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Legislature

The following State Senators are being termed out of office in 2002:

Senator Richard Ackerman (R) is a candidate for Attorney General, Senator Bruce McPherson (R) is a candidate for Lt. Governor, and Senator Tom McClintock (R) is a candidate for State Controller. Senator Monteith (R), who is being termed out, is a candidate for U.S. Congress, running against Assemblymember Dennis Cardoza, who defeated the incumbent, Gary Condit, in the March Primary.

Senator Jack O'Connell (D), who is also being termed out, is a candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Senator Ray Haynes (R) is a candidate for the State Assembly. Senator Haynes (R) had served two years in the Assembly prior to being elected to the Senate.

In early 2002, the Assembly selected Herb Wesson (D) to replace Robert Hertzberg (D), who is being termed out of office. Marco Firebaugh (D) was selected as Majority Floor Leader to replace Kevin Shelley (D), Juan Vargas (D) was selected Assistant Majority Leader and Joe Nation (D) replaced Dennis Cardoza (D) as Chairman of the Assembly Rules Committee.

The following is a list of Assembly members who have been termed out of office and the House Resolution (HR) which designates their retirement from the Assembly:

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

Assemblymember Papan (D) is leaving the Legislature after 20 years of service (1973-86 and 1996-2002 in the State Assembly), Assemblymember Leonard (R) is leaving after 24 years (1978-88 and 1996-2002 in the State Assembly and 1988-96 in the State Senate), Assemblymember Kelley (R) is leaving after 24 years (1978-88 and 2000-2002 in the State Assembly and 1992-2000 in the State Senate), and Assemblymember Wyman (R) is leaving after approximately 17-1/2 years of service (1978-92 and 2000-02 in the State Assembly and 1993-94 in the State Senate).

SB 1539 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) Former legislative members: health benefits

Permits a former member of the Legislature, with six or more years of legislative service, who is not covered by any retirement system to which the state makes contributions, to elect health and dental coverage under the State's plans for annuitants. Former legislators electing this coverage will be required to pay all employee and employer contributions related to the coverage, plus an additional two percent to cover administrative costs.

Vetoed by the Governor

SCA 8 (Oller-R) Legislature: bills and statutes

Prohibits the passage of a bill by either house until 72 hours after the bill, with amendments, has been printed, distributed to the members, and made available to the public in printed or electronic form.

(Failed passage in Senate Rules Committee)

A similar bill was ACA 25 (Bogh-R), which died at the Assembly Desk without being referred to a committee.

SCR 1 (Karnette-D) Legislative Joint Rules

Adopts the 2001-02 Regular Session Joint Rules. Major differences from last session's rules are prohibiting the tombstoning of legislation, requires bills and resolutions to be introduced by the member or the House of origin with other named members being co-authors. Adds a new Rule 35.5, relative to the issuance of subpoenas by legislative committees.

(Died on the Senate Inactive File)

SR 26 (Haynes-R) Frederick Madison Roberts

Proclaims that the late Assemblymember Frederick Madison Roberts be posthumously honored during February 2002, the celebration of Black History Month.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 27 (Burton-D) Senate standing committees

Revises Senate Rule 12 relative to the Senate standing committees, which bring the rule in line with the current membership numbers of those committees.

Adopted by the Senate

AB 772 (Robert Pacheco-R) Legislative hearings

Enacts the Legislative Captioning Act of 2001, which provides that, upon appropriation of funds for purposes of the bill in the annual Budget Act, the Rules Committee of the respective house shall provide closed-captioned and live-captioned broadcasts of the floor sessions and committee hearings of the Senate and Assembly. Under the bill, the Joint Rules Committee provides closed-captioned and live-captioned broadcasts of a joint committee hearing.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 1028 (John Campbell-R) Legislative employees

Specifies that employees of the Legislature have the same rights respecting working conditions as are applicable to persons employed in the private sector. Specifies that employment-related laws of the state applicable to private-sector employers also apply to the Legislature.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 1509 (Runner-R) Legislative Counsel: holidays

Requires the Legislative Counsel and the employee's of the Legislative Counsel Bureau to observe any holiday to which the Legislative Counsel and the employees of the Legislative Counsel Bureau are entitled and that is also observed by the Legislature on the same day that the holiday is observed by the Legislature.

Chapter 153, Statutes of 2002

AB 2635 (Washington-D) Legislators' retirement

Removes the limitation on retirement benefits paid to retired members of the Legislators' Retirement System serving in salaried public office.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2688 (Alquist-D) Legislator's Retirement System

Establishes a burial benefit of $7,500 for all active and retired members of the Legislators' Retirement System.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2862 (Migden-D) Legislative employees

Applies rights and privileges to domestic partners of legislative employees.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 3000* (Assembly Budget Committee) Legislative Counsel Bureau

State and local government Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, allows the Legislative Counsel Bureau to observe any holiday that is also observed by the Legislature, on the same day that the holiday is observed by the Legislature.

Chapter 1124, Statutes of 2002

AB 3061 (Leonard-R) Legislative investigations

Makes various changes to clarify procedures by which a witness may be compelled to give testimony or produce documents or other materials in a legislative proceeding, despite an assertion of the privilege against self-incrimination, and thereby be granted immunity from criminal prosecution.

(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

ACA 3 (Papan-D) Legislative terms

Increases the legislative term limits for Senator from two terms to three terms and for Assemblymembers from three terms to six terms.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACA 16 (Hollingsworth-R) Legislature

Makes various changes in provisions relating to legislators' salaries, commencement of members of the Legislature, and changes sessions of the Legislature.

(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

ACA 21 (Alquist-D) Redistricting

Requires that a bill that establishes or adjusts the boundaries of a Senate, Assembly, Congressional, or Board of Equalization district be placed on the third reading file in its final form for a period of at least 14 calendar days prior to passage in each house of the Legislature.

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

ACA 24 (Bogh-R) Legislation

Proposes the "People's Right to Review Act." Provides that if a bill is assigned to, and reported out by, a committee of either house of the Legislature, the bill may not be passed by that house, unless it is read by title on three days in the house after it is reported out by the committee. Provides that if a bill is voted on by a house without being assigned to a committee, the bill may not be passed by that house unless it is ready by title on three days, except that the house may dispense with this requirement by a 4/5 rollcall vote of the members.

(Died at the Assembly Desk without being referred to a Committee)

ACR 94 (Robert Pacheco-R) Legislative hearings

Urges that all televised legislative hearings and proceedings be provided with closed-captioning or live-captioning, in order to ensure that all citizens with hearing disabilities are given equal access to the political process.

(Died at Assembly Desk without being referred to a committee)

ACR 102 (Florez-D) Senator Jim Costa Highway

Honors Senator Jim Costa for his legislative leadership and accomplishments by dedicating a portion of State Highway Route 180 in Fresno County as the Senator Jim Costa Highway.

Resolution Chapter 130, Statutes of 2002

ACR 169 (Aroner-D) California youth: decision-making process

Requests that state agencies and the Legislature include young people in the decision-making process regarding matters that affect California's young people.

Resolution Chapter 111, Statutes of 2002

ACR 234 (Canciamilla-D) Louis J. Papan Highway

Designates a portion of State Highway Route 1 in San Mateo County to Assemblymember Louis J. Papan.

Resolution Chapter 176, Statutes of 2002

HR 27 (Wesson-D) Assembly Rule 11

Amends Senate Rule 37 to add the Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee and the Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 33 (Cardoza-D) Robert Hertzberg

Extends the Assembly thanks, congratulations and best wishes to Robert M. Hertzberg on the close of his term as the Speaker of the Assembly and renames the Capitol Institute the "Robert M. Hertzberg Capitol Institute."

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 75 (Alquist-D) Staffing for 2011 Redistricting Plan

Specifies that the staffing of the Assembly committees involved in developing the 2011 redistricting plan be reflective of the legally protected populations and ethnic diversity of the state and to include individuals of diverse backgrounds and who have relevant experience with organizations that have a continuous history of involvement with the redistricting process.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

Alcoholic Beverage Control

SB 1036 (Polanco-D) Alcoholic beverage licensees: fixtures and supplies

Makes changes to existing law, which permits a beer manufacturer, or beer wholesaler, to furnish, give, rent, lend, or sell, any equipment, fixtures, or supplies, other than alcoholic beverages, to a retailer whose equipment, fixtures, or supplies, were lost or damaged as a result of a natural disaster. Current law does not apply to transactions that occur six weeks, or more, after the Governor proclaims an area to be in a state of disaster. Specifies that this provision is inapplicable to transactions that occur three months, or more, after the Governor proclaims an area to be in a state of disaster.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1189* (Costa-D) Alcoholic beverages: licensees: advertising restrictions

Allows an alcohol manufacturer to purchase advertising from, or on behalf of, an on-sale licensee located in Tulare County and San Bernardino County, as specified.

Chapter 47, Statutes of 2002

SB 1583 (Burton-D) Alcoholic beverages: licensees: advertising restrictions

Allows an alcoholic beverage manufacturer or wholesaler to install displays advertising or promoting their products on the premises of on-sale licensees, in addition to on the premises of off-sale licensees as allowed under current law.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1774 (Chesbro-D) Alcoholic beverages: licenses: separate locations

Modifies existing licensing and posting provisions in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act for public warehouses that receive, store and deliver "wine".

Chapter 413, Statutes of 2002

AB 1922 (Firebaugh-D) Alcoholic beverages: importers

Prohibits a licensed wine importer from purchasing or accepting delivery of an imported brand of wine unless the person is designated by the brand owner as an authorized importer of that brand. Exempts from the prohibition the sales of "vintage wine" pursuant to current law and wine imported by a retail licensee for sale in a wine auction pursuant to current law.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2334 (Nakano-D) Alcoholic beverages

Authorizes the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to revoke or suspend an alcoholic beverage license, if the licensee, or the agent or employee of the licensee, violates a specified provision of statutory law relating to the furnishing of drug paraphernalia.

Chapter 1027, Statutes of 2002

AB 2413 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control

Clarifies an existing exception to tied-house rules for a non-profit theater in Napa County and requires the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to include information on enforcement efforts conducted in conjunction with local law enforcement in their annual report to the Legislature.

Chapter 579, Statutes of 2002

AB 2518 (Bill Campbell-R) Alcoholic beverages: sweepstakes: contests

Permits alcoholic beverage suppliers to conduct sweepstakes or contests that offer adults the opportunity to win prizes or other things of value.

(Failed passage in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2577 (Cox-R) Alcoholic beverages: retail licenses: undue concentration

Authorizes a local governing body to determine that the public convenience and necessity will be served by the issuance of an alcoholic beverage license only if the license is made subject to conditions outlined by the local governing body. Requires the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to review the requested conditions and determine whether a license should be issued subject to those conditions and any others the ABC deems to be appropriate.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2715 (Hollingsworth-R) Alcoholic beverages

Authorizes alcoholic beverage licensees, with 10 or fewer employees, to petition the State Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) for a training program in lieu of, or to mitigate, a proposed license suspension or fine. Requires the licensee to pay a fine of not less than $100, as determined by ABC. Limits, until January 1, 2005, the number of petitions that may be approved by the ABC.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2801 (Chavez-D) Alcoholic beverages: licenses: distilled spirits

Allows holders of temporary "distilled spirits" sales permits to purchase "distilled spirits" using the same methods of payment as temporary beer and wine permit holders. Additionally allows the issuance of an on-sale "distilled spirits" license to a symphony association meeting certain existing criteria.

Chapter 246, Statutes of 2002

Horse Racing

SB 367 (Karnette-D) Horse racing: out-of-state betting

Eliminates the license fee that racing associations must pay to the state from proceeds received from out-of-state systems.

(Died Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 856 (Costa-D) Special business regulations: satellite wagering

Provides that license fees from satellite wagering on horse races, deposited in a special account and continuously appropriated to a separate account in the Fair and Exposition Fund, can be used for earthquake preparedness improvements at fairs, in addition to other current designated uses.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 897 (Perata-D) Horse racing: shortfalls

Gives the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) the authority to determine whether the total amount paid to the state by racing associations and fairs, pursuant to the Horse Racing Law, is less than $40 million, and requires the CHRB to notify each racing association and fair, in writing, of its pro rata share of the shortfall, on or before February 1 of the year following the year of the shortfall and requires the CHRB to resolve any protests, as specified. Specifies that the amounts due under this bill shall be paid from distributions available for commissions, purses, and breeder awards, and shall be paid to the State Treasury for credit to the Fair and Exposition Fund in three equal installments, due as specified.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 971 (Johnson-R) Racing at fairs

Applies the California Horse Racing Board's limitation to annually allocate a maximum of 28 racing days to any fair in the northern zone. Allows mule races to be conducted at any fair.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1337 (Vincent-D) Horse racing

Increases, from 20 percent to 40 percent, the amount of designated charity day racing proceeds that must be distributed to charities associated with the horse racing industry. Specifies that the additional 20 percent must be distributed through a specified nonprofit corporation or trust to qualified disabled jockeys and that entity will provide a described annual accounting and report to their board to indicate compliance with the provisions of this bill.

Chapter 904, Statues of 2002

SB 1340 (Vincent-D) Horse racing

Provides that a California-bred paint horse is a registered paint horse foal conceived in California by a stallion standing in California at the time of conception, or by a registered paint horse stallion, as specified.

Chapter 282, Statutes of 2002

SB 1465 (Costa-D) Horse racing

Allows the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association more discretion over the existing dollars allocated to restricted California-bred purses.

Chapter 145, Statutes of 2002

SB 1764 (Costa-D) Horse racing

Provides that when the Fresno District Fair and a thoroughbred association conduct live racing meetings concurrently in the northern racing zone, satellite signals from both racing programs shall be accepted at each live racing meeting in the northern zone and at all satellite wagering facilities eligible to receive these programs. Specifies that the Fresno County Fair will receive a percentage of the combined satellite wagering commissions payable to the thoroughbred association and the fair. During these periods, the association and the fair will deduct the same percentage form the total amount wagered in their daily conventional and exotic parimutuel pools to be distributed, as specified. Provides that these race meetings shall also combine operating expenses at these times.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 2035 (Karnette-D) Horse racing

Allows a harness or Quarter Horse racing association to "bank" up to two out-of-state or out-of-county imported races on a specific race day, and then add those races to another race day's importation schedule.

Chapter 268, Statutes of 2002

AB 157 (Strickland-R) Horse racing: proposition wagers

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

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 327 (Harman-R) Horse racing

Allows a racing association that conducts quarter horse races in the southern zone to execute an agreement with a thoroughbred racing association to distribute the signal and accept wagers on out-of-country thoroughbred races, subject to the consent of the thoroughbred horsemen. Specifies that, if consent is withheld, any party may appeal the withholding of the consent to the California Horse Racing Board, which may determine that consent is not required. These out-of-country races may only be imported three nights per week.

(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 1316 (Dickerson-R) Horse racing: satellite wagering facilities

Allows the Shasta District Fair to operate an additional satellite wagering facility within the fair, contingent upon the approval of the State Department of Food and Agriculture and the California Horse Racing Board. Deletes the requirement that a fair be state-designated from the law, which encourages and develops the racing of all horses in California. Allows mule racing meeting or mule races to be conducted by any fair, instead of only by a county fair, district agricultural association fair, or citrus fruit fair.

Chapter 872, Statutes of 2002

AB 1418 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Horse racing: audits

Requires the annual audits of the horsemen's organizations that are currently filed with the California Horse Racing Board be additionally submitted to the Senate and Assembly Committees on Governmental Organization.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1803 (Harman-R) Horse racing

Allows a quarter horse racing association to conduct a race for paint horses only, to replace an Appaloosa or Arabian race. Requires a specified amount from purses be paid to the quarter horse horsemen's organization for representing horsemen relating to specific types of racing.

Chapter 234, Statutes of 2002

AB 2338 (Papan-D) Satellite wagering

Provides that the San Mateo County Fair may operate one satellite wagering facility in San Mateo County, as specified.

Chapter 1063, Statutes of 2002

AB 2384* (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Horse racing

Allows harness racing associations the ability to provide funding for increased workers compensation insurance. Contains language to avoid a chaptering out problem with AB 2932 (Horton-D) and AB 2629 (Strickland-R).

Chapter 923, Statutes of 2002

AB 2393 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Horse and mule racing

Provides that mule races may be conducted by any fair that is licensed by the California Horse Racing Board to conduct live racing and adds a number of relevant definitions. Makes a number of technical and clarifying changes to horse racing statutes in a continuing effort to update horse racing law.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2502 (Wyland-R) Horse racing

Extends a current law that requires a thoroughbred racing association or fair to pay a specified amount of purse revenue to a thoroughbred horsemen's organization to help fund a national thoroughbred racing marketing program. Extends the sunset provision on the law form January 1, 2004, to January 1, 2008.

Chapter 90, Statutes of 2002

AB 2554* (Thomson-D) Horse racing

Authorizes the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) to permit the Solano County Fair to conduct live racing meetings at another site within or outside Solano County, if the site of its 2002 racing meeting is no longer available for horse racing in any subsequent year. Permits that fair, subject to approval of the CHRB, to conduct its racing dates at a facility operated by a thoroughbred racing association or fair licensed to conduct a racing meeting in the northern zone, as specified. Corrects an unintended drafting error in last year's AB 471 (Hertzberg-D), Chapter 198, Statutes of 2001, relating to specified distributions to the Kenneth L. Maddy Fund, Center for Equine Health at the University of California at Davis.

Chapter 874, Statutes of 2002

AB 2619* (Strickland-R) Horse racing

Allocates three positions on the board of directors of the organization representing owners for persons holding licenses as both owners and trainers, and for their spouses who are licensed as owners, as specified, and makes related and conforming changes. Limits the board of the organization representing owners to 15 members of equal standing, as specified. Sunsets on January 1, 2006.

Chapter 921, Statutes of 2002

AB 2830 (Negrete McLeod-D) Horse racing

Adds the national recognized Claiming Crown to the grouping of imported race cards, which are exempt from the 23-race per day limit.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2869 (Horton-D) Horse racing

Permits the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) to authorize any racing association licensed to conduct quarter horse racing, to also conduct mule racing under specified conditions. Allows for a reduction in the amount of purses and commissions with agreement by the racing association and horsemen and approval by the CHRB.

Chapter 924, Statutes of 2002

AB 2931* (Horton-D) Horse racing

Authorizes funds from a designated marketing program and funds used for the purpose of stabling and vanning horses to be used to defray the cost of workers' compensation insurance for jockeys of thoroughbred trainers and stable employees, as specified.

Chapter 922, Statutes of 2002

Other Gaming Legislation

SB 832 (Polanco-D) Bingo games

Declares that it is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that all revenues from bingo games be used exclusively for charitable purposes, as required by Section 19 of Article IV of the California Constitution, and to prevent the use of any bingo funds for any other purpose. Prohibits the use of funds raised by bingo games for charitable purposes outside of California, with specified exceptions. Requires the California Gambling Control Commission to adopt regulations regulating bingo games by all organizations, including any organization already conducting bingo games prior to September 1, 2002, that specify, among other things, the manner in which the games are conducted, the format for cards and other devices, financial reporting requirements, and minimum licensure requirements for entities to conduct bingo games.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 930 (Vincent-D) California State Lottery

Allows the State Lottery Commission (Commission) to use the game of bingo and changes the percentage allocation of lottery revenue for a three year pilot period. Specifies that the Commission is prohibited from allowing lottery games to be offered over the Internet. Allows the Commission to sell lottery tickets using an electronic or electromechanical device that also serves a separate function that could involve dispensing cash or items of value, as long as that function was independent of the lottery dispensing function.

(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

SB 1314 (Vincent-D) Gaming

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

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1549 (Battin-R) Indian gaming: improvements: funding

Creates the Indian Gaming Improvement Commission which will be responsible for determining the eligibility of requests for appropriations of monies from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund, and makes technical changes to tribal gaming.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1932 (Vincent-D) California State Lottery

Deletes the statutory prohibitions on the use of bingo as a theme in a lottery game.

Chapter 888, Statutes of 2002

SB 1959 (Polanco-D) Bingo: audits

Requires an annual financial audit of organizations that operate specified bingo games and requires the organizations to pay the costs of the audit. Increases the allowable prize limit from $250 to $500 for one bingo game per day.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 572 (Firebaugh-D) Gaming: licensing

Authorizes a publicly traded corporation to be eligible for licensure as an owner in no more than two card clubs, provided the corporation meets the applicable eligibility and licensing provisions of the Gambling Control Act of 1997 and any other requirements established by the California Gambling Control Commission (CGCC). Allows specified persons and corporations to obtain a gambling license, despite having a financial interest in an establishment that offers forms of gambling that are illegal in the state, as long as the CGCC, upon recommendation by the Division of Gambling Control, finds that the ownership interest is not detrimental to enforcement of state gaming law.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 651* (Horton-D) Slot machines or devices

Allows a person or entity that manufactures, sells, rents, leases, assembles, tests, repairs, transports or stores slot machines or devices in California to conduct business directly in this state if the party they are doing business with is a tribe authorized by a state-tribal gaming compact to own or operate these slot machines or devices.

(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 817 (Firebaugh-D) Slot machines or devices

Allows registered manufacturers of slot machines, or devices, to sell machines made in California to entities legally entitled to operate them in California.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1125 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) California Gambling Control Commission

Extends the report requirement date, from January 1, 2000, to January 1, 2003, that the California Gambling Control Commission must submit its findings to the Governor and the Legislature on (1) the consequences, benefits, and disadvantages of imposing a state tax on revenue generated by licensed gambling establishments, and (2) the regulation of advertising for the purpose of limiting exposure of children to materials promoting gambling.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1229 (Frommer-D) Gambling: prohibited online gambling games

Contains legislative findings and declarations of the Legislature with regard to online gambling games, and provides that it is unlawful for any person to operate any prohibited online gambling game for money, checks, credit, or any other representative of value. Provides that every person who operates or offers for play any prohibited online gambling game to any person physically located in this state at the time of the transaction, or who operates a prohibited online gambling game from a host server, as defined, that is physically located in this state at the time of the transaction, is guilty of a misdemeanor, as specified.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2286 (Horton-D) Indian Gaming

Establishes a stand-alone chapter within the Government Code for Tribal-State gaming compacts enacted and approved under Proposition 1A.

(Died in Senate Inactive File)

AB 2392 (Firebaugh-D) Commission on Gambling Control: licenses

Amends Item 0855-001-0367 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2002 to prohibit any of the monies appropriated from being expended by the California Gambling Control Commission until no fewer than 10,803 new licenses are made available to operate gaming devices, in addition to those licenses to operate gaming devices issued previous to July 1, 2002.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2399 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Gambling: licensee: premises

Authorizes a person possessing a license to operate a gambling establishment to remove from his or her licensed premises any person who, while on the premises, is under the influence of a controlled substance.

Chapter 737, Statutes of 2002

AB 2431 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) Gambling control

Renumbers various sections and article headings within the Gambling Control Act, eliminates outdated preferences, resolves conflicting provisions, and makes other technical and clarifying changes.

Chapter 738, Statutes of 2002

AB 2446 (Firebaugh-D) Gambling control: regulations

Increases the membership of the Gaming Policy Advisory Committee to 13 members and revises its composition to include six representatives of controlled gambling licensees, and seven persons who are members of the general public or who are local government officials representing a city or county in which a gambling establishment is located. Also prohibits the committee from advising the California Gambling Control Commission on Indian gaming.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2965 (Wiggins-D) Gaming: cheating

Creates a misdemeanor and an alternate misdemeanor/felony for cheating in gambling games or wagering events.

Chapter 624, Statutes of 2002

ACR 170 (Zettel-R) Indian gaming: economic impacts

Requests that Cruz M. Bustamante, Lieutenant Governor, consider the economic impact of Indian gaming on the state as a significant issue of state economic development that may be considered by the Commission for Economic Development.

(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

Public Employees

SB 43 (Polanco-D) State civil service: employment

Establishes the State Civil Service Equal Employment Opportunity Program (Program) and assigns to the State Personnel Board the responsibility for providing statewide program leadership, coordination, monitoring and enforcement of the Program, and makes various other changes to ensure equal employment opportunity in state government.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 65* (Burton-D) State employees: State Bargaining Unit 6

Ratifies the Memorandum of Understanding negotiated between the State of California and State Bargaining Unit 6, California Correctional Peace Officers Association, pursuant to Section 3517 of the Government Code.

Chapter 1, Statutes of 2002

SB 183 (Burton-D) State employees: retirement benefits

Provides enhanced retirement benefits under the State Public Employees' Retirement system to members of State Bargaining Unit 7, Protective Services and Public Safety, represented exclusively by the California Union of Safety Employees, includes as a peace officer under the Penal Code the State Attorney General and allows persons who were employed in various fellowship programs to purchase credit for that time in the State Public Employees' Retirement System, as specified.

Chapter 56, Statutes of 2002

SB 222* (Torlakson-D) State employees

Ratifies the Memorandum of Understanding between the State and State Bargaining Unit (BU) 9, Professional Engineers in California Government. Reduces the retirement contribution for all BU 9 members by five percent, effective as of a date to be determined by the Director of the State Department of Personnel Administration, but not earlier than April 1, 2002. Restores, effective July 1, 2003, the retirement contribution rate to the levels in effect on August 30, 2001. Implements all other tentative agreements reached on June 18, 2002, between the State and BU 9. Appropriates $4.643 million to cover employee compensation costs.

Chapter 278, Statutes of 2002

Similar legislation is SB 1213 (Alpert-D), which died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee.

SB 277 (Chesbro-D) Employee health care benefits: state university employees

Includes California State University employees in the rural health care equity program.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 308 (Soto-D) Employee assistance programs

Defines certain terms relating to employee assistance programs, including the scope of practice of persons who provide services in an employee assistance program. Makes findings and declarations regarding the Employee Assistance Certification Commission and the certification of employee assistance professionals by the commission. Provides that its provisions do not authorize a non-licensed mental health care professional functioning as a certified employee assistance professional or an employee assistance professional to provide diagnosis or treatment.

(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 335 (Ortiz-D) PERS: benefits

Establishes vision care benefits for state annuitants comparable to the vision care benefits provided to current state employees. Specifies that this benefit applies to retirees and their families, provided the employee retires on or before July 3, 2002.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 360 (Machado-D) State employees: wages

Provides that wages earned by state employees for labor performed in excess of the normal work period be paid no later than the next regular payroll period.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 362 (Soto-D) Local public employees' retirement: benefits

Makes various changes needed by local contracting agencies of the State Public Employees' Retirement System and counties operating retirement systems under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 adopting the new retirement formulas authorized by the Legislature last year for miscellaneous and general members.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 408 (Soto-D) Public employee retirement

Provides an industrial retirement benefit equal to 50 percent of salary, regardless of the age at which employment begins.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 512 (Perata-D) Public employees: salary differential

Provides that all state supervisory and managerial employees be paid at a salary range that is at least ten percent higher than the salary range of the highest rank and file employee over whom the supervisory has authority. Specifies that the ten percent increase will be phased in over three years.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 569* (Morrow-R) State employment: military leave

Makes state employees who are on inactive military duty eligible for paid leave.

(Died In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 650 (Poochigian-R) Public employees' retirement: school employers

Expands the definition of a "school employer" to include a joint powers agency formed by two or more school districts, as specified, and requires the agency to contract with the State Public Employees' Retirement System Board of Administration to provide retirement benefits to the agency's employees, as specified.

(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 695 (Karnette-D) Local public employees' retirement: safety membership

Allows local contracting agencies of the State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) to include hazardous materials personnel within the local safety member category and makes the provisions allowing counties operating retirement systems under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 to include hazardous materials personnel within safety membership consistent with those being added to the PERS law.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 711* (Dunn-D) State employees on active duty: benefits

Provides specified salary and benefit compensation for various state employees who are called to active military service as a result of the war on terrorism.

Chapter 5, Statutes of 2002

SB 728* (Machado-D) State employees: memorandum of understanding

Ratifies the memoranda of understanding between the state and Bargaining Unit 1 (Administrative, Financial and Staff Services), Unit 3 (Education ad Library), Unit 4 (Office and Allied), Unit 11 (Engineering and Scientific Technicians), Unit 15 (Allied Services), and Unit 21 (Educational Consultant, Library and Maritime) all exclusively represented by the California State Employees Association. Appropriates $35,486,000, as scheduled, from various funds in augmentation of specified items of the Budget Act of 2001 for state employee compensation.

Chapter 14, Statutes of 2002

SB 905 (Perata-D) Public employees

Codifies a State Attorney General's opinion that employee organizations may collect payroll deductions for political purposes so long as those deductions are not collected for a specifically named candidate. Also clarifies that local agencies may only payroll deduct for those purposes authorized by the Legislature contained in the Government Code.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1006 (Soto-D) State employment: reimbursement of educational expenses

Allows state agencies with serious recruitment shortages to reimburse new or existing employees for educational expenses in exchange for those employees serving a minimum period of employment.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1010 (Perata-D) State employees' retirement: benefits

Makes three higher retirement formulas available to state miscellaneous and industrial employees, subject to collective bargaining and allows the employees' contributions rate, with respect to each formula, to be determined in the collective bargaining agreement.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1024* (Soto-D) County employees retirement: deferred retirement option

Establishes the Deferred Retirement Option Program as an optional benefit program for law enforcement members of and specified firefighter members of counties operating retirement systems under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 that choose to offer the program.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1045 (Polanco-D) Public employment and contracting

Declares the intent of the Legislature to reaffirm diversity as a public policy goal in public employment and public contracting. Authorizes governmental agencies to engage in various general recruitment and outreach programs and focused outreach activities to increase diversity in public employment and public contracting. Requires each state department or agency awarding a contract or procuring goods or services, and authorizes each local agency receiving state funds, to collect information and report annually to the Governor and the Legislature on the participation level of minority, women, and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises in these contract and procurement activities.

Chapter 1165, Statutes of 2002

SB 1161 (Polanco-D) State civil service: examinations

Establishes a state policy with respect to the dissemination of examination and employment information and requires the State Personnel Board (SPB) to develop, by rule, a system requiring state agencies and departments to implement this policy. Requires each department to submit to the SPB, by December 15, 2002, a listing of examinations that will require validation and estimated costs of validation. Requires the SPB to report to the Governor, the Legislature, and the State Department of Finance on the accomplishments of each state agency and department in meeting its stated affirmative action goals for the past fiscal year. Revises the information that is to be included in this report with respect to each state agency and department meeting its stated employment goals. Makes other related changes.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1369 (Alarcon-D) Civil service: charter cities

Requires that where the charter in a charter city establishes a personnel system, merit system, or civil service system that may only be withdrawn by a vote of the city's electors, but is silent on the numerical percentage needed to approve the withdrawal, approval shall be by a vote of two-thirds of those voting in the special or regular municipal election.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1409 (Soto-D) Deferred Retirement Option Program

States that it is the intent of the Legislature to establish a Deferred Retirement Option Program as a voluntary program in the State Public Employees' Retirement System for those local safety members whose employing agency elects to be subject to the program. Specifies that the program will provide eligible members access, upon retirement, to a lump sum or additional monthly payments in addition to a monthly retirement allowance.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1464 (Soto-D) Public employees' health care benefits

Increases incrementally, beginning in 2004, the minimum local employer contribution for the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act health plan from $16 per month per employee or annuitant by $97 by 2008, and requires that, beginning January 1, 2009, this amount be adjusted annually by the change in the Consumer Price Index.

Chapter 896, Statutes of 2002

SB 1503 (Ackerman-R) State employment: civil service proceedings

Applies the one-year limitation for bringing a cause of action related to state civil service law or administration to the state or any other governmental entity and establishes an exception to the one-year provision by requiring that an action or proceeding to reverse a final decision of the State Personnel Board for reinstatement or an award of back pay must be filed and served within 90 days of the final decision.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1536 (Soto-D) Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act

Makes various changes to the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act related to the provision of cost effective benefits for public employees by the State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and authorizes the PERS board member who is an elected official of a contracting agency to designate a deputy or act in his or her place on the board.

Chapter 898, Statutes of 2002

SB 1539 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) Retirement benefits

Makes various minor and technical amendments to various sections of the Government Code administered by the State Public Employees' Retirement System. Also permits former legislators, as specified, to enroll in the state's health and dental coverage for annuitants and pay 102% of the total required contributions.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1574 (Machado-D) State employees: CDF firefighters

Requires the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to pay firefighters who are rank and file members of Bargaining Unit 8 total compensation comparable to the average total compensation for all jurisdictions employing 75 or more full-time firefighters in California.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1637 (Torlakson-D) Public employees: peace officers

Requires specified peace officer associations to disclose to the Secretary of State an agent for service of process, as specified.

Chapter 900, Statutes of 2002

SB 1668 (Chesbro-D) Rural Health Care Equity Program

Increases the reimbursement available under the Rural Health Care Equity Program (RHCEP) for retirees of the State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) that are not enrolled in Medicare from $500 to $1,000 per fiscal year. Increases the monthly subsidy under RHCEP for retirees that are enrolled in Medicare to include a partial payment for the retirees' preferred provider plan equal to the average of the average monthly premium cost of PERS-approved health maintenance organizations and the premium for the lowest cost preferred provider organization.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1752* (Soto-D) County employees' retirement boards

Authorizes the San Bernardino County Employees Retirement Association to contract with County Counsel or attorneys in private practice or employ staff attorneys for legal services in all needed areas, instead of only in instances of conflict of interest.

Chapter 116, Statutes of 2002

SB 1801 (O'Connell-D) Public employees' compensation

Reclassifies cadets employed by the State Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) from the state miscellaneous classification to the state patrol safety classification, if they graduate and become CHP officers. Applies retroactively and requires the transfer of service and assets from the state miscellaneous plan to the CHP plan. States that the CHP will have to notify the State Public Employees' Retirement System Board of Administration of eligible employees.

Chapter 902, Statutes of 2002

SB 1802 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act

Makes various changes to the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act, administered by the State Public Employees' Retirement System, intended to minimize adverse selection and promote investments that reduce health care costs.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1835* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State government

Requires significant cuts to the state bureaucracy to a total of five percent and $750 million. Requires the Governor to issue an executive order to provide additional service credits for designated units in order to encourage the early retirement of state employees. Requires 1,000 state positions to be abolished by the end of the 2003-04 budget year. Limits General Fund (GF) expenditures for the 2003-04 budget year in the amount of GF revenues.

Chapter 1170, Statutes of 2002

SB 1984 (Soto-D) Industrial disability and death benefits

Provides State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) Industrial Disability Benefits (50 percent of pay for life) for state miscellaneous members in State Bargaining Unit 12 and for the State Department of Transportation (DOT) highway workers who are injured in the course of their official duties and PERS "Special Death Benefit" for DOT highway workers who are killed in the course of their official duties. Contains language to avoid chaptering out problems with AB 2023 (Frommer-D).

Chapter 1153, Statutes of 2002

SB 2023* (Figueroa-D) State government: vacant positions

Provides that, if a budget bill is chaptered that contains specified provisions requiring the Director of the State Department of Finance to eliminate certain employee positions in state government, the director may not abolish positions for peace officers and for certain field enforcement personnel, provided that the positions are funded or reimbursed by a specified source. Becomes operative only if AB 425 (Oropeza-D), or any other bill that enacts the Budget Act of 2002, is chaptered and requires the abolishment of vacant permanent positions pursuant to a provision that is the same or substantially the same as Section 31.60 of AB 425, as amended on June 29, 2002.

(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 2024* (Figueroa-D) State employees: vacant positions

Repeals existing statute enacted as part of the Budget Act of 2002 that requires the abolishing of state employee positions left vacant for more than six months during a state hiring freeze, and enacts new statutes relating to the abolishing and reestablishing of vacant positions.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 2094 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) Public employees' retirement: public service

Authorizes members of the State Public Employees' Retirement System to purchase up to three additional years of service credit for time served as a volunteer in the Americorps.

Chapter 546, Statutes of 2002

SB 2100* (Torlakson-D) Contra Costa County: retirement benefits

Provides a framework for Contra Costa County to adopt new, higher levels of retirement benefits for safety and general county employees, with extra costs shared by the employees and the employer, pursuant to collectively bargained Memoranda of Understanding.

Chapter 695, Statutes of 2002

SCA 2 (Burton-D) Public retirement systems

Provides that on and after January 1, 2003, expenditures for personnel and operating expenses and equipment of any retirement system that receives regularly scheduled contributions from the state shall be subject to appropriation therefor in the annual Budget Act, and authorizes the Governor, the Senate Rules Committee, and the Speaker of the Assembly, once every five years, beginning in January 2003, to cause an independent actuarial review to be conducted of such a public pension or retirement system, as specified.

(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

AB 42 (Wayne-D) Public Employees' Retirement System

Permits the "elected official of a local contracting agency" member of the State Public Employees' Retirement System Board of Administration to have an alternate attend board meetings with the power to vote when the member is not available.

Chapter 729, Statutes of 2002

AB 105 (Rod Pacheco-R) Public employees: peace officers: employee organizations

Allows probation officers in San Bernardino County to be in the same bargaining unit as other peace officers.

Chapter 865, Statutes of 2002

AB 389 (Nakano-D) Public employees' retirement: cost-of-living adjustments

Requires the State Public Employees' Retirement System, beginning January 1, 2002, to use the higher of either the United States city average Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, or the California Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, when calculating cost-of-living adjustments.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 507 (Havice-D) County employees' retirement: funding enhanced benefits

Allows the Los Angeles County Retirement System Board of Retirement to adopt certain funding plans at the request of the Board of Supervisors.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 593* (Oropeza-D) State government

Requires significant cuts to the state bureaucracy to a total of five percent and $750 million. Requires the Governor to issue an executive order to provide additional service credits for designated units in order to encourage the early retirement of state employees. Requires 1,000 state positions to be abolished by the end of the 2003-04 budget year. Limits General Fund (GF) expenditures for the 2003-04 budget year in the amount of GF revenues.

Chapter 1023, Statutes of 2002

Similar legislation was SB 1835 (Sen. Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), which became Chapter 1770, Statutes of 2002.

AB 657 (Rod Pacheco-R) Public employees' retirement: local safety members

Establishes a contract option for contracting local agencies of the State Public Employees' Retirement System to provide local safety retirement benefits to employees performing hazardous materials services.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 658 (Havice-D) Public employees' retirement: state safety members

Reclassifies State Department of Motor Vehicle licensing registration examiners as state safety members entitled to higher retirement benefits under the State Public Employees' Retirement System.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 736* (Oropeza-D) State employees: memorandum of understanding

Ratifies the Memorandum of Understanding negotiated between the state and employees in State Bargaining Unit 13, Stationary Engineers, represented by the International Union of Operating Engineers.

Chapter 456, Statutes of 2002

AB 1037 (Firebaugh-D) State attorneys: compensation

Requires that attorneys, employed by the State of California, subject to the collective bargaining process, including the State Attorney General, be compensated, at a minimum, with wages and benefits that are consistent with the specified salary parity provisions for public sector attorneys, as specified. Requires that compensation of state attorneys in State Bargaining Unit 2 be no less than the average total compensation of public sector attorneys. Requires the State Department of Personnel Administration (DPA) to annually determine the average salary for each specified level and region in the state. Requires DPA to take into consideration the above specified salary parity provisions in setting the compensation for state attorneys in Bargaining Unit 2 and to make a good faith offer of parity with respect to public sector agency attorney salaries in any negotiations with the exclusive bargaining representative. Requires that these provisions be self-executing during any period in which a Memorandum of Understanding is not in effect.

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

AB 1097 (Havice-D) State employees' retirement: retiree benefits increase

Provides an unspecified, ad hoc increase in the monthly allowances of state members (or their survivors) of the State Public Employees' Retirement System who retired or died prior to January 1, 2000.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1162 (Alquist-D) Public employees' retirement: postretirement death benefits

Increases lump sum death benefits for state and school members of the State Employees' Retirement from $2,000 to $5,000. Applies to active members who retire on or before July 3, 2002, and retired members whose death occurs on or after January 1, 2001. Maintains the current death benefit amount of $2,000 for state and school employees retiring after July 3, 2002, unless those employees receive higher levels through collective bargaining.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1190 (Papan-D) Public retirement systems: reciprocity

Eliminates current provisions in the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 and the law governing the State Public Employees' Retirement System that require an employee to have no more than a six-month break in service when changing employment between public retirement systems in order to qualify for reciprocity with regard to final compensation.

(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

AB 1243 (Wiggins-D) Public employment: payroll deductions

Provides that a public agency, which is defined to include counties, cities, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, public districts, and other public agencies of the state, may establish wage deduction programs for the purpose of payment for the support, maintenance, or care of an employee's child, children, family, or former spouse for whom the employee has a duty of support, payment of an employee's legal judgment, garnishment or deduction of an employee's wages pursuant to a court order, and payment of an employee's loan or obligation to a commercial lending institution.

Chapter 1144, Statutes of 2002

AB 1254 (Florez-D) Local prosecutors: retirement and disability benefits

Includes local prosecutors, as defined, within the local safety member classification under the State Public Employees' Retirement System and within the safety member classification under the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937. Authorizes those local prosecutors to elect not to become safety members and provides that prior prosecutor service shall be deemed safety service, at the employers' cost. Requires other city and county retirement systems to provide local prosecutors, as defined, with benefits provided to safety members under their respective systems. Declares the Legislature's intent to recognize the public obligation to provide all local prosecutors in the state with commensurate retirement benefits.

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

AB 1330* (Steinberg-D) State employees

Ratifies the memoranda of understanding between the state and Bargaining Units (BUs) 14 (Printing Trades), 17 (Registered Nurses) and 20 (Medical and Social Services), all exclusively represented by the California State Employees Association.

Chapter 190, Statutes of 2002

AB 1563 (Aanestad-R) State employees: supervisors: meeting and conferring

Authorizes an employee organization representing supervisors of employees in State Bargaining Unit 6 (Correctional Peace Officers) to become the supervisors' exclusive representative for purposes of meeting and conferring with the state employer regarding wages, hours, benefits and working conditions.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1630 (Cardenas-D) Retirement: safety members

Provides safety member classification to welfare fraud investigators and administrators budgeted within the Orange County Human Services Agency's Special Investigation Unit.

(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

AB 1684* (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State employees: memorandum of understanding

Ratifies the Memorandum of Understanding negotiated between the state and employees in State Bargaining Unit 2, Attorney and Administrative Law Judges, represented by California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Employment.

Chapter 40, Statutes of 2002

AB 1825 (Nakano-D) Leaves of absences: organ donors

Requires that a leave of absence with pay be granted to state employees and employees of the California State University who are organ or bone marrow donors, and allows the Regents of the University of California to adopt the same leave of absence provisions.

Chapter 869, Statutes of 2002

AB 1847 (Correa-D) Public safety members: biochemical substances

Establishes a compensable injury presumption under the Workers' Compensation Law and the disability retirement provisions of state and local retirement systems for exposure to a biochemical substance.

Chapter 870, Statutes of 2002

AB 1889 (Horton-D) Civil service: hearings

Requires, if a city's civil service commission or personnel officer records a personnel hearing, the city to provide a copy of the recording to the employee upon the employee's request. Specifies that if the city transcribes the recording, the city must notify the employee of the transcript's existence within three days and must provide a copy to the employee upon request. Provides that the city may charge direct duplication fees for copies of recordings and transcripts.

Chapter 732, Statutes of 2002

AB 1890 (Horton-D) City employees: civil service board

Requires that when there is a city civil service commission or a similar entity, half of the membership must be nominated by the employee organization, while the other half be appointed by the city council.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1908 (Cohn-D) Public employees: long-term care insurance

Allows public employers to contribute funds to the State Public Employees' Retirement System to pay long-term care premiums on their employees' behalf.

Chapter 871, Statutes of 2002

AB 1950 (Wright-D) State employment: probation

Grants state agencies the authority to extend the probationary period of new employees for a period not to exceed six months in order to address disability accommodation issues, and authorizes state agencies to enter into an agreement with employees who may need reasonable accommodation of disabilities as an alternative to terminating the employee or accepting them as permanent employees.

Chapter 236, Statutes of 2002

AB 1974 (Pescetti-R) Public employees' retirement: risk pools

Facilitates local contracting agencies and school employers to participate in risk pools established by the State Public Employees' Retirement System and provides that such participation will not impact the state's school funding formula.

Chapter 1133, Statutes of 2002

AB 1986 (Diaz-D) Public employees' retirement: elected or appointed officers

Reinstates optional membership rights to participate in the State Public Employees' Retirement System to elected and appointed officials.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1992* (Correa-D) Board of retirement: Orange County

Makes various changes to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 as it relates to the Orange County Employees Retirement System.

Chapter 74, Statutes of 2002

AB 2004 (Correa-D) Retirement benefit enhancement

Authorizes active members of the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 to purchase up to five years of service credit for additional retirement credit. Also applies to members in employment with the Senate, the Assembly, or the respective committees thereof, whose salaries or wages are paid from the Senate Operating Fund, the Assembly Operating Fund, or the Operating Funds of the Assembly and the Senate on or after January 1, 2003.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2006 (Cedillo-D) Local public employees: health benefit plans

Prohibits the governing body of a specified public agency from removing or disqualifying certain employees from a health benefit plan.

Chapter 1041, Statutes of 2002

AB 2023 (Frommer-D) Public employees' retirement: local safety members

Allows local agencies and counties to include local persons who, as of January 1, 2002, were employed as prosecutors, local public defenders, local public defender investigators and certain city attorneys as safety members of the various retirement systems, thereby excluding them from Social Security, allows local prosecutors and state public safety defenders to be included within the state safety member clarifications under the State Public Employees' Retirement System, if agreed to in a memorandum of understanding. This bill is double-jointed with SB 1984 (Soto-D).

Chapter 1152, Statutes of 2002

AB 2059* (Rod Pacheco-R) Survivors of firefighters and peace officers

Requires contracting agencies of the State Public Employees' Retirement System to continue paying the employer contribution toward health benefits for the surviving spouse and family members of a deceased firefighter or peace officer, for up to 120 days following the death of the employee, as specified, and authorizes payments in excess of $5,000 to survivors of specified police and firefighters without awaiting the probate of the deceased's will.

Chapter 733, Statutes of 2002

AB 2060 (Bates-R) County employees' retirement: death benefits

Provides county retirement boards with the authority to be flexible in the establishment of enactment dates for the Alternative Death Benefit programs under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937.

Chapter 875, Statutes of 2002

AB 2063 (Reyes-D) County employees' retirement: benefits

Allows the Fresno County Board of Supervisors to provide a 2.5 percent @ age 50 retirement formula to safety members and a 2.5 percent @ age 55 retirement formula to general members in that county and makes corresponding changes needed to implement these new formulas under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2123 (Koretz-D) County employees' retirement: Los Angeles County

Requires the Board of Investments of the Los Angeles County Employees' Retirement Association (LACERA) to have two additional members nominated by a majority of the bargaining units in the county and requires that certain surplus assets of LACERA be used to pay for new or increased retirement benefits.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2268 (Horton-D) State employees: dismissed employees

Requires each state agency to establish a pool of supervisory employees, known as Skelly officers, to review adverse actions taken against state civil service employees. Each agency will be required to reimburse the State Personnel Board for training costs. Requires each state agency to track its litigation costs associated with discrimination cases and report to the Legislature by February 1 of each year.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2367 (Correa-D) Benefits of members and former spouses

Allows members of the State Public Employees' Retirement system whose retirement accounts have been separated due to divorce or legal separation, to maximize their retirement benefit without creating an increased liability to the employer. Provides a new method for calculating a member's benefit when the nonmember spouse elects to receive a retirement allowance rather than a return of contributions at the time of divorce.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2374* (Reyes-D) State employees: retirement benefits

Provides a golden handshake equal to one additional year of age and one additional year of service credit for eligible state employee of the State Public Employees' Retirement System who retire between July 1, 2002 and June 30, 2004, and immediately return to work as retired annuitants on a part-time basis for two additional years.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2438 (Diaz-D) Employer-employee relations: State Bargaining Unit 12

Requires that employees in State Bargaining Unit 12, Crafts and Maintenance, represented by the International Union of Operating Engineers, receive prevailing wages that are not less than those received by their counterparts in California's larger local agencies, requires the State Department of Personnel Administration to conduct the comparison study, specifies that salary increases will be phased in over a three year period, beginning July 1, 2003, and specifies that in no way will salaries be reduced as a result of the survey.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2477 (Steinberg-D) Excluded and exempt employees: salaries and benefits

Establishes a Sate Excluded and Exempt Employees Salary-Setting Task Force to consist of no more than 12 participants, as specified, to create a new process to address the status of salary and benefit levels of excluded and exempt employees, and to recommend that process to the Governor and the Legislature prior to July 1, 2004. Sunsets January 21, 2006.

Chapter 1044, Statutes of 2002

AB 2549 (Nation-D) Public employees' retirement: part-time employees

Allows part-time faculty of the California State University who teach six teaching units for two consecutive semesters or three consecutive quarters to qualify for membership in the State Public Employees' Retirement System, if agreed to through collective bargaining on or after July 1, 2004.

Chapter 1045, Statutes of 2002

AB 2609 (Richman-R) Employee health benefits: medical savings accounts

Requires the State Public Employees' Retirement System Board of Administration (Board) to offer a medical savings account option to all employees and annuitants beginning January 1, 2003. Requires the Board, in addition to the basic health benefits plans, to approve at least one high deductible health plan. Requires a purchasing alliance to solicit proposals from carriers to offer high deductible health plans to small employers, to define, market, offer, and sell to small employers any high deductible health plans purchased from participating carriers, and to maintain a medical savings account for each enrollee of a high deductible health plan.

(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2612 (Maldonado-R) Public employees: pension trusts

Deletes language which gives a court or local agency authority to decide whether participation in a county's pension trust by its officers and employees may be optional or compulsory.

Chapter 882, Statutes of 2002

AB 2671 (Maddox-R) Public employees' retirement: local safety members

Makes the State Public Employees' Retirement System local contracting retirees in an inactive safety plan subject to the same benefit improvements provided to safety employees in active safety plans in the same contracting agency or county.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2678 (Aanestad-R) Public employees' retirement: death benefits

Authorizes Butte County to amend its contract on or before February 1, 2003, to authorize the surviving spouse of a member to receive specified additional death benefits if the member was eligible to retire and was a public safety officer killed in the line of duty between July 26, 2001, and February 1, 2003.

Chapter 954, Statutes of 2002

AB 2688 (Alquist-D) Public retirement systems: burial benefits

Establishes a burial benefit of $7,500 for all active and retired members of the State Public Employees' Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement System I and II and the Legislator's Retirement System.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2766 (Runner-R) Public employees' retirement: accumulated contributions

Allows former safety members of independent public retirement systems and County Employee Retirement Act of 1937 systems to redeposit withdrawn or refunded contributions in order to reinstate their right to receive a monthly retirement benefits, thus establishing reciprocity.

Chapter 883, Statutes of 2002

AB 2777 (Nation-D) County employees' retirement: death benefits

Makes domestic partners in specified categories eligible for certain death benefits and survivor benefits subject to approval by the board of supervisors. Specifies that it only applies to Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Marin Counties, which provide retirement benefits under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937.

Chapter 373, Statutes of 2002

AB 2792 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public employees: retirement

Eliminates, beginning January 1, 2003, a State Public Employees' Retirement System local contracting agency's ability to reduce or modify benefits, without employee consent, for new employees of the agency.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2833 (Pescetti-R) Public employees' retirement

Provides a different method for calculating an industrial disability allowance for specified local safety members and eliminates the authority of the State Public Employees' Retirement System to separately calculate retirement allowances under the two contracts when a local agency's contract is merged into another agency's contract.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2839 (Kehoe-D) State employees

Revises the definition of "meet and confer" as it is used in the Bill of Rights for State Excluded Employees (BRSEE) to require that the state fully consider the presentations made by organizations representing supervisory employees prior to reaching a decision, and make other related minor technical changes in the BRSEE statutes.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2853 (Diaz-D) State employees: engineers: salary parity

Provides that employees in State Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) will receive a salary no less than that received by their counterparts in larger local agencies and the University of California. The salaries are to be based upon the State Department of Personnel Administration's survey published in November 2001, and will be phased in over a three-year period beginning July 1, 2003, contingent upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2854 (Wiggins-D) Public employees' retirement: welfare fraud investigators

Allows State Public Employees' Retirement System local contracting agencies to grant safety retirement to welfare fraud investigators, subject to negotiation.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2862 (Migden-D) Domestic partnership

Allows a state retiree to appoint his or her domestic partner as beneficiary of an optional settlement election after retirement, just as a spouse may be so appointed.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2889 (Shelley-D) Agency shop agreements

Requires that an agency shop agreement shall be implemented between a public agency and a recognized public employee organization pursuant to specified rules, regulations, ordinances, and laws.

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

AB 2892 (Horton-D) State employees: discrimination action

Provides that a person's failure to exhaust his or her judicial remedies after losing an administrative appeal from a State Personnel Board decision will not bar a related discrimination action by that person. Provides that, as long as a person property exhausts his or her administrative remedies under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FHA), the person may bring a FHA discrimination claim in court, without also having to exhaust his or her state civil service administrative remedies.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2908 (Goldberg-D) Local public employee organizations

Revises provisions of the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA), the collective bargaining law governing local public agency employers and recognized employee organizations, and provides that an employee organization will not be deemed to have committed an unfair labor practice if it has violated a local rule adopted by a local a agency, if the local rules is in violation of current law under MMBA. Also provides that the Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to review decisions or order of the State Public Employment Relations Board.

Chapter 1137, Statutes of 2002

AB 2909 (Wiggins-D) Public employees' retirement: contracting agencies

Provides employee organizations the same right a local government agencies to request a quotation of the approximate level of contributions that would be required to participate in the State Public Employees' Retirement system (PERS), or to amending its contract with PERS to increase benefits.

Chapter 889, Statutes of 2002

AB 2940 (Migden-D) Employer-employee relations: state employees

Provides for final and binding arbitration of disputes regarding economic issues between the State and State Bargaining Unit 2, California State Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Employment.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2966 (Koretz-D) Public employee health benefits: contracting study

Requires the State Public Employees' Retirement System Board of Administration to conduct a study regarding the effects of authorizing state bargaining units to contract directly for health care benefits and to report the results of that study to the Legislature by January 1, 2004.

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

AB 2968 (Horton-D) State employees: deferred compensation

Requires the State to match, for eligible contributions of managers, supervisors and confidential employees, the lesser of five percent of the employee's salary, or the amount of the deduction authorized by the employee.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2983 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Benefits election: surviving spouse

Allows the surviving spouse of a member of the State Public Employees' Retirement System who had the right to convert Second Tier service credit to First Tier, but did not request the conversion prior to death, to convert their service credit and benefits to First Tier. Specifies that in order to effect the conversion, the surviving spouse will be required to pay the member contributions that would have been paid had the member been subject to First Tier at the time the service was rendered, plus interest.

(Died on the Assembly Third Reading File)

AB 2992 (Salinas-D) State employees: vacant positions

Exempts from the six-month vacancy abolishment process specified public safety positions within the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection that are classified as Peace Officer/Firefighter positions for retirement purposes, park ranger and lifeguard positions in the State Department of Parks and Recreation, and warden positions in n the State Department of Fish and Game and provide critical services to ensure the public health and welfare.

(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

AB 3040 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Retirement

Makes various changes regarding public employee benefits and retirement.

Chapter 1139, Statutes of 2002

ACR 55 (Migden-D) HIV and AIDS drug treatments: pharmaceutical companies

Urges governing bodies of the public pension and retirement systems of this state, in their capacities as shareholders of specified pharmaceutical companies, to support shareholder resolutions designed to develop and implement a policy, as specified, to provide HIV and AIDS drug treatments to less developed countries.

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

ACR 114 (Cardenas-D) State employee salaries and benefits

Memorializes the Governor and the State Department of Personnel Administration to quickly conclude negotiations with all state employee bargaining units so that the Legislature may ratify the memoranda of understanding before recessing for the year, and the memoranda of understanding contains specified elements.

(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

ACR 122 (Cogdill-R) Patriot Day: September 11

Declares September 11 of each year to be Patriot Day and urges state agencies, local governments, and the people of California to (1) observe Patriot Day with appropriate programs and activities, (2) display the flag of the United States at half-staff, and (3) observe a moment of silence in honor of the individuals who lost their lives because of the terrorist attacks against the United States that occurred on September 11, 2001.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 30 (Dickerson-R) Firefighters

Memorializes the United States Congress and the United States Department of Justice to include the families of wildland firefighting pilots and their crews, past and present, who have worked or who now work on a contracting basis as eligible for death benefits on the same basis as public safety officers.

Resolution Chapter 147, Statutes of 2002

Other State Government

SB 27 (McPherson-R) Emergency services: terrorism

Requires the Governor's Office of Emergency Services to develop specified training relative to terrorism awareness and response, and requires categories of personnel identified by the office to complete the training by June 30, 2002.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 188 (Haynes-R) State contracts and grants: religious organizations

Provides that any religious organization is eligible, on the same basis as any other private organization, as a contractor or recipient of a grant under any program administered by a state agency, so long as the program is implemented consistent with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and Section 4 of Article I of the California Constitution. Prohibits a state agency from discriminating against an organization that is, or applies to be a contractor, or applies for a grant on the basis that the organization has a religious character, as specified.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 358 (Murray-D) The Rosa Parks Learning Center

Authorizes the California Science Center, within the State and Consumer Services Agency, to establish the Rosa Parks Learning Center in Los Angeles, as specified, and makes related changes.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 368* (O'Connell-D) Hollywood Entertainment Museum

Appropriates $2 million from the General Fund to the California Arts Council, in augmentation of Item 8260-103-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2000, for allocation to the Hollywood Entertainment Museum.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 385 (Brulte-R) California's American Indian Nations Information Project

Establishes California's American Indian Nations Information Project and California's American Indian Nations Advisory Council within the State Library to provide appropriate guidance and a source of current historical information about California's federally recognized American Indian tribes and tribal people and provides for the appointment of its members. Appropriates $1 million from the General Fund, without regard to fiscal year, to the California State Library for the purposes of the bill.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 543 (Scott-D) State property: disposition

Appropriates $800,000 from the Property Acquisition Law Money Account, in augmentation of the Budget Act of 2001, for the support of the State Department of General Services to fund consultant services to assist in the sale or disposition of specified state properties.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 557 (Figueroa-D) State agencies: Internet transactions: convenience fees

Prohibits a state agency from charging a convenience fee or surcharge to any member of the public using the Internet to transact state business, including any fee or surcharge to cover the cost of a state agency providing for payment by credit card over the Internet.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 648 (Senate Environmental Quality Committee) Public contracts: preferences: recycled products

Makes clarifying and technical changes to the existing reporting requirements of the State Department of General Services, with regard to procurement and recycled materials.

Chapter 408, Statutes of 2002

SB 741 (Sher-D) Infrastructure plan: funding

Requires specific details to be incorporated into the Governor's annual five-year plan for funding infrastructure.

(Died in Conference Committee)

SB 821 (Sher-D) Surplus state land

Makes clarifying and technical changes to existing provisions of the Government Code relating to proprietary state lands identified as surplus.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

SB 924 (Alpert-D) Public contracts: architectural and engineering services

Revises procedures governing the award of contracts for architectural and engineering services by public agencies. Requires a public agency head of an agency that has decided to contract for architectural and engineering services to make certain written findings and declarations regarding quality and value, that include cost estimates of the agency and of private firms. Applies these requirements to local governments contracting for certain projects included in the State Transportation Improvement Program, but authorizes local governments to adopt procedures for all other contracts for architectural and engineering services.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 934 (Margett-R) False claims actions: restrictions

Specifies that no civil action may be brought, as a cross-complaint in any lawsuit, for breach of contract against the state or any political subdivision, nor may the civil action be consolidated for any purpose with any such lawsuit.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 937 (Margett-R) Public contracts: bids and disputes

Makes clarifying and technical changes to provisions of existing law relating to the public works contract bidding process.

Chapter 204, Statutes of 2002

SB 944 (Escutia-D) Public contracts: notice of settlements

Requires a person who contracts with a public agency to disclose an obligation to pay $100,000, or more, to another public entity in connection with a settlement or judgment involving a legal dispute with the other public entity, and permits the public entity to declare the contract void on that basis. Specifies that for contracts in existence prior to January 1, 2002, settlements or other obligations of $100,000, or more, with a public entity during the preceding five years, must be reported, but are not a basis for the public entity declaring the contract void. Authorizes a public entity to void a contract for failure to give the required notice.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 987 (Escutia-D) The Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act

Makes various changes to current laws that address state agencies and bilingual services, such as (1) expanding the definition of substantial number of non-English-speaking people, and (2) requiring distributed written materials, including forms, applications, letters, and notices, to be in non-English language, as appropriate.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1033 (Knight-R) Bid preferences: disabled veteran business enterprises

Adds to the current five percent bid preference given to certified small businesses on state contracts by allowing an additional three percent if the small business also is certified as a disabled veterans business enterprise (DVBE), thereby providing an eight percent bid preference for those DVBEs. Increases the bid preference ceiling, for both certified small businesses and DVBEs, from $50,000 to $80,000.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

Similar legislation is AB 2323 (Wyman-R), which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

SB 1045 (Polanco-D) Public employment and contracting

Declares the intent of the Legislature to reaffirm diversity as a public policy goal in public employment and public contracting. Authorizes governmental agencies to engage in various general recruitment and outreach programs and focused outreach activities to increase diversity in public employment and public contracting. Beginning January 1, 2003, requires each state department or agency awarding a contract or procuring goods or services, and authorizes each local agency receiving state funds, to collect information and report annually to the Governor and the Legislature on the participation level of minority, women, and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises in these contract and procurement activities.

Chapter 1165, Statutes of 2002

SB 1085 (Bowen-D) Public buildings and publicly funded schools: standards

Requires new and renovated state buildings to meet, or exceed, energy efficiency standards and to utilize cost-effective "green" building features.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1102 (Alarcon-D) Architectural and engineering services

Defines architectural and engineering services to include architectural, landscape architectural, engineering, environmental, land surveying, and construction project management services. Authorizes regional and local government entities to develop and adopt procedures to contract for architectural and engineering services, pursuant to The Fair Competition and Taxpayer Savings Act.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1196 (Romero-D) Sovereign immunity: waiver

States that the State of California consents to be sued in state or federal court by any person seeking to enforce rights under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Expressly prohibits a public agency from asserting immunity under the Eleventh Amendment of the United States Constitution and expressly waives the state's right to immunity under that amendment. Defines public agencies as the state and its agencies, officers, employees, and instrumentalities.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1236 (Alarcon-D) Labor and Workforce Development Agency

Implements the Governors Reorganization Plan #1 of 2002, which created a Labor and Workforce Development Agency in state government. The Labor and Workforce Development Agency is to consist of the State Department of Industrial Relations, the State Department of Employment Development, the State Agricultural Labor Relations Board, and the State Workforce Development Board, as specified. Also provides that the Director of the State Department of Industrial Relations shall receive an annual salary of $85,402 instead of $91,054.

Chapter 859, Statutes of 2002

SB 1284* (Battin-R) Military reserves: benefits: Operation Enduring Freedom

Provides the same relief, provided to reservists called to serve on active duty during the Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, to those reservists called to active duty for national emergencies caused by the terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon resulting in Operation Enduring Freedom.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1292 (Haynes-R) State agency fiscal reports

Requires each state agency, board, commission, department, or office to prepare and provide a report to the Senate Committee on Rules, the Assembly Committee on Rules, and to each member of the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review and the Assembly Committee on Budget on the financial activities of the agency, board, commission, department, or office for the 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01, and 2001-02 fiscal years no later than January 15, 2003, and for each subsequent fiscal year by January 15 of the following year in accordance with specified requirements.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1315 (Sher-D) Pharmaceuticals: purchasing

Permits the State Department of General Services to enter into contracts on behalf of state and local agencies with manufacturers and suppliers of prescription drugs. Permits these contracts to include price discounts to include price discounts, rebates, refunds, or other strategies aimed at managing escalating prescription drug prices.

Chapter 483, Statutes of 2002

SB 1333* (Alpert-D) Claims against the state: appropriation

Appropriates $1,360,702.74 from the General Fund to the State Attorney General to pay claims for court-issued awards against the State in two lawsuits against the State.

Chapter 583, Statutes of 2002

SB 1336* (Alpert-D) Claims against the state: appropriation

Appropriates a total of $1,457,756.09 from the General Fund and various special funds to the Executive Officer of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, formerly the State Board of Control, for the payment of 365 claims against 34 state departments.

Chapter 95, Statutes of 2002

SB 1353 (Perata-D) Harbors

Establishes a schedule of incremental changes to the rates and special surcharges that bar pilots may impose upon vessels that they move in and out of the bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, Suisun and other specified inland tributaries.

Chapter 765, Statutes of 2002

SB 1428 (McClintock-R) Government reorganization: realignment or closure

Establishes the Bureaucracy Realignment and Closure Commission in state government with a specified membership. Requires, beginning on January 1, 2004, the State Controller, the Director of the State Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst, the Legislative Counsel, the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy, and the State Auditor to develop recommendations for the closure or realignment of state bureaucracies for consideration by the commission. Requires the commission, no later than July 15, 2005, to submit a report of its final recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature that establishes a list of state bureaucracies that are proposed to be realigned or abolished. Also requires the commission to independently evaluate the recommendations, conduct three public hearings, and, by January 1, 2005, to have at least one member of the commission visit each state bureaucracy considered for realignment or closure. Requires the Governor, upon approval of the list of recommendations, to prepare the list as a reorganization plan and to submit the plan to the Legislature under statutory provisions relating to the Governor's reorganization plans. Appropriates $250,000 from the General Fund to the commission to defray costs incurred during its first year of operation.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1441 (Oller-R) Public entities: expenditure of public monies

Prohibits public officials, at both the state and local level, from expending public monies to bring legal action to enjoin, invalidate, or otherwise prevent initiative or referendum measures either from being placed on the ballot for consideration by the voters or from being implemented after they have been approved by the voters. Declares that preventing public agencies at all levels of government from abrogating the powers and rights of the public in voting for and approving initiative and referendum measures is a matter of statewide concern.

(Failed passage in Senate Elections and Reapportionment Committee)

SB 1443* (Oller-R) Legislative oversight: reports and studies

Provides that any report or study that is required to be prepared and submitted to the Legislature or submitted to the Legislative Counsel by a state or local agency shall be submitted electronically and that a Member of the Legislature who requests a printed copy of the report or study shall reimburse the agency for printing costs. Provides that no state or local agency will be required to prepare and submit any written report to the Legislature or the Governor until July 1, 2003, unless certain circumstances exist. Sunsets on January 1, 2004.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1467 (Bowen-D) Public contracts: conflict of interest

Applies standard Public Contract Code conflict of interest and penalty provisions to the state's procurement of information technology goods and services, as well as to procurement by the California State University and the University of California systems, all of which are currently exempt. Requires the State Department of Finance to report to the Legislature on or before April 1, 2003 on the effect this bill will have on the state's contracting costs. Makes the Information Technology, University of California and California State University provisions become operative on July 1, 2003.

Chapter 1122, Statutes of 2002

SB 1470* (Johannessen-R) California State Military Museum

Requires the Adjutant General to establish a California State Military Museum and Resource Center, and limits state funding to $100,000 per year.

Chapter 469, Statutes of 2002

SB 1498 (Vincent-D) Juneteenth, Emancipation Day

Requires the Governor to proclaim June 19 of each year as Juneteenth, Emancipation Day and urges the people of California to celebrate freedom from the vestiges of racial discrimination and the abolition of all badges and incidents of slavery and to honor and reflect on the significant role that African-Americans have played in the history of the United States.

Vetoed by the Governor

Similar legislation included SCR 77 (Vincent-D), which became Resolution Chapter 87, Statutes of 2002, AB 1749 (Longville-D), which became Chapter 155, Statutes of 2002, ACR 106 (Longville-D), which died in Assembly Rules Committee, and HR 50 (Longville-D), which was adopted by the Assembly.

SB 1551 (Battin-R) State militia: armories

Transfers $1 million from the General Fund to the Armory Fund in the State Treasury, and appropriates that amount from the Armory Fund to the Military Department for expenditures for the for the maintenance of specified National Guard armories used as emergency shelters.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1577 (Knight-R) State Capitol building: Christmas tree

Requires the annual Christmas tree that is traditionally decorated and erected on the grounds of the state capitol building be referred to as the "Capitol Christmas Tree" on signs/placards and government documents.

(Failed passage in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1600 (Karnette-D) State real property: surplus property

Requires the Office of Space and Real Estate Services (OSRES) in the State Department of General Services to develop standards for the inventory of state property, monitor state agency compliance with these standards, conduct periodic program review, and make recommendations to the Legislature. Also requires OSRES to make policy recommendations to the Legislature on the State Department of Transportation's property management and disposal of surplus property.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1607 (Assembly Governmental Organization Committee) State property

Directs the State Department of General Services (DGS) to sell, lease, or transfer specified state property and rescinds DGS's authority to dispose of specified properties declares surplus in prior legislation.

Chapter 974, Statutes of 2002

SB 1614 (Speier-D) Public records: vital statistics

Seeks to permit necessary public access to vital records while also protecting the confidentiality and personal privacy of the individuals to whom the information pertains.

Chapter 712, Statutes of 2002

SB 1620 (Knight-R) Conflict of interest

Requires members of a board of commission of a newly created agency to file statements of economic interests according to the Political Reform Act requirements until the agency adopts an approved conflict of interest code.

Chapter 264, Statutes of 2002

SB 1654 (Burton-D) Governor's office: homelessness

Establishes the Office of Homelessness in the Governor's Office to coordinate the efficient use of existing state resources to improve the management and oversight of all state homeless programs.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1687 (Margett-R) Public contracts: bids: Internet

Adds a provision to the Public Contract Code that authorizes public entities to adopt methods and procedures to receive bids on public works or other contracts over the Internet, but only if no bid can be opened before the bid deadline and all bids can be verified as authentic.

Chapter 398, Statutes of 2002

SB 1697 (O'Connell-D) Public contracts: purchase of recycled products

Adds "antifreeze" to the list of products required to be recycled by state agencies and the Legislature under the State's green purchasing program, as specified.

Chapter 363, Statutes of 2002

SB 1706 (Soto-D) State contracts: acquisition of goods and services

Prohibits a state agency from acquiring or utilizing sand, gravel, aggregates, or other minerals, as defined, from a source outside of the state.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1746 (Polanco-D) Public retirement boards: nominees

States legislative intent regarding the appointment of local elected officials to the State Teachers' Retirement Board.

Chapter 289, Statutes of 2002

SB 1816 (Chesbro-D) Native American sacred sites: violations

Establishes the Native American Historic Resource Protection Act to protect specified Native Americans and provides penalties for violations of the provisions of the bill.

Chapter 1155, Statutes of 2002

SB 1937 (Costa-D) Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program Act

Enacts the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program Act, to require the California Arts Council to administer the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program by establishing four digital arts studio partnerships in the state, for the purpose of providing digital media arts training to youths ages 13 to 18. Requires the Council to submit an initial report on the program, to the Legislature, by January 30, 2003. Sunsets January 1, 2005.

Chapter 980, Statutes of 2002

Similar legislation was AB 990 (Diaz-D), which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SB 1961 (Polanco-D) State reporting

Requires the State Department of General Services to develop compliance standards in the State Administrative Manual to inform owners of state property of their duties and responsibilities pursuant to these provisions.

Chapter 981, Statutes of 2002

SB 1996 (Karnette-D) State Department of the California Highway Patrol

Removes the State Department of the California Highway Patrol from the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and places it within the Office of the Governor.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 2063* (Brulte-R) California Indian Cultural Center and Museum

Establishes the California Indian Cultural Center and Museum Task Force within the State Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) for the purpose of assisting DPR in developing a California Indian Cultural Center and Museum.

Chapter 290, Statutes of 2002

SB 2099 (Vasconcellos-D) State property: surplus

Authorizes the Director of the State Department of General Services to dispose of certain surplus land located in the City of Santa Clara.

Chapter 631, Statutes of 2002

SCA 7 (Burton-D) Access to government information

Amends the Declaration of Rights contained in Article I of the State Constitution to provide that the people of California have a fundamental right of access to government information subject to appropriate statutory limitations enacted by the Legislature.

(Died at the Assembly Desk)

SCA 10 (Speier-D) Public library facilities: bonds: vote requirement

Allows voters to approve a bond for public library facilities with a 55 percent majority, rather than a two-thirds majority. Allows ad valorem tax on real property to exceed the one percent limitation to pay for library facility bonds.

(Died on the Senate Inactive File)

SCR 53 (Battin-R) California Hispanic Heritage Month

Declares September 15 to October 15, 2002, to be California Hispanic Heritage Month, and encourages all Californians to observe this event in communities throughout the state.

Resolution Chapter 40, Statutes of 2002

SCR 61 (Chesbro-D) California Nonprofits and Philanthropy Week

Proclaims March 31 to April 6, 2002, inclusive, as California Nonprofits and Philanthropy Week.

Resolution Chapter 12, Statutes of 2002

SCR 62 (Margett-R) United States Military Academy: bicentennial

Commemorates the bicentennial of the founding of the United States Military located at West Point, New York.

Resolution Chapter 54, Statutes of 2002

SCR 65 (Alpert-D) California Museum Month

Proclaims May, 2002, as California Museum Month.

Resolution Chapter 41, Statutes of 2002

SCR 67 (Polanco-D) Cesar Chavez Day

Recognizes March 31 as the anniversary of the birth of Cesar Chavez, and calls upon all Californians to participate in appropriate observances to remember Cesar Chavez as a symbol of hope and justice to all citizens.

Resolution Chapter 25, Statutes of 2002

SCR 68 (Vasconcellos-D) United States Senator Alan Cranston

Memorializes the late United States Senator Alan MacGregor Cranston for his illustrious record of persona, professional, public, and civic achievement, and also expresses the Legislature's deepest sympathy to his bereaved family and friends.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SCR 72 (Escutia-D) Women's History Month

Proclaims the month of March 2002, as Women's History Month and calls on all Californians to join in the celebration of International Women's Day on March 8, 2002.

Resolution Chapter 26, Statutes of 2002

SCR 75 (Margett-R) California Volunteer Week

Declares the support of the Legislature for National Volunteer Week by proclaiming the week of April 21 to 27, 2002, as California Volunteer Week 2002.

Resolution Chapter 47, Statutes of 2002

SCR 77 (Vincent-D) Juneteenth, Emancipation Day

Declares June 19 permanently as Juneteenth, Emancipation Day, throughout the State of California, that all Californians celebrate freedom from the vestiges of racial discrimination and the abolition of all badges and incidents of slavery and take this opportunity to reflect on the significant role that African-Americans have played in the history of the United States, and California in particular, and on the positive impact that African-Americans continue to make on society.

Resolution Chapter 87, Statutes of 2002

Similar legislation was SB 1498 (Vincent), which was vetoed, AB 1949 (Longville-D), which became Chapter 155, Statutes of 2002, ACR 106 (Longville-D), which died in Assembly Rules Committee, and HR 50 (Longville-D), which was adopted by the Assembly.

SCR 79 (Murray-D) Sister State Relationship: Cuba

Extends an invitation to the people of Cuba, on behalf of the people of the State of California, to join with California in a sister state relationship that will facilitate the exchange of cultural and environmental information and ultimately promote mutual international trade and commerce between Cuba and California.

(Died on the Senate Inactive File)

SCR 80 (Machado-D) Grandmothers for Peace International

Recognizes May 19, 2002, as the 20th anniversary of Grandmothers for Peace International.

Resolution Chapter 63, Statutes of 2002

SCR 82 (Polanco-D) Korean-Americans

Recognizes the achievements and contributions of Korean-Americans to the United States over the past 100 years and requests that the people of California and interested organizations observe the 100th anniversary of Korean immigration to the United States with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.

Resolution Chapter 108, Statutes of 2002

SCR 84 (Costa-D) Sister states: Azores

Extends an invitation on behalf of the people of California to the people of the Azores, Portugal to join with California in a sister state relationship.

Resolution Chapter 124, Statutes of 2002

SCR 88 (Karnette-D) John William Coltrane

Recognizes the 75th anniversary of the birth of the musician John William Coltrane.

Resolution Chapter 154, Statutes of 2002

SCR 95 (Torlakson-D) Sister states

Invites the State of Baja California Sur, Mexico, to join California in a sister state relationship.

Resolution Chapter 131, Statutes of 2002

SCR 96 (Haynes-R) Pledge of Allegiance

Makes various findings with respect to the Pledge of Allegiance, and requests the State Attorney General of this state to join the United States Justice Department in repudiating the decision of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Newdow v. U.S. Congress, and requesting that the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the United States Supreme Court overturn the decision.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 99 (Torlakson-D) California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness

Expands, by four members, the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness. Provides that two of the additional members shall be appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, and shall include one person from the field of health and one member from the field of education, and that the other two additional members shall be appointed by the Senate Rules Committee and shall include one person from the field of health and one member from the field of education.

Resolution Chapter 134, Statutes of 2002

SCR 103 (Vasconcellos-D) Legislative Principles of Inclusion

Declares legislative principles of inclusion and encourages all Californians to consider and adopt these principles for themselves or define their own separate principles of inclusion.

Resolution Chapter 135, Statutes of 2002

SCR 106 (O'Connell-D) September 11, 2001, memorial

Requests the State Department of General Services to plant commemorative rose bushes near the east steps of the State Capitol along with the placement of a plaque memorializing those Californians who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.

Resolution Chapter 162, Statutes of 2002

SR 24 (Haynes-R) Anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Calls on the people of California to join in celebrating the anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War, allowed California to join the Union, and resulted in 154 years of peaceful relations between the United States and Mexico.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SR 25 (Haynes-R) Ronald Reagan Day

Recognizes February 6, 2002, and subsequent anniversaries thereafter as Ronald Reagan Day.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 33 (Knight-R) September 11, 2001, Day of Remembrance

Encourages all Californians, on September 11, 2002, to observe a day of remembrance to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on America. Encourages all California schools to set aside an appropriate time during the school day on September 11, 2002, as a time of remembrance for students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 13 (Florez-D) Political Reform Act of 1974

Requires that registration information, activity reports, and activity expense reports filed by lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers also disclose information on services relating to the solicitation, proposal, negotiation, drafting, amendment, awarding, or rescission of a nonrestrictive contract for goods or services.

(Died in Senate Elections and Reapportionment Committee)

AB 103 (Vargas-D) State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

Establishes the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection within the Office of the Governor instead of in the State Resources Agency. Makes conforming and other technical changes.

(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee)

AB 116 (Nakano-D) Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs.

Creates the Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs, consisting of 13 members appointed, as specified. The terms of the commission members shall commence January 1, 2004. The duties of the commission include advising the Governor, the Legislature, and state agencies, departments, and commissions on issues relating to social and economic development, and the rights and interests of Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) communities. Requires the commission to act as a liaison with APIA communities, hold meetings on issues affecting the APIA community, and submit an annual report, with specified recommendations, by December 1 of each year to the Governor and the Legislature that details the commission's activities and sets forth its action plan for the following year.

Chapter 716, Statutes of 2002

AB 138 (Nation-D) Bidding procedures: alternative bids

Modifies provisions of the Public Contract Code relative to competitive bidding by prohibiting the identity of "subcontractors and suppliers," along with the name of the prime contractor, from being revealed to public agencies until after all bids have been ranked from high to low.

Chapter 455, Statutes of 2002

AB 151 (Reyes-D) Public libraries: Internet: obscene matter

Requires public libraries that receive state funds and provide Internet access to minors to purchase, install, and maintain filtering software that limits access to obscene or pornographic material.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 227* (Dutra-D) Unclaimed property: escheat

Extends, from December 31, 2001 to December 31, 2002, the deadline for participating in a program that gave the holder of unclaimed, escheated property, amnesty in the form of forgiven penalties and interest for the late delivery of the escheated property to the state.

Chapter 22, Statutes of 2002

AB 261 (Wright-D) Exposition Park Authority and California Science Center

Reorganizes the 6th District Agricultural Association, in Los Angeles, as the Exposition Park Authority, instead of the California Science Center (CSC). Makes changes to the governance of the facilities at Exposition Park, primarily by transferring responsibility from the CSC to a new Exposition Park Authority Board

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 450 (Corbett-D) California State Museum

Creates, subject to appropriation, the State Museum Commission, within the State Department of Parks and Recreation, to oversee the development and operation of the collection of the State Museum Resource Center, in West Sacramento, which will be the nucleus of the California State Museum.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 468 (Firebaugh-D) State property: access: telecommunications

Provides that agreements negotiated by the State Department of Transportation to place wireless facilities on state-owned property or highway rights-of-way shall provide compensation at fair market value.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 498 (Chan-D) Environmentally preferable purchasing

Provides that the State Department of General Services, in consultation with the California Environmental Protection Agency, members of the public, industry, and public health and environmental organizations shall provide state agencies with information and assistance regarding environmentally preferable purchasing, as provided. States the intent of the Legislature in enacting these provisions.

Chapter 575, Statutes of 2002

AB 499 (Rod Pacheco-R) State Building 101: transfer of title

Requires the Director of the State Department of General Services to transfer title of a state building located in Norco, to the City of Norco, at no cost to the city, other than costs associated with the actual transfer, in accordance with certain conditions.

Chapter 746, Statutes of 2002

AB 529 (Dickerson-R) Volunteer firefighters: training

Provides state assistance for the training of volunteer fire departments.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 573 (Canciamilla-D) Public contracts: goods and services: void contracts

Increases the damages applicable to any person who corruptly permits the violation of any state public contract for the acquisition of goods and services to three times the amount the state may have lost or be liable to lose, rather than two times. Adds a new provision that stipulates any person who entered into a contract with the state for the acquisition of goods and services under a contract determined to be void by reason of that person's intentional or grossly negligent misrepresentation or by the failure to disclose a material fact shall be liable for three times the amount the state may have lost or be liable to lose by reason of entering into that contract, plus state costs and attorney's fees.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 592 (Diaz-D) Public contracts: claims

Prohibits a public entity who is an additional insured under a contractor's liability insurance from compromising or settling any third-party claim against the public entity unless the public entity determines that the insurance carrier has violated specified requirements.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 754 (Mountjoy-R) False claims actions: exceptions

Includes claims, records, or statements made pursuant to specified provisions governing the resolution of certain construction claims under public works contracts.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 763 (Shelley-D) Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act

Requires that information and materials provided over the Internet explaining services available from a state agency, or notice of availability of materials made in electronic form consistent with use over the Internet, shall be translated into any non-English language spoken by a substantial number of people served by the agency, and also distributed through any applicable web sites on the Internet under those circumstances. Authorizes state agencies to contract for Internet based interpretation services.

(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)

AB 787 (Hertzberg-D) State government: state departments

Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research, in consultation with the state departments, to evaluate the functions of each department and make recommendations to the Legislature by January 1, 2004, that will improve the delivery of state services, as specified. Provides that the recommendations should include proposed realignments to their geographical organization that consider specified items.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 805 (Shelley-D) State agency web sites: non-English information

Requires each state agency that maintains a web site to provide links on the home page of its web site to appropriate non-English information, including information at least in Spanish and Chinese, consistent with the requirements of the Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act. Requires each state agency that maintains a web site to report annually to the Assembly concerning how it is complying with this requirement.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 812 (Mountjoy-R) Public works contracts: competitive bidding

Provides that whenever provisions of the Public Contract Code require that a public works contract be let to the lowest responsible bidder, no expenditure above the threshold in that section for contracts that must be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder shall be made for that public work of improvement except by a public works contract let to the lowest responsible bidder. States legislative intent in enacting the bill to overturn a judicial decision regarding whether public works of improvement must be performed by the lowest responsible bidder.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 822 (Shelley-D) Public records: disclosure

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

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 850 (Rod Pacheco-R) Public contracts: void contracts

Provides that public contracts shall be automatically void within one year after the conviction for bribery of an employee or officer of the contractor or public entity.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 857 (Wiggins-D) Infrastructure planning: priorities and funding

Revises the contents of the State Environmental Goals and Policy Report, revises the contents of the Governor's Five Year Infrastructure Plan, requires the Governor to develop a conflict resolution process, and extends the sunset clause for the land use dispute mediation process.

Chapter 1016, Statutes of 2002

AB 914 (Shelley-D) Public records

Amends the Public Records Act to require public agencies and courts to release to the public any record not expressly prohibited from disclosure by a specific provision of law, if the agency or court finds that withholding the record would harm the public interest, public safety, or the constitutional rights of any person.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1080 (Kehoe-D) State contracts: acquisition of goods or services

Seeks to eliminate discrimination against employees and their domestic partners when they are not provided the same benefits available to employees and their spouses.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1106 (Pescetti-R) Notaries public: escrow instruments

Specifies that any escrow instrument purporting to obligate a third party, in an amount over $10,000, on behalf of a party to a real estate transaction, shall be "acknowledged" before a notary public.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1121 (Cardoza-D) State contracts: corporate expatriation transactions

Enacts the Pension and Shareholder Protection Act of 2002 to prohibit an acquiring corporation, as defined, that has entered into or that enters into a corporate expatriation transaction, as defined, from being eligible to be awarded a public works, goods, or services contract with the state, unless the head of the agency awarding the contract makes a specified finding.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1209 (La Suer-R) State-mandated local programs

Provides that, on or after January 1, 2002, legislation that mandates a new program or higher level of service on any local government shall include a provision to repeal the enactment within six years and requires the Legislative Analyst to report on the enactment. Specifies that this requirement will not apply to legislation that specifically makes the requirement inapplicable, contains a provision to repeal the enactment in less than six years, or creates a new crime, changes the definition of a crime, or changes the penalty for a crime.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1290 (Lowenthal-D) Tidelands: City of Los Angeles: Knoll Hill

Requires, upon adoption of a resolution by the Los Angeles City Council, that certain real property known as "Knoll Hill," acquired with revenues generated from granted tide and submerged lands, be developed and maintained for public park purposes of a statewide or regional benefit.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1308 (Cardoza-D) Historic State Capitol Commission

Authorizes the Historic State Capitol Commission to make recommendations to the Joint Rules Committee regarding restoration of, and security at, the historic State Capitol following a criminal or terrorist act that damages any part of the historic State Capitol.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 1357 (Wiggins-D) Personal services contracts: employee compensation

Requires personal service contracts entered into by state agencies to include provisions for employee wages and specified benefits at no less than 85 percent of the state employer cost provided to state employees for performing similar duties. Includes retirement benefits, holiday pay, sick pay and vacation pay in the definition of benefits. Provides that it applies only to those personal services contracts and lease subcontracts entered into, renewed, or extended on or after July 1, 2003.

Chapter 1132, Statutes of 2002

AB 1362 (Wiggins-D) Buildings: rehabilitation

Establishes the California Building Rehabilitation Code Advisory Council to advise the State Building Standards Commission whether or not the development of state building rehabilitation guidelines will improve the reuse and safety of existing buildings.

(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1433* (Horton-D) Military service: benefits

Incorporates into state law several provisions of the federal Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940 (SSRA), which grants certain benefits to persons called to federal military service abroad. Extends these SSRA benefits to California reservists and members of the California National Guard called to state military duty or to federal military duty on domestic territory.

Chapter 60, Statutes of 2002

AB 1440 (Diaz-D) Community Technology Competitive Grant Program

Requires the State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency to develop and administer a grant application process to award grants from funds appropriated by the Legislature to community-based nonprofit organizations for the purpose of disseminating technology in communities, including providing training and access to e-government. Limits individual grants to $100,000 and requires a one-to-one nonstate match of money or in-kind contributions.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1519 (Lowenthal-D) Tidal and submerged lands: Long Beach tidelands

Allows the City of Long Beach to retain, out of specified oil revenue received by the city each month, an amount to be placed in a fund to be solely to pay that portion of the costs of plugging and abandoning oil and gas production facilities from the Long Beach Tidelands that are not the contractual responsibility of the contractor or other parties. Requires that any monies remaining in the fund after the completion of plugging and abandoning activities be remitted to the state, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1559* (Diaz-D) State data centers

Repeals sunset dates and extends, indefinitely, the provisions governing the Department of Justices Hawkins Data Center, the State Health and Human Services Agency Data Center, and the Stephen P. Teale Data Center.

Chapter 45, Statutes of 2002

AB 1624 (Zettel-R) Information technology

Renames the State Department of Information Technology (DOIT) the State Information Technology Agency (ITA), and renames the Director of DOIT the Secretary of ITA. Requires ITA and the secretary to perform various additional duties with respect to the development of a California Internet portal for access to state government Internet services, the designation of a new job classification and salary, including efficiency bonuses, for duties performed in connection with the California internet portal, the creation of an electronic procurement program for state agencies, the implementation and oversight of various state information technology services, and makes other related changes. Appropriates $100 million form the General Fund to ITA for the purpose of providing capital for hardware, software, and training to state employees for delivering services relating to the development of the California Internet portal and the electronic procurement program. Extends the operation of these provisions to July 1, 2007, and the repeal date to January 1, 2008.

(Died in Assembly Job, Economic Development, and the Economy Committee)

AB 1749 (Longville-D) Juneteenth National Freedom Day

Requires the Governor to proclaim the 3rd Saturday in June each year as Juneteenth National Freedom Day: A Day of Observance, to urge Californians to honor and reflect on the significant role played by African Americans in the history of the United States and how they have enriched society through their commitment to promoting brotherhood and equality.

Chapter 155, Statutes of 2002

Similar legislation included SB 1498 (Vincent), which was vetoed, SCR 77 (Vincent-D), which became Resolution Chapter 87, Statutes of 2002, ACR 906 (Longville-D), which died in Assembly Rules Committee, and HR 50 (Longville-D), which was adopted by the Assembly.

AB 1752 (Migden-D) Public records

Requires the State Board of Equalization, prior to taking final action at a meeting on any item that does not involve a named tax or fee payer, to make public records pertaining to that item available at that meeting, to all persons requesting copies of the records, and on the Internet.

Chapter 156, Statutes of 2002

AB 1757 (Leslie-R) Official state gold rush ghost town: Bodie

Designates the town of Bodie as the official state gold rush ghost town.

Chapter 365, Statutes of 2002

AB 1768* (Oropeza-D) State and local government

Specifies that any amounts received from the federal government for homeland security and appropriated in the Budget Act, not more than $15 million may be allocated to the security advisor to the Governor for disbursement to state and local government public safety agencies to procure and operate specified video equipment. Requires that two employees of the Secretary of State's office be appointed by the Governor and be exempt from civil service. Limits property tax from the redevelopment agencies to the Educational Review Augmentation Fund to fiscal year 2002-03. Allows the State Franchise Tax Board to round the interest rate paid by the state on overpayments to the nearest full percent and provides that the interest rate (for corporations) is to be the lesser of five percent or the bond equivalent rate of 13-week United States Treasury bills.

Allows the Secretary of the Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency, with the approval of the Director of the State Department of Finance, to direct the State Controller to transfer specified funds of the agency to the General Fund to be credited toward an uncollected reduction in the agency budget. Enables competition for the creation of new e-government systems within the state. Cleans up legislation relating to the expenditure of funds form California Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe Neighborhood Parks and Coastal Protection Act of 2002 for the purpose of preserving state historical and cultural resources and permits the use of Proposition 40 for both opportunity grants and capital outlay projects. Appropriates $5 million from the Public Transportation Account in the State Transportation Fund to the State Department of Transportation for local assistance to the City of Shafter for the Southern San Joaquin Valley Intermodal Facility. Makes specified appropriations by the Budget Acts of 1998 and 1999 to the Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology and by the Budget Act of 1999 the Regional Aquatic Center swimming pool in the City of San Jacinto available for liquidation until June 30, 2005.

Chapter 1127, Statutes of 2002 - Item Vetoed

The Governor vetoed the $15 million for the Governor's security advisor.

AB 1774 (Canciamilla-D) Straits of Carquinez: land restrictions

Amends an existing legislative intent grant of sovereign land to the City of Martinez to eliminate a 20 foot height limitation imposed on structures placed on land referred to as Parcel "A".

Chapter 387, Statutes of 2002

AB 1798 (Chavez-D) Public records

Requires a county recorder to require a veteran who requests recordation of any military discharge document to sign a form stating that the veteran knows that all information contained in the document becomes a public record and is open to inspection by the public.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1813 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee) Public contracts: state government: information technology

Requires that notification be provided to the Legislature at least 30 days prior to signing sole-source contracts for information technology goods and services in excess of $500,000 or more.

(Died on the Senate Inactive File)

AB 1815 (Frommer-D) State bonds: antiterrorism activities

Authorizes the State Treasurer to issue up to $500 million in "homeland defense bonds" to fund antiterrorism activities of local public safety and emergency services agencies.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1845 (Correa-D) State liens: priority of enforcement

Permits victims' restitution liens to "switch places" with state tax liens.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1857 (Wayne-D) Administrative procedures

Clarifies and refines the administrative rulemaking procedures based on recommendations of the California Law Revision Commission.

Chapter 389, Statutes of 2002

AB 1872 (Canciamilla-D) Vital records: certificate of death

Establishes an expedited process for obtaining death certificates for victims in the event of a mass fatality incident. Defines mass fatality incident as one where there are more dead bodies than what the local resources can handle, and authorizes the county coroner or medical examiner to declare when an incident may be classified as a mass fatality incident.

Chapter 717, Statutes of 2002

AB 1962 (Hollingsworth-R) Electronic communication

Includes transmitting by electronic mail and facsimile in the definition of writing for purposes of the Evidence Code and records covered by the Public Records Act, thus subjecting emails and facsimiles to the rules of evidence, and to disclosure under the Public Records Act when gathered, stored and maintained by a state or local agency.

Chapter 945, Statutes of 2002

AB 2002 (Alquist-D) Urban search and rescue emergency response

Requires the Seismic Safety Commission (SCC), in consultation with the Director of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services, to establish an urban search and rescue emergency response advisory committee to prepare and submit to the SCC chairperson a strategy, plan, and recommendations for addressing the resource needs of emergency urban search and rescue units.

Chapter 460, Statutes of 2002

AB 2019 (Wayne-D) Unlawful gains: disgorgement

Seeks to effectuate the full deterrent force of the law by ensuring courts have the discretion to order disgorgement of ill-gotten gains in actions filed in the name of the people by the State Attorney General or district attorney, if such a remedy would further the interests of justice.

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

AB 2037 (Diaz-D) Public contracts: claims

Requires public agencies to include provisions in every public works contracts for the timely notification of the contractor of the receipt of any third-party claim.

Chapter 315, Statutes of 2002

AB 2039 (Steinberg-D) Public art

Provides that the California Arts Council (CAC), the State Architect, and the State Department of Finance shall jointly determine the appropriate funding for art in a specific project, which shall not exceed two percent of the total construction costs for capital outlay projects. Provides that the CAC shall, upon receipt of funding, develop guidelines for maintenance and conservation of the California Arts Collection, as defined.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2072 (Mountjoy-R) Open meetings: closed sessions: security

Amends the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act to enable a state body to hold discussions of security issues in closed sessions. Sunsets January 1, 2006.

Chapter 1113, Statutes of 2002

AB 2092 (Kelley-R) Land exchange agreements: Arizona

Grants the State Lands Commission the authority to resolve land titles on the Colorado River and allow for the exchange of sovereign lands with the State of Arizona.

Chapter 432, Statutes of 2002

AB 2097 (Diaz-D) Public employees' retirement: Board of Administration

Provides that, if an incumbent member of the State Public Employees' Retirement System Board of Administration does not file for reelection, the filing date for candidates for the seat is extended by 10 days.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2278 (John Campbell-R) Public records: personal identifying information

Prohibits a state agency from releasing specified personal information in any public document, or in any other document, to any person or entity, except the individual for whom the information pertains and to other public agencies

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2283 (La Suer-R) Written reports: cost

Requires state agencies to consider cost reduction options in the process of preparing written reports, including but not limited to, eliminating unnecessary and expensive color graphics, photographs, binding and paper.

Chapter 370, Statutes of 2002

AB 2315 (Chu-D) Office of State Printing: paid advertisements

Extends an existing exemption allowing the Office of State Printing, under the jurisdiction of the State Department of General Services, to continue accepting paid advertisements in state printed and published materials, as specified.

Chapter 220, Statutes of 2002

AB 2357 (Briggs-R) State contracts: bid preferences

Eliminates the $50,000 limit on the five percent bidding preference currently given to small businesses on state contracts. Eliminates the limit of $100,000 in cases where the above preference is combined with any other statutory preferences.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2375 (Cardoza-D) State contracts: corporate expatriation transactions

Enacts the Pension and Shareholder Protection Act of 2002 to prohibit an acquiring corporation, as defined, that has entered into or that enters into a corporate expatriation transaction, as defined, from being eligible to be awarded a public works, good, or services contract with the state, unless the head of the agency awarding the contract makes a specified finding.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2396 (Dickerson-R) State real property: inventory

Requires that existing information on the statewide property inventory be expanded to include, for each property, the zoning and the types of current and proposed uses, including, but not limited to, agricultural preservation, wildlife habitat, historical, and ecosystem restoration uses.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2409 (Jackson-D) Emergency notification systems

Requires the Office of Emergency Services to study the ability of California television and radio stations to notify the public of an emergency 24 hours a day and report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature by July 1, 2003.

Chapter 855, Statutes of 2002

AB 2427 (Dickerson-R) Public contracts: right of way

Authorizes state and local governmental entities to contract with private firms for right-of-way appraisal and acquisition services, when delivering transportation improvement projects on the state highway system.

(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 2452 (Rod Pacheco-R) Public contracts: voiding for bribery

Specifies that public contracts shall be automatically void within one year after the conviction for bribery of an employee or officer of the contractor or public entity.

(Failed passage in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2472 (Simitian-D) Capitol grounds

Requires the State Department of General Service to implement a demonstration project to study the use of Integrated Pest Management techniques at the State Capitol Park and its associated grounds.

Chapter 242, Statutes of 2002

AB 2543 (Diaz-D) Information technology: enterprise leasing agreements

Establishes a process by which the state may enter into an "enterprise licensing agreement" for the procurement of information technology services or products.

(Failed passage in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2567 (Assembly Business And Professions Committee) Public contracts: acquisitions of goods and services

Makes technical and conforming changes related to state contracts and repeals certain state agency reporting requirements.

Chapter 951, Statutes of 2002

AB 2610 (Mountjoy-R) Public contracts: lowest responsible bidder

Defines the term "lowest responsible bidder" as used in public contracts.

(Died on the Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2666 (Mountjoy-R) Public contracts: contract specifications.

Revises the conditions under which public agencies can require goods or services from one specific source when putting contracts out to bid.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2850 (Firebaugh-D) Personal services contracts: legal services

Requires that notice given by a state agency to the designated representative of State Employees Bargaining Unit 2 (state attorneys and hearing officers), prior to entering into a contract for legal services.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2922 (Simitian-D) Personal information: state agency records

Requires the Office of Privacy Protection (OPP) to create a State Personal Information Inventory for access by the public, indicating the types of personal information contained in each state agency's records, how the state uses the information, and how individuals may gain access to specific records in which they are identified. Requires OPP to provide state agencies with a format for reporting on the categories of personal information in their possession, and requires each agency to provide that information to OPP by a specified date, and to provide annual updates regarding any changes in the information.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2923 (Pescetti-R) California Agriculture Day

Designates the first day of spring in each year as California Agriculture Day. Also encourages a public school, on either the first day of spring or the day determined by the school, to provide education that instructs students on the history and importance of agriculture in California.

Chapter 348, Statutes of 2002

AB 2941 (Wiggins-D) Public records

Requires the person requesting the information from any state and local government to provide proof of his or her identity and documentation of the reason that the information is being requested.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 3000* (Assembly Budget Committee) State and local government: budget trailer bill

State and local government budget trailer omnibus bill which makes changes in the law relating to claims for money or damages against the state or local agency, the State Board of Corrections, the State Department of the Youth Authority, Trial Court, State Department of Corrections, State Department of Justice, the Office of Criminal Justice Planning, California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority, State Public Utilities Commission, State Department of Industrial Relations, State Water Resources Conservation Board, State Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency, State Department of General Services, Legislative Counsel Bureau, Bureau of State Barbering and Cosmetology, interest rates paid on various overpayments, State Department of Finance, State Controller, Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Act, vacant state positions, State Department of Insurance, and the State Board of Equalization.

Some of the provisions of this bill are also contained in AB 1768 (Oropeza-D).

Chapter 1124, Statutes of 2002

AB 3007 (Assembly Budget Committee) State and local government

Makes changes in the 2002-03 budget and trailer bills relating to (1) redevelopment agencies, (2) interest rates paid on various overpayments, (3) the infrastructure bank, (4) the State Department of Motor Vehicle's charges for sale of documents, (5) financial integrity and State Managers Accountability Act of 2002, and (6) competitive bidding for signage.

(Died on Assembly Floor Awaiting Concurrence)

AB 3019* (Assembly Budget Committee) Claims against the state: appropriation

Appropriates funds to pay claims against the state approved by the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board. Appropriates $1,883,021.03 ($794,155.83 General Fund to pay 597 claims approved against 39 state departments.

(Died on Assembly Floor Awaiting Concurrence)

AB 3022 (Negrete McLeod-D) State agencies: ethics orientation

Requires all employees of a state agency who are required to file statements of economic interest to attend an orientation course every two years on the relevant ethics statutes and regulations that govern the official conduct of state officials.

Chapter 663, Statutes of 2002

AB 3025* (Assembly Transportation Committee) Public works: environmental enhancement projects

Requires the State Department of Transportation to extend the completion date for specified Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Program projects and creates a stepped-up incremental payments formula for mobilization costs involving toll bridge replacement and retrofit projects.

Chapter 965, Statutes of 2002

AB 3035 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Access to government programs

Amends the Ralph M. Brown Act (requiring open meetings of legislative bodies of public agencies) and the Bagley-Keene Open Meetings Act (requiring open meetings of state bodies) to cross-reference a requirement under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act that notices of agendas and public records distributed at these open meetings be available to persons with a disability and that published agendas include information on the availability of disability-related aids or services. Adds "race" and "national origin" to the list of factors, such as religion, age, sex, color, ethnic group identification or disability, on which basis a person may not be unlawfully denied full and equal access to a program or activity by the state, a state agency, or to a program or activity that is funded directly by the state or receives any financial assistance from the state. This bill is double-jointed with AB 1752 (Migden-D).

Chapter 300, Statutes of 2002

ACA 11 (Richman-R) Infrastructure: finance

Establishes the Twenty-First Century Infrastructure Investment Fund and requires a specified percentage of General fund revenues to be transferred annually to this fund beginning in 2006-07. These funds will be used to finance infrastructure projects related to transportation, education, natural resource preservation, parks, and water, of which 50 percent would be continuously appropriated to local government and 50 percent would be available for state projects. Transfers one percent of General Fund revenue in 2006-07 and increase to three percent in 2013-14. Requires the State Department of Finance to prepare an annual plan to expend these funds unless the Governor directs another state agency to prepare the plan.

Resolution Chapter 185, Statutes of 2002

Similar legislation was SCA 4 (Johannessen-R), which died in Senate Appropriations Committee, AB 1020 (Leach-R), which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee, and AB 2698 (Cox-R), which died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee

ACR 62 (Firebaugh-D) Cinco de Mayo

Calls on the people of California to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo, the historic date of May 5, 1862, as a day to honor the valiant spirit of the brave Mexicanos who defended the town of Puebla and the Mexican Americans of today who have fought and died for the freedom of the United States of America and declares the week of April 29 through May 5 as Cinco de Mayo Week.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 65 (Leslie-R) National Day of Prayer

Recognizes May 3, 2001, as a National Day of Prayer, and would encourage all the people of California to gather together in homes and places of worship to pray for their God's blessings upon our state and our nation.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 82 (Negrete McLeod-D) Youth Baseball Week

Commends youth baseball and its participants and supporters and designates June 10, 2001, to June 16, 2001, inclusive, as Youth Baseball Week.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 83 (Mountjoy-R) Father's Day

Recognizes June 17, 2001, as Father's Day.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 90 (Robert Pacheco-R) Boy Scouts' 85th anniversary

Congratulates the Boy Scouts of America on the 85th anniversary of the granting of its federal charter by Congress.

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

ACR 91 (Salinas-D) Filipino-American Friendship Day

Recognizes July 4, 2001, as Filipino-American Friendship Day.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 122 (Cogdill-R) Patriot Day: September 11

Declares September 11 of each year to be Patriot Day and urges state agencies, local governments, and the people of California to (1) observe Patriot Day with appropriate programs and activities, (2) display the flag of the United States at half-staff, and (3) observe a moment of silence in honor of the individuals who lost their lives because of the terrorist attacks against the United States that occurred on September 11, 2001.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 127 (Oropeza-D) September 11, 2001

Recognizes September 11 of each year as a Day of Remembrance and Service and calls upon Californians to participate in appropriate observances to remember those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2002

ACR 128 (Horton-D) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Designates that January 21, 2002 be observed as the official memorial of the late Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.

Resolution Chapter 1, Statutes of 2002

ACR 133 (Havice-D) Merchant Marine Remembrance Week

Designates the week of June 10 to June 16, 2002, as Merchant Marine Remembrance Week.

Resolution Chapter 14, Statutes of 2002

ACR 138 (Papan-D) Greek Independence Day

Designates March 25, 2002, as Greek Independence Day: A Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.

Resolution Chapter 15, Statutes of 2002

ACR 140 (Robert Pacheco-R) Boy Scouts of America

Congratulates the Boy Scouts of America on the occasion of the anniversary of the granting of their Federal Congressional Charter on June 15, 1916, and recognizes the valuable contributions made by the Boy Scouts of America.

(Refused adoption in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

ACR 141 (Wayne-D) California Holocaust Memorial Week

Designates the week of April 7 through April 14, 2002, as California Holocaust Memorial Week, and urges Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.

Resolution Chapter 23, Statutes of 2002

ACR 144 (Wright-D) Black History Month

Recognizes February 2002 as Black History Month, urges all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African-Americans during Black History Month, and encourages the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African-Americans make to their communities.

Resolution Chapter 3, Statutes of 2002

ACR 147 (Mountjoy-R) Abraham Lincoln's birthday

Declares that Abraham Lincoln be honored on his birthday as the virtual symbol of the American dream whereby an ordinary person from humble beginnings can reach the pinnacle of American society as President of the country and serve with honor and courage.

Resolution Chapter 5, Statutes of 2002

ACR 148 (Nakano-D) Day of Remembrance

Declares February 19, 2002, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 149 (Bogh-R) Washington's birthday

Commemorates George Washington's birthday, February 22, 2002.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 151 (Leslie-R) California chaplains

Recognizes California chaplains for their outstanding service, commitment, and dedication to helping others at Ground Zero in New York City and at the scene of other disasters.

Resolution Chapter 38, Statutes of 2002

ACR 152 (Cedillo-D) Salvadoran Day

Declares each August 6 to be El Dia del Salvadoreno (Salvadoran Day) in recognition of all Salvadorans for their hard work and dedication, and their contributions to the stability and well-being of the people of California, and to the California economy.

Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 2002

ACR 153 (Strom-Martin-D) Read Across America

Proclaims March 2, 2002 as Read Across California Day.

Resolution Chapter 11, Statutes of 2002

ACR 155 (Dutra-D) Afghan New Year

Recognizes March 21 as the first day of the Afghan New year in recognition of the contribution Afghan-Americans have made to the richly diverse State of California.

Resolution Chapter 17, Statutes of 2002

ACR 157 (Chu-D) Girl Scouts

Commends the Girl Scouts for 90 years of service and for inspiring millions of girls with the highest ideals of character, conduct, and patriotism.

Resolution Chapter 48, Statutes of 2002

ACR 161 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public Service Recognition Week

Recognizes the week of May 5 through May 11, 2002, as Public Service Recognition Week to honor those individuals who devote their careers to professional civil service, and encourage the people of the state, counties, cities, and special districts to observe this week with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.

Resolution Chapter 49, Statutes of 2002

ACR 164 (Corbett-D) Irish-American Heritage Month

Designates March 2002 as Irish-American Heritage Month in honor of the multitude of contributions that Irish-Americans have made to the country and state.

Resolution Chapter 19, Statutes of 2002

ACR 171 (Cedillo-D) Monsignor Oscar A. Romero Day

Declares March 24, 2002, as Monsignor Oscar A. Romero Day.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 181 (Harman-R) National Volunteer Week

Proclaims the week of April 21 through 27, 2002, as National Volunteer Week 2002 and acknowledges the valuable gifts of service of the thousands of community volunteers throughout the state.

Resolution Chapter 45, Statutes of 2002

ACR 187 (Nakano-D) Fall of Bataan

Recognizes April 9, 2002, as the 60th anniversary of the fall of Bataan and honor the services of the Filipino-American World War II veterans now living in the State of California.

Resolution Chapter 65 Statutes of 2002

ACR 191 (Frommer-D) "Denim Day"

Recognizes April 24, 2002, as "Denim Day" to encourage awareness of issues relating to rape and sexual assault.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 196 (La Suer-R) Memorial Day

Recognizes May 27, 2002 as Memorial Day, and urges the people of California to honor the men and women of the United States who died in the pursuit of freedom and peace.

Resolution Chapter 76, Statutes of 2002

ACR 199 (Richman-R) National Public Works Week

Recognizes the week of May 19, 2002 to May 25, 2002 as National Public Works Week, acknowledges the role of infrastructure in the development of California's economy, and recognizes the work of the California Rebuild America Coalition.

Resolution Chapter 67, Statutes of 2002

ACR 200 (Reyes-D) Cinco de Mayo Week

Urges all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo, the historic day to honor the valiant spirit of the brave Mexicanos who defended the town of Puebla against the French invaders and to honor the Mexican Americans of today who have fought, died, and lived to protect the freedom of the United States, and would declare May 5 through May 12 as Cinco de Mayo Week.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 203 (Chu-D) Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month

Commends Asian and Pacific Islander Americans for their notable accomplishments and outstanding service to the state and recognizes May 2002 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.

Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2002

ACR 206 (Bates-R) National Military Appreciation Month

Honors those men and women who have served and are serving in our nations military and recognizes May 2002 as National Military Appreciation Month.

Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2002

ACR 214 (Mountjoy-R) Flag Day

Designates June 14, 2002, as Flag Day of the State of California, and urges all citizens of the State of California to pause at 7:00 p.m., EDT, on June 14, 2002, for the 23rd annual national "Pause for the Pledge of Allegiance."

Resolution Chapter 85, Statutes of 2002

ACR 217 (Maddox-R) Little League Baseball Week

Commends Little League Baseball on its 63rd anniversary and designate the week of June 9 to June 15, 2002, inclusive, as Little League Baseball Week.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 219 (Hollingsworth-R) Freedom Week

Declares the first week of July 2002 as Freedom Week Celebration, and encourages members of the Legislature to support public policies that enhance and advance the values that flow from a government empowered only by the consent of the governed.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 220 (Diaz-D) How to Live in America Program

Commends the Counties of Santa Clara, Contra Costa, and San Mateo for their successful implementation of the How to Live in America Program and urges other counties to implement the program.

Resolution Chapter 113, Statutes of 2002

ACR 227 (Canciamilla-D) Navajo Code Talkers Week

Declares August 14, 2002, and the following week thereof, Navajo Code Talkers Week, and encourages all Californians to recognize and pay tribute to the invaluable contributions these Native Americans provided to ensure allied victory during World War II.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACR 231 (Pescetti-R) Pledge of Allegiance

Urges the Governor and the Attorney General to take immediate action to participate as defendants in the case of Newdow v. U.S. Congress relating to the Pledge of Allegiance.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

ACR 241 (Papan-D) Macedonia

Recognizes that the ancient Macedonians were Hellenes, and that the inhabitants of Macedonia today are their Hellenic descendants and part of the northern province of Greece, Macedonia.

Resolution Chapter 181, Statutes of 2002

ACR 243 (Mountjoy-R) Constitution Week and Constitution Day

Declares the week of September 15-21, 2002, as Constitution Week and September 17 as Constitution Day and requests the Governor to proclaim Constitution Week and Constitution Day in a proclamation that would include specified provisions.

Resolution Chapter 189, Statutes of 2002

ACR 248 (Canciamilla-D) Italian American Heritage Month

Recognizes October 2002 as Italian American Heritage Month in California.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

HR 10 (Cardoza-D) United States LST-325 warship and its crew

States that the Assembly of the State of California recognizes the United States LST-325 warship and the contributions of its crew in returning the warship across the Atlantic to Mobile Bay, Alabama, where it will be used as a floating museum.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

HR 32 (Havice-D) Relative to the American Flag

Urges all residents of this great state to honor our nation's flag by flying Old Glory in a dignified manner from their home or place of business. Calls upon the residents of California to recognize the serious responsibility they shoulder by asking everyone to show proper respect for Old Glory, particularly in the manner by which people dispose of our flag, and that individuals call upon groups such as veterans or scouting organizations, or other patriotic service organizations, to assist in the dignified disposal of our flag.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 34 (Bill Campbell-R) Relative to "Ronald Reagan Day"

Recognizes February 6, 2002, as "Ronald Reagan Day".

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 36 (Migden-D) Relative to California Girls and Women in Sports Day

Recognizes female athletes, coaches, officials, and sports administrators for their important contribution in promoting the value of sports in the achievement of full human potential, and hereby proclaims February 6, 2002, as California Girls and Women in Sports Day.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 38 (Chu-D) Relative to Lunar New Year Celebration

States that members of the State Assembly join Asian and Pacific Islander communities throughout the state in celebrating February 12, 2002, as the beginning of the Lunar New Year 4699 and extend best wishes for a peaceful and prosperous lunar new year to all Californians.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 40 (Aanestad-R) Relative to Government and Education Shadow Week

Designates the last week in October of every year as Government and Education Shadow Week.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 46 (Firebaugh-D) Relative to the California National Guard

Recognizes and honors the contributions of all the men and women of the California National Guard.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 50 (Longville-D) Relative to Juneteenth

Urges the people of California to join in celebrating Juneteenth as a day to honor and reflect on the significant role that African-Americans have played in the history of the United States and how they have enriched society through their steadfast commitment to promoting brotherhood and equality.

Adopted by the Assembly

Similar legislation included SB 1498 (Vincent-D), which was vetoed, SCR 77 (Longville-D), which became Resolution Chapter 87, Statutes of 2002, AB 1749 (Longville-D), which became Chapter 155, Statutes of l2002, and ACR 106 (Longville-D), which died in Assembly Rules Committee.

HR 51 (Kehoe-D) Relative to Gay and Lesbian Pride Month

Proclaims June 2002 as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, and urges all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans, and encourages the people of California to recognize the notable achievements and outstanding service that gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans make to our great state and nation.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 54 (Hollingsworth-R) Relative to Freedom Week

Declares the first week of July 2002, as Freedom Week: A Celebration of Human Achievement, and proclaims the State Assembly's support for Freedom Week by encouraging and conducting activities that celebrate individual freedoms. Encourages members of the Assembly, as responsible citizens in the exercise of their individual freedom, to support public policies that enhance and advance the values that flow from a government empowered only by the consent of the governed.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 64 (Runner-R) Relative to American Character Week

Proclaims the week commencing September 6, 2002, and ending September 14, 2002, as "American Character Week" and calls upon schools, youth organizations, community groups, and government agencies to use this period to discuss and study the lives of Americans of extraordinary character, recognize local individuals who have in the past year demonstrated the highest qualities of the American character, teach young people about and encourage them to consider careers in public service, and provide service-learning opportunities to young people, including at least one hour of community service during this week, as a first step in a commitment to a life of regular community service.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 89 (Briggs-R) Relative to "The Grapes of Wrath"

Urges all Californians to read "The Grapes of Wrath" and participate in "California Stories: Reading the Grapes of Wrath" activities this fall.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 90 (Liu-D) Relative to the 25th Anniversary of the Voyager mission

Recognizes the 25th Anniversary of the Voyager mission and the extraordinary accomplishment of the two Voyager space crafts as the furthest manmade objects in space.

Adopted by the Assembly

HR 93 (Frommer-D) Relative to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

States that the Legislature respectfully requests that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences not move the Academy Awards telecast and ceremonies; and that the Legislature further requests the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to keep the City of Los Angeles as the home of the Academy Awards.

Adopted by the Assembly

Local Government

SB 68* (Battin-R) Local agency investments

Designates money in the Local Agency Investment Fund as nonstate money and enacts additional separate provisions governing the deposit and handling of that money in trust accounts.

Chapter 761, Statutes of 2002

SB 74 (Speier-D) Local government finance

Exempts library special districts and county libraries that were supported by their own property tax revenues from shifts of property tax revenues to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 93 (Figueroa-D) Local government finance

Exempts recreation and park districts and county service areas and community service districts that provide recreation and park services from the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund shifts.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 142 (Haynes-R) Land use

Requires cities and counties to accept "religious exercise" when regulating land use, particularly residential uses.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 207 (Knight-R) Local agencies

Expressly authorizes a local agency to issue bonds under the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 to provide funds for construction of facilities for generating, producing, distributing, or transmitting electric energy for lighting, heating, and power for public or private uses subject to specified conditions, including voter approval, and provides that a local agency has right of first refusal for electricity generated by these facilities.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 213 (Perata-D) Local planning

Requires the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments to work collaboratively, on or before January 31, 2002, to, among other things, evaluate whether local governments are implementing their fair share of housing starts and participating in regional congestion reduction plans, to identify barriers to achieving a balance of jobs and housing, and to develop a monitoring and evaluation program, and appropriates $250,000 to the State Controller for these purposes.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 226 (Chesbro-D) Health

Delays, until January 1, 2008, the repeal date of existing procedures counties are required to follow to participate in the County Medical Services Program for state administration of health care services to eligible persons in the count, and extends the operation of authorization that authorizes counties that voluntarily participate in the County Medical Services Program to establish a county medical services program governing board to govern the program and establishes procedures for the administration of the program to January 1, 2008.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 238 (Kuehl-D) County of Los Angeles: parks

Authorizes the County of Los Angeles to construct and operate a public library in the Schabarum Regional Park.

Chapter 967, Statutes of 2002

SB 262 (Alarcon-D) General plans

Authorizes a court, on a finding that there is not substantial compliance, to award the plaintiff reasonable attorney's fees and costs and require the court to levy a penalty not to exceed specified amounts based on the population of the city, county, or city and county, and provides that all penalties will accrue to the Housing Supply Account, which the bill creates in the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund. Specifies that no money in that account will be expended except upon appropriation by the Legislature.

(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 269 (Alarcon-D) Expanded municipal utilities: employee rights and benefits

Prohibits an "expanded municipal utility" that acquires a public utility from resulting in the displacement, layoff, or reductions in pay or benefits of the public utility's employees; requires an expanded municipal utility to hire and retain all employees of an acquired public utility, subject to collective bargaining; and specifies that the rights and obligations of the parties to a collective bargaining agreement prevail over the bill's provisions.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 356 (Johannessen-R) Public contracting

Adds the Cities of Benicia, Vacaville, and Woodland to those cities that may use the design-build method of contracting, and extends the repeal date of the expanded authorization by two years.

(Failed passage in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 407 (Sher-D) County recorders

Establishes a pilot program in which participating county recorders may accept for recording, electronic records affecting the right, title, or interest in real property, requires a participating county to obtain a report addressing safety and security considerations of the proposed electronic recording system from a qualifying computer security firm or consultant, and requires the State Attorney General to adopt regulations establishing certain general standards for the pilot program and report to the Legislature.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 411 (Perata-D) Redevelopment

Allows the Oakland City Council to extend, by 10 years, the time for a redevelopment plan's effectiveness and for receiving property tax increment revenues under specified criteria, and conforms to provisions of SB 211 (Torlakson-D) and SB 1137 (Ortiz-D).

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 423 (Torlakson-D) Workforce Housing Reward Program

Establishes, among other programs, the Jobs-Housing Balance Improvement Program administered by the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD); establishes the Workforce Housing Reward Program to be administered by HCD to provide local assistance for the construction or acquisition of capital assets to cities, counties, and cities and counties that provide land use approval to affordable housing developments; and becomes operative only upon approval by the voters of the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2002 as enacted by Chapter 26 of the Statutes of 2002.

Chapter 482, Statutes of 2002

SB 452 (Oller-R) Local government finance

Exempts county service areas that only provide ambulance service from contributing to their respective Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund beginning in the 2003-04 fiscal year.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 498 (Dunn-D) General plans

Revises procedures for a city, county, or city and county in their general plan in the determination of shares of regional housing needs.

(Failed passage in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 503 (Vasconcellos-D) Housing

Authorizes specified counties and cities in those counties to establish attainable housing zones in which development of attainable housing would be encouraged by providing incentives to developers, including reduced development fee schedules. Establishes the Attainable Housing Zone Infrastructure Improvement Fund, to be administered by the State Department of Housing and Community Development, and prohibits issuance of grants or the enforcement of compliance with the reduced development fee schedules on and after January 1, 2007.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 536* (Oller-R) Local government finance

Limits, for 2001-02 and beyond, the shift of property tax revenues from cities, counties, and special districts to each county's Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund to the amount shifted in 2000-01, and requires the Director of the State Department of Finance to make adjustments so there is no net fiscal impact on school districts or community college districts, or upon the state's obligations under Proposition 98.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 600 (Torlakson-D) Transit village plans

Exempts transit villages from meeting the physical and economic criteria of blight in order to qualify as redevelopment, and expands the definition of transit village to include areas within one-half mile radius of a transit station.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 701 (Torlakson-D) Redevelopment

Makes several changes to the California redevelopment law, including cleanup and clarification of technical issues in SB 211 (Torlakson-D), Chapter 741, Statutes of 2001, and AB 637 (Lowenthal-D), Chapter 738, Statutes of 2001, that resulted from last year's working group; and adds new language left unresolved in last year's bills.

Chapter 782, Statutes of 2002

SB 703 (Perata-D) Land use

Enacts provisions that will govern the structure and composition of a single local base reuse entity and its governing body for the Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro if a specified county initiative measure is adopted by the voters of Orange County.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 714 (McClintock-R) Local planning

Requires a city council or board of supervisors to designate and zone sufficient land for residential use with appropriate standards as part of the revision of each local government's housing element, and provides that the recognition of the total housing needs identified in the housing element does not reduce the local government's obligations under other applicable provisions of law. Requires the determination by the department and each council of governments of the region share of the statewide housing need and the existing and projected housing need for its region include a determination of the region's 20-year need for new housing units, and also applies these provisions to charter cities.

(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 717 (Speier-D) Financing a seismic safety retrofit program

Enacts the California Seismic Safety Bond Act of 2002, which authorizes issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of bonds in the amount of $600 million to be allocated to the California Seismic Safety Bond Fund of 2002 to fund residential and local government building seismic safety retrofit projects; and provides for submission of the bond act to the voters at a statewide election.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 731 (Oller-R) Recording of documents

Authorizes, until January 1, 2005, the county recorders of the counties of Contra Costa and Placer to accept electronic submission of an original recordable document, if specified conditions are met, and requires the county recorder to adopt regulations governing review and approval of systems and processes to conduct electronic submission of original recordable documents. Authorizes the district attorney or county recorder to suspend use of any approved system upon a finding of fraudulent activity.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 794 (Knight-R) Taxation

Makes findings and declarations that a special tax is necessary for the Baker Community Services District (BCSD). Authorizes BCSD to impose a transactions of use tax of one-half percent, if the BCSD Board of Directors approves the tax by ordinance with a majority vote, the tax is approved by a two-thirds vote of qualified voters of the district voting in an election, and the revenues derived from the tax are expended exclusively for purposes of BCSD.

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 803* (Senate Elections And Reapportionment Committee) Recall elections

Requires any recall or special election held in the City of South Gate during the 2002 and 2003 calendar years to be administered by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder.

Chapter 250, Statutes of 2002

SB 810 (Ackerman-R) Local government finance

Requires, beginning in 2003-04, county auditors to allocate property tax revenues to single-county transit districts as if the 1992-93 property tax shift had not occurred.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 820 (Costa-D) Local government finance

Provides for the validation of the distribution of fines, fees, forfeitures, and penalties made by the County of Tulare in the 1996-97 to 1999-2000 fiscal years, inclusive, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 822 (Poochigian-R) County sheriffs

Provides that the sheriff of each county has search and rescue responsibility in any unincorporated area of the county, including any rural and wilderness environment. Authorizes a sheriff to transfer this search and rescue responsibility to another agency or jurisdiction through written agreement.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 823* (Poochigian-R) Local law enforcement funding

Requires the annual report on specified law enforcement programs to be made beginning October 15, 2002; prohibits the expenditure of allocated funds and interest thereon if that report and the data detailing and summarizing allocations are not submitted; and requires the State Board of Corrections to compile the local reports and make a report to the Governor and Legislature by March 15, 2003, and annually thereafter.

Chapter 21, Statutes of 2002

SB 864 (Torlakson-D) Metropolitan Transportation Commission

Creates the Regional Growth Council as a part of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and specifies that on January 1, 2004, the council assumes land use responsibilities of the Association of Bay Area governments; requires the new council to adopt a long-range growth policy plan for the region on or before January 1, 2005, and each six years thereafter; and requires the council, on or before January 1, 2005, to develop recommendations for the most effective institutional framework to implement the regional plan's goals and objectives.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

Similar legislation was SB 1243 (Torlakson-D), which died in Assembly Local Government Committee.

SB 910 (Dunn-D) General plans

Requires that specified transportation funding be reduced to any city or county that fails to have an approved housing element. Requires that a council of governments whose members have a combined population of more than 10 million adopt a regional housing needs allocation by a majority vote of the members from each county on the council's governing board.

(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 1019 (Torlakson-D) County clerks

Corrects more than 200 outdated statutory references in the California Codes concerning responsibilities of county clerks and clerks to boards of supervisors; and deletes two outdated references to county clerks and registering trademarks and corporations.

Chapter 221, Statutes of 2002

SB 1048* (Speier-D) Parking authorities

Authorizes, in a charter city or city and county having a board of directors of a public transportation agency created by its charter, five or more members of the board to serve ex officio as members of the parking authority.

Chapter 130, Statutes of 2002

SB 1119 (Margett-R) Public contracts

Requires charter cities' contracts to state that they are charter city, and that the Public Contract Code may not apply.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

SB 1137 (Ortiz-D) Redevelopment

Allows Sacramento City Council to extend, by 10 years, the time for a redevelopment plan's effectiveness and for receiving property tax increment revenues under specified criteria, with respect to the Alkali Flat, Del Paso Heights, and Oak Park Redevelopment Project Areas, and conforms to provisions of SB 211 (Torlakson-D) and SB 411 (Perata-D).

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1228* (Monteith-R) Local government finance

Addresses individual fiscal issues in the counties of Stanislaus, Tuolumne, and Humboldt.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1231* (Senate Local Government Committee) Validations

Enacts the First Validating Act of 2002, validating the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.

Chapter 43, Statutes of 2002

SB 1232* (Senate Local Government Committee) Validations

Enacts the Second Validating Act of 2002, validating the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.

Chapter 222, Statutes of 2002

SB 1233 (Senate Local Government Committee) Validations

Enacts the Third Validating Act of 2002, validating the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state and counties, cities, and specified districts, agencies, and entities.

Chapter 223, Statutes of 2002

SB 1268 (Battin-R) Lake Cuyamaca Recreation and Park District

Conforms the Lake Cuyamaca Recreation and Park District's 1961 statute to recent state law that governs all other recreation and park districts; and makes statutory changes that permits this district to issue general obligation bonds under the same statutory provisions that apply to other recreation and park districts.

Chapter 75, Statutes of 2002

SB 1298 (Ortiz-D) Public health

Updates and clarifies the role of local health jurisdictions throughout the state which protect the public from the spread of disease from both natural and intentional (terrorist) health threats.

Chapter 1114, Statutes of 2002

SB 1313 (Margett-R) Law enforcement

Adds two additional circumstances in which a county board of supervisors may contract on behalf of the sheriff of that county, and the legislative body of any city to contract on behalf of the chief of police of that city, to provide supplemental law enforcement services to private entities.

Chapter 224, Statutes of 2002

SB 1323 (Ackerman-R) Municipal bankruptcy

Modifies bankruptcy statute by changing the definition of "local government entity" to conform with the federal Bankruptcy Act definition of "municipality;" and makes other conforming and technical changes to correct obsolete references.

Chapter 94, Statutes of 2002

SB 1326 (Senate Local Government Committee) Local government

Enacts the Local Government Omnibus Act of 2002, and makes numerous relatively minor and noncontroversial changes to state laws affecting local agencies powers and duties.

Chapter 454, Statutes of 2002

SB 1329 (Chesbro-D) County funds

Allows deposits to the Courthouse Construction Fund and the Criminal Justice Facilities Construction Fund in Sonoma County to continue for an additional 10 years; allows Stanislaus County to specify how withdrawals of the redevelopment agency property tax increment from jurisdictions are made, and deem any apportionment of property tax revenues made prior to January 1, 2003, to be correct; and contains an appropriation from the Abandoned Vehicle Trust Fund to allow the State Controller to allocate to the service authority in Humboldt County the abandoned vehicle abatement funds for calendar years 2000 and 2001.

Chapter 500, Statutes of 2002

SB 1352 (Chesbro-D) Water

Provides for alternate directors to serve in the absence of a director on the Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District; specifies that for each flood control project, the district's board must appoint an advisory committee; allows the district to appoint its own property agents and purchasing agents; amends the district's law to reflect the constitutional and statutory requirements for levying special taxes and benefit assessments; and makes conforming changes.

Chapter 283, Statutes of 2002

SB 1359 (Haynes-R) Display of the American flag

Prohibits any local government agency from adopting any policy or regulation that prohibits or restricts an employee of that agency from displaying a Flag of the United States, or a pin of that flag, on his or her person, in his or her workplace, or on a local government agency vehicle.

Chapter 73, Statutes of 2002

SB 1432 (Alpert-D) Housing

Establishes that any jurisdiction authorized to self-certify the housing element of its general plan is entitled to the same participation in state funding programs as those jurisdictions with approved housing elements.

Chapter 711, Statutes of 2002

SB 1457* (Johannessen-R) Law enforcement: county sheriffs

Appropriates $18.5 from the General Fund for allocation to county sheriffs' departments to enhance law enforcement efforts in 37 counties.

Chapter 720, Statutes of 2002

SB 1460 (Ortiz-D) Redevelopment

Enlarges the capitol area and project area of the Capitol Area Plan to include an area referred to as the R Street Area; requires the Capitol Area Development Authority (CADA) to prepare a redevelopment plan for the R Street Area that furthers purposes and objectives of the Capitol Area Plan; requires the plan to be approved after published notice and at least one public hearing; and authorizes CADA to allocate and use rents from state-owned and leased property and property taxes for the R Street Area and to separately account for their use and allocation.

Chapter 468, Statutes of 2002

SB 1468 (Knight-R) Local planning

Requires cities and counties to include, in their general plans, impacts of civilian development on military installations, and requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research, on or before January 1, 2004, if sufficient funds are available, to prepare a handbook on reducing land use conflicts between civilian development and military readiness.

Chapter 971, Statutes of 2002

SB 1479 (Morrow-R) Marriage licenses fees

Allows counties to adopt an ordinance to reduce the marriage license fee and to reduce the confidential marriage license fee by $7, if the couple filing for a marriage license has taken and completed a premarital preparation course given by a premarital preparation course provider who has registered with the county clerk and issues a certificate of completion to the couple to be filed with the county clerk.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1480 (Speier-D) Outdoor advertising

Increases local land use control over billboards near freeways.

Chapter 972, Statutes of 2002

SB 1509 (Dunn-D) Local government finance

Reduces a city's or county's Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund contribution by an amount equal to the city's or county's share of the property tax lost due to new tax-exempt low income housing.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1515 (Machado-D) Community facilities districts

Prohibits local officials from putting restricted agricultural and open space land into Mello-Roos Act community facilities districts.

Chapter 174, Statutes of 2002

SB 1521 (Kuehl-D) Land use

Requires state officials to give preferences in awarding grants to cities and counties that adopt land use programs similar to a state model program designed by the Governor's Office of Planning and Research.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1529* (Johnson-R) Conflicts of interest: special commissions

Adds an additional condition of exemption from the conflict of interest law for a member of a special commission that manages and contracts on behalf of county Medi-Cal administrators.

Chapter 262, Statutes of 2002

SB 1561 (Soto-D) Water

Expands the borrowing power for the San Bernardino County Flood Control District by creating "limited obligation notes."

Chapter 288, Statutes of 2002

SB 1579 (Brulte-R) Recreation and park district zones

Requires recreation and park district officials to measure property owners' protests to the formation of a proposed zone against the value of property in that zone instead of the entire district.

Chapter 76, Statutes of 2002

SB 1586 (Haynes-R) Local agency formation

Prohibits special districts from blocking annexations that are part of larger reorganizations, and requires districts to document why they block annexations.

Chapter 547, Statutes of 2002

SB 1588 (Senate Local Government Committee) Pest abatement

Revises state laws governing mosquito abatement districts.

Chapter 395, Statutes of 2002

SB 1643 (Johnson-R) Public agency emergencies

Amends the Brown Act to allow a legislative body to hold a closed session during an emergency meeting, and exempts specified security documents from the Public Records Act.

Chapter 175, Statutes of 2002

SB 1688 (Margett-R) Firefighting

Establishes in each county treasury a Supplemental Firefighting Services Fund and requires that moneys from this fund be allocated to local agencies in accordance with specified requirements for specified front line fire service activities.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1703 (Peace-D) Transportation

Creates a consolidated transportation agency in San Diego from specified existing agencies, including the San Diego Association of Governments, the Metropolitan Transit Development Board, and the North County Transit Development Board; and authorizes that agency to assume certain responsibilities and functions of those agencies.

Chapter 743, Statutes of 2002

SB 1711 (Costa-D) Land use

Exempts construction or location of water treatment facilities from local building and zoning ordinances under specified conditions.

Chapter 267, Statutes of 2002

SB 1717 (Machado-D) City annexations

Allows a city to lease noncontiguous property for specified purposes and detaches the territory if the property ceases to be used for municipal purposes.

Chapter 507, Statutes of 2002

SB 1721 (Soto-D) Land use

Applies the current anti-NIMBY statutes to the use of design review standards to block a proposed housing development.

Chapter 147, Statutes of 2002

SB 1755 (Soto-D) Electric power

Authorizes municipal water districts and county water districts to own and operate electric power plants whether hydroelectric or otherwise; states power generated from these plants may be used for the district's own purposes; and authorizes surplus power may be sold to any public or private entity that sells electricity.

Chapter 848, Statutes of 2002

SB 1759* (Johannessen-R) Public contracting

Allows, until January 1, 2006, the cities of Brentwood, Hesperia, Vacaville, and Woodland to use the design-build method of contracting, under the same guidelines as the counties that are currently permitted to use this method, and for projects costing $5 million or more, these cities would be permitted to award contracts based either on the lowest responsible bid or the best value.

Chapter 976, Statutes of 2002

SB 1808 (McPherson-R) State planning

Requires the Governor's Office of Planning Research (OPR) to report to the Governor and the Legislature annually on or before January 1 regarding implementation of the State Environmental Goals and Policy Report; and requires OPR to make this report a priority to be funded from existing resources.

Chapter 424, Statutes of 2002

SB 1815 (Chesbro-D) County surplus property

Deletes references to "nonprofit corporation" and, instead, substitutes an organization exempt from taxation pursuant to specified provisions of federal law and adds such an organization, organized for the provision of health and human services, to those entities to which a county board of supervisors may donate or leave this property.

Chapter 97, Statutes of 2002

SB 1864 (Costa-D) Agricultural land conservation

Makes various minor and technical changes to the Williamson Act and the California Farmland Conservancy Program Act which were created to promote the preservation of agricultural land and open space.

Chapter 616, Statutes of 2002

SB 1870 (Speier-D) Water

Enacts the San Francisco Bay area Regional Water System Financing Authority; makes findings and declarations about the City and County of San Francisco's ownership of the Hetch Hetchy Water System, the number of people served by the system, reliability and importance of the system, potential consequences of system failure, and the uncertainty of funding to improve the system in a manner that addresses increasing water demand and structural safety concerns; and includes a definitions section to define terms used in the bill.

Chapter 849, Statutes of 2002

SB 1871 (Monteith-R) Root Creek Water District

Modifies requirements relating to composition of, and manner of election of directors to, the board of the Root Creek Water District to reflect changes in land use within that district; requires the secretary of the district, by February 1, 2003, and every year thereafter, to determine whether at least 10,000 persons who are eligible to vote in district elections reside within the district; and sets requirements for the board to dissolve the two divisions and conduct district elections pursuant to the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local government Reorganization Act of 2000; and grants numerous new powers to the district.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 1889 (Johannessen-R) Taxation

Allows the City of Redding to levy a taxation and use tax rate for general revenue purposes, subject to majority voter approval; and requires an ordinance proposing the tax be approved by a two-thirds vote of the city council at a rate of 0.25 percent.

Chapter 119, Statutes of 2002

SB 1896* (Peace-D) Airports

Makes numerous changes to statute governing San Diego County Regional Airport Authority in order to provide for transfer of the San Diego International Airport from the San Diego Unified Port District to the authority.

Chapter 978, Statutes of 2002

SB 1899 (Chesbro-D) Open-space districts

Permits proceedings for formation of a regional park district, regional park and open-space district, or regional open-space district with boundaries coterminous with those of Solano County to be initiated by resolution of the county board of supervisors adopted after a noticed hearing; specifies contents of the resolution; authorizes the district, if created, to contract with Solano County to furnish services of the county's officers and employees to the district; and makes legislative findings and declarations concerning need for a special statute.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1905 (Oller-R) Public contracts

Specifies that, instead of awarding a contract to the lowest responsible bidder, a county may additionally consider a bidder's experience, past performance, and the quality of the work performed by that bidder in determining whether that bidder is the lowest responsible bidder to whom the contract should be awarded.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1920 (Knight-R) Air resources

Excludes districts with a population of one million or less persons from the requirement that the public hearing for reviewing and commenting on the budget be held exclusively for those purposes; and sets public hearing requirements.

Chapter 132, Statutes of 2002

SB 1939 (Machado-D) Local planning

Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to notify the State Attorney General if a general plan has not been revised within eight years instead of 10 years.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

SB 1942 (Alarcon-D) Municipal corporations

Establishes, until July 1, 2009, the Commission on Effective Government of the City of Los Angeles consisting of 18 members; requires the commission to make recommendations regarding alternative models of governance of the City of Los Angeles; requires the commission to submit the recommendations to the Legislature before January 1, 2005 and every two years thereafter; and becomes operative only if the special reorganization of the San Fernando Valley area of the City of Los Angeles is not confirmed by the voters at the November 5, 2002 general election.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1961 (Polanco-D) State property

Creates the process for local benefit assessments on state-owned property, and requires the State Department of General Services to act as an information clearinghouse.

Chapter 981, Statutes of 2002

SB 1989 (Knight-R) Local planning

Sets requirements that a local agency must follow with regard to the governing authority of restricted military airspace known as "R-2515" when the governing authority of this airspace files a detailed diagram of that airspace with a local agency, and if a local agency receives an application to install a small wind energy system on a site that is within that restricted military airspace.

Chapter 328, Statutes of 2002

SB 2054 (Sher-D) Land planning

Requires that an application to reduce density or change land uses from the densities and uses in a local agency's plans, zoning, and nexus studies must include an assessment of the shortfall in the resources to mitigate the project's impact on services or facilities, an analysis of how the applicant proposes to make up the shortfall, and the applicant's commitment to make up the shortfall; specifies that the bill's requirements do not apply to density reductions or use changes that are required pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act or other laws; and makes minor clarifying changes to the nexus standards for charging developer fees and includes statements of legislative intent supporting its contents.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 2055 (Sher-D) Land use

Makes five minor changes to the Subdivision Map Act, including the requirement that local officials must note the location of public access routes to public water.

Chapter 1109, Statutes of 2002

SCA 13 (Alarcon-D) Local government

Allows counties, cities, and special districts to incur debt with general obligation bonds with majority-voter approval for either construction of housing affordable to low- and moderate-income people if the local government's governing body adopts a resolution finding that there is a local need for affordable housing or projects to transport low- and moderate-income people between employment sites and affordable housing.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 3* (Ashburn-R) Local government finance

Caps the amount of property tax revenue transferred to the state Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund at the 2000-01 level.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 7 (Thomson-D) Taxation

Allows the City of Davis, subject to approval of two-thirds vote or a majority of the voters voting on the issue at an election to levy a tax pursuant to the Transaction and Use Tax Law at a rate of 0.25 percent or 0.5 percent.

Chapter 330, Statutes of 2002

AB 15 (Harman-R) Land use

Applies existing authorization permitting cities and counties to license and regulate a massage business to an independent contractor of a cosmetologist, barber, or any healing arts licensee, who is engaged in or is purported to engage in the business of massage; and exempts chiropractors from the regulations when engaging in massage that is within the scope of their practice.

Chapter 1053, Statutes of 2002

AB 100 (Simitian-D) Local government finance

Phases in a cap on the property tax shifts from cities, counties, and special districts to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) in each county, contingent upon the condition of the state General Fund; reduces the amount of property tax growth allocated to each county's ERAF in each qualified fiscal year by 10 percent from the amount allocated in the prior fiscal year; caps the ERAF shift at the amount transferred in the ninth year of implementation; and defines "qualified fiscal year" as a fiscal year beginning on or after July 1, 2005, in which the State Director of Finance certifies on or before November that the General Fund reserve is at least three percent of revenues, excluding revenues derived by the 0.25 percent sales and use tax rate, and actual General Fund revenues for May 1 through September equal or exceed the May revision forecast, prior to the November 1 determination.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 279 (Strom-Martin-D) Local government finance

Redirects revenues from the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund established in each county to local animal control departments.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 291 (Corbett-D) Land use

Directs Office of Planning and Research to implement a grant program for cities and counties to incorporate smart growth principles into their general plans, establishes a maximum grant of $250,000, and sunsets the program January 1, 2005.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 315 (Dutra-D) Libraries

Exempts specified dependent and independent library special districts from shifting property tax revenue to their respective counties' Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund beginning July 1, 2001, and annually thereafter. Requires the state to hold harmless the school districts and community college districts from the financial impact of the prescribed exemption.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 318 (Chan-D) Joint powers agreements

Authorizes children's hospitals to enter into joint powers agreements with any public agency, subject to specified conditions.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 338 (Correa-D) Postsecondary education

Creates a public/private demonstration project to address nursing shortage in Orange County. Appropriates $1.7 million from the General Fund to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges ($1,035,000) and the California State University ($665,000), as specified, for the demonstration project established by this bill.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 404 (Diaz-D) Housing

Enacts provisions known as the New Neighborhoods Program that would provide at least seven planning grants of not more than $250,000 each to counties, cities, or cities and counties to study the availability of multifamily affordable housing sites defined as "new neighborhoods." Requires the studies be completed by January 1, 2003, and creates the New Neighborhoods Multifamily Affordable Housing Fund.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 406 (Diaz-D) Redevelopment

Requires redevelopment agencies to use not less than 25 percent of all tax revenue allocated to the agency for low- and moderate-income housing.

(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 410 (Salinas-D) Office of Rural Policy

Establishes the Office of Rural Policy in the Governor's office for the purpose of advocating on behalf of, and assisting, rural communities.

Chapter 558, Statutes of 2002

AB 478 (Canciamilla-D) Local agency procedures

Grants authority to the county recorder of Contra Costa to accept for recording, in lieu of written paper document, a digitized image of a recordable instrument, if specified conditions are met. Allows the district attorney or county recorder to suspend or decertify a recording system upon a finding of system defects, and the county recorder would be required to adopt procedures governing review and approval of systems and processes to conduct electronic recording of digitized images or electronic records of recordable instruments, and repeals the bill's provisions as of January 1, 2005.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 516* (Cedillo-D) Redevelopment

Requires the State Department of Transportation, after receiving donations from non-state sources, to erect highway signs and markers on Route 10 in Los Angeles recognizing the existence of the Byzantine-Latino Quarter; and makes related findings regarding the historical and cultural significance of this area to Los Angeles.

Chapter 100, Statutes of 2002

AB 562 (Bogh-R) Public safety

Appropriates $100 million from the General Fund to the State Controller to be allocated to county sheriffs, city police chiefs, and specified special districts providing police protection services, and cities that contract for police and sheriff services, for the purpose of funding technology grants and technology-related acquisitions to enhance public safety.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 669 (Hertzberg-D) Public safety services

Authorizes local public agencies to establish a 311 non-emergency telephone system.

Chapter 731, Statutes of 2002

AB 680 (Steinberg-D) Land use

Reallocates sales tax revenue among cities and counties in the greater Sacramento region, states legislative intent to enact a program encouraging cities and counties in the greater Sacramento region to establish smart growth land use projects funded using Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund revenue, provides air emission reduction credits to cities and counties that develop land use projects in a regional manner which promotes sustainable growth, and requires the Legislative Analyst's Office, in conjunction with the State Board of Equalization and the State Air Resources Board, to report to the Legislature regarding impact of this bill in the greater Sacramento region.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 750 (Cedillo-D) Redevelopment

Requires a redevelopment agency, at a public hearing, by resolution of the agency board, to determine annually that expenses for planning and administrative activities in connection with expenditures from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund for low- and moderate-income housing are necessary and prescribes criteria for computation of the Community Redevelopment Law requirement of at least 15 percent of all dwelling units developed with a project area be available at affordable housing cost.

(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 759 (Shelley-D) Personal watercraft

Allows any city or county to adopt an ordinance to ban use of personal watercraft in any navigable water within its jurisdiction, and declares all provisions of the ordinance to be severable in the event any individual provision is held invalid by a court.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 776 (Thomson-D) Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District

Allows the Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District to contract for disposal of sewage from buildings outside its boundaries, if those buildings were connected to the district's sewage system by March 1, 2002; and allows the district to contract with Solano County or another public entity for disposal of sewage from buildings outside its boundaries if the district's governing board determines that the contract furthers the protection of public health and safety and is in the district's best interest.

Chapter 426, Statutes of 2002

AB 784 (Hertzberg-D) Land use

Requires the Director of the Governor's Office of Planning and Research, or his or her designee, to develop, with Planning Advisory and Assistance Council and the Secretaries of the State Resources Agency and the State Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, a model residential building code that encourages land uses that are economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable and that promotes specified design concepts, and to make model residential development practices and policies available to cities, counties, and cities and counties by January 1, 2004.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 859* (Wiggins-D) Local government finance

Caps the shift of property tax revenues from counties to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund over an unspecified multi-year period.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 883 (Florez-D) Health

Raises the level of possible reimbursement for physicians and surgeons from the Maddy Emergency Medical Services Fund (Maddy Fund) from 50 percent to 75 percent; establishes a state Emergency Medical Services Equalization Fund for redistribution of excess funds; and requires the county administering officer of emergency medical services to establish an advisory committee to review methodologies and payment processes.

(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 902 (Strom-Martin-D) Taxation

Authorizes a qualified city or county (defined as the City of Clearlake, the City of Fort Bragg, the City of Point Arena, the City of Ukiah, the City of Willits, the County of Lake, and the County of Mendocino) to levy a transactions and use tax at a rate of 0.25 percent, or a multiple thereof not to exceed one percent, to be used for maintenance, repair, replacement, construction, or reconstruction of the road systems in that qualified city or county upon approval of two-thirds of the electors voting on the issue; and limits qualified counties to levying this tax in the unincorporated areas of the county only.

Chapter 331, Statutes of 2002

AB 924 (Wayne-D) Land use

Expresses legislative intent to facilitate cooperative planning incentives and rationale growth principles.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 934 (Hertzberg-D) Taxation

Gives local assessors the right to trial de novo in claims for refund arising from questions of fact, and provides that in a suit for the refund of locally-assessed property taxes, the trial court may not be restricted to the administrative record, but must consider all evidence relating to the valuation of the property admissible under the rules of evidence.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 953* (Simitian-D) Park and open-space districts

Permits the general manager of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District and the general manager of the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District, upon approval of the district's board, to bind the district without advertising and without written contract for payment of supplies, materials, labor or other consideration for any purpose, in amounts not exceeding $25,000; and requires that the expenditures must be reported at the board's next regular meeting.

Chapter 23, Statutes of 2002

AB 958 (Chavez-D) Local government contracts

Provides that the obligation of contract of a local legislative body commences when it adopts a resolution formally adopting, approving, or entering into any financial contract or when any amendment is made to an existing contract. Specifies procedures determining how contracts that were approved prior to an election that changed the composition of the local legislative body are ratified or rescinded by the new local legislative body.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 964 (Aroner-D) Local government finance

Authorizes counties to recover the proportionate share of costs of property tax administration from school districts, including the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1002 (Daucher-R) Transportation

Authorizes the State Public Utilities Commission to provide for a pilot project to authorize supplementary safety measures, as defined in a specified provision of federal law, for use on rail crossings in the City of Placentia.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1007 (Rod Pacheco-R) Local government finance

Requires Riverside County to repay local agencies for the county property tax revenues it underallocated to those agencies between 1996-97 and 1999-2000.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1022* (Rod Pacheco-R) Firefighting

Establishes, as the Firefighter Incident and Response Enhancement Act, in each county treasury a Supplemental Firefighting Service Fund and requires that money from this fund be allocated to local agencies in accordance with specified requirements for specified front line fire service activities.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1034 (Florez-D) Local government finance

Exempts a qualified fire district from obligation to shift property tax revenues to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in its county.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1041 (Richman-R) Libraries

Allows appointment to the office of county librarian if a person graduated from a graduate program in administration from an accredited university.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1050 (Kehoe-D) Open meetings

Implements specified requirements for local agency closed sessions pertaining to real property transactions, including requiring a legislative body of a local agency to hold an open and public session prior to a closed session in order to deliberate issues related to the desirability of and policy considerations regarding the real property transaction.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1089 (Aanestad-R) Water

Establishes a grant program for Butte County to defray a portion of the costs associated with a public sewer system project to reduce the number of septic tanks in the unincorporated area around the City of Chico.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1104 (Maddox-R) Fire protection

Provides that when a county allocates specified tax proceeds to a joint powers agency formed to provide fire protection services, those funds may not be appropriated by the agency in a manner that provides a financial advantage to any city participating in the agency over the other participating cities.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1137 (Hollingsworth-R) Local government finance

Requires Riverside County to repay local agencies for county property tax revenues it underallocated to those agencies between 1996-97 and 1999-2000.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1138* (La Suer-R) Incorporation

Revises deadline to close the protest hearing on the proposed Rancho Cordova incorporation to August 19, 2002; and makes findings as to why a special law is necessary.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1145 (Jackson-D) Parks and recreation

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

Chapter 24, Statutes of 2002

AB 1203 (Dickerson-R) Crime prevention

Establishes the Sacramento Valley Rural Crime Prevention Program, administered by the county district attorney's and sheriff's office, for rural crime prevention in Butt, Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Sacramento, Solano, Sutter, Tehama, Yolo and Yuba counties, land requires participating counties to establish a task force to be known as the Sacramento Valley Rural Crime Task Force.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1210 (La Suer-R) Forensic laboratories

Requires the Office of Criminal Justice Planning (OCJP) to develop guidelines for a program of competitive grants for the purpose of upgrading existing local public forensic laboratories. States legislative intent that, subject to an appropriation in the Budget Act of 2001, an allocation be made to OCJP for the program.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1254 (Florez-D) Local prosecutors

Includes local prosecutors within the local safety member classification under the State Public Employees' Retirement System and within the safety member classification under the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937. Authorizes those local prosecutors to elect not to become safety members and provides that prior local prosecutor service will be deemed safety service, at the employer's cost. Makes an appropriation by increasing the amount of employee contributions to the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, land requires other city and county retirement systems to provide local prosecutors with benefits provided to safety members under their respective systems.

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

AB 1284 (Lowenthal-D) Community development

Allows cities and counties to set up Housing Opportunity Districts that can use property tax increment revenues to promote affordable housing.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1314 (Havice-D) Parking violations

Provides that no person may park or leave standing any vehicle in a stall or space designated for parking and fueling of zero-emission vehicles, unless the vehicle displays a decal issued by the State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for zero-emission vehicles; requires DMV to make decals available beginning July 1, 2003; and sets a fee not to exceed $25 for failure to display a disabled placard.

Chapter 640, Statutes of 2002

AB 1355 (Daucher-R) Local government finance

States legislative findings and declarations that it is in the best interest of each local agency to have the most cost-efficient method of providing services to its residents, and that a potentially effective method of achieving this goal is for each county, and all of the cites and special districts in that county, to negotiate among themselves a formal agreement providing for allocation of certain property tax revenues.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1378 (Wyman-R) Local government finance

Increases the City of Hesperia's share of the property tax and reduces the County of San Bernardino's share by an equivalent amount. Phases in this change over four years, beginning in 2002-03.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1415 (Leach-R) Public contracts

Authorizes the City of Brentwood to enter into design-build contracts for construction projects.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1468 (Briggs-R) Adult and juvenile detention facilities

Appropriates $400 million from the General Fund to the State Board of Corrections (BOC) for competitive grants to counties for construction, expansion and renovation of local adult and juvenile detention facilities, and requires BOC to give priority to counties with court-ordered population caps that have resulted in release of inmates prior to their scheduled release dates.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1514 (Canciamilla-D) Local planning

Provides for state reimbursement of a portion of the planning costs incurred by cities and counties that submit an updated land use element with an Urban Growth Boundary to the Governor's Office of Planning and Research for review and acceptance on or before July 1, 2002. Makes these cities eligible for priority consideration by the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank when seeking funding for local capital improvement and other infrastructure projects.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1544* (Maldonado-R) Local government finance

Provides that the East-West Ranch Annexation to the Cambria Community Services District becomes effective for assessment and taxation for the 2002-03 fiscal year if the required statement and map or plat are filed with the proper officers and entities on or before June 1, 2002.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1573 (Maldonado-R) Tide and submerged lands

Extends, by five years, the existing January 1, 2002 sunset provision for local oil revenue sharing applicable to revenue from leases that have either a local or state development plan submitted for consideration, and authorizes a local government to share in revenue from new development on existing tideland leases up to January 1, 2007.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 1595 (Wyman-R) Redevelopment

Provides an extension for inclusionary housing requirements for redevelopment of George Air Force Base.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1641 (John Campbell-R) County recorders

Allows all county recorders to accept a digitized image of a recordable instrument subject to specified conditions.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1714 (Canciamilla-D) Public resources: prohibited uses

Extends the prohibitions against state officers using state resources for campaign activities to cover local officers using local resources and in doing so also extends the exemptions from civil or criminal liability for incidental or minimal use.

Chapter 154, Statutes of 2002

AB 1768* (Oropeza-D) State and local government

Provides that, of amounts received from the federal government for homeland security and appropriated in the Budget Act of 2002, not more than $15 million may be allocated to the security advisor to the Governor for disbursement to state and local government public safety agencies to procure and operate specified radio equipment; and requires each state and local government public safety agency that receives these funds to provide an annual report to the Legislature.

Chapter 1127, Statutes of 2002 - Item Veto

The Governor vetoed the $15 million for the Governor's security advisor.

AB 1776* (Leslie-R) Counties: board of supervisors

Allows the board of supervisors of a general law county, with a population of 50,000 or less, to call a special election to fill a vacancy on its board should the Governor fail to fill the vacancy by appointment within 60 days of receiving notice of the vacancy.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1779 (Strickland-R) Harbor districts

Increases to $2 million the amount the board of a harbor district may borrow by issuance of promissory notes, or execution of conditional sales contracts to purchase personal property, for the purposes of acquiring land for, and constructing or operating, any work, project, or facility authorized under specified law.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1833 (Nakano-D) Health services funding

Revises procedures for payment of claims against a county's emergency medical services fund and requires each administering agency of a fund to make all reasonable efforts to notify physicians and surgeons who provide or are likely to provide emergency services in the county as to the availability of the fund and the process by which to submit a claim against the fund.

Chapter 430, Statutes of 2002

AB 1836 (Cardoza-D) Animals

States findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to high-volume animal cruelty arrests, and their impacts on the animal care and shelter systems, and on pet owners; states the Legislature's intent to encourage local agencies to form a joint powers agency or otherwise agree to alleviate problems associated with high-volume animal cruelty arrests, including imposing a $1 surcharge on dog and cat licenses in member jurisdictions to support these efforts; and provides that money collected from dog license fee surcharges for this purpose would not be subject to the restrictions on spending dog license fee money provided in existing law.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1865 (Canciamilla-D) Local government finance

Phases in a cap on the property tax shifts from cities, counties, and special districts to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in each county, contingent upon the condition of the state General Fund.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1892* (Harman-R) Orange County Sanitation District

Authorizes the Orange County Sanitation District to acquire, construct, operate, maintain, and furnish facilities for the diversion of urban runoff from drainage courses within the district, the treatment of the urban runoff, the return of the water to the drainage courses, or the beneficial use of the water.

Chapter 79, Statutes of 2002

AB 1927* (Kehoe-D) Neighborhood Infrastructure Bond Act

Enacts the Neighborhood Infrastructure Bond Act of 2002, which authorizes the issuance for the purpose of financing a program to address local infrastructure needs of bonds in the amount of $6 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, the act to be administered by the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank; and requires the Secretary of State to submit the bond act to the voters at the next statewide general election.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1939 (Daucher-R) Local government finance

Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to submit a report to the Legislature, by January 1, 2004, that analyzes the fiscal impact and other impacts on the state and local jurisdictions of this bill as introduced February 14, 2002; and requires that the report suggest possible criteria for a new state competitive grant program that would award state grant monies to local jurisdictions that participate in a program identical to that outlined in the bill.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1941 (Havice-D) Rave parties: permits

Establishes requirements for issuing a local permit for a "rave party," defined as an electronic music dance event that may be attended by 500 or more persons.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1945 (Simitian-D) Open meetings: closed sessions

Provides that a person may not disclose confidential information that has been acquired by being present in a closed session authorized under the Ralph M. Brown Act, unless the legislative body authorizes disclosure of that confidential information; provides for violation of these provisions; and provides that a local agency may not take any of specified actions against a person for making a confidential inquiry or complaint to a district attorney or grand jury concerning a perceived violation of law, expressing an opinion concerning the propriety or legality of actions taken by a legislative body in closed session.

Chapter 1119, Statutes of 2002

AB 1948 (Kelley-R) Local agency formation commissions

Changes the statutory formula for allocating an independent special district's share of the annual budget for the local agency formation commission.

Chapter 493, Statutes of 2002

AB 1964 (Diaz-D) City ordinances

Permits anyone to request notice of specific proposed ordinances or changes to ordinances and sets compliance requirements for cities.

Chapter 159, Statutes of 2002

AB 1997 (Thomson-D) Land conservation

Prohibits a city or county from granting either a tentative map or a parcel map for land subject to two types of easements if the resulting parcels would be too small to sustain their agricultural use, with exceptions; and makes its provisions apply only to contracts or easements entered into on or after January 1, 2003.

Chapter 613, Statutes of 2002

AB 2028 (Canciamilla-D) Local planning

Provides for state reimbursement of a portion of the planning costs incurred by cities and counties that submit an updated land use element with an Urban Growth Boundary to the Governor's Office of Planning and Research for review and acceptance on or before July 1, 2003; and makes these cities and counties eligible for priority consideration by the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank when seeking funding for local capital improvement and other infrastructure projects.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2031 (Canciamilla-D) Vehicles

Reinstates an earlier pilot project conducted in Los Angeles County that required specified criteria and procedures for funeral processions.

(Died in Senate Transportation Committee)

AB 2038* (Ashburn-R) County service areas

Authorizes Tulare County to disburse money from a revolving fund to county service areas without the requirement of reimbursement.

Chapter 82, Statutes of 2002

AB 2048 (Salinas-D) Local government records

Revises and recasts provisions regarding various record retention provisions applicable to counties, cities, districts and other entities of local government; deletes erroneous references in the various provisions; enacts separate provisions applicable to special districts; and provides that the provisions relating to retention of videotapes and recordings do not apply to videotapes or recordings made by security cameras operated as part of a public transit system, except for videotapes or recordings that are evidence in a claim filed or pending litigation or are the subject of an incident report and except as provided with respect to transit systems operated by a city or a city and county.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2058 (Papan-D) Water

Enacts the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency Act which, among other things, provides for the formation of the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency for 26 public entities that purchase water from San Francisco.

Chapter 844, Statutes of 2002

AB 2061 (Salinas-D) Taxation

Authorizes the City of Salinas, subject to voter approval, to levy a 0.25 percent transactions and use tax for the purpose of improving certain capital facilities in that city.

Chapter 338, Statutes of 2002

AB 2073 (Canciamilla-D) Local government finance

Requires, if a city annexes territory that contains an electric generation facility, the county in which that city is located continue to receive the revenues derived from franchises and surcharges that the county received prior to that annexation; states the intent of the Legislature that this bill's provisions supersede any provision of law that is contrary to this bill's provisions; and requires, if a city annexes territory that contains an electric generation facility, the county in which that city is located continue to be allocated the same proportion of property tax revenues derived from that facility that the county received prior to that annexation.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2078* (Kelley-R) Joint powers authorities: self-insurance

Defines "self-insurance claims or losses", where two or more health care districts have joined to pool their self-insurance claims, to include claims or losses incurred pursuant to specified workers' compensation provision.

Chapter 750, Statutes of 2002

AB 2095 (Kehoe-D) Transportation

Creates the San Diego Regional Authority as the region's transportation planning agency; and makes conforming changes in this regard.

(Died in Senate Transportation Committee)

AB 2100 (Simitian-D) Local government finance

Incrementally caps the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund over 10 years for cities and counties with valid housing elements.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2122 (Washington-D) Local agency investments

Allows the City of Los Angeles to invest up to 40 percent of its temporarily idle funds in commercial paper, following the existing standards for counties.

Chapter 83, Statutes of 2002

AB 2129 (Kelley-R) Local government finance

Specifies that cities' and counties' community services agreements must contain a provision specifying that the agreement shall terminate and be subject to renegotiation 10 years after the effective date of the agreement; and specifies that the proposed facility will, if it meets specified criteria, also meet the definition of a "qualified manufacturing facility," if it is a powerplant used for production of electricity from one or more specified energy sources.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 2156 (Kehoe-D) San Diego River Conservancy

Establishes, until January 1, 2010, the San Diego River Conservancy to acquire and direct the management of specific public lands in the San Diego River area.

Chapter 574, Statutes of 2002

AB 2175 (Daucher-R) Housing

Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to add to guidelines for addressing human service matters within the context of the guidelines of city or county general plans; and defines "human service matters".

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2182 (John Campbell-R) Local agency investments

Permits a county or a city and county to invest its funds using prescribed criteria that authorize investments in various securities, obligations, and other financial instruments, including direct obligations of the United States Treasury or any other obligation guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States government, bonds, notes, debentures, or other obligations of, securities issued by, and federal government agency, instrumentality, or government-sponsored enterprise, and state treasury notes, bonds, or registered warrants.

Chapter 162, Statutes of 2002

AB 2193 (Maddox-R) Fire protection

Provides that when property tax revenues of Orange County are allocated by that county to an agency formed for the purpose of providing fire protection pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, those funds may only be appropriated for expenditure by that agency for fire protection purposes.

Chapter 339, Statutes of 2002

AB 2209 (Chu-D) Property taxation

Removes a cap on pension programs funded through a voter-approved property tax levy, allowing specified local agencies to impose a higher property tax rate that would specifically contribute and support pension programs approved by local voters before July 1, 1978.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2224 (Nation-D) Transportation

Creates the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District for the purpose of ownership and governance of a passenger rail system within Marin and Sonoma Counties; and establishes the powers, duties and other legal requirements regarding the formation and operation of the district, its governance, organizational structure, taxing and other fiscal authority, succession to the powers of existing transportation entities and the district's potential dissolution.

Chapter 341, Statutes of 2002

AB 2227 (Harman-R) Local agency formation

Makes 26 changes to the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Act that created local agency formation commissions; and governs the boundaries of cities and special districts.

Chapter 548, Statutes of 2002

AB 2292 (Dutra-D) Land use

Requires cities and counties to follow the no-net-loss principle when reducing residential densities.

Chapter 706, Statutes of 2002

AB 2370 (Thomson-D) Local agency formation

Prohibits a local agency formation commission (LAFCO) from approving the annexation of Williamson Act contracted land to a city, with any of the following exceptions: (1) the LAFCO finds that the city or county administering the contract has policies and feasible implementation measures ensuring the continuation of agricultural or other uses on a long-term basis; (2) the LAFCO finds that the boundary change encourages and provides planned, well-ordered, efficient urban development patterns; (3) the LAFCO finds that the boundary change is necessary to provide services to planned, well-ordered, efficient urban development patterns.

Chapter 614, Statutes of 2002

AB 2389 (Dutra-D) Transportation

Requires the Sate Department of Transportation and the California Transportation Commission to allocate 75 percent of the federal transportation enhancement activity funds received by California to regional agencies as local assistance funds to be apportioned using the county share formula, and 25 percent of those federal funds to projects nominated by the department.

(Died in Senate Transportation Committee)

AB 2402 (Rod Pacheco-R) Speed limits: City of Norco: equestrian trails

Specifically authorizes the City of Norco, when conducting an engineering and traffic survey, to consider equestrian safety, in addition to other factors required by the Vehicle Code.

Chapter 186, Statutes of 2002

AB 2561 (Vargas-D) Business improvement districts

Allows a city council to initiate proceedings to form a business district in an area containing a mass transit station within its boundaries, and proposes to spend a minimum of 25 percent of its budget promoting or encouraging mass transit use upon submission of a petition signed by property owners in the proposed district who will pay more than 30 percent of the proposed assessments to be levied.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2598 (Assembly Elections, Reapportionment And Constitutional Amendments Committee) Elections

Makes changes to the Elections Code regarding municipal elections which (1) eliminates conflicting provisions regarding publication of a notice listing the names of nominees and the respective offices in a municipal election; (2) provides that the all-mail ballot elections shall be held on the last Tuesday in August in each odd-numbered year; and (3) requires the city council to choose a mayor and mayor pro tempore at the next regularly scheduled meeting following the meeting when the declaration of the elections results occurred.

Chapter 344, Statutes of 2002

AB 2645 (Aanestad-R) Government agencies

Amends the Brown Act to expand the list of personnel or consultants allowed in closed sessions that relate to security matters; and exempts specified security documents from the Public Records Act.

Chapter 1120, Statutes of 2002

AB 2648 (Wyland-R) Law libraries

Permits the San Diego County Board of Supervisors to review any claims, expenses, or requests for reimbursement received from county law libraries and reduce or deny those claims; and makes minor changes to the membership of the board of directors of the San Diego County law library.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2650 (Lowenthal-D) Air pollution

Prohibits extended engine idling by trucks at marine terminals and establishes a grants program designed to reduce particulate matter emissions from diesel trucks.

Chapter 1129, Statutes of 2002

AB 2658 (Aanestad-R) Health care districts

Revises, with certain exceptions, the method of apportioning the share of cost of an independent special district, including a health care district, for the operation of a local agency formation commission, based on net operating revenues of the district.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2730 (Washington-D) Library services

Establishes the Youth Mentoring and Safe Communities Grant Program; requires the State Librarian to award grants on a competitive basis to qualified public libraries for the purposes of implementing the program in the public libraries; requires an independent entity to evaluate effectiveness of the program; requires the State Librarian to submit results of the evaluation to the Governor and specified committees of the Legislature by January 1, 2004; and requires the State Librarian to implement the program only to the extent that funds are appropriated for this purpose.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 2825 (Wiggins-D) Local agencies

Authorizes any city, county, or city and county to form by ordinance a fire protection finance agency for the purposes of supplementing fire protection services and financing needed capital improvements for its fire department or for any other public agency that provides its structural fire protection services within its boundaries.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2835 (Longville-D) County hospitals

States intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to permit the lien to be continued against any settlement, compromise, arbitration award, mediation settlement, or any other recovery obtained.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2836 (Wiggins-D) Public works finance

Authorizes the State Public Works Board to issue lease-revenue bonds on behalf of any city, county, or city and county, to finance buildings and equipment for the purpose of fire protection.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2843 (Thomson-D) Local agency formation

Requires local agency formation commissions to follow policies intended to promote infill development and encourage preservation of agricultural lands.

(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

AB 2847 (Florez-D) Animal control

Provides that the Legislature encourages any entity that provides animal law enforcement services to provide its investigative employees with education in animal husbandry, handling, and training of animals exhibited under the authority of a permit issued pursuant to a specified provision of state regulatory law.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2851 (Cogdill-R) Community facilities districts

Requires Mello-Roos Act Community Facilities Districts to prepare yearly revenue and expenditure reports upon request.

Chapter 960, Statutes of 2002

AB 2863 (Longville-D) Land use

Defines residential unit and substantial compliance for purposes of the housing element requirements; and makes additional findings and declarations regarding regional housing needs.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2864* (Wiggins-D) Law enforcement funding

Extends, indefinitely, the law which allocates annually prescribed amounts from the General Fund to the State Controller for allocation to county sheriffs' departments to enhance law enforcement efforts requiring those funds to supplement rather than supplant existing law enforcement resources.

(Died in Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)

AB 2867 (Kehoe-D) Joint powers authority

Authorizes the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Diego, the Housing Authority of the City of San Diego, the San Diego Housing Commission, the San Diego Unified School District, and the City of San Diego to enter into a joint powers agreement to create and operate a joint powers agency known as the San Diego Model School Development Agency, with all of the powers of a redevelopment agency, housing authority, the city, the school district, and a joint powers agency, to acquire property, and to construct, improve, and finance one or more schools, housing projects, parks, recreational facilities, and any other facilities reasonably necessary for their proper operation.

Chapter 961, Statutes of 2002

AB 2875 (Vargas-D) Military bases

Extends the designation for a Local Agency Military Base Recovery Area by modifying when the eight-year designation period is calculated.

Chapter 692, Statutes of 2002

AB 2882 (Cardenas-D) Military base reuse

Requires military base reuse authorities, in the preparation, adoption, review, and revision of plans for future use and development of the territory occupied by the military base, to give first priority to consideration of the reuse of the base for community college facilities.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2886 (Wiggins-D) Local planning agencies: duties

Requires a local planning agency's annual report on the status of the general plan and progress in meeting the community's share of housing needs to include the degree to which the approved general plan complies with specified guidelines for the preparation of the mandatory elements of the general plan, and the date of the last revision to the general plan.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2896 (Simitian-D) Local planning

Defines "housing unit" and "unit" for purposes of a city or county's housing element requirements; declares intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the State Department of Housing and Community Development, when evaluating whether a housing element is consistent with state law, to count congregate housing for seniors that is identified within the housing element of a city or county for purposes of determining whether the city or county meets its share of the regional housing needs.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2928 (Matthews-D) Counties

Permits the Board of Supervisors of Merced County to abolish, by ordinance, the office of Marshal of Merced County and establish a court security division in the sheriff's department in that county.

Chapter 1072, Statutes of 2002

AB 2936 (Aroner-D) Land use

Clarifies that local government entities have authority to use their permit processing fees to cover reasonably necessary costs to prepare and revise their master plan.

Chapter 963, Statutes of 2002

AB 2937 (Shelley-D) Local agencies

Makes the California Public Records Act applicable to all entities that are legislative bodies of local agencies as defined by the Ralph M. Brown Act; and includes limited liability companies within the definition of "legislative body" as contained within the Government Code.

Chapter 1073, Statutes of 2002

AB 2954 (Simitian-D) Land use

Requires, upon adoption or amendment of a city or county's general plan, on or after January 1, 2004, the land use element of the general plan to address the distribution of certain child care facilities.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 3056* (Cogdill-R) Local government finance

Forgives part of the underallocation of property tax revenues made to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) in Madera and Tuolumne counties and provides for repayment to ERAF over an extended period of time.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 3057 (Matthews-D) Local planning

Renames the open space element of cities' and counties' general plans the "agricultural and open space" element and requires counties to include land inventories and goals and policies to support conservation of these lands.

Vetoed by the Governor

ACA 10 (Cogdill-R) Local government finance

Phases out property tax shifts to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in each county over nine years, beginning in 2002-03, by freezing the shifts at declining percentages of the amounts shifted in 2000-01 over the phase-out period.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACA 11 (Richman-R) Infrastructure finance

Requires that funds in the California Twenty-First Century Infrastructure Investment Fund in the State Treasury be allocated by the Legislature for capital outlay purposes, of which 50 percent would be for acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, modernization, or renovation of state-owned infrastructure and 50 percent would be for acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, modernization, or renovation of local government infrastructure, excluding school districts and community college districts.

Resolution Chapter 185, Statutes of 2002

ACR 124 (Harman-R) Reimbursements to local governments

Urges the Governor to ensure that local governments will continue to be fully reimbursed for revenue losses associated with the vehicle license fee offsets authorized under the Vehicle License Fee law.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

Immigration Issues

SB 59 (Escutia-D) Insurance: immigrant children's health needs

Requires the State Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to report to the Legislature recommendations on innovative methods of addressing health needs of vulnerable children, such as immigrant children.

Chapter 800, Statutes of 2002

SB 804 (Polanco-D) Immigration: drivers' licenses

Requires a person applying for a driver's license whom has applied for legal immigration status to submit to a criminal background check. Prohibits the granting of a license if the person has been convicted of specified offenses. Requires the applicant to show that he or she has worked for 15 months out of the preceeding three years. A trailer bill to AB 60 (Cedillo-D).

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1414 (Speier-D) Health care coverage: legal immigrants

Expands publicly funded health care coverage to provide health care benefits to all citizens and legal immigrants residing in California, and creates the Healthy California Program (HCP) to provide this coverage. Designates the State Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to administer HCP, conduct outreach programs, determine eligibility of applicants and monitor the quality of the program.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1544 (Karnette-D) Foreign prisoners

States the circumstances that require the transfer of a foreign prisoner to his or her native country by the State Board of Prison Terms and the requirements for the transfer.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1604 (Johnson-R) Voter registration: non-citizens

Requires a county jury commissioner, upon request, to notify the county elections official of each person who returns a jury notice indicating an inability to serve because he or she is not a United States citizen.

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

SB 1748 (Polanco-D) Office of Binational Border Health

Creates legislative intent that the State Department of Health Services Office of Binational Border Health create a web site describing the health status of migrants of Mexican origin.

(Died at Assembly Desk without being referred to a committee)

SB 1818 (Romero-D) Employment laws: immigration status

Amends the Civil, Government, Health and Safety and Labor Codes to include legislative findings and declarations regarding the protections, rights and remedies of employees, regardless of immigration status, under state law.

Chapter 1071, Statutes of 2002

SJR 41 (Speier-D) Resident aliens: airport screeners

Requests Congress to enact S. 1839 or H.R. 3505, or both of these measures, as the Airport Security Personnel Protection Act to provide for transitional employment for qualified resident alien airport security screeners until their naturalization processes are completed, as requires by these measures.

Resolution Chapter 164, Statutes of 2002

AB 60 (Cedillo-D) Driver's licenses: immigration status

Modifies the requirement for driver's license and identification card applicants to establish their lawful presence and to provide social security numbers to the State Department of Motor Vehicles.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 552 (Firebaugh-D) Office of California-Mexico Affairs

Establishes, within the Office of California-Mexico Affairs, an advisory committee to conduct a study on potential California-based economic development programs in Mexico in order to address issues such as immigration.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1999 (Correa-D) Immigration consultants

Authorizes state and local law enforcement officials to seek civil penalties under the Immigration Consultants Act.

Chapter 705, Statutes of 2002

AB 2171 (Cogdill-R) Bail

Prevents an order of forfeiture from being vacated or a bail from being exonerated when a defendant has been deported or removed from the United States under federal authority, unless the court finds on the record good cause to do so.

(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2483 (Diaz-D) How to Live in America

Establishes, in the Office of Criminal Justice Planning, a pilot program, implemented initially in the counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Fresno, and San Diego, under which immigrants who have committed traffic violations are given the option of taking a class, in lieu of fines or jail time, to better understand California laws and public services.

(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

ACR 220 (Diaz-D) How to Live in America Program

Commends the counties of Santa Clara, Contra Costa and San Mateo for their successful implementation of the How to Live in America Program and urges other counties to implement the program.

Resolution Chapter 113, Statutes of 2002

AJR 35 (Kelley-R) Mexicali/Calexico border crossing

Requests the President and Vice-President of the United States, the United States Congress, and certain federal agencies, including the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the United States Customs Service, to take the necessary steps to implement the SENTRI program at the Mexicali/Calexico border crossing.

Resolution Chapter 51, Statutes of 2002

AJR 39 (Alquist-D) Airport security workers

Requests the President and the Congress to suspend or eliminate the requirement that security screening personnel be citizens and, instead, provide that they must meet the same requirements as persons that serve in the National Guard. Memorializes the President and Congress to act to ensure that any legal immigrant that has applied for citizenship be allowed to keep his or her security screening job absent certain evidence.

Resolution Chapter 148, Statutes of 2002

A similar measure was AJR 40 (Diaz-D), which died at the Assembly Desk without being referred to a committee.

AJR 57 (Diaz-D) Immigration enforcement

States the concerns of the Legislature about the use of state and local law enforcement agents to enforce immigration law. States legislative findings that state and local law enforcement agencies lack authority to stop, arrest, or detain persons based upon suspected or alleged violations of the civil provisions of the federal immigration laws, as specified. Provides for transmittal to the United States Attorney General.

Resolution Chapter 183, Statutes of 2002

AJR 60 (Goldberg-D) Kumeyaay Nation

Requests the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service to continue to work with the Kumeyaay Nation to allow for the pass and repass of Baja Kumeyaay over the international border separating the United States and Mexico.

Resolution Chapter 184, Statutes of 2002

Federal Issues

SJR 7 (Alpert-D) Wholesale electric prices

Memorializes Congress and the President to support legislation to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to order refunds, if rates are unjust or unreasonable, and establish temporary regional price caps if FERC determines rates are unjust or unreasonable.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SJR 9 (Costa-D) Foreign investments

Urges the federal government to assume its proper leadership role in assisting investors in avoiding investing in entities that are deemed threats to the national security of the United States.

(Died in Senate Banking, Commerce and International Trade Committee)

SJR 13 (McClintock-R) Yucca Mountain radioactive materials repository

Urges the U.S. States Secretary of Energy to expedite the review the scientific data regarding Yucca Mountain's suitability as a permanent federal repository, urges the President to move forward with the licensing of Yucca Mountain as a permanent repository and declares the intent of the Legislature that the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission make an expedites finding that the State of California is ready to accept nuclear facilities, upon successful completion of the federal government's action.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

A similar resolution was AJR 22 (Mountjoy-R), which died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee.

SJR 14 (Poochigian-R) Federal income taxes: marriage penalty

Urges the President and the Congress to enact legislation that eliminates the marriage penalty that currently exists in the application of federal income tax laws.

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SJR 15 (O'Connell-D) Offshore oil drilling

Urges the President and Congress of the United States to negotiate a permanent settlement with the leaseholders of the 36 federal oil leases remaining off the coast of California, which prohibits the development of the leases on the basis that the impacts of developing those leases are not acceptable and to continue the moratorium on new oil leasing off the coast of California.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SJR 16 (Machado-D) Community oriented policing program

Urges the President and Congress to continue providing funding for the Community Oriented Policy Services program that has established a partnership with local and national law enforcement to assist communities in their war against crime.

(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SJR 17 (Vincent-D) Federal interstate highways

Urges Congress to enact legislation to establish a federal transportation impact assistance program to provide financial assistance to school districts with schools located within two miles of an international airport or that are adjacent to a federal-aid highway.

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

SJR 22 (Torlakson-D) Gasoline: MTBE

Urges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider granting an administrative waiver of the act's oxygenated gasoline requirement for the State of California, to the extent permitted by the federal Clean Air Act, as specified.

Resolution Chapter 7, Statutes of 2002

SJR 23 (Speier-D) Family Planning Act

Requests the President and Congress of the United States to enact the Family Planning State Empowerment Act of 2001.

(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

SJR 24 (Knight-R) Military base closures

Urges the state, through the Legislature, the Governor and the California congressional delegation o deliver a message to the President and Congress of the United States that the closure of any military bases in California is unacceptable.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SJR 25 (Scott-D) Oxygenate requirements in gasoline

Requires the Congress of the United States to review California's request to be exempted from the gasoline oxygenate additive requirement imposed by the Clean Air Act.

Resolution Chapter 98, Statutes of 2002

SJR 27 (Knight-R) Internet domains

Urges the President and Congress to adopt legislation requiring pornographic web sites to have a certain top level domain.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SJR 28 (Knight-R) Highway construction and expansion: safety

Urges the Congress of the United States to adopt a categorical exemption from federal statutes that require prerequisite studies prior to the expansion of a current highway or construction of a new highway when the need for the expansion or new construction is safety.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SJR 29 (Murray-D) Taxation of film and television productions

Urges the President of the United States and the Congress to enact the Independent Film and Television Production Incentive Act of 2001 to address the problem of economic recovery of film and television productions.

Resolution Chapter 80, Statutes of 2002

SJR 30 (Haynes-R) President Bush's Economic Security Plan

Instructs California's elected representatives in the U.S. Senate to urge Senate Majority Leader Tom Dashel to allow President Bush's economic security package to receive a vote.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SJR 31 (Haynes-R) Death tax

Requests the President of the United States and the Congress to enact legislation that permanently repeals the death tax.

(Held in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SJR 32 (Haynes-R) Fight against terrorism

Expresses gratitude to the President, the President's Cabinet, and the men and women of the United States armed forces for their leadership and sacrifice in the fight against terrorism.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SJR 33 (Haynes-R) National missile defense system

Requests the President and Congress to support legislation to implement a national defense system.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SJR 34 (Speier-D) Oral cancer drugs

Requests the President and Congress to adopt legislation requiring the Medicare program to cover all oral anticancer drugs,

Resolution Chapter 55, Statutes of 2002

SJR 35 (Brulte-R) Federal Indian Health Care

Requests the President and Congress to pass legislation requiring the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.

Resolution Chapter 56, Statutes of 2002

SJR 36 (Murray-D) Highway funding

Supports the efforts of the Congress to restore federal highway funding for 2003 to not less than the levels anticipated in the Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-first Century.

Resolution Chapter 31, Statutes of 2002

SJR 37 (Romero-D) Alzheimer's disease

Requests the President and Congress to immediately invest in various activities to prevent Alzheimer's disease, such as increasing the number of large-scale clinical tests, increasing funding of Alzheimer's disease research grants, launching an initiative on vascular disease and dementia, conducting additional research on Alzheimer's disease risk factors and developing specified early detection methods.

Resolution Chapter 69, Statutes of 2002

SJR 38 (Ortiz-D) Stem cell research

Requests the President and Congress to reject legislation impeding stem cell and therapeutic cloning research and to enact legislation that imposes a ban on reproduction cloning, establish a process to facilitate the donation of stem cell materials to researches, and create guidelines to increase stem cell research in the United States.

Resolution Chapter 163, Statutes of 2002

SJR 39 (Burton-D) Trade with Cuba

Urges the President and Congress to consider the removal of trade, financial and travel restrictions to Cuba.

Resolution Chapter 136, Statutes of 2002

SJR 40 (Kuehl-D) International investment agreements

Requests that the President and Congress and the U.S. Trade Representative shall preserve the traditional powers of all local governments by requiring that negotiators of international investment agreements perform specified duties in that regard.

Resolution Chapter 129, Statutes of 2002

SJR 42 (Escutia-D) Child Care and Development Block Grant

Requests the Congress to approve legislation that increases and reauthorizes the funding for the Child Care and Development Block Grant.

Resolution Chapter 109, Statutes of 2002

SJR 43 (Margett-R) Taiwan and the World Health Organization

Declares the support of the Legislature for Taiwan to gain observer status in the World Health Organization.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SJR 44 (Haynes-R) Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month

Declares the month of May 2002 as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month and requests the Congress and President to provide additional funding for research in order to find a treatment and a cure.

Resolution Chapter 57, Statutes of 2002

SJR 45 (O'Connell-D) Matilija Dam Ecosystem

Requests the President and Congress to undertake measures to remove the Matilija Dam on Matilija Creek, the principal tributary of the Ventura River.

(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

SJR 46 (Monteith-R) Social Security

Requests the Congress to take steps to protect the solvency of the Social Security program and provide current beneficiaries of the program a written guarantee that they will receive benefits they have been promised. Requests Congress to ensure that reforms to the program avoid reductions in benefits or increases in taxes. Requests Congress to take appropriate steps to oppose privatization of the program through the use of personal account options.

(Died on the Assembly Inactive File)

SJR 47 (Soto-D) Gabrieleno Indians

Supports the extension of federal recognition of the Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians through enactment of H.R. 3824.

(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SJR 48 (Polanco-D) California fire service: terrorism preparedness

Requests the President and Congress of the United States to make sufficient funds available to California to support the state's Fire Service first responder preparedness needs.

Resolution Chapter 132, Statutes of 2002

SJR 49 (Ortiz-D) Environmental chemicals exposure

Requests the President, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the California Congressional delegation to seek immediate release to the State Department of Health Services, and thereby to the public, of the California-specific findings from the 1999 CDC, National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, that is due by December 2002, at the time the report is issued.

Resolution Chapter 137, Statutes of 2002

SJR 50 (Brulte-R) West Point

Requests the United States Congress to recognize the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Resolution Chapter 138, Statutes of 2002

SJR 51 (Karnette-D) United Nations Population Fund

Requests the President and Congress to reinstate funding for the United Nations Population Fund.

Resolution Chapter 139, Statutes of 2002

SJR 52 (Kuehl-D) California Wild Heritage Act of 2002

Requests the President and Congress to enact S. 2535, the California Wild Heritage Act of 2002.

Resolution Chapter 165, Statutes of 2002

SR 9 (Murray-D) Social Security

Requests the Congress to refuse to enact legislation proposed by the Bush Administration to privatize social security.

(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SR 29 (Polanco-D) Taiwan and the World Health Organization

Commends the Republic of China on Taiwan on its contributions to promote world health and requests the President and Congress to take action necessary to endorse and obtain observer status for Taiwan and the annual week-long summit of the World Health Assembly in Geneva.

Adopted by the Senate

ACR 18 (Frommer-D) Earthquake relief

Calls upon the Governor to advise the Office of Emergency Services to be prepared to provide specified assistance related to the earthquakes in El Salvador and India and calls upon all local disaster relief and municipal emergency services to stand ready to do the same. Calls upon the Governor to post a public service announcement on the official state web site with information on how to contact the Consul General of El Salvador, the Consul General of India, and nonprofit relief organizations assisting the recovery efforts in El Salvador and India.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AJR 2 (Havice-D) Defense industry

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States, the Secretary of Energy, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to order interstate power generators to supply this state with the adequate flow of electricity necessary to sustain national security and the military preparedness of the defense industry. Urges Congress to act through legislation to designate the various contractors now engaged in vital defense work for this nation as "operating in the national interest".

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AJR 6 (Canciamilla-D) Retirement security and savings

Urges the President and the Congress to enact new legislation that embodies provisions of the Retirement Security and Savings Act of 2000, which was considered by Congress in 2000.

Resolution Chapter 121, Statutes of 2002

AJR 7 (Aroner-D) Federal funding

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to enact a federal budget that redirects sufficient amounts of money from the military budget to the states to meet critical domestic needs.

(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

AJR 8 (Briggs-R) Choinumni Tribe: federal recognition

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States and the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs in the United State Department of the Interior to grant the Choinumni Tribe full federal recognition and all the rights and privileges that arise from that declaration.

Resolution Chapter 71, Statutes of 2002

AJR 10 (Cohn-D) Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Urges the President of the United States, the Congress of the United States, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to establish temporary cost-based rates for electricity for the entire western region for 18 months, or until FERC determines that electricity prices are just, reasonable, and comparable to prices elsewhere in that nation.

(Died at Assembly Desk without being referred to Committee)

AJR 11 (Cohn-D) Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Calls on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to (1) adhere to its governing statutes, its vision statement, and its own regulations for companies seeking market-based authority, (2) impose cost of service regulation on any company that has been found by FERC to be among those that manipulated the power market and work jointly with California state agencies in identifying those companies, and (3) impose interim price caps until the California power market has stabilized.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AJR 14 (Assembly Water, Parks And Wildlife Committee) Klamath Project

Memorializes the Secretary of Interior to convene the Endangered Species Committee to issue orders, as necessary, consistent with the purpose of the Endangered Species Act, to remedy the crisis in the Klamath River Basin and ensure that this crisis is not replicated in other regions of the country. Also memorializes the Congress of the United States to amend the Endangered Species Act, if needed, as specified.

(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee)

AJR 19 (Koretz-D) Aerial gunning

Urges the President to end the practice of aerial gunnery as a means of predator control.

(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AJR 23 (Longville-D) Commercial vehicle drivers

Urges the President of the United States and the Secretary of Transportation of the United States Department of Transportation to adopt standards for technologies to record drivers' hours of service that are performance-based, recognize individual drivers, are capable of roadside inspection facility enforcement, and apply uniformly on a nationwide basis upon a common effective date. Urges that the standards adopted should protect driver privacy and due process, promote reasonable training of drivers in the use of technology, and that consideration be given to financial or tax incentives to speed deployment of the technologies.

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AJR 24 (Chu-D) Lower Los Angeles and San Gabriel River Watersheds

Urges the President and Vice President of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, the Director of the National park Service, and each senator and representative from California to support Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis' proposal to study the feasibility of establishing the Lower Los Angeles River, the San Gabriel River, the San Gabriel Mountains, and areas under the jurisdiction of the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy as a unit of the National Park System.

(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AJR 25 (Firebaugh-D) Forest resources

Urges Congress to declare its encouragement of public and private investment in economically and environmentally sound forest management practices that ensure sustainable forests for the benefit of present and future generations.

Resolution Chapter 122, Statutes of 2002

AJR 26 (Havice-D) Military reserve personnel

Urges the President and Congress to take various actions to ensure the fair treatment of military reservists when they apply for loans.

Resolution Chapter 96, Statutes of 2002

AJR 27 (Oropeza-D) Social HMO's

Urges the President and Congress of the United States, the federal Department of Health and Human Services, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to take various actions with respect to social health maintenance organizations.

Resolution Chapter 29, Statutes of 2002

AJR 28 (Robert Pacheco-R) Pancreatic cancer

Urges the President and Congress to expand federally funded research efforts aimed at developing a reliable means of detecting pancreatic cancer in its early stages.

Resolution Chapter 24, Statutes of 2002

AJR 30 (Dickerson-R) Firefighters

Requests Congress and the United States Department of Justice to include the families of wildland firefighting pilots and their crews, past and present, who have worked or who now work on a contract basis as eligible for death benefits on the same basis as public safety officers.

Resolution Chapter 147, Statutes of 2002

AJR 31 (Thomson-D) Antiterrorism funding

Requests the President and Congress to enact legislation to provide funds to states and local governments to provide the necessary security and relief measures to protect local citizens from terrorism.

Resolution Chapter 61, Statutes of 2002

AJR 32 (Strickland-R) Private scholarship tax credits

Supports the creation of a federal income tax credit for donations to nonprofit organizations that make more privately funded scholarships and educational assistance available to children.

(Died on Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AJR 33 (Robert Pacheco-R) Trade Promotion Authority

Requests the President and Congress to enact Trade Promotion Authority and take various actions regarding trade and related issues with respect to the enactment of the Authority and with respect to the conduct of trade negotiations and agreements.

(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)

AJR 34 (Hollingsworth-R) Disabled military retirees

Urges Congress to fund the National Defense authorization Act for FY 2002, to eliminate the penalty imposed against disabled military retirees for concurrent receipt of retirement and disability compensation.

Resolution Chapter 97, Statutes of 2002

AJR 36 (Wiggins-D) Project labor agreements

Requests the President and Congress to fully support the current practice of project labor agrements and overturn federal Executive Order 13202 and any other attempts to curtail the use of project labor agreements.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 37 (Lowenthal-D) Labor negotiations by California waterfront workers

Declares the opposition of the California Legislature to any action by the President and the Administration that imposes a federal injunction against waterfront workers, remove waterfront workers from the coverage of the National Labor Relations Act, or send military personnel to west coast docks to assist in a lockout of waterfront workers.

Resolution Chapter 193, Statutes of 2002

A similar measure was AJR 62 (Lowenthal-D), which died at the Assembly Desk.

AJR 38 (Nation-D) Transgenic fish

Urges the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to deny the A/F Protein petition to market transgenic salmon to consumers as food and to establish a moratorium on the domestic marketing, importation, and exportation of transgenic fish until the FDA establishes a comprehensive regulatory framework that evaluates and addresses the human health and environmental impacts caused by commercialization of such fish.

(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

AJR 41 (Cogdill-R) Terrorism

Expresses, on behalf of the State of California, sincere appreciation for and full support of the President, the Congress, our armed forces, and the American people for their leadership and resolve in working to ensure that peace, liberty and security are a reality for all Americans, regardless of whom threatens their fundamental rights.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 42 (Calderon-D) Unemployment insurance

Urges the President and Congress to abandon the federal proposal to devolve the administration of the unemployment insurance system, as specified.

Resolution Chapter 123, Statutes of 2002

AJR 43 (Robert Pacheco-R) Medicaid

Requests the President and Congress to take into consideration the 4.4 million Californians who are living below poverty thresholds by taking into account the total number of persons living in poverty rather than the per capita income when establishing the formula that will be used for calculating the federal share of Medicaid costs under the federal Medicaid Assistance Percentages.

Resolution Chapter 100, Statutes of 2002

AJR 44 (Simitian-D) Armenian Genocide

Designates April 24, 2002, as "California Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-28". Requests Congress to likewise commemorate the Armenian Genocide.

Resolution Chapter 39, Statutes of 2002

AJR 45 (Canciamilla-D) Independent System Operator

Urges the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to maintain long-standing federal policies to promote the development of customer generation resources and to ensure the California electricity load served by customer generation does not increase costs for any transmission related service in excess of the transmission costs included in standby service rates developed using ratemaking principles that existed prior to the establishment of the Independent Service Operator.

Resolution Chapter 194, Statutes of 2002

AJR 46 (Cardoza-D) Arafat Accountability Act

Requests the President and Congress to enact s. 2194, the "Arafat Accountability Act" to encourage the cessation of terrorist acts against Israeli and American civilians in the State of Israel.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AJR 47 (Jackson-D) Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972

Requests the President and Congresses to uphold the intent and substance of the current provisions of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, to pursue a stronger enforcement policy for Title IX, and support continuation of the strong compliance standards that are in place for Title IX.

Resolution Chapter 117, Statutes of 2002

AJR 48 (Papan-D) Cyprus

Requests the President and Congress to increase the Administration's effort to encourage initiatives that will help promote and achieve reunification, reconsideration, stability, and prosperity in Cyprus within the context of the ongoing efforts of the United Nations Security General's auspices and on the basis of the relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions. Requests the U.S. government to continue to strongly support the accession of Cyprus to the European Union, without the settlement of the Cyprus problem being a precondition for accession.

Resolution Chapter 118, Statutes of 2002

AJR 49 (Aroner-D) Home health care

Requests the President and Congress to enact legislation to ensure that Medicare home health care providers are not further harmed by administrative changes. States the opposition of the Legislature to the 15 percent cut in home health care payments scheduled for October 1, 2002.

Resolution Chapter 149, Statutes of 2002

AJR 50 (Dickerson-R) Veterans benefits

Requests the President and Congress to enact legislation to establish a federal/state partnership to use local county veteran service officers to assist the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs in eliminating the veterans claims processing backlog.

Resolution Chapter 150, Statutes of 2002

AJR 52 (Chan-D) National Memorial: Flight 93

Requests the President and Congress to enact legislation to designate a national memorial at the crash site of Flight 93 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

Resolution Chapter 182, Statutes of 2002

AJR 53 (Aroner-D) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Urges the federal policymakers, in reauthorizing the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, to, among other things, adjust the TANF block grant for inflation, and maintain state flexibility to spend TANF funds, provide a safety net to vulnerable children, and design the most effective ways to move people into work.

Resolution Chapter 195, Statutes of 2002

AJR 54 (Cardoza-D) Pledge of Allegiance

Urges Congress to propose a constitutional amendment for adoption by the states, allowing the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, in its current form, in any school, public facility, or government building in the United States.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 55 (Pescetti-R) Pledge of Allegiance

Condemns the decision made by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on June 26, 2002, that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional because it includes the words "under God", and requests the President and Congress to take the necessary steps in an expeditious manner to ensure that the Pledge of Allegiance remain intact.

(Died at Assembly Desk without being referred to a committee)

AJR 56 (Briggs-R) United States Court of Appeals: 9th Circuit

Urges members of Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AJR 58 (Dickerson-R) Winnemem Wintu Tribe

Requests the President and Congress, and the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs in the U.S. Department of the Interior to reaffirm the Winnemem Wintu Tribe possesses full federal recognition and all rights and privileges that arise from that status.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AJR 59 (Dickerson-R) Mercury amalgam dental fillings

Urges the Food and Drug Administration to reconvene an advisory panel to consider scientific research on mercury and mercury amalgam dental fillings which have been conducted since the panel last convened in 1994, as specified.

(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)

AJR 61 (Koretz-D) Holocaust insurance claims

Urges the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC), the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and the State Department of Insurance to take immediate action to encourage insurers to comply with the ICHEIC claims process, and urges ICHEIC insurers to continue to fund the ICHEIC operation.

Resolution Chapter 196, Statutes of 2002

HR 48 (Firebaugh-D) Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Expresses support for all people suffering from terrorism and support for the people of Israel in their desire to live in peace and security. Condemns all acts of terrorism. Urges the President and Congress to remain steadfast in their support of Israel. Strongly supports diplomatic efforts to assist in bridging the gap between Israel and Palestinians. Calls upon the leaders in the Middle East to urge restraint and to seek a just and lasting peace that will allow all peoples of the region to live side by side.

Adopted by the Assembly

Index (in Bill Order)