75 (Strickland-R) Income tax on married couples

Urges the Congress to override the President's veto of the Marriage Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2000.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 77 (Keeley-D) Electricity rates

Directs the Electricity Oversight Board (EOB), working with the State Public Utilities Commission (PUC), to petition the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to modify the Independent System Operator tariffs to require that the prices in the energy and ancillary services markets are just and reasonable, as prescribed. Requires the PUC, in consultation with the EOB, to investigate the most effective mechanisms to protect consumers from price volatility, energy exports, and unreasonably high prices caused by an uncompetitive market. Directs the PUC, by September 21, 2000, to issue a prescribed order.

Resolution Chapter 153, Statutes of 2000

HR 89 (Calderon-D) California Gnatcatcher and Southwestern Arroyo Toad

Requests the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to follow the Endangered Species Act, as prescribed by Congress, and requests the Secretary of the Interior to direct the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to follow the law to take into consideration economic and other impacts of the pending critical habitat designation.

Adopted by the Assembly

Similar legislation was AJR 71 (Calderon), which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

Index (in Bill Order)

Bill	Author and Bill Title	Reference Links
SB 38	Baca-D Religious institutions and land use	Local Government
SB 82	Vasconcellos-D Medi-Cal	Immigration Issues
SB 126	Dunn-D Redevelopment: Tustin Marine Corps Air Station	Local Government
SB 128	Polanco-D State property	Other State Government
SB 165	Alarcon-D Local agency finance	Local Government
SB 170	Dunn-D Local government finance	Local Government
SB 178	Polanco-D Work force investment: Department of Transportation	Local Government
SB 220	Peace-D Appropriations: reversions: exemptions	Other State Government
SB 225*	Rainey-R Booking fees	Local Government
SB 228*	Burton-D Gambling: slot machines	Other Gaming Legislation
SB 239	Perata-D Workers' compensation: jockeys	Horseracing
SB 242	McPherson-R Santa Cruz Port District: lease	Local Government
SB 245*	McPherson-R Taxation	Local Government
SB 266	Chesbro-D Public contracts: bids	Other State Government
SB 280	Bowen-D State buildings and publicly-funded schools: standards	Other State Government
SB 300	Poochigian-R Governmental liability: permits	Other State Government
SB 311	Perata-D Public Employees' Retirement System: benefits	Public Employees
SB 325	Brulte-R State employees	Public Employees
SB 329	Peace-D Public agencies	Local Government
SB 336	Karnette-D Horse racing: lottery	Horseracing
SB 375	Perata-D Board of Port Commissioners of Oakland	Local Government
SB 379	Haynes-R County service contracts	Local Government
SB 388	Peace-D State fiscal analysis	Other State Government
SB 396	Ortiz-D PERS: deferred retirement option plan	Public Employees
SB 402	Burton-D Public employee relations	Local Government
SB 483	Baca-D Surplus state property	Other State Government
SB 486	Rainey-R Abandoned vehicles: removal	Local Government
SB 498	Schiff-D Public employees' retirement	Public Employees
SB 528*	Burton-D Public employees' retirement	Legislature Public Employees
SB 560	Monteith-R Annexation to a city	Local Government
SB 562	Poochigian-R Taxation	Local Government
SB 607*	Chesbro-D Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law: military exemption	Alcoholic Beverage Control
SB 625	Perata-D Airports	Local Government
SB 639	McPherson-R Gambling: charitable raffles	Other Gaming Legislation
SB 675	Sher-D Infrastructure plan: funding	Other State Government
SB 683	Perata-D Employment relations: state	Public Employees
SB 739	Solis-D Public Employment Relations Board: shop agreements	Public Employees Local Government
SB 762	Hughes-D Real estate fraud	Local Government
SB 766*	Escutia-D City of South Gate	Local Government
SB 784	Baca-D Surplus state property: state hospitals: Indian tribes	Other State Government
SB 872	Polanco-D Education: citizenship centers	Immigration Issues
SB 875	Escutia-D State intellectual property	Other State Government
SB 912	Knight-R Horse racing	Horseracing
SB 915*	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Capital outlay: state budgeting	Other State Government
SB 972	Baca-D State employees: compensation increase	Public Employees
SB 984	Polanco-D State holidays: Cesar Chavez Day	Other State Government
SB 1007	Knight-R Undocumented aliens: notification	Immigration Issues
SB 1023	Johnston-D Worker benefits	Immigration Issues
SB 1028*	Speier-D State Budget: nonprofit vendors	Other State Government
SB 1049	Murray-D State contracts: small businesses	Other State Government
SB 1096	Hayden-D Economic development	Local Government
SB 1103	Polanco-D Mining	Local Government
SB 1109	Burton-D Vessels: bar pilots	Other State Government
SB 1127	Brulte-R Local government finance	Local Government
SB 1132	Costa-D Capital facilities fees	Local Government
SB 1136	Vasconcellos-D Technology	Other State Government
SB 1142	Dunn-D Tustin Marine Corps Air Station	Local Government
SB 1144	Johannessen-R Public works contracts	Local Government
SB 1164	Mountjoy-R Land use	Local Government
SB 1190	Solis-D Redevelopment	Local Government
SB 1232	Chesbro-D Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions	Alcoholic Beverage Control
SB 1242	Ortiz-D Building standards: tactile signage	Other State Government
SB 1267	Polanco-D Leaf blowers	Local Government
SB 1293	Chesbro-D Alcoholic beverages: Napa County wine	Alcoholic Beverage Control
SB 1312	Ortiz-D Deferred Retirement Option Program	Public Employees
SB 1314*	Peace-D Limits on Marks-Roos Act bonds	Local Government
SB 1318	Alpert-D Public records: confidentiality	Other State Government
SB 1321*	Senate Local Government Committee First Validating Act of 2000	Local Government
SB 1322*	Senate Local Government Committee Second Validating Act of 2000	Local Government
SB 1323	Senate Local Government Committee Third Validating Act of 2000	Local Government
SB 1327	Escutia-D Employees: inspection of personnel records by employees	Public Employees Local Government
SB 1334	Senate Local Government Committee Local agency assessments	Local Government
SB 1350	Senate Local Government Committee Local Government Omnibus Act of 2000	Local Government
SB 1370	Ortiz-D Civil action or administrative adjudications	Other State Government
SB 1375	Alarcon-D Redevelopment: territorial jurisdiction	Local Government
SB 1378	Brulte-R Supervisory and managerial salary differential	Public Employees
SB 1386	Alpert-D Alcohol and drug assessment programs	Local Government
SB 1395	Monteith-R Real Estate Commissioner: subdivided lands	Local Government
SB 1396	Burton-D Local government finance	Local Government
SB 1410	Speier-D County employees' retirement: benefits	Local Government
SB 1412	Haynes-R Public libraries: direct loans to minors	Other State Government
SB 1423	Chesbro-D Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions	Alcoholic Beverage Control
SB 1436*	Johnston-D Claims against the state: appropriation	Other State Government
SB 1437*	Johnston-D Judgments and settlement claims against the state	Other State Government
SB 1446	Hughes-D Public retiree benefits: purchase power protection	Public Employees
SB 1447	Hughes-D Public office: volunteer firefighters	Local Government
SB 1458	Lewis-R Inspector Generals	Other State Government
SB 1476	Peace-D San Diego Unified Port District	Local Government
SB 1477	Lewis-R Local government assessment ballots	Local Government
SB 1493	Lewis-R Local agency funds	Local Government
SB 1508	Figueroa-D Local health care districts	Local Government
SB 1509	Haynes-R State contracts: religious organizations	Other State Government
SB 1511	Chesbro-D Alcoholic beverages: licenses	Alcoholic Beverage Control
SB 1536	Knight-R Centennial of Flight Commission	Other State Government
SB 1542*	Schiff-D Turning Point Academy	Other State Government
SB 1559	Kelley-R County sanitation: sanitary districts	Local Government
SB 1563	Leslie-R Land surveyors	Local Government
SB 1578	Alarcon-D Peace officers: City of Los Angeles: public library	Local Government
SB 1581	Escutia-D TEA formula allocations	Local Government
SB 1587*	Johannessen-R Trinity County: trial court funding	Local Government
SB 1592	O'Connell-D State Board of Fire Services: composition	Other State Government
SB 1597	O'Connell-D Harbors and ports	Local Government
SB 1605	Poochigian-R Supplemental local law enforcement funding	Local Government
SB 1617	Leslie-R Public libraries: Internet: harmful material	Other State Government
SB 1637*	Burton-D Property tax revenue shifts: limitation	Local Government
SB 1638	Burton-D Public employees' retirement: minimum benefits	Public Employees
SB 1640	Burton-D County employees' retirement: Marin County: safety status	Local Government
SB 1642	Figueroa-D Housing: jobs	Local Government
SB 1667*	Alpert-D Education and government	Other State Government
SB 1694	Ortiz-D Public employees' retirement: membership election	Public Employees
SB 1695	Ortiz-D Public Employees' Retirement System: benefits	Public Employees Local Government
SB 1696	Ortiz-D County employees' retirement: retroactive benefit increases	Local Government
SB 1697	Ortiz-D State employees' retirement: retiree benefits increase	Public Employees
SB 1700	Brulte-R State general obligation bonds	Other State Government
SB 1708	Kelley-R Streets	Local Government
SB 1714	Brulte-R Zoning ordinances: radio antennas	Local Government
SB 1722	Hayden-D Immigrant professionals	Immigration Issues
SB 1753	Brulte-R Local law enforcement funding	Local Government
SB 1756	Kelley-R Fire districts: board of directors	Local Government
SB 1761	Figueroa-D Health: automatic external defibrillators: state buildings	Other State Government
SB 1763	O'Connell-D Civil service examinations	Public Employees
SB 1778	Johnston-D State property: surplus	Other State Government
SB 1813	Speier-D State Department of Transportation: contract disputes	Other State Government
SB 1825	Kelley-R Horse racing: minimum license fees	Horseracing
SB 1838	Burton-D Gaming	Other Gaming Legislation
SB 1846	Speier-D State procurement: gasoline	Other State Government
SB 1868	Solis-D State contracts: small businesses	Other State Government
SB 1880	Sher-D Pharmaceutical assistance program study	Public Employees
SB 1883	Sher-D Property taxation: revenue allocation: TEA formula	Local Government
SB 1884	Chesbro-D Building and zoning ordinances: school districts	Local Government
SB 1887	Vasconcellos-D Horse racing: impact fees	Horseracing
SB 1888	Hayden-D Public contracts: sweatshop labor	Other State Government
SB 1893	Perata-D Public contracts: purchasing preferences	Other State Government
SB 1894*	Peace-D Claims against the state: appropriation	Other State Government
SB 1895	Poochigian-R Water supply infrastructure	Local Government
SB 1916	Leslie-R State Board of Forestry & Fire Protection: El Dorado Hills	Local Government
SB 1919	Chesbro-D Property tax revenue shift: fire district relief	Local Government
SB 1928	Haynes-R Public retirement fund investments: foreign companies	Public Employees
SB 1936*	Schiff-D Supplemental local law enforcement funding	Local Government
SB 1950	Lewis-R Military leave	Public Employees
SB 1956	Polanco-D Water: biosolids	Local Government
SB 1957	Burton-D Alcoholic beverages	Alcoholic Beverage Control
SB 1958	Lewis-R Public entities: liability	Other State Government Local Government
SB 1966	Brulte-R Elections: county and municipal initiative measures	Local Government
SB 1982	Alpert-D Local government finance: reform	Local Government
SB 1998	Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee Public employees' retirement and health benefit programs	Public Employees
SB 2000	Polanco-D Local government	Local Government
SB 2001	Poochigian-R Local planning: public notice	Local Government
SB 2008	Solis-D County employees' retirement law: benefits	Local Government
SB 2009	Solis-D State employee actions: appeals	Public Employees
SB 2012	Speier-D Emergency broadcasting funds	Other State Government
SB 2016*	McPherson-R State property: Salinas	Other State Government
SB 2017	Perata-D Local planning	Local Government
SB 2024	Lewis-R Property tax revenue shifts	Local Government
SB 2025	Burton-D Persons with disabilities: administrative proceeding	Public Employees
SB 2027	Sher-D Public records: disclosure	Other State Government
SB 2040	Chesbro-D Building standards	Local Government
SB 2047	Polanco-D Civil rights: outreach	Other State Government
SB 2048	Leslie-R Infrastructure improvement	Local Government
SB 2053	Senate Governmental Organization Committee California State Lottery	Other Gaming Legislation
SB 2054	Senate Governmental Organization Committee Horse racing	Horseracing
SB 2057	Morrow-R Highways: funding	Local Government
SB 2061	Schiff-D State Theatrical Arts Resources Partnership	Other State Government
SB 2064	Costa-D Conflicts of interest	Local Government
SB 2067	Bowen-D Records	Other State Government
SB 2080	Leslie-R Local government finance	Local Government
SB 2085*	McPherson-R Alcoholic beverages: use on school grounds	Alcoholic Beverage Control
SB 2088	Hughes-D Public contracts: job order contracting	Other State Government Local Government
SB 2095	Johnston-D Water recycling	Local Government
SB 2096*	Poochigian-R Cemetery districts	Local Government
SB 2110	Knight-R Disabled veterans: contracting preferences	Other State Government
SB 2112	Polanco-D Hollywood Entertainment Museum	Other State Government
SB 2113	Burton-D Redevelopment: San Francisco	Local Government
SB 2117	Johnson-R Redevelopment	Local Government
SB 2122	Ortiz-D Retirement systems: investments: information sharing	Public Employees
SB 2132*	Dunn-D Health services	Local Government
SB 2137	Leslie-R Highways: El Dorado County	Local Government
SB 2144	Perata-D Bay pilots	Other State Government
SB 2151*	Polanco-D California Arts Council: Walt Disney Concert Hall	Other State Government
SB 2173	Senate Revenue And Taxation Committee Taxation: lottery prizes	Other Gaming Legislation
SB 2177	McPherson-R Bay pilots	Other State Government
SB 2181	Perata-D State Lands Commission: enforcement powers	Other State Government
SB 2204	Soto-D Land use	Local Government
SB 2206	Brulte-R Public employees' retirement	Local Government
SCA 5	Murray-D Constitutional amendments and revisions: vote requirement	Other State Government
SCA 6	Rainey-R Local government finance	Local Government
SCA 7	Polanco-D Charter counties: supervisors	Local Government
SCA 9	Peace-D Capital financing	Other State Government
SCA 10	Perata-D Public safety services	Local Government
SCA 12	Perata-D Gambling	Other Gaming Legislation
SCA 13	McPherson-R Office of Secretary of State: nonpartisan office	Other State Government
SCA 14	Haynes-R County assessors	Local Government
SCA 16	Burton-D Public retirement systems	Public Employees
SCA 17	Polanco-D Local government finances	Local Government
SCA 18	Alpert-D Local government finance	Local Government
SCA 20	Perata-D Term limits	Legislature
SCA 21	Alarcon-D Public finance	Local Government
SCR 4	Solis-D Women's History Month and International Women's Day	Other State Government
SCR 21	Speier-D Joint Committee on Government Oversight	Other State Government
SCR 42	Murray-D Sister state: Western Cape Province, South Africa	Other State Government
SCR 44	Vasconcellos-D California Science and Technology Week	Other State Government
SCR 54	Burton-D Legislature: adjournment	Legislature
SCR 61	Alpert-D California Girls and Women in Sports Week	Other State Government
SCR 62	Poochigian-R Armenian genocide remembrance	Other State Government
SCR 63	Johannessen-R State Department of Parks and Recreation	Other State Government
SCR 64	Burton-D Commemoration of the First Legislature	Legislature
SCR 65	Burton-D San Francisco Bar Pilots	Other State Government
SCR 70	Burton-D Ken Maddy	Legislature
SCR 73	Vasconcellos-D California Science and Technology Week	Other State Government
SCR 76	Vasconcellos-D State Department of Information Technology staff	Other State Government
SCR 94	Vasconcellos-D Norman Y. Mineta	Federal Issues
SCR 98	Burton-D Joe Serna, Jr. Building	Other State Government
SJR 5	Murray-D The 2000 federal decennial census	Federal Issues
SJR 7	Baca-D Cesar E. Chavez: commemorative stamp	Federal Issues
SJR 16	Alpert-D Postal Rate Commission	Federal Issues
SJR 19	Solis-D Education: federal funding	Federal Issues
SJR 23	Polanco-D Indian gaming	Other Gaming Legislation Federal Issues
SJR 25	Solis-D Filipino veterans	Federal Issues
SJR 26	Kelley-R Mission Creek and Desert Hot Springs Aquifers	Federal Issues
SJR 27	Polanco-D California-Latin America air service	Federal Issues
SJR 28	Knight-R High-level radioactive waste	Federal Issues
SJR 29	Speier-D Pharmaceutical advertisements	Federal Issues
SJR 30	Speier-D Federal Pain Relief Promotion Act	Federal Issues
SJR 31	Figueroa-D Blood centers	Federal Issues
SJR 32	Haynes-R Telephone Tax Repeal	Federal Issues
SJR 33	Polanco-D University of California: national laboratories	Federal Issues
SJR 34	Perata-D Home Front National Historic Park	Federal Issues
SJR 35	Knight-R National Training Center	Federal Issues
SJR 37	Polanco-D Puerto Rico: political status	Federal Issues
SJR 38	Costa-D Importation of Argentine citrus	Federal Issues
SJR 39	Knight-R Air quality	Federal Issues
SJR 40	Polanco-D Incarceration: undocumented felons	Immigration Issues
SJR 41	Alpert-D Retail electricity	Federal Issues
SJR 42	Morrow-R Federal Fairness in Electricity Supply Act	Federal Issues
SR 21	Burton-D Rules Committee membership: Senator O'Connell	Legislature
SR 22	Ortiz-D Adjournment of the Senate	Legislature
SR 23	Burton-D Senator Ken Maddy	Legislature
SR 27	Burton-D Holocaust Memorial Project	Other State Government
SR 29	Murray-D Digital Divide	Other State Government
SR 31	Figueroa-D Federal Central American and Haitian Adjustment Act	Immigration Issues
SR 33	Polanco-D Mexico money transmitter litigation	Federal Issues
SR 34	Hayden-D Biotechnology	Other State Government
SR 36	Hayden-D Plan Columbia	Federal Issues
SR 37	Burton-D Rules Committee membership: Senator Ross Johnson	Legislature
AB 24	Runner-R Local government	Local Government
AB 83	Cardenas-D Business licensing	Local Government
AB 96	Shelley-D Retirement benefits	Local Government
AB 107	Knox-D Public employee retirement system investments	Public Employees
AB 112	Florez-D Local government: tobacco settlement	Local Government
AB 115	Maddox-R Law enforcement	Local Government
AB 146	Havice-D Open meetings	Local Government
AB 147*	Strom-Martin-D Local agencies	Local Government
AB 174	Firebaugh-D California Teleconferencing Public Network	Other State Government
AB 185	Hertzberg-D Local government reorganization	Local Government
AB 188*	Hertzberg-D Local government reorganization	Local Government
AB 220	Washington-D Community-based alcohol education programs	Alcoholic Beverage Control
AB 227	Wildman-D Public Employees Retirement System: benefits	Public Employees
AB 230	Baldwin-R State employer expenses	Public Employees
AB 258*	Baugh-R Local agency formation commission: Los Angeles	Local Government
AB 260	Wright-D Exposition Park Authority and California Science Center	Other State Government
AB 278	Reyes-D County employees' retirement: benefits	Local Government
AB 284	Strom-Martin-D Local government finance	Local Government
AB 317	Floyd-D Gambling Control Act: gambling establishments	Other Gaming Legislation
AB 328*	Bates-R Property tax revenue shifts: relief	Local Government
AB 334*	Pescetti-R State employees: compensation increase	Public Employees
AB 345	Vincent-D California Workforce Investment and Economic Development Act	Public Employees
AB 350	House-R State employees: compensation increase	Public Employees
AB 354	Reyes-D Horse racing: 21st District Agricultural Association	Horseracing
AB 362	Cedillo-D State property: donation to the United States	Other State Government
AB 377	Wesson-D Alcoholic beverages: licensees	Alcoholic Beverage Control
AB 379	Cardoza-D State employees: longevity pay	Public Employees
AB 419	Firebaugh-D Public Employees' Retirement System: benefits	Public Employees
AB 439	Pescetti-R County employees' retirement	Local Government
AB 441	Mazzoni-D State Water Quality Control Fund	Local Government
AB 448	Floyd-D Retirement	Public Employees Local Government
AB 493*	Floyd-D Horse racing	Horseracing
AB 502	Wildman-D Meyers-Milias-Brown Act	Local Government
AB 505	Wright-D Administrative procedures	Other State Government
AB 524	Lempert-D Fines	Local Government
AB 544	Reyes-D Director of General Services: facility location	Other State Government
AB 551	Longville-D State funds: interest	Other State Government Local Government
AB 581	Firebaugh-D Information technology: study	Other State Government
AB 621	Floyd-D Casino: definition	Other Gaming Legislation
AB 638	Thompson-R State employees: holidays	Public Employees
AB 639	Thompson-R Local agency formation commissions	Local Government
AB 649*	Machado-D State employees	Public Employees
AB 674	Wiggins-D Personal services contracts	Other State Government
AB 688	Steinberg-D State employment: health benefits	Public Employees
AB 729	Lowenthal-D Community facilities: planning	Local Government
AB 766	Wiggins-D County government	Local Government
AB 772	Wesson-D Alcoholic beverages: beer	Alcoholic Beverage Control
AB 773	Leach-R Firefighter safety clothing and equipment: reimbursement	Public Employees
AB 774	Cardoza-D Redevelopment	Local Government
AB 779	Torlakson-D Pollution	Local Government
AB 780	Calderon-D Local employer-employee relations	Local Government
AB 822*	Mazzoni-D Taxation	Local Government
AB 866	Kuehl-D Rental housing	Local Government
AB 903	Cardenas-D Native American lands: legislative intent	Other State Government
AB 915	Dickerson-R Local government	Local Government
AB 938*	Dutra-D Escheat: military awards	Other State Government
AB 943	Dutra-D California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission	Other State Government Local Government
AB 948	Wesson-D Gambling: devices and supplies	Other Gaming Legislation
AB 950	Thomson-D Housing and community development	Local Government
AB 958	Scott-D Transit design-build contracts	Local Government
AB 977	Vincent-D Local planning	Local Government
AB 998	Wayne-D California Museum of Latino History, Art, and Culture	Other State Government
AB 1004*	Papan-D Unclaimed property: sending of notices	Other State Government
AB 1009*	Correa-D Public employees' retirement: purchasing power protection	Public Employees
AB 1036	Wesson-D Local government finance	Local Government
AB 1068*	Ducheny-D Department of Parks and Recreation: Admission Day	Other State Government
AB 1128	Ackerman-R Private property: taking	Other State Government
AB 1167	Frusetta-R Local government finance	Local Government
AB 1194*	Leonard-R Local government finance	Local Government
AB 1195*	Longville-D Local government finance	Local Government
AB 1219	Kuehl-D Land use: water supplies	Local Government
AB 1223	Cox-R Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions	Alcoholic Beverage Control
AB 1256*	Assembly Agriculture Committee Fairs: funding	Horseracing Other State Government
AB 1264	Pescetti-R City incorporation: Elk Grove	Local Government
AB 1266	Pescetti-R Local agency formation	Local Government
AB 1267	Baugh-R Public contracts	Local Government
AB 1317	Cardoza-D Horse racing: out-of-state races	Horseracing
AB 1331	Papan-D Legislation tombstoning: removal of name	Legislature Local Government
AB 1333	Bates-R County employee retirement systems: governing board	Local Government
AB 1335	Havice-D State employer-employee relations: fact-finding	Public Employees
AB 1347	Runner-R Local government finance	Local Government
AB 1377	Gallegos-D Public contracts: interagency council	Other State Government
AB 1394	Margett-R Public contracts: design-build	Other State Government
AB 1396*	Villaraigosa-D Local government finance	Local Government
AB 1402*	Mazzoni-D Taxation	Local Government
AB 1405	Wesson-D Horse racing: advance deposit wagering	Horseracing
AB 1408	Assembly Governmental Organization Committee California State Lottery	Other Gaming Legislation
AB 1411	Longville-D Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act	Public Employees
AB 1416*	Wesson-D Gambling establishments	Other Gaming Legislation
AB 1436	Briggs-R Public employment: Selective Service Act	Public Employees
AB 1444	House-R County health services	Local Government
AB 1448	Cox-R Public contracts: architectural and engineering services	Other State Government
AB 1481	Granlund-R Parking meters	Local Government
AB 1493*	Nakano-D Recording documents; restrictive covenants	Other State Government Local Government
AB 1495*	Cox-R Agency formation	Local Government
AB 1504	Margett-R Public contract termination: cause and notice requirements	Other State Government
AB 1507	Washington-D Notaries public: renewal of commission	Other State Government
AB 1525*	Thomson-D Alcoholic beverages: licenses: beer manufacturers	Alcoholic Beverage Control
AB 1526	Thompson-R City incorporations	Local Government
AB 1543	Correa-D Native Americans: infrastructure and public works	Other State Government
AB 1544*	Calderon-D Local government	Local Government
AB 1556	Correa-D Redevelopment: El Toro Marine Corps Air Station	Local Government
AB 1604*	Wesson-D Alcoholic beverage licensees: advertising restrictions	Alcoholic Beverage Control
AB 1609	Cardenas-D Leaf blowers	Local Government
AB 1613	Lempert-D Regional open-space district: County of Santa Barbara	Local Government
AB 1615	Longville-D Property tax revenue allocations	Local Government
AB 1674*	Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee Capital facilities fees	Local Government
AB 1683	Assembly Information Technology Committee Public records: Internet data bases	Other State Government
AB 1684	Assembly Information Technology Committee Public contracts	Other State Government
AB 1709	Romero-D Firefighters	Local Government
AB 1732	Torlakson-D Local agency procedures	Local Government
AB 1744*	Longville-D Local government: housing elements	Local Government
AB 1757*	Oller-R Local government finance	Local Government
AB 1759	Papan-D Public records: Internet reports	Other State Government
AB 1779	Pescetti-R Cemeteries	Other State Government
AB 1801	Runner-R California State Lottery: advertising	Other Gaming Legislation
AB 1806	Robert Pacheco-R Local government	Local Government
AB 1817	Correa-D County employees' disability retirement	Local Government
AB 1821*	Mazzoni-D Government finance	Local Government
AB 1822	Wayne-D Administrative Procedure Act	Other State Government
AB 1829	Correa-D Public Employees' Retirement System	Public Employees
AB 1836	Bates-R Coroner's reports	Local Government
AB 1852	Longville-D Meyers-Milias-Brown Act	Local Government
AB 1855	Lowenthal-D Redevelopment	Local Government
AB 1856	Kuehl-D Harassment: liability of employees	Public Employees Other State Government
AB 1858	Romero-D Consumer protection	Immigration Issues
AB 1867	Papan-D Local fiscal relief	Local Government
AB 1876	Vincent-D Horse racing: drugs	Horseracing
AB 1880	Brewer-R Property tax revenue allocation	Local Government
AB 1889	Cedillo-D State funds: unionization	Other State Government
AB 1902	Vincent-D Horse racing: interstate licensing compact	Horseracing
AB 1913*	Cardenas-D Local law enforcement funding	Local Government
AB 1932	Davis-D Alcoholic beverages: advertisement: prohibition	Alcoholic Beverage Control
AB 1936	Papan-D State contracts: claims against the state	Other State Government
AB 1937	Correa-D Retirement: benefits	Local Government
AB 1941*	Strom-Martin-D Palm Drive Health Care District	Local Government
AB 1944	Wayne-D Williamson Act	Local Government
AB 1947	Maldonado-R County Employees Retirement Law of 1937	Local Government
AB 1954	Jackson-D Armories: homeless shelter	Other State Government
AB 1960*	Machado-D Local agency formation: CEQA	Local Government
AB 1968	Wiggins-D Land use: regional impacts	Local Government
AB 1971	Dickerson-R Volunteer firefighters	Local Government
AB 1982	Gallegos-D Local agency assessments	Local Government
AB 1984	Zettel-R Telecommuting centers	Local Government
AB 2000	Villaraigosa-D California Commission on Human Relations	Other State Government
AB 2014	Runner-R Library construction	Other State Government
AB 2016	Strom-Martin-D Humboldt Bay Harbor District	Local Government
AB 2019	Wildman-D PERS: benefits	Public Employees
AB 2020*	Leach-R Infrastructure financing	Other State Government
AB 2023	Shelley-D Education: California Arts Council: regional art centers	Other State Government
AB 2033	Torlakson-D Joint powers agreements	Local Government
AB 2041	Dutra-D Redevelopment: affordable housing	Local Government
AB 2043	Maddox-R Workers' compensation: injuries	Local Government
AB 2046	Maddox-R Local agency formation commission	Local Government
AB 2075	Granlund-R On-premises advertising	Local Government
AB 2099	Migden-D State infrastructure	Other State Government
AB 2100	Dutra-D California Electronic Government and Information Act	Other State Government
AB 2110	Rod Pacheco-R Graffiti abatement	Local Government
AB 2118	Bock-I Public retirement systems: merger study	Public Employees
AB 2122	Briggs-R District agricultural associations: contracts	Other State Government
AB 2144	Keeley-D Land use	Local Government
AB 2146*	Bates-R Local government finance	Local Government
AB 2147	Wiggins-D Zoning ordinances: public schools	Local Government
AB 2156	Pescetti-R Public contracts: bidding requirements	Other State Government
AB 2163	Cunneen-R Information technology	Other State Government
AB 2176	Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee County employees' retirement	Local Government
AB 2179	Wesson-D Gambling: prohibited online gambling games	Other Gaming Legislation
AB 2182	Mazzoni-D Bidding procedures: alternative bids	Other State Government
AB 2187	Aanestad-R Alcoholic beverages: local ordinances: open containers	Alcoholic Beverage Control
AB 2219	Battin-R Booking fees	Local Government
AB 2220	Battin-R Local agency investments	Local Government
AB 2222	Kuehl-D Civil rights: disability	Public Employees
AB 2255	Cedillo-D St. Vibiana's Cathedral: performing arts center	Local Government
AB 2264*	Cedillo-D Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure	Local Government
AB 2271	Correa-D Urban revitalization	Local Government
AB 2273*	Aroner-D City of Richmond tidelands	Local Government
AB 2285	Florez-D PERS: rehabilitation facilities	Public Employees
AB 2291	Florez-D County employees' retirement	Local Government
AB 2293	Florez-D Transportation authorities	Local Government
AB 2296	Dutra-D County design-build contracts	Local Government
AB 2300	Florez-D Joint powers authority	Local Government
AB 2301*	Lowenthal-D State agencies: contracts	Other State Government
AB 2302	Cardenas-D Redevelopment: territorial jurisdiction	Local Government
AB 2304	Davis-D State contracts: personal and consulting services	Other State Government
AB 2314	Ducheny-D Infrastructure financing districts: border zone	Local Government
AB 2325	Floyd-D Local government: fire protection: funding	Local Government
AB 2331	Floyd-D Public employees: compensation earnable	Public Employees
AB 2335*	Maldonado-R Taxation: local agency reorganization	Local Government
AB 2336	Zettel-R Local agency contracts	Local Government
AB 2338	Floyd-D Public employees	Public Employees Local Government
AB 2341*	Floyd-D Horse racing: paint horses	Horseracing
AB 2344	Floyd-D Horse racing: imported races	Horseracing
AB 2350	Floyd-D Ralph C. Dills Act: legislative employees	Legislature
AB 2352	Floyd-D Horse racing: racing weeks allocation	Horseracing
AB 2366	Margett-R Public contracts: local agency design-build procurement	Local Government
AB 2369	Keeley-D State property and contracts	Other State Government
AB 2383	Keeley-D Public employee health benefits: retiree health benefits	Public Employees
AB 2389	Longville-D Local and regional government	Local Government
AB 2390	Keeley-D Cities: subventions	Local Government
AB 2398	Papan-D Property tax revenue allocation: commuter rail facilities	Local Government
AB 2407	Machado-D State agency contracts: advance payments	Other State Government
AB 2410	Machado-D Wages: state employees	Public Employees
AB 2415	Migden-D Healthy Families Program: legal immigrant children	Immigration Issues
AB 2430	Wiggins-D Housing: regional housing needs: Napa County	Local Government
AB 2438	Brewer-R Recordable instruments: digitized images	Local Government
AB 2450	Thompson-R Incorporation viability	Local Government
AB 2458	Wesson-D Public employees' benefits	Public Employees
AB 2463	Wiggins-D Retirement: retiree health benefits	Public Employees
AB 2494	Steinberg-D State offices: location	Other State Government
AB 2495	Ashburn-R Counties and cities: local agencies	Local Government
AB 2499	Steinberg-D State buildings: fire protection	Other State Government
AB 2508	Washington-D Emergency Medical Services: advanced life support units	Local Government
AB 2520	Thomson-D Alcoholic beverages: permits: winegrowers	Alcoholic Beverage Control
AB 2525	House-R Escheat: liability	Local Government
AB 2534	Shelley-D Civil rights: discrimination	Local Government
AB 2545	Gallegos-D Public contracts	Other State Government
AB 2548	Cox-R Municipal utility districts: purchases	Local Government
AB 2551	Thomson-D Alcoholic beverages: gifts or free goods	Alcoholic Beverage Control
AB 2565	Zettel-R Public postsecondary education: lottery funds	Other Gaming Legislation
AB 2566	House-R Health information	Local Government
AB 2568*	Oller-R Preston Castle: transfer of title	Other State Government
AB 2569	Margett-R Horse racing: imported races	Horseracing
AB 2583*	Cardenas-D Claims against the state	Other State Government
AB 2584	Margett-R Crimes: state and local public safety officials	Public Employees
AB 2606	Rod Pacheco-R Public contracting: voidable contracts	Other State Government
AB 2614	Oller-R County recorders	Local Government
AB 2615	Rod Pacheco-R Public employees' retirement: special death benefits	Public Employees
AB 2619	Pescetti-R State employees: reinstatement	Public Employees
AB 2620	Pescetti-R Local safety members: retirement: benefits	Local Government
AB 2621	Rod Pacheco-R Preretirement death benefits	Public Employees
AB 2624	Cox-R State-mandated local programs	Other State Government Local Government
AB 2636	House-R Official state nut: almond	Other State Government
AB 2638	Cardoza-D Public utilities: electrical power: irrigation districts	Local Government
AB 2642	Calderon-D Public employees' retirement: benefits	Public Employees Local Government
AB 2643	Calderon-D Los Angeles County: transit operation funding	Local Government
AB 2658*	Baugh-R Local government finance: property tax revenue allocation	Local Government
AB 2672	Bock-I State employees: out-of-class work: compensation	Public Employees
AB 2684	Bock-I State-mandated local costs	Local Government
AB 2687	Margett-R Notaries public: immigration consultant services	Immigration Issues
AB 2688	Assembly Agriculture Committee Fairs: expenditure reporting	Other State Government
AB 2701	Jackson-D State employees: medical examinations	Public Employees
AB 2708	Wesson-D State deposits	Other State Government
AB 2717	House-R Tuolumne County	Local Government
AB 2724	Olberg-R Public officials: voter-approved enactments	Other State Government Local Government
AB 2726	Olberg-R Guest Worker Pilot Program	Immigration Issues
AB 2735	Cox-R Birth certificates	Other State Government
AB 2745	Kaloogian-R Public retirement fund investments: national security	Public Employees
AB 2750	Maddox-R Public works contracts: competitive bidding	Local Government
AB 2753	Strickland-R Horse racing: proposition wagers	Horseracing
AB 2759	Assembly Governmental Organization Committee Tied-house restrictions: licenses	Alcoholic Beverage Control
AB 2760	Wesson-D Horse racing	Horseracing
AB 2761	Brewer-R Public entities: contracts	Other State Government
AB 2767	Jackson-D Vehicles: engineering and traffic surveys	Local Government
AB 2777	Granlund-R Alcoholic beverages: licensees: advertising	Alcoholic Beverage Control
AB 2779	Cox-R Local agencies	Local Government
AB 2786	Bates-R Escheated funds: affordable housing: elderly persons	Other State Government
AB 2788*	Granlund-R Gambling establishments: licensing	Other Gaming Legislation
AB 2789	Villaraigosa-D County medical facilities	Local Government
AB 2791	Alquist-D School and essential services facilities: stop work notice	Other State Government
AB 2799	Shelley-D Public records: disclosure	Other State Government
AB 2805	Papan-D Financial institutions	Other State Government
AB 2806	Papan-D Public investments: financial institutions	Other State Government
AB 2810*	Robert Pacheco-R Legal document and unlawful detainer assistants	Local Government
AB 2815	Kuehl-D Unemployment insurance: disability benefits	Public Employees
AB 2817*	Honda-D Information technology: innovation projects grant program	Other State Government
AB 2823	Cardoza-D State employees: deferred compensation	Public Employees
AB 2835	Hertzberg-D Transportation: urban traffic congestion advisory committee	Local Government
AB 2837	Hertzberg-D State nonemergency telephone number system	Local Government
AB 2838	Hertzberg-D Local agency formation commissions	Local Government
AB 2840	Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee Service credit costing	Public Employees
AB 2841	Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee County employees' retirement: employer contributions	Local Government
AB 2846	Ducheny-D State contracts	Other State Government
AB 2847	Firebaugh-D Gaming Policy Advisory Committee	Other Gaming Legislation
AB 2863*	Assembly Budget Committee Claims against the state	Other State Government
AB 2866*	Migden-D State government	Other Gaming Legislation Public Employees Other State Government Local Government
AB 2876*	Aroner-D Social services	Immigration Issues
AB 2877*	Thomson-D Healthy Family Programs	Immigration Issues
AB 2885*	Cardenas-D Supplemental local law enforcement funding	Local Government
AB 2890*	Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency, And Economic Development Committee Public contracts	Other State Government
AB 2934	Correa-D Redevelopment: Tustin Marine Corps Air Station	Local Government
AB 2935	Assembly Information Technology Committee Government records	Local Government
AB 2936	Assembly Information Technology Committee Data centers	Other State Government
AB 2938	Assembly Local Government Committee Local agencies: services	Local Government
AB 2940	Assembly Local Government Committee Local Agency Omnibus Act	Local Government
AB 2943*	Olberg-R Secretary of State: filing fees	Other State Government
ACA 2	Papan-D Legislative terms	Legislature
ACA 4	Papan-D Budget Bill: passage: vote requirement	Legislature
ACA 7	Granlund-R Legislature: term limits: retirement	Legislature
ACA 10	Vincent-D Office of Secretary of State: nonpartisan office	Other State Government
ACA 11	Briggs-R Local government finance: property tax revenue allocation	Local Government
ACA 12	Papan-D Legislature: retirement	Legislature
ACA 15	Leach-R Legislature: sessions: two-year Budget	Legislature
ACA 16	Cox-R Public contracts: architectural and engineering services	Other State Government
ACA 17	Leonard-R Local government finance: property tax revenue allocation	Local Government
ACA 18	Papan-D Legislature: terms: retirement	Legislature
ACA 23	Torlakson-D Public library facilities: general obligation bonds	Other State Government
ACA 27	Thompson-R Gambling: ban on further expansion	Other Gaming Legislation
ACA 28	Runner-R Taxation: Internet and local taxation	Local Government
ACR 8	Battin-R California Hispanic Heritage Month	Other State Government
ACR 13	Wright-D Black History Month	Other State Government
ACR 23	Reyes-D Latina History Day	Other State Government
ACR 29	Wright-D Absolutely Incredible Kids Day	Other State Government
ACR 31	Machado-D National Boys and Girls Club Week	Other State Government
ACR 58	Lowenthal-D Jewish Heritage Week	Other State Government
ACR 59	Nakano-D Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month	Other State Government
ACR 66	Dutra-D Military awards and decorations	Other State Government
ACR 75	Thompson-R Report on the Legislature	Legislature
ACR 95	Leonard-R Federal decennial census	Other State Government Federal Issues
ACR 97	Oller-R Mission bell: Capitol Park	Other State Government
ACR 101	Dickerson-R California National Guard: fire support professionals	Other State Government
ACR 107	Wright-D Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day	Other State Government
ACR 112	Torlakson-D California Fitness Month	Other State Government
ACR 114	Wiggins-D Charles M. Schulz Day	Other State Government
ACR 116	Wesson-D Rosa Parks Day	Other State Government
ACR 120	Thomson-D Legislature's 150th celebration: Benicia	Legislature
ACR 121	Villaraigosa-D California's Sesquicentennial Anniversary	Other State Government
ACR 122	Torlakson-D Mentor Appreciation Day	Other State Government
ACR 124	Havice-D Gold Star Mothers Week	Other State Government
ACR 126	Honda-D Day of Remembrance	Other State Government
ACR 127	Leonard-R Charles R. Imbrecht	Legislature
ACR 133	Torlakson-D Traffic congestion	Local Government
ACR 134	Shelley-D Census Day in California	Other State Government
ACR 135	Wesson-D State employee merit awards	Public Employees
ACR 146	Hertzberg-D California Nonprofits and Philanthropy Week	Other State Government
ACR 151	Villaraigosa-D Cesar E. Chavez Day	Other State Government
ACR 153	Davis-D California Holocaust Memorial Week	Other State Government
ACR 155	Maddox-R End of Vietnam Conflict	Other State Government
ACR 158	Reyes-D Cinco de Mayo	Other State Government
ACR 159	Hertzberg-D Israel's independence	Other State Government
ACR 160	Ducheny-D California Children's Day	Other State Government
ACR 161	Nakano-D Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month	Other State Government
ACR 162	House-R Pearl Harbor	Other State Government
ACR 167	Correa-D Little League Baseball Week	Other State Government
ACR 169	Cox-R Wells Fargo	Other State Government
ACR 171	Romero-D Women's Equality Day	Other State Government
ACR 177	Honda-D Confucius Day	Other State Government
ACR 181	Hertzberg-D California History Month	Other State Government
ACR 182	Aanestad-R 14 Mile House Historical Monument	Other State Government
ACR 183	Firebaugh-D Jalisco, Mexico: sister state relationship	Other State Government
ACR 185	Battin-R Native American tribal rights	Other State Government
ACR 186	Corbett-D Personal information: investigating committee	Other State Government
AJR 3	Wesson-D Airline overbooking	Federal Issues
AJR 8	Floyd-D California Native Americans	Federal Issues
AJR 13	Wiggins-D Wine: excise tax: labels	Alcoholic Beverage Control
AJR 30	Nakano-D Human rights: genocide	Federal Issues
AJR 35	House-R Taxation	Federal Issues
AJR 37	Longville-D International trade: import of steel slabs	Federal Issues
AJR 39	Washington-D Homelessness	Federal Issues
AJR 40	Wildman-D Federal funding: special education	Federal Issues
AJR 41	Robert Pacheco-R Internet taxation	Federal Issues
AJR 42	Alquist-D Medicare prescription drug benefit	Federal Issues
AJR 43	Alquist-D Bone and Joint Health Decade	Federal Issues
AJR 44	Robert Pacheco-R Fathers in the home	Federal Issues
AJR 45	Longville-D Commercial satellites	Federal Issues
AJR 46	Longville-D Commercial space transportation	Federal Issues
AJR 47	Cedillo-D Ryan White CARE Act	Federal Issues
AJR 48	Baldwin-R Child sexual abuse	Federal Issues
AJR 49	Bock-I Filipino veterans	Federal Issues
AJR 50	Baugh-R United Colors of Benetton	Federal Issues
AJR 51	Cedillo-D Immigration reform	Immigration Issues
AJR 52	McClintock-R Federal fuel tax	Federal Issues
AJR 53	Jackson-D Gun control	Federal Issues
AJR 54	Alquist-D Timorese refugees	Federal Issues
AJR 55	Runner-R Hemophilia relief	Federal Issues
AJR 56	Longville-D Daylight saving time	Federal Issues
AJR 57	Longville-D High-level radioactive waste	Federal Issues
AJR 58	Firebaugh-D Brownfield cleanup: tax-exempt bond financing	Federal Issues
AJR 59	Cox-R Sacramento airports	Federal Issues
AJR 60	House-R Social Security	Federal Issues
AJR 61	Aroner-D Federal funding	Federal Issues
AJR 62	Honda-D California Indian Tribes	Federal Issues
AJR 63	House-R United Nations	Federal Issues
AJR 64	Kuehl-D Show trials	Federal Issues
AJR 65	Scott-D NASA: Budget for fiscal year 2001	Federal Issues
AJR 66	House-R Offshore oil drilling leases	Federal Issues
AJR 67	Papan-D Disaster relief	Federal Issues
AJR 68	Romero-D Discrimination against women	Federal Issues
AJR 69	Aanestad-R National forest fire strategy	Federal Issues
AJR 72	Thompson-R Boy Scouts of America	Federal Issues
AJR 73	Kaloogian-R Federal estate tax	Federal Issues
AJR 75	Strickland-R Income tax on married couples	Federal Issues
AJR 77	Keeley-D Electricity rates	Federal Issues
HR 7	Papan-D Assembly Rules 22.5 and 69.1	Legislature
HR 13	Reyes-D Latina History Day	Other State Government
HR 35	Machado-D Relative to a media code of conduct	Other State Government
HR 36	Soto-D Los Angeles County Fair Association	Other State Government
HR 43	Strickland-R Alaska Airline Flight 261	Other State Government
HR 44	Steinberg-D Reconvening of the Assembly	Legislature
HR 48	Pescetti-R California Architecture Week	Other State Government
HR 52	Cardoza-D Assembly Sergeant-of-Arms	Legislature
HR 55	Pescetti-R Mother's Day	Other State Government
HR 60	Vincent-D Juneteenth: Emancipation Day	Other State Government
HR 70	Thompson-R International Border Checkpoints	Other State Government
HR 89	Calderon-D California Gnatcatcher and Southwestern Arroyo Toad	Federal Issues
HR 94	Pescetti-R California Protect Our Children Month	Other State Government
HR 96	Bock-I Girls Incorporated	Other State Government

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Legislature

SB 528* (Burton-D) Public employees' retirement

Vetoed by the Governor

SCA 20 (Perata-D) Term limits

(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

SCR 54 (Burton-D) Legislature: adjournment

Resolution Chapter 11, Statutes of 2000

SCR 64 (Burton-D) Commemoration of the First Legislature

Resolution Chapter 23, Statutes of 2000

SCR 70 (Burton-D) Ken Maddy

Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 2000

SR 21 (Burton-D) Rules Committee membership: Senator O'Connell

Adopted by the Senate

SR 22 (Ortiz-D) Adjournment of the Senate

Adopted by the Senate

SR 23 (Burton-D) Senator Ken Maddy

Adopted by the Senate

SR 37 (Burton-D) Rules Committee membership: Senator Ross Johnson

Adopted by the Senate

AB 1331 (Papan-D) Legislation tombstoning: removal of name

Chapter 375, Statutes of 2000

AB 2350 (Floyd-D) Ralph C. Dills Act: legislative employees

(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

ACA 2 (Papan-D) Legislative terms

(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

ACA 4 (Papan-D) Budget Bill: passage: vote requirement

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACA 7 (Granlund-R) Legislature: term limits: retirement

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACA 12 (Papan-D) Legislature: retirement

Resolution Chapter 83, Statutes of 2000

ACA 15 (Leach-R) Legislature: sessions: two-year Budget

(Died in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee)

ACA 18 (Papan-D) Legislature: terms: retirement

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACR 75 (Thompson-R) Report on the Legislature

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 120 (Thomson-D) Legislature's 150th celebration: Benicia

Resolution Chapter 25, Statutes of 2000

ACR 127 (Leonard-R) Charles R. Imbrecht

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

HR 7 (Papan-D) Assembly Rules 22.5 and 69.1

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

HR 44 (Steinberg-D) Reconvening of the Assembly

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 52 (Cardoza-D) Assembly Sergeant-of-Arms

Adopted by the Assembly

Alcoholic Beverage Control

SB 607* (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law: military exemption

Chapter 609, Statutes of 2000

SB 1232 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions

Chapter 162, Statutes of 2000

SB 1293 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: Napa County wine

Chapter 831, Statutes of 2000

SB 1423 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions

Chapter 205, Statutes of 2000

SB 1511 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: licenses

Chapter 231, Statutes of 2000

SB 1957 (Burton-D) Alcoholic beverages

Chapter 1083, Statutes of 2000

SB 2085* (McPherson-R) Alcoholic beverages: use on school grounds

Chapter 39, Statutes of 2000

AB 220 (Washington-D) Community-based alcohol education programs

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 377 (Wesson-D) Alcoholic beverages: licensees

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 772 (Wesson-D) Alcoholic beverages: beer

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1223 (Cox-R) Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1525* (Thomson-D) Alcoholic beverages: licenses: beer manufacturers

Chapter 7, Statutes of 2000

AB 1604* (Wesson-D) Alcoholic beverage licensees: advertising restrictions

Chapter 424, Statutes of 2000

AB 1932 (Davis-D) Alcoholic beverages: advertisement: prohibition

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2187 (Aanestad-R) Alcoholic beverages: local ordinances: open containers

Chapter 381, Statutes of 2000