Aaron Read LEGISLATIVE AND & Associates, LLC GOVERNMENTAL REPRESENTATION
Prepared by: Aaron Read & Associates
OCEA
AB 95     ( Beall)  Domestic violence: probation: treatment programs. ( Amended  02/28/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law allows a court to grant probation to a defendant convicted of battering a person with whom the defendant is cohabiting, a person who is the parent of the defendant's child, former spouse, fiance, or fiancee, or a person with whom the defendant currently has, or has previously had, a dating or engagement relationship. This bill would specify that a court must grant formal probation consistent with the requirements for probation relating to crimes of domestic violence to a defendant convicted of battering a person with whom the defendant is cohabiting, a person who is the parent of the defendant's child, former spouse, fiance, or fiancee, or a person with whom the defendant currently has, or has previously had, a dating or engagement relationship. This bill would, in addition, allow a court to impose a summary period of probation after the defendant completes a court ordered batterer's treatment program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 03/28/2007-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
	Current Location: 03/28/2007-A APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
AB 163     ( Mendoza)  State buildings: bicycle facilities. ( Amended  03/28/2007)
	Position:  W
	Existing law generally sets forth the centralized services to be provided by the Department of General Services with respect to state buildings and property, among other duties. This bill would enact the Green and Healthy Workplace Bicycle Facilities Act of 2007, which would require the department, in consultation with the State Architect and other state agencies, to adopt regulations establishing standards for bicycle facilities, including parking areas, showers, and lockers in state-owned and state-leased buildings. The bill would require each state agency to develop programs to promote and encourage bicycle commuting and use of bicycles for work-related trips, as well as to manage its bicycle facilities. It would also require, on and after July 1, 2010, a capital plan for, or renovation of, state buildings to comply with the adopted regulations.
	Status: 04/12/2007-From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on B. & P. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 12).
	Current Location: 04/12/2007-A B. & P.
AB 190     ( Bass)  Child welfare services. ( Introduced  01/25/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law requires each county to provide child welfare services, and provides for the administration of various child welfare services pursuant to regulations and procedures adopted by the State Department of Social Services. This bill would require the state to budget the child welfare services program, exclusive of specified state funding, in accordance with specified optimal caseload standards recommended by the Child Welfare Services Stakeholders Group. This bill would require the new budgeting standards to be phased in over a 5-year period, commencing with the 2007-08 fiscal year, and to be fully implemented by the end of the 2011-12 fiscal year. This bill would also require these new standards to reflect county-specific cost factors, as estimated pursuant to a specified provision of existing law. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 04/18/2007-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
	Current Location: 04/18/2007-A APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
AB 227     ( Beall)  Trial court funding. ( Amended  03/22/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law specifies the amounts that the counties are required to remit to the state for the purposes of trial court funding. Under existing law, the state and the counties have negotiated transfers of county civil assessment revenue and the counties' portion of certain fees. Existing law provides, commencing July 1, 2005, that the counties' obligation to remit specified amounts to the Trial Court Trust Fund is reduced each fiscal year through the 2008-09 fiscal year, in accordance with specified procedures. This bill would revise the amounts that the counties are obligated to remit to the Trial Court Trust Fund commencing in the 2006-07 fiscal year. The bill would provide that these new amounts do not apply for purposes of a calculation related to fee, fine, and forfeiture revenue. The bill would specifically provide the amount that the County of Santa Clara was required to remit in the 2005-06 fiscal year and would provide that this amount is to be reduced by a specified calculation. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that this provision operate retroactively. The bill would provide a specified amount that the County of Santa Clara is required to remit in the 2006-07 fiscal year and in subsequent fiscal years, and would provide that it is to be reduced by a specified calculation. The bill would also make conforming changes.
	Status: 04/19/2007-From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 18).
	Current Location: 04/19/2007-A SECOND READING
AB 246     ( Torrico)  County employees' retirement: retirement boards. ( Introduced  02/01/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 prohibits a member or employee of a retirement board from becoming an endorser, surety, or obligor on, or from having any personal interest in the making of an investment for the board, or in the gains or profits that accrue from those investments, except as specified. This bill would prohibit a member or employee of a retirement board or board of investments from selling or providing any investment product that would be considered an asset of the retirement fund to a retirement system established under that law. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
	Status: 04/12/2007-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
	Current Location: 04/12/2007-A RLS.
	Memo:  O
AB 275     ( Soto)  Public employees: retirement: industrial disability. ( Introduced  02/09/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The Public Employees' Retirement Law provides a formula for calculating the retirement allowance for a local safety member for industrial disability. Existing law establishes this disability retirement allowance as 50% of the member's final compensation plus an annuity, purchased with the member's accumulated additional contributions, if any, or if the member is qualified for service retirement, the member's service retirement allowance, if the allowance, after deducting the annuity, is greater. Existing law limits the industrial disability allowance of local safety members whose membership commenced after January 1, 1980, as specified. This bill would provide a different method for calculating the disability retirement allowance of specified local safety members. The bill would provide that those local safety members shall receive a disability retirement allowance that is the greater of (a) 50% of the member's final compensation, plus an annuity purchased with accumulated contributions, if any, (b) a service retirement allowance, if the member is qualified for service retirement, or (c) 3% or 2.4%, for specified members, of the member's final compensation, multiplied by the difference of one minus 0.01 for each quarter year that the member's service age is less than 50 years, multiplied by the number of years of local safety service, as specified, if the member is not qualified for service retirement.
	Status: 02/16/2007-Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S.
	Current Location: 02/16/2007-A P.E.,R. & S.S.
AB 276     ( Solorio)  Trial court employees. ( Amended  03/15/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law defines the term "trial court employee" for purposes of the Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act as a person who is paid from the trial court's budget and who is subject to the trial court's right to control the manner and means of his or her work because of the trial court's authority to hire, supervise, discipline, and terminate employment . This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation related to trial court employees .
	Status: 03/19/2007-Re-referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S.
	Current Location: 03/19/2007-A P.E.,R. & S.S.
AB 293     ( Strickland)  Taxation: homeowners' exemption and renters' credit. ( Amended  04/12/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing property tax law provides, pursuant to the authority of a specified provision of the California Constitution, for a homeowners' exemption in the amount of $7,000 of the full value of a "dwelling," as defined, and authorizes the Legislature to increase this exemption. This bill would, beginning with the lien date for the 2008-09 fiscal year, increase the homeowners' exemption from $7,000 to $22,000 of the full value of a dwelling. This bill would also require, for the 2009-10 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, the county assessor to adjust the amount of the homeowners' exemption by the percentage change, for the first 3 quarters of the prior calendar year, in the Housing Price Index for California, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 04/16/2007-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
	Current Location: 04/16/2007-A REV. & TAX
AB 419     ( Lieber)  Workers' compensation. ( Introduced  02/16/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing workers' compensation law requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. This bill would, for purposes of these provisions, delete the requirement that these employees be members of the Public Employees' Retirement System or the Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System or subject to the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937. By increasing the duties of local officials with respect to the administration of this provision, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 04/11/2007-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 11).
	Current Location: 04/11/2007-A APPR.
AB 524     ( Hancock)  Public employees: local agencies. ( Amended  04/09/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act requires the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to administer the provisions of the act. That law permits a contracting agency to elect to be subject to the act for its employees and annuitants, provided that employer contributions for annuitants at all times equal employer contributions paid for active employees. That law provides that the employer contribution for postretirement health benefit coverage for an employee of a contracting agency is based upon the employee's completed years of credited state service at retirement. This bill would permit the West County Waste Water District to provide an employer contribution for postretirement health coverage based on credited service of the employee, as specified. The bill would provide that the employer contribution shall be 100% of the weighted average of health benefit plan premiums for an employee and an additional 90% of the weighted average of health benefit plan premiums for family members of those employees if the employee completes 10 years of state service at retirement, as specified. The bill would provide that these provisions do not apply to the West County Waste Water District, the employees of the district, or the annuitants of those employees until the district files with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System a resolution of the governing body of the district that the district will be subject to these provisions.
	Status: 04/18/2007-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (April 18).
	Current Location: 04/18/2007-A APPR.
AB 529     ( Torrico)  Local public employees organizations. ( Introduced  02/21/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law gives public employees the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on all matters of employer-employee relations, except as specified. Existing law requires a public agency to grant exclusive or majority recognition to an employee organization based on a signed petition, authorization cards, or union membership cards showing that a majority of the employees in an appropriate bargaining unit desire the representation, unless another labor organization has previously been lawfully recognized as exclusive or majority representative of all or part of the same unit. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
	Status: 02/22/2007-From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
	Current Location: 02/21/2007-A PRINT
AB 552     ( Hernandez)  County employees: health insurance. ( Introduced  02/21/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 permits a member of a retirement system to retire and receive a retirement allowance based upon years of service if he or she meets specified requirements, including, but not limited to, completing 10 years of service and attaining a minimum retirement age. This bill would provide that if a member of a retirement system subject to that law retires and receives a retirement benefit based upon years of service, and that member participates in an employer group health plan for at least 10 years, the member may elect health care plan coverage at a rate that does not exceed 102% of the active employee rate for that health care plan coverage. The bill would permit a county board of supervisors, by resolution adopted by majority vote, to provide that health care plan coverage to a member of a county retirement system who participates in an employer group health plan for less than 10 years, as specified. The bill would also provide that these provisions do not preclude a member who retires based upon years of service from participating in, or preclude an employer from providing, alternate or supplemental Medicare coverage, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 03/01/2007-Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S.
	Current Location: 03/01/2007-A P.E.,R. & S.S.
AB 553     ( Hernandez)  Public Employment Relations Board. ( Introduced  02/21/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act prescribes the powers and duties of the board with regard to, among other things, elections, the processing of unfair practice charges, and, in connection to an enumerated section of the Government Code, the authority of the board to petition the court for appropriate temporary relief or restraining orders. This bill would provide that, under the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Public Employment Relations Board is authorized exclusively to make a determination whether to seek from a court of competent jurisdiction injunctive relief involving or growing out of relations between an employee organization and a public agency. The bill would provide that those changes are declaratory of existing law, as specified.
	Status: 03/15/2007-Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S.
	Current Location: 03/15/2007-A P.E.,R. & S.S.
AB 554     ( Hernandez)  Public employees: benefits. ( Introduced  02/21/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act permits an employer to elect to participate in the prefunding of health care coverage for annuitants. Under that law, if an employer elects to participate in the prefunding of health care coverage for annuitants, the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System determines the contribution rate for that employer. That law requires the board of administration to notify each employer that provides retirement benefits through the Public Employees' Retirement System of that employer's contribution rate, regardless of whether that employer participates in the prefunding of health care coverage. This bill would revise and recast those provisions to permit the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to authorize an employer to participate in the prefunding of health care coverage and other postemployment benefits for annuitants. The bill would require a participating employer to contract with the board of administration regarding specified terms and conditions of the prefunding of health care coverage and other postemployment benefits.
	Status: 04/18/2007-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
	Current Location: 04/18/2007-A APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
AB 582     ( Evans)  Court transcription fees. ( Amended  04/10/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law establishes the fees for obtaining court transcriptions. Under existing law, the fee for the original printed copy of the court transcript is $0.85 for each 100 words and for each copy purchased at the same time by a court, party, or other person purchasing the original is $0.15 for each 100 words . Under existing law, the fee for a first copy to any court, party, or other person who does not simultaneously purchase the original is $0.20 for each 100 words, and for each additional copy, purchased at the same time, $0.15 for each 100 words. Existing law also provides that for a transcript in a civil case, an official court reporter or official court reporter pro tempore may charge an additional 50% for special daily copy service. This bill would provide that from January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2008, inclusive, the fee for the original printed copy of the court transcript is $0.98 per 100 words and for each copy purchased at the same time by a court, party, or other person purchasing the original is $0.17 for each 100 words. The bill would provide that the fee for a first copy of the transcript to a court, party, or other person who does not simultaneously purchase the original is $0.23 for each 100 words and for each additional copy purchased at the same time, $0.17 for each 100 words. The bill would also provide that from January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2009, inclusive, and on and after January 1, 2010, these costs shall increase, as specified. The bill would provide that on or before April 1, 2011, and every April 1 thereafter, these costs shall be increased according to the cumulative increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, as specified. The bill would further provide that the fee for transcription is an additional 50% for the special daily copy service. The bill would make related legislative findings and declarations. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
	Status: 04/11/2007-Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
	Current Location: 04/11/2007-A JUD.
AB 596     ( Dymally)  County employees' retirement: safety members: physicians. ( Introduced  02/21/2007)
	Position:  W1
	The County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 provides a comprehensive set of rights and benefits based upon age, service credit, and the final compensation of county and district employees who are members of a retirement system subject to that law. Under that law, specified county and district employees whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement or fire suppression are classified as safety members, and all other employees are classified as general members. The board of supervisors of a county, by resolution, may classify a general member as a safety member. Under that law, an employee classified as a safety member is entitled to generally higher benefits and is subject to higher contribution rates than a general member. This bill would require, as of January 1, 2008, physicians working in a county jail or county mental health facility in Alameda County or Los Angeles County to be classified as safety members, without a board of supervisors resolution, but would allow those members to elect not to become safety members. The bill would provide for the calculation of the retirement allowance of a member with credit for time during which he or she was not a safety member, as specified. The bill would further provide that those safety members shall be subject to retirement contributions applicable to existing safety members in Alameda County or Los Angeles County, respectively.
	Status: 03/20/2007-Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. (Refers to 3/28/2007 hearing)
	Current Location: 03/01/2007-A P.E.,R. & S.S.
AB 753     ( Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Soci)  County employees' retirement: administration. ( Introduced  02/22/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 sets forth the membership composition for boards of retirement and boards of investment, as specified. The law permits the board of supervisors for counties for which these provisions apply to provide that certain members of these boards shall receive compensation of not more than $100 for a meeting or for a meeting of a committee authorized by the entire board. This bill would provide that the board of supervisors may provide that an alternate retired member of a board of retirement may be paid for meetings, as described above. The bill would also delete the requirement that a committee meeting be authorized by the entire board to be compensable, and instead would require that the committee meeting be authorized by the board. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 03/08/2007-Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S.
	Current Location: 03/08/2007-A P.E.,R. & S.S.
AB 775     ( Niello)  County employees' retirement: employment of retirees: prohibition. ( Introduced  02/22/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes a county to employ, without reinstatement from retirement, a retired member in a position requiring special skills or knowledge. Under the law, a retired member may not work more than 90 working days or 720 hours, in a fiscal year or any other designated 12-month period, except as specified in Contra Costa County. The law authorizes a board of supervisors to extend that reemployment period to permit a retired member to work up to 120 working days or 960 hours, whichever is greater, in a fiscal year or any other designated 12-month period. This bill would provide that the authorizations described above are inapplicable to a retired member who is employed by an employer under the system and who, within 12 months prior to that employment, received unemployment insurance compensation following the termination of an appointment with the same employer. The bill would require a retired person who accepts an appointment after receiving unemployment insurance compensation, as specified, to terminate that employment on the last day of the current pay period and would prohibit reappointment for a period of 12 months.
	Status: 03/08/2007-Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S.
	Current Location: 03/08/2007-A P.E.,R. & S.S.
AB 863     ( Davis)  Los Angeles County Superior Court employees. ( Introduced  02/22/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law provides that each trial court may establish a salary range for each of its employee classifications, and considerations shall include, but are not limited to, local market conditions and other local compensation-related issues such as difficulty of recruitment or retention. This bill would require the Los Angeles County Superior Court to pay each employee in a bargaining unit represented by any specified employee organization an amount equivalent to the additional amount the employee would have received if the reclassification raise the employee received on October 1, 2005, had been retroactive to August 1, 2005.
	Status: 04/19/2007-Re-referred to Coms. on P.E.,R. & S.S. and APPR.
	Current Location: 04/19/2007-A P.E. & R.
AB 896     ( Silva)  Public officers: discovery: personnel records. ( Introduced  02/22/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law requires law enforcement agencies to establish procedures for investigating public complaints against peace and custodial officers and to maintain files regarding those complaints, as specified. Existing law also establishes discovery procedures for obtaining those files for criminal and civil cases. This bill would additionally require every department or agency that employs certain public officers who are not peace officers but who exercise the powers of arrest, as defined, to establish procedures for investigating public complaints against those officers and to maintain those files in a specified manner. The bill would also apply the existing discovery procedures for obtaining peace officer personnel records to those public officer personnel records. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 04/10/2007-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
	Current Location: 03/12/2007-A PUB. S.
AB 928     ( Solorio)  Water: Orange County Water District. ( Introduced  02/22/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The Orange County Water District Act contains provisions that prescribe the duties of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Water District. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions of law.
	Status: 02/23/2007-From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
	Current Location: 02/22/2007-A PRINT
AB 942     ( Krekorian)  Emergency telecommunications. ( Amended  03/26/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing provisions of the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act establish the number "911" as the primary emergency telephone number for use in the state and requires the providing of enhanced service capable of selective routing, automatic number identification, or automatic location identification. This bill would require that after June 30, 2008, every telephone exchange service, competitive local exchange carrier, multitelephone system, private branch exchange system, key set system, Centrex, or similar system, to provide enhanced "911" service with automatic routing, automatic number identification, and automatic location information or identification. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 03/27/2007-Re-referred to Com. on U. & C.
	Current Location: 03/27/2007-A U. & C.
AB 958     ( Evans)  Counties: purchasing agents. ( Introduced  02/22/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of a county to employ a purchasing agent, as specified. In counties having a population of 200,000 or more, the board of supervisors may authorize the purchasing agent to engage independent contractors to perform services for the county, as specified, if the aggregate cost does not exceed $100,000. This bill would instead allow the board of supervisors to authorize the purchasing agent to engage independent contractors to perform services for the county, as specified, if the aggregate cost does not exceed $150,000.
	Status: 03/19/2007-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
	Current Location: 03/12/2007-A L. GOV.
AB 1124     ( Karnette)  County employees' retirement: post-employment benefits. ( Introduced  02/23/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law permits the board of supervisors of a county or the governing body of a district or other public entity, with the agreement of the board of retirement, to provide for the contribution of funds into a Post-Employment Benefits Trust Account and requires the retirement system to establish the account as part of the retirement fund. Existing law establishes the Post-Employment Benefits Trust Account for the purpose of funding the benefits provided under a post-employment group health, life, or other welfare benefits plan established and maintained by the county or district. Existing law prohibits the use of the assets of the retirement fund for paying the cost of benefits provided through the Post-Employment Benefits Trust Account, but permits the account assets to be invested with retirement fund assets. Existing law requires that the funds in the account be separately accounted on the books of the retirement system. Existing law permits an employer participating in the Post-Employment Benefits Trust Account to expressly delegate specified responsibilities in this regard to the retirement system. This bill would provide that the retirement system's action to establish the Post-Employment Benefits Trust Account as a part of the retirement fund is discretionary and not mandatory. The bill would delete the requirement that the retirement system account for Post-Employment Benefits Trust Account funds on the books of the system. The bill would specify that various actions in connection with the Post-Employment Benefits Trust Account be taken in conformance with federal law and the California Constitution. The bill would correct an erroneous cross reference.
	Status: 03/15/2007-Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S.
	Current Location: 03/15/2007-A P.E.,R. & S.S.
AB 1288     ( Hayashi)  County employees: vision care. ( Introduced  02/23/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law requires the Department of Personnel Administration to administer a vision care program for specified state annuitants and their dependents. The county Employees Retirement Law of 1937 provides a comprehensive set of benefits for county and district employees who are members of a retirement system subject to that law. This bill would establish the County Retirement System Vision Care Program for purposes of providing vision care benefits to county and district retirees and their dependents. Upon adoption by resolution, the bill would require the program to be administered by the Department of Personnel Administration, and would establish a County Retirement System Vision Care Fund for the distribution of those vision care benefits and funds. The bill would authorize termination of the program under specified circumstances, and, upon termination, would require disbursement of remaining county or district funds in a specified manner.
	Status: 04/18/2007-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (April 18).
	Current Location: 04/18/2007-A APPR.
AB 1340     ( Jones)  Safe and Secure Court Facility Bond Act of 2008. ( Introduced  02/23/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The Trial Court Facilities Act of 2002 establishes the State Court Facilities Construction Fund and provides that money in that fund may be used to acquire, rehabilitate, construct, or finance court facilities, as defined, and to implement trial court projects, as specified. This bill would enact the Safe and Secure Court Facility Bond Act of 2008 which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of $2,000,000,000 in bonds, the proceeds of which would be deposited in the 2008 Safe and Secure Court Facility Bond Act Fund for specified purposes relating to the acquisition, design, construction, or renovation of court facilities. This bill contains other related provisions.
	Status: 03/22/2007-Referred to Com. on JUD.
	Current Location: 03/22/2007-A JUD.
AB 1496     ( Swanson)  Local government: cities and counties: civil service. ( Amended  03/29/2007)
	Position:  W1
	Existing law establishes the County Civil Service Enabling Law for the purpose of enabling any county to adopt a limited civil service system that is adaptable to its size and type. Existing law also enables the legislative body of any city to adopt a personnel system, merit system, or civil service system that is adaptable to the size and type of that city. This bill would require any city or county that adopts a civil service system or its equivalent, as specified, to provide for the classification of all employment positions. The bill would allow for the exclusion from that classification requirement, substitute and short-term employees, as defined, and apprentices or professional experts employed on a temporary basis for a specific project. Further, prior to the hiring of any short-term employee, the bill would require the legislative body of a city or county to, at a public meeting, report on the specifics of that hiring and certify the ending date of service. The bill would require any existing system to conform to the above-described requirements by March 1, 2008 .
	Status: 04/19/2007-Read second time. To third reading.
	Current Location: 04/19/2007-A THIRD READING
AB 1626     ( Galgiani)  County employees' retirement. ( Amended  04/09/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 establishes noncontributory retirement plans for employees in specified counties. That law, upon approval by the county board of supervisors, authorizes members of noncontributory retirement plans in the Counties of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to receive service credit for time that would not otherwise be recognized, upon payment by the member of specified contributions to the retirement fund in the same amount payable by a member of the contributory plan. This bill would authorize the county board of supervisors in the Counties of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to specify, in a resolution to permit a member of a noncontributory plan to receive service credit for time that would not otherwise be recognized, the types of service the member may elect to purchase. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 04/10/2007-Re-referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S.
	Current Location: 04/10/2007-A P.E.,R. & S.S.
AB 1645     ( La Malfa)  Emergency powers: firearms. ( Introduced  02/23/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law authorizes the Governor to invoke various powers in the event of an emergency, as specified. This bill would provide that these powers do not authorize the seizure or confiscation of any firearm or ammunition from any individual who is lawfully carrying or possessing the firearm or ammunition, as specified.
	Status: 04/18/2007-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17).
	Current Location: 04/18/2007-A APPR.
AB 1648     ( Leno)  Peace officer records. ( Amended  04/10/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law generally regulates the confidentiality of various peace officer records, including records pertaining to disciplinary matters, as specified. This bill would provide that the confidentiality of peace officer records, as specified, does not apply to specified government bodies that review the investigations, findings, or employment actions of a department or agency. The bill would make specified information in certain disciplinary records pertaining to peace officers available to the public, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 04/17/2007-In committee: Set, first hearing. Held without recommendation.
	Current Location: 04/17/2007-A PUB. S.
SB 103     ( Cedillo)  Economic development subsidies: review by local agencies. ( Amended  02/27/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law provides for various programs for economic development activities by state and local agencies. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2008, require each local agency to provide specified information to the public before approving any economic development subsidy, as defined, within its jurisdiction, and to review, hold hearings, and report on those subsidies at specified intervals. By requiring a higher level of service of local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 04/16/2007-Placed on APPR. suspense file.
	Current Location: 04/16/2007-S APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
SB 110     ( Romero)  Sentencing commission. ( Amended  03/14/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law prescribes various penalties for criminal offenses. This bill would state legislative findings and declarations regarding criminal sentencing laws and policies. This bill would create the California Sentencing Commission, chaired by the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, to develop and implement a new sentencing system, that shall specify sentences imposed for infractions, misdemeanors, alternate felonies or misdemeanors, and felonies unless rejected by the Legislature by statute. This bill would specify the membership of the commission and each member's term of office, and provide that commission shall appoint an executive director and hire necessary staff .
	Status: 04/11/2007-Set for hearing April 23.
	Current Location: 04/10/2007-S APPR.
SB 134     ( Cedillo)  County employees' retirement: mandatory retirement. ( Amended  03/28/2007)
	Position:  W1
	The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 provides a comprehensive set of rights and benefits for county and district em ployees who are members of a retirement system subject to that law. That law permits a county to require sheriffs, undersheriffs, and marshals who are safety members to be retired at 60 years of age or 70 years of age. This bill would, upon approval by the board of supervisors in Los Angeles County, make that requirement inapplicable to specified safety members in that county if a physician employed by the county certifies that the safety member is capable of performing his or her assigned duties pursuant to standards set forth by his or her employer .
	Status: 04/19/2007-To Special Consent Calendar.
	Current Location: 04/19/2007-S CONSENT CALENDAR
SB 144     ( Committee on Local Government)  Local Government Omnibus Act of 2007. ( Amended  03/26/2007)
	Position:  W1
	Existing law authorizes 2 or more public agencies to enter into agreements to jointly exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. Existing law requires specified notice to be filed with the Secretary of State when a joint powers agreement provides for the creation of an agency or entity that is separate from the parties to the agreement, as specified. Existing law also authorizes one or more persons to form a corporation, as specified, by executing and filing articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State. This bill would require a corporation that is created by a local elected agency, as specified, and an agency or entity formed pursuant to a joint powers agreement, as specified, to furnish an additional copy of its articles of incorporation, or notice of the agreement to the Secretary of State, and would require the Secretary of State to forward the extra copy to the Controller. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 04/19/2007-To Special Consent Calendar.
	Current Location: 04/19/2007-S CONSENT CALENDAR
SB 145     ( Corbett)  Court facilities. ( Amended  02/27/2007)
	Position:  W1
	(1) Existing law requires the Judicial Council, in consultation with the superior court of each county and the county, to enter into agreements concerning the transfer of responsibility for court facilities from that county to the Judicial Council. Transfer of responsibility may occur not earlier than July 1, 2004, and not later than June 30, 2007. This bill would extend the deadline for the transfer of responsibility for court facilities to December 31, 2008. The bill would make related, conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 03/19/2007-In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
	Current Location: 03/19/2007-A DESK
SB 189     ( Harman)  Employment: hiring practices: immigration status. ( Introduced  02/06/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The federal Basic Pilot Program, administered by the United States Department of Homeland Security, allows public and private employers to access government databases to verify that the employees they hire are authorized to work in the United States. This bill would require the Department of Personnel Administration to verify the legal status or authorization to work in the United States of every employee of the state and agencies that contract with the state prior to the hiring of that employee in accordance with the Basic Pilot Program, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 02/15/2007-To Coms. on P.E. & R. and L. & I.R.
	Current Location: 02/15/2007-S P.E. & R.
SB 213     ( Ashburn)  Public employees' retirement: service credit. ( Introduced  02/08/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The Public Employees' Retirement Law provides a comprehensive set of rights and benefits based upon age, service credit, and final compensation. That law establishes retirement formulas, known as the Second Tier, modified First Tier, and First Tier, that are applicable to specified members of the Public Employees' Retirement System. Under that law, a member who elects to be subject to Second Tier benefits shall be paid his or her accumulated contributions plus interest, subject to specified conditions. Under that law, effective January 1, 2000, a member who received service credit subject to Second Tier benefits may elect to become subject to First Tier benefits and contribution rates. That law requires a member who elects to become subject to First Tier benefits to deposit accumulated contributions the member withdrew while he or she was subject to Second Tier benefits, plus interest, as specified. This bill would make technical, and nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
	Status: 02/22/2007-To Com. on RLS.
	Current Location: 02/22/2007-S RLS.
SB 214     ( Ashburn)  Public Employees' Retirement System ( Introduced  02/08/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Under the Public Employees' Retirement Law, retirement allowances for school members are calculated, in part, based on the highest annual compensation earnable during a consecutive 12-month period, as specified. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
	Status: 02/22/2007-To Com. on RLS.
	Current Location: 02/22/2007-S RLS.
SB 277     ( Cogdill)  Local government financing. ( Amended  03/27/2007)
	Position:  W1
	The Vehicle License Fee Law continuously appropriates revenues derived from the taxes imposed under its provisions, and provides for the allocation of those revenues pursuant to specified formulas to cities, cities and counties, and a specified county. The Use Fuel Tax Law , the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, and the Diesel Fuel Tax Law each provide, as specified, for the transfer of revenues derived from taxes imposed under their provisions to the Highway Users Tax Account in the Transportation Tax Fund. Existing law continuously appropriates revenues in that account, and provides for specified apportionments of those revenues to cities, cities and counties, and counties. This bill would require the Department of Finance to calculate the total amount of additional annual Vehicle License Fee, Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax, Use Fuel Tax, and Diesel Fuel Tax revenues that would have been allocated in counties that do not contain any cities for the 2006- 07 fiscal year if 8% of each of these county's residents were living in an incorpo rated area. This bill would appropriate this amount, not to exceed $200,000, from the General Fund to the Controller for allocation to counties that do not contain incorporated cities according to the proportion of the population of all the qualifying counties that the population of each of these counties represents, in order to equalize funding to those counties without affecting revenue allocations to cities. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to appropriate annually at least $200,000 , adjusted to reflect specified growth in the amount of revenue derived under those tax laws that is allocated to cities, for these specified purposes.
	Status: 04/16/2007-Placed on APPR. suspense file.
	Current Location: 04/16/2007-S APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
SB 392     ( Ducheny)  County employees' retirement: cost-of-living adjustments. ( Introduced  02/21/2007)
	Position:  W1
	The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes specified cost-of-living increases to be applied to allowances paid to or on account of members of county and district retirement systems. Existing law, applicable to Sonoma County, permits the board of retirement of the retirement system in Sonoma County, if approved by the county board of supervisors, to provide cost-of-living adjustments, on a prefunded basis, to certain of the monthly allowances paid by the system to or on account of members of the system, as specified. This bill would extend the provisions described above to Imperial County.
	Status: 04/18/2007-Set for hearing April 23.
	Current Location: 02/28/2007-S P.E. & R.
SB 431     ( Aanestad)  Public employees' retirement: Butte County and Solano County. ( Introduced  02/21/2007)
	Position:  W1
	The Public Employees' Retirement Law provides that, after the implementation of the Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act, for counties contracting with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System, a trial court and a county in which the trial court is located shall jointly participate in the retirement system by joint contract. Existing law also requires the assets and liabilities of a county and a trial court jointly contracting with the board to be combined for purposes of setting the employer contribution rate for both the county and the trial court. This bill would create an exception to that provision for the Counties of Butte and Solano, to require the assets and liabilities of the trial court and each county to be separated based on a computation as determined by the actuary retroactive to June 30, 2002. The bill would also provide that following the separation of the assets and liabilities, those trial courts shall participate in a risk pool, as specified, regardless of the number of active members in a member classification.
	Status: 04/18/2007-Set for hearing April 23.
	Current Location: 03/08/2007-S P.E. & R.
SB 493     ( Cogdill)  Counties: purchasing agents. ( Introduced  02/22/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of a county to employ a purchasing agent, as specified. In counties having a population of 200,000 or more, the board of supervisors may authorize the purchasing agent to engage independent contractors to perform services for the county, as specified, if the aggregate cost does not exceed $100,000. This bill would instead authorize the board of supervisors to authorize the purchasing agent to engage independent contractors to perform services for the county, as specified, if the aggregate cost does not exceed $150,000.
	Status: 04/19/2007-Read second time. To Consent Calendar.
	Current Location: 04/19/2007-S CONSENT CALENDAR
SB 539     ( Margett)  Trial Court Trust Fund. ( Amended  04/09/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law establishes the Trial Court Trust Fund, the proceeds of which are apportioned for specified court purposes, including funding trial court operations. Existing law specifies certain fees, collected on or before December 31, 2005, that are to be deposited in a special account in the county treasury and transmitted monthly to the Controller for deposit in the Trial Court Trust Fund. Existing law requires the Controller to calculate a penalty on any delinquent payment, as specified. This bill would require those fees to be transmitted monthly from the county treasury to the State Treasury, instead of to the Controller. The bill would provide that any penalty on a delinquent payment that a court is required to pay shall be paid from the Trial Court Operations Fund for that court. The bill would also allow for a payment schedule in the event of a large penalty amount, as specified.
	Status: 04/11/2007-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 519.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. Set for hearing April 23.
	Current Location: 04/11/2007-S APPR.
SB 547     ( Correa)  Property tax revenue allocations. ( Introduced  02/22/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing property tax law requires the county auditor, in each fiscal year, to allocate property tax revenue to local jurisdictions in accordance with specified formulas and procedures, and generally requires that each jurisdiction be allocated an amount equal to the total of the amount of revenue allocated to that jurisdiction in the prior fiscal year, subject to certain modifications, and that jurisdiction's portion of the annual tax increment, as defined. Existing property tax law also reduces the amounts of ad valorem property tax revenue that would otherwise be annually allocated to the county, cities, and special districts pursuant to these general allocation requirements by requiring, for purposes of determining property tax revenue allocations in each county for the 1992-93 and 1993-94 fiscal years, that the amounts of property tax revenue deemed allocated in the prior fiscal year to the county, cities, and special districts be reduced in accordance with certain formulas. It requires that the revenues not allocated to the county, cities, and special districts as a result of these reductions be transferred to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in that county for allocation to school districts, community college districts, and the county office of education. This bill would, for the 2008-09 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, require the auditor of a qualified county, as defined, to increase the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue otherwise required to be allocated to that county by the county equity amount, as defined, and to commensurately reduce the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue otherwise required to be allocated to school entities in the county, as specified. This bill would establish a $20,000,000 limit on the total sum of county equity amounts statewide. This bill would require that the qualified counties that were allocated the lowest percentage of the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue collected in those counties for the 2002-03 fiscal year first receive as much of their county equity amount as can be satisfied without exceeding the total statewide limit on these amounts, as specified. This bill also would state the intent of the Legislature that a qualified county dedicate the revenues the county receives under the bill to the construction, operations, and maintenance of new or existing adult criminal justice facilities, juvenile criminal justice facilities, or adult and juvenile criminal justice facilities. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 04/18/2007-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 624.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
	Current Location: 04/18/2007-S APPR.
SB 649     ( Committee on Judiciary)  Trial court restructuring. ( Amended  03/26/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The California Constitution provides for the abolition of municipal courts and their unification within the superior courts, as specified. This bill would conform various statutory provisions of law to the abolition of municipal courts and their unification within the superior courts. The bill would also make related statutory changes with respect to the classification of limited civil cases, appeals in limited civil cases and misdemeanor and infraction cases, and arraignment by 2-way electronic audiovideo communication. This bill contains other related provisions.
	Status: 04/16/2007-In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
	Current Location: 04/16/2007-S DESK
SB 718     ( Scott)  Jails: inmate welfare fund. ( Amended  04/12/2007)
	Position:  ?
	Existing law provides that the sheriff of each county may maintain an inmate welfare fund to be kept in the treasury of the county into which profit from a store operated in connection with the county jail, 10% of all gross sales of inmate hobbycraft, and any rebates or commissions received from a telephone company, as specified, is required to be deposited. Existing law authorizes the sheriff to expend money from the fund to assist indigent inmates, prior to release, with clothes and transportation expenses, as specified. This bill would additionally authorize the sheriff to expend money from the inmate welfare fund for the purpose of assisting indigent inmates, after release, with the reentry process, as specified.
	Status: 04/12/2007-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. Set for hearing April 24.
	Current Location: 04/12/2007-S PUB. S.
SB 925     ( Perata)  Probation. ( Introduced  02/23/2007)
	Position:  W1
	Existing law places all probationers under the supervision of the county probation officer. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to existing law.
	Status: 03/15/2007-To Com. on RLS.
	Current Location: 03/15/2007-S RLS.
SB 1019     ( Romero)  Peace officer records: confidentiality. ( Amended  03/26/2007)
	Position:  O
	Existing law generally regulates the confidentiality of various personnel records relating to peace and custodial officers. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to abrogate the California Supreme Court decision in Copley Press, Inc. v. Superior Court and to restore public access to peace officer records and meetings that were open prior to the Copley Press decision. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 04/18/2007-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2. Page 626.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
	Current Location: 04/18/2007-S APPR.
SCA 5     ( McClintock)  State and local government finance: taxes: voter approval. ( Amended  03/21/2007)
	Position:  ?
	The California Constitution defines, for purposes of local taxation, a "general tax" as a tax imposed for general governmental purposes and a "special tax" as a tax imposed for specific purposes. This measure would establish, for purposes of both state and local taxation, a constitutional definition of a "tax" as any monetary exaction imposed by a governmental entity, as defined, but would exclude from this definition monetary exactions that meet certain criteria. This measure would also recast the definition of a "special tax" as a tax whose revenues are required by law to be expended for a specific purpose or purposes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Status: 04/19/2007-Hearing postponed by committee. Set for hearing April 25. (Refers to 4/10/2007 hearing)
	Current Location: 02/15/2007-S REV. & TAX
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