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Civil Law

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SB 15 (Padilla-D) Aviation: unmanned aircraft systems

Provides that engaging in specified prohibited activities through the use of an unmanned aircraft system is included within prohibitions in current civil and criminal law. Provides that an unmanned aircraft system may not be equipped with a weapon, and makes that act a crime.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 131 (Beall-D) Damages: childhood sexual abuse: statute of limitations

Provides that the time limits for commencement of an action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse be applied retroactively to any claim that has not been adjudicated to finality on the merits as of 1/1/14, and revives, that for one year, a specified cause of action that would otherwise be barred by the statute of limitations as of 1/1/14, provided that the plaintiff's 26th birthday was before 1/1/03, and the plaintiff discovered the cause of his/her injury on or after 1/1/04.
Vetoed

SB 603 (Leno-D) Landlord and tenant: security deposit

Requires a court to award specified statutory damages for a bad faith claim or retention of security or the bad faith demand of replacement security deposit by a landlord. Requires, absent bad faith, an award of statutory damages of an amount equal to the amount improperly withheld, in addition to actual damages, for an unlawful claim or retention or demand of replacement security.
(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 724 (Emmerson-R) Charitable vision screenings

Provides qualified immunity from damages or injury liability to a nonprofit charitable organization, licensed optometrist, ophthalmologist, or trained volunteer providing vision screenings or donated or recycled glasses.
Chapter 68, Statutes of 2013

SB 826 (Senate Judiciary Committee) Civil law: omnibus bill

Revises a provision of existing law to require reimbursement of a fee from an estate if the estate is commenced for a decedent named in a will, and makes a technical correction to a reference to Uniform Standards of Practice for Providers of Supervised Visitation.
Chapter 61, Statutes of 2013

AB 198 (Wieckowski-D) Debtor exemptions

Establishes additional exemptions for debtors, raises the amount of the homestead exemption, and deletes the homestead reinvestment requirement.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 223 (Olsen-R) Civil actions: disabled access

Permits a local government, as defined, to file a request for a court stay and early evaluation conference upon being served with a summons and complaint asserting a construction-related accessibility claim.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 227* (Gatto-D) Proposition 65: enforcement

Changes the enforcement provisions of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. Provides that nothing in the bill prevents the Attorney General, a district attorney, a city attorney, or a prosecutor in whose jurisdiction the violation is alleged to have occurred from filing an action against an alleged violator.
Chapter 581, Statutes of 2013

AB 263 (Roger Hernández-D) Employment: retaliation: immigration-related practices

Prohibits an employer or any other person or entity from engaging in unfair immigration-related practices for the purpose of retaliation against any person who exercises any rights under the Labor Code. Authorizes a civil action by an employee or other person who is the subject of an unfair immigration-related practice, and authorizes a court to order the appropriate government agencies to suspend certain business licenses held by the violating party for prescribed periods based on the number of violations.
Chapter 732, Statutes of 2013

AB 502 (Wagner-R) Commercial law: secured transactions

Incorporates amendments made to the Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 into California's comparable statute, Commercial Code Division 9, governing security interests. Applies to a transaction or lien within its scope, even if entered into or created prior to 7/1/14, but specifies that its changes do not affect any action, case or proceeding commenced prior to that date.
Chapter 531, Statutes of 2013

AB 519 (Logue-R) Unfair competition

Requires a court, prior to the imposition of any civil penalty in cases involving those engaged in unfair competition, to consider all factors in mitigation of both the imposition and amount of any civil penalty.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 522 (Bloom-D) Civil actions: exceptions to dismissal

Expands the types of actions to which the exception to dismissal of an action for delay in prosecution applies and includes an action for the dissolution of a domestic partnership, an action based on void or voidable marriage, and an action relating to a child custody or visitation order. Prohibits those actions from being dismissed under the specified conditions that also includes if an order regarding child custody or visitation has been issued, or if a valid personal conduct restraining order exists and if an issue in the case has been bifurcated.
Chapter 40, Statutes of 2013

AB 625 (Quirk-D) Notaries public: acceptance of identification

Adds inmate identification cards, issued by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to the list of documents presumed to prove the identity of an incarcerated individual who executes a written instrument, for the purposes of notarization of an instrument.
Chapter 159, Statutes of 2013

AB 666 (Wieckowski-D) Automated traffic enforcement systems: violations

Requires violations recorded by an automated traffic enforcement system to be cited as civil violations, subject to a civil penalty, administrative process, and appeal in superior court. Exempts certain of those civil violations from the violation point count process.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 737 (Fox-D) Space flight liability

Includes a manufacturer or supplier of components, services, or vehicles that have been reviewed by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration as part of issuing a license, permit, or other authorization pursuant to specified provisions of federal law relating to commercial space launch activities as a space flight entity with limited liability for any participant injury. Provides that limited liability under these provisions does not limit or prevent the liability of a space flight entity that manufactures or supplies a product with a defect.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
Similar bill is SB 415 (Knight-R) which died in Senate Judiciary Committee.

AB 969 (Ammiano-D) Landlord and tenant

Provides that a lessee is not in default as to the payment of rent when the lessee has made all payments or has exercised a right to deduct an amount from or withhold rent, or the lessor is prohibited from collecting rent.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1036 (Blumenfield-D) Mortgages

Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions of the Civil Code related to mortgages relating to notices of default and sales, grants of real property and maxims of jurisprudence.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1164 (Lowenthal-D) Liens: employees and workers

Authorizes, with some exceptions, an employee to record and enforce a wage lien upon real and personal property of an employer, or a property owner, for wages, other compensation, and related penalties and damages owed the employee. Prescribes requirements relating to the recording and enforcement of the wage lien. Requires a notice of lien on real property to be executed under penalty of perjury.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1256 (Bloom-D) Privacy: entry and exit of facilities

Provides that a person is liable for a physical invasion of privacy when the defendant knowingly enters onto the land of another person without permission or otherwise commits a trespass with the intent to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of the plaintiff engaging in a private, personal, or familial activity and the invasion occurs in a manner that is offensive to a reasonable person. Provides that it is unlawful for any person, except a parent or guardian acting toward his/her minor child, to, by force, threat of force, or physical obstruction that is a crime of violence, intentionally injure, intimidate, interfere with, or attempt to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person attempting to enter or exit a facility, or to, by nonviolent physical obstruction, intentionally injure, intimidate, interfere with, or attempt to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person attempting to enter or exit a facility. Defines "facility" for purposes of its provisions as any public or private school grounds, any health facility, or any lodging, including a private residence, hotel, temporary lodging facility, inn, motel, bed and breakfast, or any other location that provides permanent or temporary lodging to persons.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1336 (Frazier-D) Prevailing wages: payroll records

Extends the deadline from 180 days to 18 months, for the Labor Commissioner to serve a civil wage and penalty assessment against a public work contractor or subcontractor, or both, and extends the deadline from 180 days to 18 months, for a joint labor-management committee to bring an action against an employer that fails to pay the prevailing wage to its employees. Revises and recasts remedies that may be awarded by a court in these joint labor-management committee actions and authorizes the court to award interest, liquidated damages, and injunctive relief in these actions.
Chapter 792, Statutes of 2013

AB 1404 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Real property: boundaries

Clarifies and modernizes California's neighborhood fence statute, maintaining the state's tradition which holds that neighbors are presumed to gain mutual benefits from the construction and maintenance of a boundary fence between their properties, and as a result are generally equally responsible to contribute to the construction and maintenance of their shared fencing.
Chapter 86, Statutes of 2013

Civil Rights

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SB 292 (Corbett-D) Employment: sexual harassment

Specifies, for purposes of the definition of harassment because of sex under specified provisions of law, that sexually harassing conduct need not be motivated by sexual desire.
Chapter 88, Statutes of 2013

SB 323* (Lara-D) Taxes: exemptions: prohibited discrimination

Revises the Sales and Use Tax Law exemption for specified non-profit organizations. Provides, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/14, that an organization that is a public charity youth organization that discriminates on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or religious affiliation is not exempt from the taxes imposed by that law.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 364 (Steinberg-D) Mental health

Broadens the types of facilities that can be used for purposes of a 72-hour treatment and evaluation under Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5150 of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act for individuals with a mental health disorder to include facilities licensed or certified as mental health treatment facilities by the Department of Health Care Services or the Department of Public Health.
Chapter 567, Statutes of 2013

SB 404 (Jackson-D) Fair employment: familial status

Includes "familial status," as an additional basis upon which the right to seek, obtain, and hold employment cannot be denied under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 655 (Wright-D) Fair Employment and Housing Act: unlawful practices

Provides that in a claim of discrimination or retaliation, the person claiming to have been aggrieved will prevail if he/she has proven that a protected characteristic or activity was a substantial motivating factor in the employment action or decision.
Vetoed

SCR 7 (Wright-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Designates that 1/1/13, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, and commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the Work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the U.S. Also recognizes the anniversaries of the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington in connection with the advancement of civil rights.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

SR 10 (Jackson-D) Roe v. Wade

Recognizes the critical importance of continued access to safe and legal abortion and urges the President and the Congress of the U.S. to protect and uphold the intent and substance of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 14 (Lara-D) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month

Proclaims June 2013 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, urges all residents to join in celebrating the culture, accomplishments, and contributions of LGBT people, and encourages the people of California to work to help advance the cause of equality for LGBT people and their families.
Adopted by the Senate

SR 16 (Lieu-D) Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act

Urges the President and the Congress of the U.S. to pass legislation to end the National Security Agency's blanket, unreasonable, and unconstitutional collection of Americans' telephone records and Internet transactions and specifically to bar the National Security Agency and other agencies from using Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act to collect records, including telephone records and Internet transactions, pertaining to persons not subject to an investigation under the Act.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 5 (Ammiano-D) Homelessness

Provides that no person's rights, privileges, or access to public services may be denied or abridged because he/she is homeless and provides that every homeless person has the right to move freely, rest, eat, share, accept, or give food or water, solicit donations in public spaces and the right to lawful self-employment, confidentiality of specified records, assistance of legal counsel in specified proceedings, and restitution. Provides immunity from employer retaliation to a public employee who provides assistance to a homeless person, and provides for judicial relief and imposes civil penalties for a violation of the act. Specifies that this bill's provisions are severable.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 218 (Dickinson-D) Employment applications: criminal history

Requires that state and local agencies determine a job applicant's minimum qualifications before obtaining and considering information regarding the applicant's conviction history on an employment application.
Chapter 699, Statutes of 2013

AB 556 (Salas-D) Fair Employment and Housing Act: military veterans

Adds "military and veteran status," to the list of categories protected from employment discrimination under the Fair Employment and Housing Act, and provides an exemption for an inquiry by an employer regarding military or veteran status for the purpose of awarding a veteran's preference as permitted by law.
Chapter 691, Statutes of 2013

AB 870 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Public contracts: bidders: employment practices

Prohibits the state from contracting with a person or entity that asks an applicant for employment to disclose information concerning the conviction history of the applicant, including an inquiry about conviction history on an employment application, until the employer has determined that the applicant meets the minimum employment qualifications, as stated in any notice issued for the position.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1356 (Bloom-D) Stalking: remedies

Includes a pattern of conduct intended to place a plaintiff under surveillance within those elements defining the tort of stalking. Permits the plaintiff to show, as an alternative to the plaintiff reasonably fearing for his/her safety or that of a family member, that the pattern of conduct resulted in the plaintiff suffering substantial emotional distress, and that the pattern of conduct would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

ACR 2 (Mitchell-D) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Designates that 1/1/13, be observed as the official memorial of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth and commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America. Recognizes the anniversaries of the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington in connection with the advancement of civil rights.
Resolution Chapter 2, Statutes of 2013

ACR 19 (Pan-D) Japanese American: discrimination: apology

Acknowledges that the state of California made a grievous mistake that injured loyal employees who were dedicated to serving the people of California when it dismissed over 300 Americans of Japanese ancestry as a result of Senate Concurrent Resolution 15 of 1942 by Senator John Swan. Resolves to issue a public apology to the state civil service employees who were dismissed.
Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 2013

ACR 44 (Ammiano-D) National Day of Silence

Declares support for the goals and ideals of the National Day of Silence and encourages school districts in the state to enforce laws and policies that prohibit name calling, bullying, harassment, and discrimination against all students, teachers, and other school staff regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.
Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2013

AJR 18 (Skinner-D) Equality of rights for men and women

Urges the Congress of the U.S. to pass Senate Joint Resolution No. 10, an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that is subject to ratification by the Legislatures of 3/4 of the states, to ensure that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or by any state on account of sex.
Resolution Chapter 111, Statutes of 2013

AJR 26 (Allen-R) Civil liberties

Urges Congress and the President of the U.S. to make the protection of civil liberties and national security equal priorities, to immediately discontinue any practices contrary to the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and to instruct national security agencies to ensure that national security is achieved without invasive violations of civil liberties.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

HR 5 (Yamada-D) Rosa Parks' 100th birthday

Honors the 100th birthday of Rosa Parks and urges all Californians to remember a great American woman.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 20 (Gordon-D) LGBT Pride Month

Proclaims June 2013 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, and urges all residents to join in celebrating the culture, accomplishments, and contributions of LGBT people, and encourages the people of California to work to help advance the cause of equality for LGBT people and their families.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 22 (John A. Pérez-D) The March on Washington 50th anniversary

Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and how it served as a catalyst for the passage of landmark legislative reforms, such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Resolves that the sacrifices made by the leaders and participants of the March on Washington 50 years ago are recognized and honored for their role in the advancement of civil rights and social justice in the United States.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 24 (Bradford-D) Jackie Robinson

Urges the Cities of Los Angeles, Inglewood, Downey, South Gate, and Norwalk, and the County of Los Angeles to work together to rename Manchester Avenue and Firestone Boulevard (formerly State Route 42) after the Hall of Fame baseball player Jackie Robinson.
Adopted by the Assembly

Consumer Protection

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SB 12 (Corbett-D) Consumer affairs

Creates the Made in California Program within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development for the purpose of encouraging consumer product awareness and to foster the purchases of products manufactured in California. Provides that it is an unfair method of competition or unfair business practice to use the designated "Made in California" label without participating in the Program.
Chapter 541, Statutes of 2013

SB 193 (Monning-D) Hazard evaluation system and information service

Requires chemical manufacturers, formulators, suppliers, distributors, importers, and their agents to provide to the Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service, when there is new scientific or medical information and the Chief of Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service, in consultation with the Chief of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control in the Department of Public Health, makes a specified determination, the names and addresses of their customers who have purchased specified chemicals or commercial products containing those chemicals, for every product the final destination of which may be a place of employment in California, and deems the names and addresses of customers, the quantities and dates of shipments, and the proportion of the specified chemical within a mixture to be confidential.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 196 (Cannella-R) Utility rates: mobilehomes and apartment buildings

Allows the management in mobile home parks and apartments that are master-metered to post, in a conspicuous place, the Internet Web site address of the current utility rate schedule as an alternative to posting the actual rate schedule and specifies that a current utility rate schedule be available to an individual upon request and at no cost.
Chapter 201, Statutes of 2013

SB 263 (Monning-D) Contractors: unlicensed activity

Provides that, unless exempted, it is a misdemeanor for a person to engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor if the person either has never been licensed pursuant to the Contractors' State License Law, or the person was a licensee, but performed acts covered by the law under a license that was under suspension for failure to pay a civil penalty or comply with an order of correction or failure to resolve all outstanding final liabilities.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

SB 332* (Emmerson-R) California Health Benefit Exchange: records

Makes open to public inspection the impressions, opinions, recommendations, meeting minutes, research, work product, theories, or strategy of the governing board of the California Health Benefits Exchange (Covered California) or its staff, or records that provide instructions, advice, or training to employees, with some exemptions.
Chapter 446, Statutes of 2013

SB 526 (Calderon-D) Commissioner of Corporations: unlicensed activity report

Requires the Commissioner of the Department of Corporations to prepare a specified report on the lending and collection practices of unlicensed persons offering deferred deposit transactions or installment loans, or both, in amounts under $2,500, over the Internet, to persons in California, and on the enforcement actions taken by the Commissioner against these persons. Requires the Commissioner to post on the Department's Internet Web site the company names and Internet Web site addresses of unlicensed lenders offering those deferred deposit transactions or installment loans without a license from the Commissioner.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 556 (Corbett-D) Agency: ostensible: nongovernmental entities

Prohibits a person, firm, corporation, or association that is a nongovernmental entity and contracts to perform labor or services relating to public health or safety for a public entity from displaying on a vehicle or uniform, a logo that reasonably could be interpreted as implying that the labor or services are being provided by employees of the public agency, unless the vehicle or uniform conspicuously displays a specific disclosure.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 650 (Lieu-D) Toxic chemicals: exposure

Requires the Attorney General to post information related to a person bringing an action in the public interest, or a private person filing an action in which a violation of Proposition 65, and the results of a related settlement or judgment and the final disposition of a case brought by that person on the Attorney General's Internet Web site.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 652 (DeSaulnier-D) Real property disclosures: construction defect litigation

Revises the residential property transfer disclosure form to additionally disclose to a potential transferee specified claims for damages by the seller.
Chapter 431, Statutes of 2013

SB 661 (Hill-D) False advertising

Eliminates the current requirement that any article, unit, or part of a piece of merchandise be substantially manufactured in the U.S. in order for the merchandise to advertise that it is made in the U.S. Provides that any merchandise has been substantially made, manufactured, or produced within the U.S. if specified requirements are met. Creates a rebuttable presumption that the merchandise has been substantially made, manufactured, or produced within the U.S. if an independent third-party verification organization certifies that the merchandise meets all of these requirements.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 713 (Correa-D) Liability: good faith reliance on administrative ruling

Provides that any person who relies upon a written order, ruling, approval, interpretation, or enforcement policy of a state agency or department, except the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, shall not be liable or subject to punishment for a violation of a statute or regulation in a judicial or administrative proceeding if the person takes specified actions, and provides that a person who relies on a written order, ruling, approval, interpretation, or enforcement policy of the Division and takes these specified actions shall not be liable or subject to punishment, except for restitution of unpaid wages.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 750 (Wolk-D) Building standards: water meters: multiunit structures

Requires that individual water meters, also called submeters, be installed on all new multifamily residential units or mixed commercial and multifamily units and requires that landlords bill residents for the increment of water they use.
(Failed passage in Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee; reconsideration granted)

SCR 54 (Padilla-D) California Law Revision Commission: referral for study

Requires the California Law Revision Commission to report to the Legislature recommendations to revise statutes governing access by state and local government agencies to customer information from communications service providers.
Resolution Chapter 115, Statutes of 2013

AB 35 (Roger Hernández-D) Deferred action for childhood arrivals

Extends consumer protections and improves the treatment of immigrants, particularly those who have been granted legal temporary status under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, by among other things, providing that in addition to existing civil and criminal penalties, a violation of its provisions by an attorney shall be cause for discipline by the State Bar, and violations by a notary public shall be cause for the revocation or suspension of his/her commission as a notary public by the Secretary of State.
Chapter 571, Statutes of 2013

AB 140 (Dickinson-D) Undue influence

Provides in the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act a new definition of undue influence, which focuses on excessive persuasion that causes another person to act or refrain from action, by overcoming that person's free will, resulting in inequity. Provides a list of considerations for a court to utilize in determining whether an action constituted excessive persuasion and makes this new definition of undue influence the operative definition under the Probate Code.
Chapter 668, Statutes of 2013

AB 157 (Campos-D) Protective orders

Authorizes a court to issue an ex parte order enjoining a party from credibly impersonating or falsely personating another party.
Chapter 260, Statutes of 2013

AB 167 (Hagman-R) Unfair competition: private enforcement actions

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

AB 381 (Chau-D) Estates and trusts: undue influence and elder abuse

Provides that a person may be liable for attorney's fees and costs if he/she, in bad faith, through undue influence, or through the commission of elder abuse, has wrongfully taken, concealed, or disposed of property that belongs to a conservatee, minor, elder, dependent adult, trust, or decedent's estate. Provides that a person may be liable for attorney's fees and costs if he/she, in bad faith, has wrongfully, taken, concealed, or disposed of property that belongs to a principal under a power of attorney.
Chapter 99, Statutes of 2013

AB 446 (Mitchell-D) HIV testing

Revises requirements related to information provided at the time an HIV test is administered and after the test results are received; requires informed consent, either orally or in writing, except when a person independently requests an HIV test from an HIV counseling and testing site. Requires documentation of the person's independent request for the test and exempts clinical laboratories from the informed consent requirements. Requires every patient who has blood drawn at a primary care clinic, who has consented to the test, to be offered an HIV test, and authorizes disclosure of HIV test results by Internet posting or other electronic means if the HIV test subject is anonymously tested.
Chapter 589, Statutes of 2013

AB 477 (Chau-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse: mandated reporting

Makes a notary public who has observed or has knowledge of elder or dependent adult financial abuse a mandated reporter of suspected financial abuse of elders and dependent adults. Makes a failure by a mandated reporter to report suspected abuses subject to civil penalties currently imposed on other mandated reporters. Adds these new reporters to the list of other reporters of abuse who are immunized from criminal or civil liability for any report required or authorized by law and revises the attorney-client privilege provision under the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act to provide the privilege for information protected by the attorney-client privilege.
Vetoed

AB 555 (Salas-D) Social security numbers

Permits a state adult correctional facility, or an adult city or county jail, to release an inmate's social security number for the purpose of determining the inmate's status as a military veteran and his/her eligibility for veterans' benefits. The release of an inmate's social security number only occurs with the inmate's consent, and only upon request by a county veterans service officer or by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Chapter 103, Statutes of 2013

AB 581 (Ammiano-D) Care facilities: retaliation

Extends discrimination and retaliation protections to a resident or employee of a community care facility, residential care facility, or residential care facility for the elderly who has filed with the Department of Social Services or a state or local ombudsman a complaint, grievance, or request for inspection regarding the facility.
Chapter 295, Statutes of 2013

AB 844 (Dickinson-D) Credit and debit cards: transactions: personal information

Updates provisions of the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971 related to the protection of personal identification information, to reflect the increasing use of debit cards to purchase goods and services and the increasing use of the Internet as a venue for use of both credit cards and debit cards to purchase goods and services.
(In Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee)

AB 890 (Jones-R) False advertising

Eliminates the requirement that any article, unit, or part of the merchandise be substantially manufactured in the U.S. in order for the merchandise to advertise that it is made in the U.S. Deems any merchandise to be substantially made, manufactured, or produced within the U.S. if specified requirements are met, including that U.S. manufacturing costs constitute at least 90% of the total manufacturing costs for the merchandise and that the merchandise was last substantially transformed or assembled in the U.S.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)
A similar bill is SB 661 (Hill-D) which is in Senate Judiciary Committee.

AB 937 (Wieckowski-D) Conservators and guardians: personal rights of conservatees

Provides that a conservator's control of a conservatee not extend to personal rights retained by the conservatee, including, but not limited to, the right to receive visitors, telephone calls, and personal mail, unless specifically limited by a court order.
Chapter 127, Statutes of 2013

AB 961 (Levine-D) Health facilities: investigations: public disclosure

Requires the Department of Public Health to complete its investigation of a long-term health care facility and issue a citation, within specified time frames and authorizes public notice of facility investigation and evaluation information, as specified, for a facility with a license capacity of 16 or more beds. Prohibits the confidential information in the possession of the Department of Public Health or Department of Social Services from containing personally identifiable information about a patient or a person with a disability.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 964 (Bonta-D) Vehicles: dealers

Prohibits, 180 days after the enactment of regulations pursuant to portions of the federal Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, the holder of any dealer's license from advertising for sale or selling a used vehicle that the dealer knows or should have known is subject to a manufacturer's safety recall. Prohibits the holder of any dealer's license from selling a used vehicle as part of a used vehicle certification program if the dealer knows or should have known that the vehicle is the subject of a manufacturer's safety recall.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1149 (Campos-D) Identity theft: local agencies

Extends existing data breach disclosure requirements, currently applicable to any state agency, person or business, to local agencies.
Chapter 395, Statutes of 2013

AB 1169 (Daly-D) Escrow agent rating service: escrow agents

Defines the term "escrow" and "escrow agent rating service" and, until 1/1/17, requires escrow agent rating services to comply with specified portions of the California Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act, and establishes policies and procedures reasonably intended to safeguard from theft or misuse any personally identifiable information it obtains from an escrow agent.
Chapter 380, Statutes of 2013

AB 1195 (Eggman-D) Public records: crime victims

Prohibits law enforcement agencies from requiring proof of legal presence in the U.S. and refusing to accept certain forms of identification, if identification is required, for the disclosure of crime reports and other related records required to be disclosed under the Public Records Act.
Chapter 272, Statutes of 2013

AB 1220 (Skinner-D) Consumer credit reporting: adverse action

Makes it unlawful for a consumer credit reporting agency to prohibit, or to dissuade or attempt to dissuade, a user of a consumer credit report furnished by the credit reporting agency from providing a copy of the consumer's credit report to the consumer, upon the consumer's request, if the user has taken adverse action against the consumer based upon the report. Authorizes the Attorney General, among others, to bring a civil action, for a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000, against any credit reporting agency for a violation of these provisions.
Chapter 433, Statutes of 2013

AB 1234 (Levine-D) Insurance: long term care insurance

Requires an insurer to clearly post on its Internet Web site, and include on its long term care policy applications, information about an Internet Web site provided by the Department of Health Care Services, known as www.rureadyca.org.
(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 1256 (Bloom-D) Civil law: privacy: entry and exit of facilities

Provides that a person is liable for a physical invasion of privacy when a defendant knowingly enters onto the land of another person without permission or otherwise commits a trespass with the intent to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of the plaintiff engaging in a private, personal, or familial activity and the invasion occurs in a manner that is offensive to a reasonable person. Authorizes a person aggrieved by a violation of this bill's provisions to bring a civil action to enjoin the violation, for compensatory and punitive damages, and for the cost of suit and reasonable attorney's and expert witness' fees.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1274 (Bradford-D) Privacy: customer electrical or natural gas usage data

Prohibits a specified business from sharing, selling, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible the electrical or gas consumption data of a residential or small business customer.
Chapter 597, Statutes of 2013

AB 1291 (Lowenthal-D) Privacy: Right to Know Act of 2013: personal information

Requires any business that retains a customer's personal information or discloses that information to a third party, to provide at no charge, within 30 days of the customer's specified request, a copy of that information to the customer as well as the names and contact information for all third parties with which the business has shared the information during the previous 12 months, regardless of any business relationship with the customer. Requires that a business subject to these provisions choose one of several specified options to provide the customer with a designated address for use in making a request for copies of information under these provisions.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1356 (Bloom-D) Stalking: remedies

Includes a pattern of conduct intended to place a plaintiff under surveillance within those elements defining the tort of stalking. Permits a plaintiff to show, as an alternative to the plaintiff reasonably fearing for his/her safety or that of a family member, that the pattern of conduct resulted in the plaintiff suffering substantial emotional distress, and that the pattern of conduct would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

Courts/Judges/Legal Profession

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SB 123 (Corbett-D) Environmental and land use court

Requires the Judicial Council to direct the creation of an environmental and land use division within two or more superior courts within each of the appellate districts of the state to process civil proceedings brought pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act or in specified subject areas, to be paid for by an increase in the fees for the issuance, renewal, retention, duplication, and transfer of environmental license plates.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 166 (Liu-D) Juveniles: attorney qualifications

Requires the Judicial Council to establish minimum hours of training and education necessary in order to be appointed as counsel in delinquency proceedings, and provides that training hours approved by the State Bar be counted toward Minimum Continuing Legal Education.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 315 (Lieu-D) Civil actions: telephonic appearances

Expands the circumstances under which a party may appear in court by telephone to include all conferences, hearings, and proceedings except a trial and a trial readiness conference.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 345 (Evans-D) Attorneys: annual membership fees

Authorizes the State Bar to collect active membership dues of up to $390 for the year 2014, extends the opportunity for members of the State Bar to voluntarily contribute to the support of legal aid programs for the needy at a suggested rate of $30 if they choose to do so; allows the State Bar's $2 million financial support of legal aid programs to sunset; and authorizes and directs the State Bar to participate in the Franchise Tax Board's interagency intercept collections program for unpaid fines and penalties.
Chapter 681, Statutes of 2013

SB 366 (Wright-D) Traffic fines: ability to pay

Makes numerous changes in the Vehicle Code and Penal Code regarding provisions the court must take into consideration when considering a person's ability to pay a fine or civil assessment.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 378 (Block-D) Official record of conviction: digitized copy

Authorizes the use of electronically digitized documents as evidence in situations where documents or records can be admitted.
Chapter 150, Statutes of 2013

SB 597 (Lara-D) Legal aid: court interpreters

Requires the Judicial Council to establish a working group to review, identify, and develop best practices to provide interpreters in specified civil actions and proceedings and to select up to five courts to participate in a pilot project to provide interpreters in civil proceedings.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 251 (Wagner-R) Electronic court reporting

Allows a court to use electronic recording equipment in a family law case if an official reporter or an official reporter pro tempore is unavailable.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 296 (Wagner-R) Attorneys

Authorizes a person who is an active member in good standing of the bar of another state or U.S. jurisdiction, possession, or territory to apply and be eligible for a provisional license to practice law in California if the applicant meets certain requirements, including, among others, supplying evidence satisfactory to the State Bar that he/she is married to, or in a domestic partnership or other legal union with, an active duty member of the U.S. Armed Forces who is assigned to a duty station in California under official active duty military orders.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 301 (Wagner-R) Affidavits of registration: cancellation

Terminates voter registration for persons who are reported by the courts to have returned a juror summons indicating that they are disqualified from jury duty because they are not U.S. citizens.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary committee)

AB 365 (Mullin-D) Court reporting

Clarifies that only proceedings that are transcribed by licensed official court reporters and official reporters pro tempore can be considered as prima facie evidence of that testimony and the proceedings.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 515 (Dickinson-D) Environmental quality: CEQA: judicial review

Establishes a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance division of the superior court in a county in which the Attorney General maintains an office, and vests the division with original jurisdiction over actions of proceedings brought pursuant to CEQA and joined matters related to land use and environmental laws.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 566 (Wieckowski-D) Courts: personal services contracting

Establishes standards for the use of contracts for all services currently or customarily performed by trial court employees; restricts the use of personal services contracts for the purpose of achieving cost savings, permits contracts only if specified conditions are met; and, among other provisions, requires measurable performance standards and audits for personal services contracts in excess of $100,000 annually, and sunsets on 1/1/20.
Vetoed

AB 619 (Garcia-D) Court facilities

Provides that penalty payments on the delinquent transfer of court fees to the State Facilities Court Construction Fund be made by the entity responsible for the error or other action that caused the failure to pay, as determined by the State Controller, in notice given to the responsible entity.
Chapter 452, Statutes of 2013

AB 648 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Court reporters

Requires for each proceeding anticipated to last one hour or less, the $30 court reporter fee to be charged only to the party or parties if filing jointly that filed the paper that resulted in the proceeding being scheduled. Requires the fee to be charged once per case for all proceedings conducted within the same hour if the total time taken by those proceedings is one hour or less.
Chapter 454, Statutes of 2013

AB 655 (Quirk-Silva-D) Court reporters: salary fund

Authorizes each trial court to establish a Reporters' Salary Fund, and provides that the Fund shall be a revolving fund and must, upon appropriation, be used solely to contribute to the salaries and benefits of official reporters.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 679 (Fox-D) Fees: official court reporters

Requires the Judicial Council to adopt rules to ensure that a party arranging for a certified shorthand reporter notifies the other parties of that fact, and that attempts to share costs for the certified shorthand reporter are made to provide better access to justice for all parties involved in the proceeding.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 715 (Dickinson-D) Evidence: interpreters

Revises cross-references and deletes obsolete provisions of the Evidence Code.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 788 (Wagner-R) Court transcripts

Authorizes, in the case of court transcripts that are not computer-readable, the purchaser of a transcript to reproduce the transcript for internal use or in response to a request for discovery, a court order, or subpoena, or as permitted by rule of court or statute, without paying a further fee to the reporter, but prohibits otherwise providing or selling a copy or copies to any other party or person.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 868 (Ammiano-D) Courts: training programs

Requires that the Judicial Council establish training programs for judges and others who perform duties in family law matters, on the effects of gender identity and sexual orientation in family law proceedings. Requires the Council to create training standards on cultural competency and sensitivity relating to, and best practices for, providing adequate care to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth for counsel in juvenile court and appointed special advocates.
Chapter 300, Statutes of 2013

AB 888* (Dickinson-D) State Bar of California: enforcement actions

Requires the State Bar of California to disclose, in confidence, the information in its investigation of an unauthorized practice of law to the agency responsible for criminal enforcement, and allows the State Bar to request the Attorney General or other public prosecutor to bring an enforcement action for the unauthorized practice of law. Allows the State Bar to bring a civil action for a violation of the existing prohibitions on the unauthorized practice of law, and requires the court in those actions to impose a civil penalty, to consider providing relief to any injured party, and award the State Bar reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
Vetoed

AB 1005 (Alejo-D) Judicial appointments: demographic data

Adds disability and veteran status to the list of demographic data that is provided annually by judicial applicants, nominees, appointees, justices, and judges, and required to be collected and released by the Governor, the Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation of the State Bar, and the Administrative Office of the Courts.
Chapter 113, Statutes of 2013

AB 1024 (Gonzalez-D) Attorneys: admission to practice

Allows applicants, who are not lawfully present in the United States, to be admitted as attorneys at law.
Chapter 573, Statutes of 2013

AB 1098 (Gray-D) Attorneys: practice of law

Provides that it is not the practice of law, is not a violation of those provisions prohibiting the unlawful practice of law, does not constitute the activities of a legal document assistant, and does not require registration as a legal document assistant for a person to design, create, publish, assemble, complete, distribute, display, or sell legal products, by means of an Internet Web site or mobile application, if the Internet Web site or mobile application includes a statement that it is not a substitute for an attorney.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1125 (Wagner-R) Attorney's fees

Requires the court in setting the amount of an award of attorney's fees to a prevailing party, to determine a lodestar, as defined, and an adjustment pursuant to specified procedures.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1127 (Chau-D) Legal aid: court interpreters

Requires the Judicial Council to implement a three-year pilot program in three courts to provide interpreters in civil proceedings. Requires the Council to establish a working group to review, identify, and develop best practices to provide interpreters in civil actions and proceedings and requires the Council and its advisory bodies to submit an interim report to the Legislature that includes the status of its efforts and completion date for its formulation of a statewide Language Access Plan.
Vetoed

AB 1159* (Gonzalez-D) Immigration services

Provides that it is the unlicensed practice of law for an immigration consultant, or any person who is not an attorney, to literally translate, from English into another language, in written documents or advertisements, the term "notary public," or any other term that implies that the person is an attorney. Requires attorneys who provide immigration reform act services to use a written contract in English and in the client's native language which contains specified elements.
Chapter 574, Statutes of 2013

AB 1167 (Dickinson-D) Court records: electronic forms

Provides that if a judgment creditor's instructions directing a levying officer to perform a levy are accompanied by a writ of execution for money, possession, or sale of personal or real property issued by the court as an electronic record, or a document printed from an electronic record issued by the court, the instructions must also include specified information. Provides that, except to the extent the levying officer has actual knowledge that the information in the electronic writ has been altered, the levying officer may proceed in the same manner as if in possession of a paper version of the original writ.
Chapter 156, Statutes of 2013

AB 1293 (Bloom-D) Courts

Increases resources for the courts by creating a new probate fee of $40 for filing a request for special notice in a decedent's estate, guardianship, conservatorship or trust proceeding and provides that the new fee is in addition to any other fee charged for a paper filed concurrently with the request for special notice.
Chapter 382, Statutes of 2013

AB 1313 (Donnelly-R) Judgeships: allocation

Requires the Judicial Council, upon the availability of funding, to allocate 12 additional judges each fiscal year to those counties in which the current judicial position allocations are disproportionate to the Council's recommendation of assessed judicial need.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1352 (Levine-D) Courts: destruction of court records

Authorizes the destruction of various court records earlier than permitted under existing law, deletes records retention provisions for records no longer maintained by the court (such as coroner's inquest records), and establishes records retention periods for records that are not specifically addressed under existing law. The record retention periods apply to all court records currently in existence, as well as future records.
Chapter 274, Statutes of 2013

AB 1401 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Jury duty: eligibility

Allows a lawful permanent immigrant to serve on a jury.
Vetoed

AB 1402 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Attorneys

Corrects an error regarding lawyer trust accounts. Substitutes the word "on" for the word "in" with respect to interest-bearing lawyer trust funds within the language of the State Bar Act in Business and Professions Code.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1403 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Family law

Makes technical and clarifying changes to the Uniform Parentage Act to codify case law, and makes the Act's provisions gender neutral where appropriate. Authorizes the Judicial Council to convert 10 subordinate judicial officer positions to judgeships in the 2013-14 year, if the conversion results in a judge being assigned to a family law or juvenile law assignment.
Chapter 510, Statutes of 2013

HR 13 (Williams-D) Homeless court programs

Encourages county governments to find ways to make homeless courts more accessible, such as allowing people to bring multiple cases to court per year instead of limiting them to one, and allowing fines to be recalled from collection by the county or collections agencies.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption

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SB 115 (Hill-D) Parent and child relationship

Provides that notwithstanding the treatment in law of the sperm donor under other circumstances, any interested party may bring an action at any time for the purpose of determining the parentage of a man presumed to be the father because he receives the child into his home and openly holds out the child as his natural child.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 274 (Leno-D) Family law: parentage: child custody and support

Authorizes a court to find that more than two persons with a claim to parentage, as specified, are parents if the court finds that recognizing only two parents is detrimental to the child; and directs the court, in making this determination, to consider all relevant factors, including the harm of removing the child from a stable placement with a parent who has fulfilled the child's physical needs and the child's psychological needs for care and affection, and who has assumed that role for a substantial period of time.
Chapter 564, Statutes of 2013

SB 343 (Yee-D) Dependent children: documents

Revises and recasts provisions of existing law governing the termination of dependency jurisdiction to, among other things, require a county welfare department to submit reports at the first regularly scheduled hearing after the child has attained 16 years of age and at the hearing immediately prior to the child attaining 18 years of age, verifying that the county has provided certain of the above-described information, documents, and services to the child.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 528 (Yee-D) Dependent children: supportive services

Provides additional considerations for foster youth in relation to the provision of supportive services.
Chapter 338, Statutes of 2013

SB 606 (De León-D) Harassment: child or ward

Clarifies that misdemeanor harassment of a child because of the employment of the child's parent or guardian may include attempting to record the child's image or voice if done in a harassing manner; increases criminal penalties; and subjects a person who commits misdemeanor harassment to civil liability.
Chapter 348, Statutes of 2013

AB 161 (Campos-D) Restraining orders

Authorizes a court in a domestic violence proceeding to issue an ex parte order restraining a party from cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance held for the benefit of the parties or their child(ren), to whom support may be owed.
Chapter 261, Statutes of 2013

AB 176 (Campos-D) Family law: protective and restraining orders

Requires that if more than one order (excluding Emergency Protective Orders) has been issued and any of the orders is a no-contact order, an officer must enforce a no-contact order first.
Chapter 263, Statutes of 2013

AB 238 (Gomez-D) Protective and restraining orders

Deletes requirements of law enforcement officers to carry copies of emergency protective orders while on duty and instead requires law enforcement officers to have emergency protective orders entered into the computer database system maintained by the Department of Justice.
Chapter 145, Statutes of 2013

AB 251 (Wagner-R) Electronic court reporting

Adds family law to the list of court proceedings that can be electronically recorded if no court reporter is available for the proceeding and allows a court, if an official court reporter or an official reporter pro tempore is unavailable, to use electronic recording equipment in a family law case.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 414 (Fox-D) Visitation rights: grandparent rights

Deletes the requirement in existing law that a court find that there was a preexisting relationship between the grandparent and the grandchild before granting the grandparent visitation rights.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 506 (Mitchell-D) HIV testing: infants

Provides social workers with additional authority to consent to medical assessments, without court approval, for infants who have been placed into temporary custody or have been ruled a dependent of the court.
Chapter 153, Statutes of 2013

AB 545 (Mitchell-D) Dependent children: placement

Extends the definition of a nonrelative extended family member to include those adults who have a relationship with a relative of the child.
Chapter 294, Statutes of 2013

AB 681 (Melendez-R) Spousal support

Requires a court to consider as a factor in awarding spousal support, domestic violence perpetrated by either party against either party's child.
Chapter 455, Statutes of 2013

AB 787 (Stone-D) Foster care

Makes clarifying and technical changes to the California Fostering Connections to Success Act to ensure the continued implementation of the Act.
Chapter 487, Statutes of 2013

AB 848 (Patterson-R) Adoption

Makes several changes to adoption processes and adoptive placement considerations. Clarifies when a birth parent's waiver of the right to revoke consent to an adoption is void or able to be rescinded, and clarifies that an abbreviated home study assessment may only be used for specified individuals.
Chapter 743, Statutes of 2013

AB 849 (Garcia-D) Protection of victims: address confidentiality

Allows an application to the Secretary of State's Safe at Home program to be completed at a community-based assistance program that serves victims of elder or dependent adult abuse. Requires the Secretary to conduct outreach activities to identify and recruit agencies to assist victims in applying to the Safe at Home program.
Chapter 676, Statutes of 2013

AB 921 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Child welfare services

Requires each county to consult with specified stakeholders in developing county self-assessments and county improvement plans, or any subsequent county self-assessments. Requires county improvement plans to include a separately titled provision that lists and provides the rationale for proposed operational improvements that may be implemented at a cost savings to the county or within existing resources.
Vetoed

AB 958 (Jones-R) Child custody: evaluations and reports

Expands the circumstances in which a written confidential report may be disclosed by requiring a court to disclose the report to the licensing board governing the child custody evaluator upon receiving a written request from the board, and by allowing a person who is permitted to possess the written confidential report to provide a copy of the report to the child custody evaluator's licensing board in order to assist the board in investigating allegations that the child custody evaluator engaged in unprofessional conduct.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1403 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Family law

Makes technical and clarifying changes to the Uniform Parentage Act to codify case law, and makes the Act's provisions gender neutral where appropriate. Authorizes the Judicial Council to convert 10 subordinate judicial officer positions to judgeships in the 2013-14 year, if the conversion results in a judge being assigned to a family law or juvenile law assignment.
Chapter 510, Statutes of 2013

Judgments

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SB 406 (Evans-D) Tribal Court Civil Judgment Act

Exempts Indian tribal judgments from the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act. Provides for the enforceability of tribal court judgments in California and expands the range of judgments that may be enforced to include all civil tribal judgments with some exceptions.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 426 (Corbett-D) Civil procedure: deficiency judgments

Prohibits a deficiency from being owed or collected following a judicial foreclosure with respect to the enumerated circumstances, and prohibits a deficiency from being owed or collected for a deficiency on a note secured by a deed of trust or mortgage on real property or an estate for years therein.
Chapter 65, Statutes of 2013

SB 551 (Gaines-R) Renewal and execution of judgments: judgment debtor

Clarifies that a judgment debtor whose liability for a judgment has ceased shall not subsequently be named by the judgment creditor on an application for writ of execution or renewal of judgment.
Chapter 176, Statutes of 2013

SB 702 (Anderson-R) Application for entry of default judgment

Requires a plaintiff's application for entry of a default judgment to include specified information, and authorizes a party that has been permitted by the court to use affidavits in lieu of personal testimony to use affidavits to comply with specified requirements.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 233 (Wieckowski-D) Wage garnishment: restrictions: student loans

Prohibits the use of an earnings withholding order, for purposes of enforcing a judgment, for the collection of debt that the judgment debtor proves is from a student loan that is not made, insured, or guaranteed through a federal student loan program. Requires a court to terminate an earnings withholding order issued on or after 7/1/14, upon proof by the judgment debtor that the earnings withholding order enforces a judgment for collection of non-federal program student loan debt.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 436 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Inverse condemnation: comparative fault

Applies the provisions of Section 998 of the Code of Civil Procedure to actions in inverse condemnation, thus allowing a plaintiff's compensation to be reduced if an earlier settlement offer that was more favorable than the final judgment was rejected.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 567 (Wagner-R) Enforcement of money judgments: exemptions

Removes an existing requirement directing the California Law Revision Commission to review the statutory dollar amounts of personal property exempted from the enforcement of monetary judgments every 10 years, and to recommend to the Governor and the Legislature any necessary changes regarding those amounts. Retains the Commission's existing authorization to continually review and submit recommendations concerning the enforcement of monetary judgments.
Chapter 15, Statutes of 2013

AB 748 (Eggman-D) Judgments against a public entity: interest

Provides that, unless another provision of law provides a different interest rate, interest accrues in a tax or fee claim against a public entity that results in a judgment against the public entity at a rate equal to the weekly average one year constant maturity U.S. Treasury yield, not to exceed 7% per annum. Provides that when the judgment becomes enforceable pursuant to existing law interest accrues at an annual rate equal to the weekly average one year constant maturity U.S. Treasury yield at the time of the judgment plus 2%, but not to exceed 7% per annum.
Chapter 424, Statutes of 2013

AB 1007* (Wagner-R) State government: payment of claims against the state

Requires the interest on the amount of a claim, judgment, or settlement against the State of California to be calculated based on the same 13-week U.S. Treasury rate that is applied to the overpayment of taxes, fees, and surcharges to the state.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1254 (Gorell-R) Civil actions: settlement offers

Provides that for a settlement offer that is not accepted to have a more favorable result at trial or arbitration, it must be served 15 days prior to the commencement of trial or arbitration and not be accepted prior to the trial or arbitration or within 25 days after the offer is made, whichever comes first.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

Privacy/Identity Theft

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SB 15 (Padilla-D) Aviation: unmanned aircraft systems

Provides that engaging in specified prohibited activities through the use of an unmanned aircraft system is included within prohibitions in current civil and criminal law. Provides that an unmanned aircraft system may not be equipped with a weapon, and makes that act a crime. Requires a law enforcement agency to obtain a search warrant when using an unmanned aircraft, and requires that an application for the search warrant specify if an unmanned aircraft system is to be used in the execution of the search warrant, and the intended purpose for which the unmanned aircraft system will be used.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 46 (Corbett-D) Personal information: privacy

Expands the scope of personal information subject to existing security breach disclosure requirements to include a user name or email address, in combination with a password or security question and answer that permits access to an online account. Imposes additional requirements on the disclosure of a breach of the security of the system or data in situations where a breach involves personal information that permits access to an online or email account.
Chapter 396, Statutes of 2013

SB 138 (Hernandez-D) Confidentiality of medical information

Requires health care service plans and health insurers to take specified steps to protect the confidentiality of an insured individual's medical information for purposes of sensitive services or if disclosure will endanger an individual.
Chapter 444, Statutes of 2013

SB 222 (Padilla-D) Genetic information: privacy

Declares that an individual's genetic information is protected by the right of privacy. Prohibits any person from collecting, storing, analyzing, or disclosing genetic information without the written authorization of the individual to whom the information pertains and prescribes specific circumstances under which genetic information may be collected, stored, analyzed, or disclosed without the authorization.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 255* (Cannella-R) Disorderly conduct: invasion of privacy

Creates a new misdemeanor for the distribution of an image of an identifiable person's intimate body parts which had been taken with an understanding that the image would remain private, commonly referred to as "revenge porn."
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2013

SB 346 (Beall-D) Public social services: records

Requires all applications and records concerning any individual made or kept in connection with the administration of any form of public social services to be confidential, with some exceptions.
Chapter 658, Statutes of 2013

SB 383 (Jackson-D) Credit cards: personal information

Authorizes a person or entity that accepts credit cards in an online transaction, to require a cardholder, as a condition to accepting a credit card as payment in full or in part for goods or services, to provide the billing ZIP Code and street address number associated with the credit card, if used solely for the prevention of fraud, theft, or identity theft. Authorizes the person or entity accepting the credit card to require a cardholder, as a condition to accepting a credit card in an online transaction, to provide additional personal information, if it requires that information for the prevention of fraud, theft, or identity theft, and the additional personal information is used solely for the prevention of fraud, theft, or identity theft.
(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 397 (Hueso-D) Vehicles: enhanced driver's license

Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue enhanced driver's licenses, which include transmission technology to denote identity and citizenship, for purposes of entering the U.S. at land and sea ports of entry and prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to obtain or use an enhanced driver's license as a condition of employment or from taking an adverse action against an employee for refusing to do so.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 467 (Leno-D) Privacy: electronic communications: warrant

Requires a search warrant when a governmental agency is seeking the contents of a wire or electronic communication that is stored, held or maintained by a provider.
Vetoed

SB 501 (Corbett-D) Social networking Internet Web sites: privacy: minors

Requires a social networking Internet Web site to remove specified personal identifying information of any registered user that is accessible online, within 96 hours after his/her request and requires removal of that information in that same manner regarding a user under the age of 18 upon request by the user's parent or legal guardian.
(In Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism and Internet Media Committee)

SB 530 (Wright-D) Criminal offenders: rehabilitation

Provides that a potential employer may not ask for, seek, or utilize as a factor in determining any condition of employment, information about a conviction that has been judicially dismissed or ordered sealed.
Chapter 721, Statutes of 2013

SB 558 (Lieu-D) Reporters' shield law

Provides that a party issuing a subpoena in any civil or criminal proceeding to a third-party that seeks the records of a journalist will, except in circumstances that pose a clear and substantial threat to the integrity of the criminal investigation or present an imminent risk of death or serious bodily harm, provide notice of the subpoena to the journalist and the publisher of the newspaper, magazine, or other publication, or the station operations manager of the broadcast station, that employs or contracts with the journalist at least five days prior to issuing the subpoena. Requires the above notice include, at a minimum, an explanation of why the requested records will be of material assistance to the party or body seeking them and why alternate sources of information are not sufficient to avoid the need for the subpoena.
Chapter 519, Statutes of 2013

SB 568 (Steinberg-D) Privacy: Internet: minors

Prohibits, on and after 1/1/15, an operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application, as specified, from marketing specified types of products or services to a minor. Prohibits an operator from knowingly using, disclosing, compiling, or knowingly allowing a third-party to use, disclose, or compile, the personal information of a minor for the purpose of marketing or advertising specified types of products or services.
Chapter 336, Statutes of 2013

SB 612 (Leno-D) Residential tenancy

Extends tenant protections to victims of human trafficking by allowing a tenant to terminate his/her lease upon the issuance of documentation from qualified third-parties that demonstrates the tenant or a household member is seeking assistance for physical or mental injuries resulting from abuse, and prohibits landlords from disclosing information related to a tenant's early termination based on abuse.
Chapter 130, Statutes of 2013

SB 666 (Steinberg-D) Employment: retaliation

Provides for a suspension or revocation of an employer's business license for retaliation against employees and others on the basis of citizenship and immigration status, and establishes a civil penalty up to $10,000 per violation.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2013

AB 25 (Campos-D) Employment: social media

Specifies that the prohibition barring employers from requiring or requesting an employee (or prospective employee) to disclose their private username or password for the purpose of accessing their social media accounts applies to both public and private employers. Defines "employer" as the state, a city, a county, a city and county, or a district.
(Held at Senate Desk)

AB 126 (Hall-D) Time shares: management and governance

Requires a time-share association to maintain a complete list of the names and postal addresses of all owners of time-share interests in their time-share plan and to update the list at least every 12 months. Revises provisions applicable to release of the list, by deleting authority for the time-share instruments to provide for its release, and instead requires an association to obtain an owner's consent for the sharing of their contact information in accordance with specified existing law.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 134 (Logue-R) California Public Records Act: firearms license applications

Provides that the California Public Records Act not be construed as to require the disclosure of the names, home addresses, and telephone numbers of applicants that are set forth in applications to carry firearms or of licensees that are set forth in licenses to carry firearms.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 179 (Bocanegra-D) Public transit: disclosure of personal information

Extends privacy protections that state law gives to toll bridge or toll road users to riders of transit systems employing electronic fare collection systems.
Chapter 375, Statutes of 2013

AB 242 (Chau-D) Privacy: Internet

Requires the privacy policy for a commercial Internet Web site to be no more than 100 words, written in clear and concise language, written at no greater than a grade 8 reading level, and to include a statement indicating whether the personally identifiable information may be sold or shared with others, and if so, how and with whom the information may be shared.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 257 (Hall-D) Privacy: commercial Web sites and online services

Requires a commercial Internet Web site's privacy policy to identify the uses and retention period for each category of personally identifiable information collected, and describes the process the operator maintains allowing an individual consumer to review and request changes to any of his/her personally identifiable information. Requires the operator to use reasonable security safeguards to protect personally identifiable information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, or destruction, and to describe these safeguards in its privacy policy.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 319 (Campos-D) Internet Web sites and online services: minors

Requires an operator of an Internet Web site (site) or online service directed to minors and the operator of a site or online service that has actual knowledge that it is collecting personal information from a minor to provide notice on the site of what information is collected from minors by the operator and how the operator uses the information. Requires the operator to provide specified information to the parent of a minor that has provided personal information to the site or online service and to provide the parent with the opportunity to refuse to permit the operator's further use or future collection of personal information from the minor.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 370 (Muratsuchi-D) Consumers: internet privacy

Requires privacy policies posted by an operator of a commercial Internet Web site or online service, that collects personally identifiable information, to disclose how the operator responds to Web browser "do not track" signals or other similar mechanisms regarding the collection of personally identifiable information and to disclose whether other parties may collect personally identifiable information about an individual consumer's online activities.
Chapter 390, Statutes of 2013

AB 643 (Stone-D) Public schools: pupil records: confidentiality

Requires a school district to allow a social worker or probation officer access to a foster youth's school records, conforming to the federal Uninterrupted Scholars Act.
Chapter 80, Statutes of 2013

AB 658 (Ian Calderon-D) Personal information: disclosure

Applies the prohibitions of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to any business that offers software or hardware to consumers, including a mobile application or other related device that is designed to maintain medical information to allow an individual to manage his/her information, or for the diagnosis, treatment, or management of a medical condition of that individual.
Chapter 296, Statutes of 2013

AJR 27 (Donnelly-R) Relative to privacy

Urges the U.S. Congress to pass and the President to sign into law the Limiting Internet and Blanket Electronic Review of Telecommunications and Email Act, to ensure that the American people are protected from massive invasions of their privacy.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

Probate

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SB 156 (Beall-D) Conservatorships and guardianships: attorney's fees

Prohibits a guardian or conservator from being compensated from the estate for any costs or fees, including attorney's fees, incurred in defending the compensation in the petition, if the court reduces or denies the compensation requested in the petition.
Vetoed

SB 310 (Calderon-D) Mortgages: foreclosure notices: title companies

Exempts a licensed or underwritten title company, except when it is acting as a trustee, from liability for a violation of the Homeowners' Bill of Rights if it records or causes to record a notice of default or notice of sale at the request of a trustee, substitute trustee, or beneficiary, in good faith and in the normal course of its business activities; and provides that nothing in this bill should be construed to affect the liability of a trustee, substitute trustee, or beneficiary that requests a licensed or underwritten title company to record a notice of default or notice of sale.
Chapter 251, Statutes of 2013

AB 490 (Skinner-D) Intestate succession: children

Provides that a parent does not inherit from or through a child on the basis of the parent and child relationship if the parent's parental rights were terminated and the parent-child relationship was not judicially reestablished, the parent did not acknowledge the child, or the parent left the child during the child's minority without an effort to provide for the child's support or without communication from the parent.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2013

AB 1029 (Maienschein-R) Trusts and estates: allocations of receipts

Revises and recasts the requirements by which a trustee is to determine whether money received from a distributing entity is to be treated as a partial liquidation and provides that a trustee is not liable for any claim of improper allocation of the receipt that is based on information that was not received or actually known by the trustee as of the date of allocation, provided that the trustee satisfies specified requirements.
Chapter 105, Statutes of 2013

AB 1160 (Wagner-R) Decedents' estates: personal representative

Authorizes a personal representative of a decedent's estate to file a petition with the court for authorization to participate in a proceeding as necessary to assist the court and authorizes the court to grant or deny the petition without an evidentiary hearing and requires a showing of good cause for a petition to be granted.
Chapter 84, Statutes of 2013

AB 1339 (Maienschein-R) Professional fiduciaries: guardians and conservators

Requires a professional fiduciary or other person who petitions the court for appointment of the professional fiduciary to act as a guardian or conservator, to provide an hourly fee schedule with the petition for appointment and requires the professional fiduciary, upon filing an inventory and appraisal, to provide an hourly fee schedule or statement of his/her proposed compensation from the estate.
Chapter 248, Statutes of 2013

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SB 6* (Lieu-D) Business

Re-enacts, until 1/1/15, repealed provisions of California's Uniform Commercial Code, relating to the rights that certain licensees take under a nonexclusive license where a security interest exists in a general intangible.
Chapter 54, Statutes of 2013

SB 23 (Lara-D) Task Force on New American Integration

Directs the Governor to establish the Task Force on New American Integration to provide, among other things, policy recommendations on protocols and policies regarding immigrant integration to the Legislature.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 25 (Steinberg-D) Agricultural labor relations: contract dispute resolution

Makes various changes to the mandatory mediation procedures of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act. Provides that an action to enforce an order of the Agricultural Labor Relations Board may be filed within 60 days, whether or not the other party is seeking judicial review of the order, and increases the evidentiary threshold for the court to grant a stay of the Board's order and require the court to make written findings supporting any order granting a stay of the order during the pendency of the appeal.
(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 110* (DeSaulnier-D) Bay Bridge: safety review task force

Establishes a safety review task force to assess the seismic safety of the East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, exempts the task force and its members from liability, and subjects the task force to open meeting and public record access requirements.
Vetoed

SB 155 (Padilla-D) Vehicles: motor vehicle manufacturers and distributors

Modifies the relationship between motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers by, among other things, making changes regarding the use of flat-rate time schedules for warranty reimbursement, warranty and incentive claims, audits, protest rights, export policies, performance standards, and facility improvements.
Chapter 512, Statutes of 2013

SB 213 (Galgiani-D) Election petitions: circulators

Prohibits a person from circulating a state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition or nominating paper unless the person is 18 years of age or older.
Chapter 278, Statutes of 2013

SB 233 (Leno-D) Debt buying

Enacts the Fair Debt Buying Practices Act, to further regulate the activities of persons and entities that purchase "charged-off consumer debt." Prohibits a debt buyer from bringing suit or initiating an arbitration or other legal proceeding to collect a consumer debt if the applicable statute of limitations on the debt buyer's claim has expired.
Chapter 64, Statutes of 2013

SB 249 (Leno-D) Public health: health records: confidentiality

Authorizes the sharing of health records involving the diagnosis, care, and treatment of HIV or AIDS related to a beneficiary enrolled in federal Ryan White Act funded programs who may be eligible for health care under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act between the Department of Public Health and qualified entities.
Chapter 445, Statutes of 2013

SB 250 (Wolk-D) Olive Oil Commission of California

Establishes the Olive Oil Commission of California to engage in olive oil quality and nutritional research and to recommend grades and labeling standards. Authorizes the Commission to levy a specified civil penalty on a person for rendering or furnishing false reports, secreting, destroying, or altering records, failing to furnish a report, or failing or refusing to furnish to the Commission information concerning the name and address of persons from whom olive oil is received. Authorizes the Commission to bring certain civil actions to enforce this bill's provisions.
Chapter 344, Statutes of 2013

SB 251 (Calderon-D) Insurance: notice: electronic transmission

Authorizes an insurer until 1/1/19, with the consent of the policyholder, to transmit electronically, in lieu of mail, certain notices pertaining to workers' compensation insurance, the offer of renewal required for personal auto, real and personal property, and liability insurance policies; the notice of conditional renewal for commercial insurance policies, and the offer of renewal and certain disclosures related to earthquake insurance so long as the insurer complies with the specified provisions of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act and additional procedures and standards.
Chapter 369, Statutes of 2013

SB 282 (Yee-D) Confidential medical information: disclosure

Extends provisions of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to require that the authorization to disclose medical information also accompany a demand for settlement or offer to compromise issued on a patient's behalf prior to the service of a complaint in any action arising out of the professional negligence of a person holding a valid license as a marriage and family therapist.
Chapter 58, Statutes of 2013

SB 313 (De León-D) Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act

Prohibits a public agency from taking punitive action, or denying promotion on grounds other than merit, against a public safety officer, because the officer's name was placed on a "Brady list," as defined. Prohibits the introduction of any evidence in an administrative appeal of a punitive action that the officer's name was placed on a Brady list, with some exceptions.
Chapter 779, Statutes of 2013

SB 318 (Hill-D) Consumer loans: pilot program

Establishes, until 1/1/18, the Pilot Program for Increased Access to Responsible Small Dollar Loans under the California Finance Lenders Law. Prohibits any person, in connection with the making of a loan, from offering, selling, or requiring "credit insurance"; a licensee from requiring, as a condition of the loan, that the borrower waive any right, penalty, remedy, forum or procedure provided for in any law applicable to the loan, and a licensee from refusing to do business with, or discriminating against a borrower or applicant on the basis that the person refuses to waive any right, penalty, remedy, forum, or procedure.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2013

SB 380 (Padilla-D) Communications: service interruptions

Requires, until 1/1/20, a governmental entity to obtain an order, signed by a judicial officer, before communications services may be lawfully interrupted, with some exceptions.
Chapter 371, Statutes of 2013

SB 400 (Jackson-D) Employment protections: victims

Expands the protections given to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault who take time off to obtain any relief (such as a temporary restraining order) to victims of stalking. Prohibits an employer from discharging, retaliating or discriminating against an employee because of his/her known status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodation for an employee who is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Chapter 759, Statutes of 2013

SB 415 (Knight-R) Space flight liability

Includes a manufacturer or supplier of components, services, or vehicles that have been reviewed by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration as part of issuing a license, permit, or other authorization pursuant to specified provisions of federal law relating to commercial space launch activities as a space flight entity with limited liability for any participant injury.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 462 (Monning-D) Employment: compensation

Makes the award of attorney's fees and costs where the prevailing party is not an employee contingent on a finding by the court that the employee brought the court action in bad faith.
Chapter 142, Statutes of 2013

SB 496 (Wright-D) Improper governmental activity: disclosure: protection

Makes several technical and substantive changes to the whistleblower protection statutes for public employees and clarifies procedural rules for the State Personnel Board's administrative hearings and litigation over procedural questions regarding the right to sue.
Chapter 781, Statutes of 2013

SB 506 (Hill-D) Ephedrine: retail sale

Provides that it is a misdemeanor for a retail distributor, except pursuant to a valid prescription from a licensed practitioner with prescriptive authority, to sell or distribute to a person specified amounts of nonprescription products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine within specified time limits, to sell or distribute any of those substances to a person whose information has generated an alert, or, except under specified conditions, or to sell or distribute to a purchaser a nonprescription product containing any amount of those substances.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 516 (Steinberg-D) Foreign labor contractors: registration

Requires foreign labor contractors to register with the Labor Commissioner, as well as follow additional contractual and bonding requirements. Provides that a person who violates any provision of specified requirements be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $1,000 and not more than $25,000 per violation. Provides that either the Commissioner or an aggrieved person may bring enforcement actions.
Vetoed

SB 545 (Anderson-R) Name change: minors

Authorizes a court to waive the requirements for publication and notice to a nonconsenting parent if necessary to protect the best interests of the minor under specified circumstances.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 564 (Monning-D) Ski resorts: safety plans: accident reports

Requires a ski resort to prepare an annual safety plan and, and upon request, make the safety plan available to the public the same day the request is received. Specifies that the provisions of this bill do not change the existing assumption of risk doctrine as it applies to ski resorts.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 588 (Emmerson-R) Medical records: reproduction fees

Provides that where patient records are delivered to an attorney or an attorney's representative for inspection or copying at the record custodian's place of business, and if any portion of the patient's medical records is stored on paper, the fee for complying with an authorization to copy is $15, plus actual costs. If any portion of the records is stored electronically and is inaccessible for inspection or copying, authorizes the health care provider, in its sole discretion, to produce a paper copy of the electronic records for the attorney to inspect and copy, and to charge specified fees.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 594 (Hill-D) Use of public resources

Prohibits nonprofit organizations and their employees from using funds received from local agencies in connection with conduit bond financing for specified campaign purposes. Requires a nonprofit organization that receives significant amounts of money from local agencies in connection with conduit bond financing to maintain a separate bank account for campaign activities and to disclose the sources of the funds it receives for campaign activities. Authorizes the Attorney General or the district attorney for the county in which the reporting nonprofit organization is domiciled to assess a monetary civil penalty of up to $10,000 against a reporting nonprofit organization for each violation of these disclosure requirements.
Chapter 773, Statutes of 2013

SB 608 (Wright-D) Adverse possession: public entity properties

Provides that a nonpublic entity has no right under the doctrine of adverse possession to possess, occupy, or own public property or claim a public property by adverse possession. Prohibits a public entity, as defined, from selling real property or conveying a durable interest in real property, except by official action and if leased, such that the public entity maintains a reversionary interest in the property conveyed.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 610 (Jackson-D) Franchises

Revises the California Franchise Relations Act to explicitly require franchisors and franchisees to deal with each other in good faith, as defined, in the performance and enforcement of a franchise agreement; prohibits a franchisor from restricting the right of a franchisee to join or participate in an association of franchisees; and authorizes a private right of action for violation of these provisions that may be remedied by injunctive relief, damages, rescission, reasonable costs and/or attorneys' fees.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

SB 624 (Steinberg-D) International commercial disputes

Makes provisions of law, that govern arbitration and conciliation proceedings for international commercial disputes regarding representation and assistance of parties, applicable to any arbitration or conciliation proceeding conducted pursuant to the statutory provisions that govern arbitration and conciliation of international commercial disputes. Encourages the Judicial Council and the State Bar of California to revise specified rules to conform to these provisions.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 648 (Corbett-D) Electronic cigarettes: advertising

Extends specified restrictions and prohibitions against the smoking of tobacco products to include electronic cigarettes. Includes electronic cigarettes within restricted and prohibited activities, changing the definition of a crime with respect to certain facilities.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 669 (Huff-R) Emergency medical care: epinephrine auto-injectors

Authorizes a trained pre-hospital emergency medical care person, first responder, or lay rescuer to obtain and use epinephrine auto-injectors to render emergency care to another person, pursuant to specified requirements, and grants them qualified immunity from liability unless their conduct in rendering emergency care is grossly negligent.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2013

SB 679 (Berryhill-R) Licensees: reporting requirements

Revises the monetary threshold for a licensed engineer or land surveyor to report a civil action settlement or administrative action to the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists from "$50,000 or greater" to "greater than $50,000"; and requires a licensed engineer or land surveyor to report to the Board any civil action judgment or binding arbitration award or administrative action of $25,000 or greater.
Chapter 471, Statutes of 2013

SB 680 (Wolk-D) Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement: qualified escrow funds

Revises the definition of "units sold," for the purposes of calculating the amount a tobacco product manufacturer is required to place in the qualified escrow account under the Master Settlement Agreement, to specify that it is the number of cigarettes sold to a consumer, regardless of whether the state excise tax was collected, but excludes, among other things, cigarettes sold at federal military installations.
Chapter 168, Statutes of 2013

SB 686 (Jackson-D) Vehicles: vehicle dealers

Prohibits a representation of a vehicle being "certified" from being made if a dealer knows or should have known that a vehicle is subject to a manufacturer's safety recall, and the repairs required to correct the defect have not been performed on a vehicle. Violations of the provisions of this bill constitute a crime.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

SB 691 (Hancock-D) Nonvehicular air pollution control: penalties

Makes a person who violates its provisions liable for a civil penalty of not more than $100,000, if the violation results from a discharge from a stationary source required by federal law to be included in an operating permit program established pursuant to Title V of the federal Clean Air Act, the discharge results in a severe disruption to the community, or the discharge contains or includes one or more toxic air contaminants, as specified, and 100 or more people are exposed to the discharge. Requires that the recovery of a civil penalty under its provisions precludes prosecution of a misdemeanor for the same offense.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 726 (Lara-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006

Imposes specified conditions on the participation of the California board members of the Western Climate Initiative, Incorporated. Requires the Initiative's California board members to participate on the board so long as it maintains an open meetings policy consistent with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, and a public records policy consistent with the Public Records Act.
Chapter 420, Statutes of 2013

SB 737 (Huff-R) Appeals: representative actions

Allows the appeal of an order granting or denying class action certification, at the discretion of the court of appeal, and specifies various factors the court is required to consider in determining whether or not to allow the appeal.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 738 (Yee-D) Sexually exploited and trafficked minors

Provides, until 1/1/17, that a minor may come within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court and become a dependent child of the court if the minor is a victim of human trafficking or sexual exploitation, or received food or shelter in exchange for, or was paid to perform, sexual acts, and the parent or guardian failed or was unable to protect the child.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 742* (Nielsen-R) Defendants

Provides that any person who willfully removes or disables an electronic monitoring or supervising device, including a GPS or other monitoring device, affixed to his/her person or the person of another, knowing that the device was affixed as part of a criminal sentence or juvenile court disposition, as a condition of parole or probation, or otherwise pursuant to law, is guilty of a public offense. Provides for revocation of probation, parole, or post release community supervision, and subjects persons with a specified sex offense conviction who violate the section to be subject to lifetime GPS monitoring.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 762 (Hill-D) Secondhand goods: lost, stolen, or embezzled items

Clarifies the interests of licensed pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers relating to the seizure and disposition of property during a criminal investigation or criminal case.
Chapter 318, Statutes of 2013

SCR 52 (Wolk-D) California Plan Your Giving Day

Recognizes and supports the importance of gift planning awareness by declaring 10/1/13, as California Plan Your Giving Day.
Resolution Chapter 118, Statutes of 2013

SCR 62 (Jackson-D) Corporations: boards of directors

Encourages equitable and diverse gender representation on corporate boards, and urges that, within a three-year period from January 2014 to December 2016, inclusive, every publicly held corporation in California with nine or more director seats have a minimum of three women on its board, every publicly held corporation in California with five to eight director seats have a minimum of two women on its board, and every publicly held corporation in California with fewer than five director seats have a minimum of one woman on its board.
Resolution Chapter 127, Statutes of 2013

SJR 8 (Correa-D) Immigration

Specifies principles for repairing the nation's historically broken immigration system, and urges the Congress and the President of the U.S. to take a comprehensive and workable approach to improving the nation's immigration system using those principles.
Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 2013

SJR 13 (Yee-D) Immigration reform: F3 and F4 visa categories

Memorializes the Congress and the President of the U.S. to support immigration reform efforts that do not hurt families by eliminating or negatively impacting the F3 and F4 visa categories, or that end the discrimination against same-sex couples. Memorializes the Congress and the President to take a comprehensive, bipartisan, and well-reasoned approach to immigration issues that maintains the fair and appropriate priority for family reunification, including same-sex partners.
Resolution Chapter 132, Statutes of 2013

SJR 17 (Anderson-R) Syrian government: military action

Urges President Barack Obama to obtain congressional authorization prior to using military force against the Assad regime in Syria in accordance with the U.S. Constitution, and urges U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein to request that the President obtain congressional approval prior to taking military action against the Assad regime in Syria.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 140 (Dickinson-D) Undue influence

Provides in the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act a new definition of undue influence, which focuses on excessive persuasion that causes another person to act or refrain from action, by overcoming that person's free will, resulting in inequity. Provides a list of considerations for a court to utilize in determining whether an action constituted excessive persuasion.
Chapter 668, Statutes of 2013

AB 212 (Lowenthal-D) Unclaimed property

Requires a person holding escheated property to include in his/her report to the State Controller the name and last known address of the apparent owner of any escheated property, except travelers checks and money orders, worth at least $25.
Chapter 362, Statutes of 2013

AB 265 (Gatto-D) Local government liability: dog parks

Provides that a specified public entity that owns or operates a dog park is not held liable for any injury or death suffered by any person or pet resulting solely from the actions of a dog in the dog park.
Chapter 74, Statutes of 2013

AB 359 (Holden-D) Vehicle rental agreements: customer facility charge

Provides guidelines regarding the scope of a Customer Facility Charge audit, and requires the audit to be posted on an airport's Internet Web site.
Chapter 549, Statutes of 2013

AB 374 (Wagner-R) Eminent domain: compensation: loss of goodwill

Specifies that an owner of a business must adduce sufficient evidence to permit a jury to find that goodwill existed prior to the taking before the owner is entitled to receive any compensation for the loss of goodwill, in the instance that the owner's business is taken by eminent domain.
Vetoed

AB 383 (Wagner-R) Maintenance of the codes

Makes nonsubstantive changes in various provisions of law to effectuate the recommendations made by the Legislative Counsel to the Legislature.
Chapter 76, Statutes of 2013

AB 438 (Mitchell-D) Juveniles: dual-status minors

Deletes the prohibition on the filing of a petition or the entry of an order to make a minor simultaneously both a dependent child and a ward of the court.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 442 (Nazarian-D) Employees: wages

Authorizes the Labor Commissioner to collect liquidated damages from an employer who pays an employee less than minimum wage.
Chapter 735, Statutes of 2013

AB 464 (Daly-D) Vital records

Updates and clarifies the law regarding vital records.
Chapter 78, Statutes of 2013

AB 477 (Chau-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse: mandated reporting

Makes a notary public who has observed or has knowledge of elder or dependent adult financial abuse, a mandated reporter of suspected financial abuse of elders and dependent adults. Makes a failure by a mandated reporter to report suspected financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult subject to civil penalties currently imposed on other mandated reporters.
Vetoed

AB 491 (Torres-D) Corporations: bylaws: emergency powers

Authorizes a corporation, nonprofit public benefit corporation, nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, or nonprofit religious corporation to take actions in anticipation of or during an emergency, and to adopt bylaws to manage and conduct ordinary business affairs of the corporation effective only in an emergency.
Chapter 255, Statutes of 2013

AB 499 (Ting-D) Judicial proceedings: injunctions prohibiting harassment

Authorizes a court to issue temporary restraining orders and renewals for up to five years.
Chapter 158, Statutes of 2013

AB 508 (Ian Calderon-D) Debt collection: homeless veterans

Delays garnishing wages or levying against the bank account of a veteran to pay for specified violations when a court determines that he/she is homeless.
Chapter 234, Statutes of 2013

AB 533 (Ian Calderon-D) Artistic employment contracts: minors

Exempts an employer of a minor under a contract for services as an extra, background performer, or in a similar capacity from the requirement that the employer set aside 15% of the minor's gross earnings in trust for the benefit of the minor.
Chapter 102, Statutes of 2013

AB 633 (Salas-D) Emergency medical services: civil liability

Prohibits an employer from adopting or enforcing a policy prohibiting an employee from voluntarily providing emergency medical services, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, except when a person has a do-not-resuscitate order.
Chapter 591, Statutes of 2013

AB 635 (Ammiano-D) Drug overdose treatment: liability

Expands an existing pilot program that provides a qualified immunity to licensed health care providers who prescribe naloxone by removing the sunset, removing the restriction to only seven counties, authorizing licensed health care providers to also prescribe naloxone to third parties (family members, friends, or other persons in a position to assist a person at risk of an opioid-related overdose), as well as to issue standing orders for the distribution and/or administration of naloxone.
Chapter 707, Statutes of 2013

AB 642 (Rendon-D) Publication: Internet Web site

Provides that a newspaper that is available on an Internet Web site may also qualify as a newspaper of general circulation, provided that newspaper meets certain criteria.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 725 (Wilk-R) Health care management: health court demonstration program

Requires the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency to submit an application on behalf of the state to the federal Department of Health and Human Services to receive a grant for state demonstration programs to evaluate alternatives to current medical tort litigation as authorized by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Requires the Secretary to write the application to design a program to create health courts based upon a no-fault process to improve the injury resolution of liability.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 729 (Roger Hernández-D) Evidentiary privileges: represented worker privilege

Provides that a union agent and a represented employee or represented former employee have a privilege to refuse to disclose any confidential communication between the employee or former employee and the union agent while the union agent is acting in his/her representative capacity.
Vetoed

AB 738 (Harkey-R) Public entity liability: bicycles

Provides that a public entity or an employee of a public entity acting within his/her official capacity is not liable for an injury caused to a person riding a bicycle while traveling on a roadway, if the public entity has provided a bike lane on that roadway.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 739 (Salas-D) Coroners

Provides that a coroner's appointed deputy or authorized deputy shall include a deputy coroner or part-time or volunteer personnel of the coroner's office.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 756 (Melendez-R) Judicial review: public works projects

Applies provisions of the Jobs and Economic Improvement through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011 to a public works project, defined to mean an infrastructure project carried out by the city, county, special district or state government or contracted out to a private entity by the special district or local or state government.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 802 (Wieckowski-D) Private arbitration companies: disclosures

Clarifies parameters of existing consumer arbitration data disclosures by private arbitration companies.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 818 (Blumenfield-D) Air pollution control: penalties

Requires any city attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000, any city attorney of a city and county, or a city prosecutor in any city with a full-time city prosecutor, with the consent of the district attorney, to recover specified civil penalties in a civil action for specified violations.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 824 (Jones-R) Written agreements: exclusion of evidence

Adds trust instruments to the list of agreements that are covered by the statute codifying the parol evidence rule.
Chapter 81, Statutes of 2013

AB 838 (Morrell-R) Personal representatives: bonds

Requires the reasonable amount for the cost of recovery to collect on a bond, including attorney's fees and costs, to be included in specified items, including the estimated value of the personal property and the probable annual gross income of an estate.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 897 (Wagner-R) Disability access fees and information

Repeals the fee, reporting, and information requirements for renewal of a business license or equivalent instrument or permit related to disability access compliance.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 905 (Ting-D) Real property: environmental fee covenants

Provides for the recording of an Environmental Fee Covenant that is, among other things, imposed for no more than 50 years in connection with the installation on the property of equipment or improvements that are intended to promote, among other things, energy efficiency and the reduction of the consumption of water or other natural resources.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 914 (Gordon-D) Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign disclosures

Imposes new disclosure requirements under the Political Reform Act for nonprofit corporations, provided they make in California contributions, expenditures, or independent expenditures, as defined, in support of or opposition to a candidate, political party, or ballot measure, or any combination thereof in the aggregate totaling $50,000 or more during a calendar year of the nonprofit corporation.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 925 (Bigelow-R) State officer or supervisory employee: compensation

Holds a state officer or a supervisory employee who intentionally circumvents statutes or regulations which result in overpayment or unauthorized payment of compensation personally liable for treble damages.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 939 (Melendez-R) Pupil and school personnel health: defibrillators

Encourages schools to acquire and maintain at least one automatic external defibrillator, and encourages schools to follow specified procedures for placement and use of that device.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 957 (Wagner-R) Postmortem photographs

Prohibits the dissemination of a copy, reproduction, or facsimile of a photograph of a body of a deceased person taken by or for a coroner, with some exceptions.
Chapter 53, Statutes of 2013

AB 976 (Atkins-D) Coastal resources: enforcement: penalties

Authorizes, until 1/1/19, the Coastal Commission, by majority vote and at a duly noticed public hearing, to impose an administrative civil penalty on a person who intentionally and knowingly violates the California Coastal Act.
(In Conference)

AB 983 (Melendez-R) Self-service storage facilities

Revises the California Self-Storage Facility Act to allow an owner of a storage facility to have a vehicle, watercraft, or trailer towed from the facility if rent and other charges have not been paid for 60 days. Permits an owner to enforce a lien attached to stored property by holding a lien sale no sooner than 30 days from the date of receipt of a Declaration in Opposition to the Lien Sale.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 993 (Linder-R) Contractors: arbitration

Revises and updates the provisions of existing law relating to the Contractors State License Board's arbitration program that provides for an alternative dispute resolution process between consumers and contractors for claims up to $50,000, clarifies the arbitration process, the arbitrator's authority, awarding of attorney's fees and makes other clarifying and conforming changes.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1011 (Salas-D) Unclaimed property: interest payment

Requires the State Controller to add interest to payments made to owners of unclaimed property.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1106 (Waldron-R) Public entities: liability

Limits the liability of public entities that operate county jails for injuries to inmates arising out of failure to provide sufficient jail conditions.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1121 (Atkins-D) Gender identity: petition for change of name

Creates an optional administrative procedure for a transgender person born in California to amend gender and name on his/her birth certificate without first obtaining a court order.
Chapter 651, Statutes of 2013

AB 1141 (Dahle-R) Franchises

Revises both the California Franchise Relations Act and the Franchise Investment Law to provide that good cause in a termination case consists of a substantial and material breach of the franchise agreement after a franchisee is given written notice and 60 days to cure the failure. Requires the termination to be in accordance with the current terms and standards equally applicable to all franchisees, with some exceptions.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1183 (Jones-R) Civil discovery: motion to compel further response

Provides that the 45-day period from service of a response or supplemental response in which notice of a motion to compel further response to discovery or must occur, begins to run after the receipt of a verified response or supplemental verified response.
Chapter 18, Statutes of 2013

AB 1239 (Holden-D) Public contracts: anti-trafficking

Prohibits a specified contractor that has entered into a contractual relationship with a public entity from engaging in trafficking-related activities, including destroying, concealing, confiscating, or otherwise denying access to the employee's identity documents, such as passports or drivers' licenses.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1265 (Conway-R) Mental health: assisted outpatient treatment

Increases the maximum period of imposed outpatient treatment under the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project, from six months to one year.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1275 (Chau-D) Unclaimed property: filing of claims

Revises the Unclaimed Property Law to only allow an owner of, instead of a person with an interest in, property to file a claim with the State Controller's Office for recovery of property that has escheated to the state. Revises the definition of "owner" to remove a personal representative and include an estate representative, conservator, or guardian.
Chapter 128, Statutes of 2013

AB 1300 (Roger Hernández-D) Credit cards: oral disclosures

Requires that prior to the issuance of a credit card on the campus of an institution of higher education to a cardholder who is 18 years of age or older, the cardholder be provided with an oral disclosure by the credit card issuer soliciting on campus containing certain information, including, but not limited to, the annual percentage rate, penalty rates, cash advance fee, late payment fee, and over-the-limit fee, in a specified manner.
(In Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 1335 (Maienschein-R) Sex offenses: disabled victims

Increases the penalty for the crime of rape, an act of sodomy, oral copulation, or sexual penetration, against a person incapable because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability to imprisonment in state prison for 9, 11, or 13 years. Increases the penalty to imprisonment in state prison for 10, 12, or 14 years for the crime of an act of rape, spousal rape, sexual penetration in concert with another person, either personally or by aiding and abetting the other person, against a person who is incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1355 (Wilk-R) Limited liability companies: agents

Requires a limited liability company to indemnify its agent in proceedings for the successful defense or settlement of claims brought against the agent by reason of his/her agent status.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1360 (Torres-D) Common interest developments: electronic voting

Authorizes a common interest development, managed by an association, to conduct elections by electronic voting and requires an association, if electronic voting is to be conducted, to provide each member with an opportunity to indicate that he/she will be voting electronically and to provide ballots. Requires the electronic balloting service provider to retain the ballot data until the time allowed for challenging the election has expired.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1405 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Subversive Organization Registration Law: repeal

Repeals the Subversive Organization Registration Law, which requires the registration of subversive organizations which are conceived and exist for the purpose of undermining and eventually destroying the democratic form of government in this state and in the U.S.
Chapter 117, Statutes of 2013

AB 1415 (Assembly Accountability And Administrative Review Committee) Administrative procedures: judicial review

Extends, from 30 days to 45 days, the time any interested person has to obtain judicial review of a given determination by filing a written petition requesting that the determination of the Office of Administrative Law be modified or set aside.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AJR 1 (Gatto-D) Federal constitutional convention: application

Seeks to petition the U.S. Congress to call for a federal constitutional convention for the purpose and hope of solely amending the U.S. Constitution with a single amendment to limit "corporate personhood" for purposes of campaign finance and political speech and declare that money does not constitute speech.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AJR 3 (Alejo-D) Immigration

Urges the President and the Congress of the U.S. to take a humane and just approach to solving our nation's broken immigration system.
Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2013

AJR 11 (Wieckowski-D) Bankruptcy

Urges the President and the Congress of the U.S. to support and pass legislation that would allow private student loan debt to be dischargeable in a bankruptcy case filed under Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code similar to the dischargeability of unsecured nonpriority debt.
Resolution Chapter 110, Statutes of 2013



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Measure and Reference Author Measure Title
SB 6* - Miscellaneous Lieu-D Business
SB 12 - Consumer Protection Corbett-D Consumer affairs
SB 15 - Civil Law Padilla-D Aviation: unmanned aircraft systems
SB 15 - Privacy/Identity Theft Padilla-D Aviation: unmanned aircraft systems
SB 23 - Miscellaneous Lara-D Task Force on New American Integration
SB 25 - Miscellaneous Steinberg-D Agricultural labor relations: contract dispute resolution
SB 46 - Privacy/Identity Theft Corbett-D Personal information: privacy
SB 110* - Miscellaneous DeSaulnier-D Bay Bridge: safety review task force
SB 115 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Hill-D Parent and child relationship
SB 123 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Corbett-D Environmental and land use court
SB 131 - Civil Law Beall-D Damages: childhood sexual abuse: statute of limitations
SB 138 - Privacy/Identity Theft Hernandez-D Confidentiality of medical information
SB 155 - Miscellaneous Padilla-D Vehicles: motor vehicle manufacturers and distributors
SB 156 - Probate Beall-D Conservatorships and guardianships: attorney's fees
SB 166 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Liu-D Juveniles: attorney qualifications
SB 193 - Consumer Protection Monning-D Hazard evaluation system and information service
SB 196 - Consumer Protection Cannella-R Utility rates: mobilehomes and apartment buildings
SB 213 - Miscellaneous Galgiani-D Election petitions: circulators
SB 222 - Privacy/Identity Theft Padilla-D Genetic information: privacy
SB 233 - Miscellaneous Leno-D Debt buying
SB 249 - Miscellaneous Leno-D Public health: health records: confidentiality
SB 250 - Miscellaneous Wolk-D Olive Oil Commission of California
SB 251 - Miscellaneous Calderon-D Insurance: notice: electronic transmission
SB 255* - Privacy/Identity Theft Cannella-R Disorderly conduct: invasion of privacy
SB 263 - Consumer Protection Monning-D Contractors: unlicensed activity
SB 274 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Leno-D Family law: parentage: child custody and support
SB 282 - Miscellaneous Yee-D Confidential medical information: disclosure
SB 292 - Civil Rights Corbett-D Employment: sexual harassment
SB 310 - Probate Calderon-D Mortgages: foreclosure notices: title companies
SB 313 - Miscellaneous De León-D Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act
SB 315 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Lieu-D Civil actions: telephonic appearances
SB 318 - Miscellaneous Hill-D Consumer loans: pilot program
SB 323* - Civil Rights Lara-D Taxes: exemptions: prohibited discrimination
SB 332* - Consumer Protection Emmerson-R California Health Benefit Exchange: records
SB 343 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Yee-D Dependent children: documents
SB 345 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Evans-D Attorneys: annual membership fees
SB 346 - Privacy/Identity Theft Beall-D Public social services: records
SB 364 - Civil Rights Steinberg-D Mental health
SB 366 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Wright-D Traffic fines: ability to pay
SB 378 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Block-D Official record of conviction: digitized copy
SB 380 - Miscellaneous Padilla-D Communications: service interruptions
SB 383 - Privacy/Identity Theft Jackson-D Credit cards: personal information
SB 397 - Privacy/Identity Theft Hueso-D Vehicles: enhanced driver's license
SB 400 - Miscellaneous Jackson-D Employment protections: victims
SB 404 - Civil Rights Jackson-D Fair employment: familial status
SB 406 - Judgments Evans-D Tribal Court Civil Judgment Act
SB 415 - Miscellaneous Knight-R Space flight liability
SB 426 - Judgments Corbett-D Civil procedure: deficiency judgments
SB 462 - Miscellaneous Monning-D Employment: compensation
SB 467 - Privacy/Identity Theft Leno-D Privacy: electronic communications: warrant
SB 496 - Miscellaneous Wright-D Improper governmental activity: disclosure: protection
SB 501 - Privacy/Identity Theft Corbett-D Social networking Internet Web sites: privacy: minors
SB 506 - Miscellaneous Hill-D Ephedrine: retail sale
SB 516 - Miscellaneous Steinberg-D Foreign labor contractors: registration
SB 526 - Consumer Protection Calderon-D Commissioner of Corporations: unlicensed activity report
SB 528 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Yee-D Dependent children: supportive services
SB 530 - Privacy/Identity Theft Wright-D Criminal offenders: rehabilitation
SB 545 - Miscellaneous Anderson-R Name change: minors
SB 551 - Judgments Gaines-R Renewal and execution of judgments: judgment debtor
SB 556 - Consumer Protection Corbett-D Agency: ostensible: nongovernmental entities
SB 558 - Privacy/Identity Theft Lieu-D Reporters' shield law
SB 564 - Miscellaneous Monning-D Ski resorts: safety plans: accident reports
SB 568 - Privacy/Identity Theft Steinberg-D Privacy: Internet: minors
SB 588 - Miscellaneous Emmerson-R Medical records: reproduction fees
SB 594 - Miscellaneous Hill-D Use of public resources
SB 597 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Lara-D Legal aid: court interpreters
SB 603 - Civil Law Leno-D Landlord and tenant: security deposit
SB 606 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption De León-D Harassment: child or ward
SB 608 - Miscellaneous Wright-D Adverse possession: public entity properties
SB 610 - Miscellaneous Jackson-D Franchises
SB 612 - Privacy/Identity Theft Leno-D Residential tenancy
SB 624 - Miscellaneous Steinberg-D International commercial disputes
SB 648 - Miscellaneous Corbett-D Electronic cigarettes: advertising
SB 650 - Consumer Protection Lieu-D Toxic chemicals: exposure
SB 652 - Consumer Protection DeSaulnier-D Real property disclosures: construction defect litigation
SB 655 - Civil Rights Wright-D Fair Employment and Housing Act: unlawful practices
SB 661 - Consumer Protection Hill-D False advertising
SB 666 - Privacy/Identity Theft Steinberg-D Employment: retaliation
SB 669 - Miscellaneous Huff-R Emergency medical care: epinephrine auto-injectors
SB 679 - Miscellaneous Berryhill-R Licensees: reporting requirements
SB 680 - Miscellaneous Wolk-D Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement: qualified escrow funds
SB 686 - Miscellaneous Jackson-D Vehicles: vehicle dealers
SB 691 - Miscellaneous Hancock-D Nonvehicular air pollution control: penalties
SB 702 - Judgments Anderson-R Application for entry of default judgment
SB 713 - Consumer Protection Correa-D Liability: good faith reliance on administrative ruling
SB 724 - Civil Law Emmerson-R Charitable vision screenings
SB 726 - Miscellaneous Lara-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
SB 737 - Miscellaneous Huff-R Appeals: representative actions
SB 738 - Miscellaneous Yee-D Sexually exploited and trafficked minors
SB 742* - Miscellaneous Nielsen-R Defendants
SB 750 - Consumer Protection Wolk-D Building standards: water meters: multiunit structures
SB 762 - Miscellaneous Hill-D Secondhand goods: lost, stolen, or embezzled items
SB 826 - Civil Law Senate Judiciary Committee Civil law: omnibus bill
SCR 7 - Civil Rights Wright-D Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
SCR 52 - Miscellaneous Wolk-D California Plan Your Giving Day
SCR 54 - Consumer Protection Padilla-D California Law Revision Commission: referral for study
SCR 62 - Miscellaneous Jackson-D Corporations: boards of directors
SJR 8 - Miscellaneous Correa-D Immigration
SJR 13 - Miscellaneous Yee-D Immigration reform: F3 and F4 visa categories
SJR 17 - Miscellaneous Anderson-R Syrian government: military action
SR 10 - Civil Rights Jackson-D Roe v. Wade
SR 14 - Civil Rights Lara-D Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month
SR 16 - Civil Rights Lieu-D Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act
AB 5 - Civil Rights Ammiano-D Homelessness
AB 25 - Privacy/Identity Theft Campos-D Employment: social media
AB 35 - Consumer Protection Roger Hernández-D Deferred action for childhood arrivals
AB 126 - Privacy/Identity Theft Hall-D Time shares: management and governance
AB 134 - Privacy/Identity Theft Logue-R California Public Records Act: firearms license applications
AB 140 - Consumer Protection Dickinson-D Undue influence
AB 140 - Miscellaneous Dickinson-D Undue influence
AB 157 - Consumer Protection Campos-D Protective orders
AB 161 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Campos-D Restraining orders
AB 167 - Consumer Protection Hagman-R Unfair competition: private enforcement actions
AB 176 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Campos-D Family law: protective and restraining orders
AB 179 - Privacy/Identity Theft Bocanegra-D Public transit: disclosure of personal information
AB 198 - Civil Law Wieckowski-D Debtor exemptions
AB 212 - Miscellaneous Lowenthal-D Unclaimed property
AB 218 - Civil Rights Dickinson-D Employment applications: criminal history
AB 223 - Civil Law Olsen-R Civil actions: disabled access
AB 227* - Civil Law Gatto-D Proposition 65: enforcement
AB 233 - Judgments Wieckowski-D Wage garnishment: restrictions: student loans
AB 238 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Gomez-D Protective and restraining orders
AB 242 - Privacy/Identity Theft Chau-D Privacy: Internet
AB 251 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Wagner-R Electronic court reporting
AB 251 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Wagner-R Electronic court reporting
AB 257 - Privacy/Identity Theft Hall-D Privacy: commercial Web sites and online services
AB 263 - Civil Law Roger Hernández-D Employment: retaliation: immigration-related practices
AB 265 - Miscellaneous Gatto-D Local government liability: dog parks
AB 296 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Wagner-R Attorneys
AB 301 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Wagner-R Affidavits of registration: cancellation
AB 319 - Privacy/Identity Theft Campos-D Internet Web sites and online services: minors
AB 359 - Miscellaneous Holden-D Vehicle rental agreements: customer facility charge
AB 365 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Mullin-D Court reporting
AB 370 - Privacy/Identity Theft Muratsuchi-D Consumers: internet privacy
AB 374 - Miscellaneous Wagner-R Eminent domain: compensation: loss of goodwill
AB 381 - Consumer Protection Chau-D Estates and trusts: undue influence and elder abuse
AB 383 - Miscellaneous Wagner-R Maintenance of the codes
AB 414 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Fox-D Visitation rights: grandparent rights
AB 436 - Judgments Jones-Sawyer-D Inverse condemnation: comparative fault
AB 438 - Miscellaneous Mitchell-D Juveniles: dual-status minors
AB 442 - Miscellaneous Nazarian-D Employees: wages
AB 446 - Consumer Protection Mitchell-D HIV testing
AB 464 - Miscellaneous Daly-D Vital records
AB 477 - Consumer Protection Chau-D Elder and dependent adult abuse: mandated reporting
AB 477 - Miscellaneous Chau-D Elder and dependent adult abuse: mandated reporting
AB 490 - Probate Skinner-D Intestate succession: children
AB 491 - Miscellaneous Torres-D Corporations: bylaws: emergency powers
AB 499 - Miscellaneous Ting-D Judicial proceedings: injunctions prohibiting harassment
AB 502 - Civil Law Wagner-R Commercial law: secured transactions
AB 506 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Mitchell-D HIV testing: infants
AB 508 - Miscellaneous Ian Calderon-D Debt collection: homeless veterans
AB 515 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Dickinson-D Environmental quality: CEQA: judicial review
AB 519 - Civil Law Logue-R Unfair competition
AB 522 - Civil Law Bloom-D Civil actions: exceptions to dismissal
AB 533 - Miscellaneous Ian Calderon-D Artistic employment contracts: minors
AB 545 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Mitchell-D Dependent children: placement
AB 555 - Consumer Protection Salas-D Social security numbers
AB 556 - Civil Rights Salas-D Fair Employment and Housing Act: military veterans
AB 566 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Wieckowski-D Courts: personal services contracting
AB 567 - Judgments Wagner-R Enforcement of money judgments: exemptions
AB 581 - Consumer Protection Ammiano-D Care facilities: retaliation
AB 619 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Garcia-D Court facilities
AB 625 - Civil Law Quirk-D Notaries public: acceptance of identification
AB 633 - Miscellaneous Salas-D Emergency medical services: civil liability
AB 635 - Miscellaneous Ammiano-D Drug overdose treatment: liability
AB 642 - Miscellaneous Rendon-D Publication: Internet Web site
AB 643 - Privacy/Identity Theft Stone-D Public schools: pupil records: confidentiality
AB 648 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Jones-Sawyer-D Court reporters
AB 655 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Quirk-Silva-D Court reporters: salary fund
AB 658 - Privacy/Identity Theft Ian Calderon-D Personal information: disclosure
AB 666 - Civil Law Wieckowski-D Automated traffic enforcement systems: violations
AB 679 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Fox-D Fees: official court reporters
AB 681 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Melendez-R Spousal support
AB 715 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Dickinson-D Evidence: interpreters
AB 725 - Miscellaneous Wilk-R Health care management: health court demonstration program
AB 729 - Miscellaneous Roger Hernández-D Evidentiary privileges: represented worker privilege
AB 737 - Civil Law Fox-D Space flight liability
AB 738 - Miscellaneous Harkey-R Public entity liability: bicycles
AB 739 - Miscellaneous Salas-D Coroners
AB 748 - Judgments Eggman-D Judgments against a public entity: interest
AB 756 - Miscellaneous Melendez-R Judicial review: public works projects
AB 787 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Stone-D Foster care
AB 788 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Wagner-R Court transcripts
AB 802 - Miscellaneous Wieckowski-D Private arbitration companies: disclosures
AB 818 - Miscellaneous Blumenfield-D Air pollution control: penalties
AB 824 - Miscellaneous Jones-R Written agreements: exclusion of evidence
AB 838 - Miscellaneous Morrell-R Personal representatives: bonds
AB 844 - Consumer Protection Dickinson-D Credit and debit cards: transactions: personal information
AB 848 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Patterson-R Adoption
AB 849 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Garcia-D Protection of victims: address confidentiality
AB 868 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Ammiano-D Courts: training programs
AB 870 - Civil Rights Jones-Sawyer-D Public contracts: bidders: employment practices
AB 888* - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Dickinson-D State Bar of California: enforcement actions
AB 890 - Consumer Protection Jones-R False advertising
AB 897 - Miscellaneous Wagner-R Disability access fees and information
AB 905 - Miscellaneous Ting-D Real property: environmental fee covenants
AB 914 - Miscellaneous Gordon-D Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign disclosures
AB 921 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Jones-Sawyer-D Child welfare services
AB 925 - Miscellaneous Bigelow-R State officer or supervisory employee: compensation
AB 937 - Consumer Protection Wieckowski-D Conservators and guardians: personal rights of conservatees
AB 939 - Miscellaneous Melendez-R Pupil and school personnel health: defibrillators
AB 957 - Miscellaneous Wagner-R Postmortem photographs
AB 958 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Jones-R Child custody: evaluations and reports
AB 961 - Consumer Protection Levine-D Health facilities: investigations: public disclosure
AB 964 - Consumer Protection Bonta-D Vehicles: dealers
AB 969 - Civil Law Ammiano-D Landlord and tenant
AB 976 - Miscellaneous Atkins-D Coastal resources: enforcement: penalties
AB 983 - Miscellaneous Melendez-R Self-service storage facilities
AB 993 - Miscellaneous Linder-R Contractors: arbitration
AB 1005 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Alejo-D Judicial appointments: demographic data
AB 1007* - Judgments Wagner-R State government: payment of claims against the state
AB 1011 - Miscellaneous Salas-D Unclaimed property: interest payment
AB 1024 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Gonzalez-D Attorneys: admission to practice
AB 1029 - Probate Maienschein-R Trusts and estates: allocations of receipts
AB 1036 - Civil Law Blumenfield-D Mortgages
AB 1098 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Gray-D Attorneys: practice of law
AB 1106 - Miscellaneous Waldron-R Public entities: liability
AB 1121 - Miscellaneous Atkins-D Gender identity: petition for change of name
AB 1125 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Wagner-R Attorney's fees
AB 1127 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Chau-D Legal aid: court interpreters
AB 1141 - Miscellaneous Dahle-R Franchises
AB 1149 - Consumer Protection Campos-D Identity theft: local agencies
AB 1159* - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Gonzalez-D Immigration services
AB 1160 - Probate Wagner-R Decedents' estates: personal representative
AB 1164 - Civil Law Lowenthal-D Liens: employees and workers
AB 1167 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Dickinson-D Court records: electronic forms
AB 1169 - Consumer Protection Daly-D Escrow agent rating service: escrow agents
AB 1183 - Miscellaneous Jones-R Civil discovery: motion to compel further response
AB 1195 - Consumer Protection Eggman-D Public records: crime victims
AB 1220 - Consumer Protection Skinner-D Consumer credit reporting: adverse action
AB 1234 - Consumer Protection Levine-D Insurance: long term care insurance
AB 1239 - Miscellaneous Holden-D Public contracts: anti-trafficking
AB 1254 - Judgments Gorell-R Civil actions: settlement offers
AB 1256 - Civil Law Bloom-D Privacy: entry and exit of facilities
AB 1256 - Consumer Protection Bloom-D Civil law: privacy: entry and exit of facilities
AB 1265 - Miscellaneous Conway-R Mental health: assisted outpatient treatment
AB 1274 - Consumer Protection Bradford-D Privacy: customer electrical or natural gas usage data
AB 1275 - Miscellaneous Chau-D Unclaimed property: filing of claims
AB 1291 - Consumer Protection Lowenthal-D Privacy: Right to Know Act of 2013: personal information
AB 1293 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Bloom-D Courts
AB 1300 - Miscellaneous Roger Hernández-D Credit cards: oral disclosures
AB 1313 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Donnelly-R Judgeships: allocation
AB 1335 - Miscellaneous Maienschein-R Sex offenses: disabled victims
AB 1336 - Civil Law Frazier-D Prevailing wages: payroll records
AB 1339 - Probate Maienschein-R Professional fiduciaries: guardians and conservators
AB 1352 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Levine-D Courts: destruction of court records
AB 1355 - Miscellaneous Wilk-R Limited liability companies: agents
AB 1356 - Civil Rights Bloom-D Stalking: remedies
AB 1356 - Consumer Protection Bloom-D Stalking: remedies
AB 1360 - Miscellaneous Torres-D Common interest developments: electronic voting
AB 1401 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Assembly Judiciary Committee Jury duty: eligibility
AB 1402 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Assembly Judiciary Committee Attorneys
AB 1403 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Assembly Judiciary Committee Family law
AB 1403 - Family Law/Child Custody/Adoption Assembly Judiciary Committee Family law
AB 1404 - Civil Law Assembly Judiciary Committee Real property: boundaries
AB 1405 - Miscellaneous Assembly Judiciary Committee Subversive Organization Registration Law: repeal
AB 1415 - Miscellaneous Assembly Accountability And Administrative Review Committee Administrative procedures: judicial review
ACR 2 - Civil Rights Mitchell-D Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
ACR 19 - Civil Rights Pan-D Japanese American: discrimination: apology
ACR 44 - Civil Rights Ammiano-D National Day of Silence
AJR 1 - Miscellaneous Gatto-D Federal constitutional convention: application
AJR 3 - Miscellaneous Alejo-D Immigration
AJR 11 - Miscellaneous Wieckowski-D Bankruptcy
AJR 18 - Civil Rights Skinner-D Equality of rights for men and women
AJR 26 - Civil Rights Allen-R Civil liberties
AJR 27 - Privacy/Identity Theft Donnelly-R Relative to privacy
HR 5 - Civil Rights Yamada-D Rosa Parks' 100th birthday
HR 13 - Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Williams-D Homeless court programs
HR 20 - Civil Rights Gordon-D LGBT Pride Month
HR 22 - Civil Rights John A. Pérez-D The March on Washington 50th anniversary
HR 24 - Civil Rights Bradford-D Jackie Robinson