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AB 155     ( Mendoza)  Local government: bankruptcy proceedings. ( Amended  07/01/2009)

Position:  COSPONSOR

Under existing law, any taxing agency or instrumentality of the state may file a petition and prosecute to completion bankruptcy proceedings permitted under the laws of the United States. This bill would provide that a local public entity may only file under federal bankruptcy law with the approval of the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission, as specified.

Status: 07/08/2009-In committee: Set, first hearing. Testimony taken. Further hearing to be set.

Current Location: 07/08/2009-S L. GOV.

AB 181     ( Bass)  Budget Act of 2009. ( Amended  09/04/2009)

Position:  W

The Budget Act of 2009 (Chapter 1 of the 2009-10 Third Extraordinary Session, as amended) made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2009-10 fiscal year. The act, among other things, authorized the Director of Finance to reduce items of appropriation to reflect a reduction in employee compensation achieved through the collective bargaining process or through existing administrative authority in the total amounts of $1,477,917,000 from General Fund items and $973,058,000 from items relating to other funds. This bill would reduce those amounts to $1,052,917,000 from General Fund items and $658,058,000 from items relating to other funds. In addition, the bill would authorize the Director of Finance to reduce, with specified exceptions, items of appropriation for state operations in the total amounts of $425,000,000 from General Fund items and $315,000,000 from items relating to other funds. The bill would make the director's authority to make those reductions contingent on the imposition of no more than 2 furlough days per month on state employees. This bill contains other related provisions.

Status: 09/08/2009-Read second time. To third reading.

Current Location: 09/08/2009-S THIRD READING

AB 185     ( Committee on Budget)  Emergency services: property insurance surcharge. ( Amended  02/17/2010)

Position:  S1

Existing law establishes the California Emergency Management Agency, which is responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for certain manmade disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people and property. This bill would establish the Local Government Mutual Aid Enhancement Program in the agency, and would require funds, as specified, deposited in the Emergency Response Fund, to be allocated to the program upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the Secretary of California Emergency Management to allocate funds to specified entities, for the purpose of enhancing or sustaining fire and rescue disaster mutual aid capacity to combat the effect of all hazard disasters, as provided. This bill would also require the secretary, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a strategy, as provided, for the enhancement of mutual aid, and would require each fire and rescue operational area to submit a 3-year strategy for the enhancement of fire and rescue disaster mutual aid, as specified, to the secretary. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Status: 02/17/2010-Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading.

Current Location: 02/17/2010-S THIRD READING

AB 424     ( Torres)  Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act: public education campaign. ( Amended  01/13/2010)

Position:  ?

The Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act requires every local public agency to establish and operate, or to be a part of, an emergency telephone system using the digits "911," and creates the State 911 Advisory Board to assist in facilitating the purpose of the act to establish the number 911 as the primary emergency telephone number statewide. This bill would require the office of the State Chief Information Officer to develop and implement a public education campaign to instruct the public on the appropriate and inappropriate uses of the 911 emergency telephone number system.

Status: 02/11/2010-Referred to Com. on E., U., & C.

Current Location: 02/11/2010-S E. U., & C.

AB 609     ( Conway)  County employees retirement: administrative costs. ( Amended  07/01/2009)

Position:  W

The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 requires a board of retirement, or a board of retirement and the board of investment, with appointed members to annually adopt a budget covering the entire expense of administration of the retirement system and prohibits the expense incurred in any year from exceeding 18/100 of 1% of the total assets of the retirement system. This bill would instead prohibit expenses incurred in any year from exceeding 18/100 of 1% of the approved actuarial liability of the retirement system . The bill would also make a conforming change regarding maximum expense in any year the expenditures include certain computer expenses.

Status: 07/06/2009-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. (Refers to 7/6/2009 hearing)

Current Location: 07/01/2009-S P.E. & R.

AB 635     ( V. Manuel Perez)  Fire protection: air purifying devices. ( Amended  04/02/2009)

Position:  AW

Existing law establishes the State Board of Fire Services in the Office of the State Fire Marshal. Existing law requires the board to recommend the establishment of minimum standards with respect to specified elements of fire protection, including fire equipment. This bill wouldprovide that a state or local agency shall not prohibit a firefighter from using an air purifying device during a wildland fire .

Status: 07/08/2009-In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Current Location: 07/08/2009-S G.O.

AB 790     ( Hernandez)  State employees: compensation. ( Amended  02/23/2010)

Position:  S1

The California Constitution requires the Legislature to pass a budget bill by June 15 of each year for the fiscal year commencing on July 1. Existing law provides that no state officer or employee shall be deemed to have a break in service or to have terminated his or her employment, for any purpose, or to have incurred any change in his or her authority, status, or jurisdiction or in his or her salary or other conditions of employment, solely because of the failure to enact a Budget Act for a fiscal year prior to the beginning of that fiscal year. Under the California Constitution, money may be drawn from the State Treasury only through an appropriation made by law and upon a Controller's duly drawn warrant. This bill would continuously appropriate from the General Fund and other specified funds to the Controller an amount necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees, as defined, for work performed on or after July 1 of a fiscal year for which no budget has been enacted. This bill contains other related provisions.

Status: 03/03/2010-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. (Refers to 3/3/2010 hearing)

Current Location: 02/23/2010-S P.E. & R.

AB 1225     ( De La Torre)  Emergency and disaster response exercises: infectious diseases. ( Amended  01/25/2010)

Position:  ?

The California Emergency Services Act sets forth the duties of state and local agencies in emergency and disaster preparedness and response generally. This bill would additionally require, pursuant to the act, that the State Department of Public Health and local public health departments, when conducting emergency or disaster preparedness exercises relating to the outbreak of an infectious disease, establish a process to identify any deficiencies in the preparedness plans and procedures and track implementation of corrective measures, according to specified criteria. The bill would required the department to make an after-action report available either by posting it on the departments Internet Web site, providing in upon request, or both. By imposing a new duty on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Status: 02/11/2010-Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

Current Location: 02/11/2010-S HEALTH

AB 1603     ( Solorio)  Workers' compensation: temporary partial disability. ( Introduced  01/05/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, that generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, and in the course of, employment. Existing law provides certain methods for determining workers' compensation benefits payable to a worker or his or her dependents for purposes of temporary total disability, temporary partial disability, permanent total disability, permanent partial disability, and in case of death. This bill would require that an employee be deemed to be temporarily partially disabled during the period when the employee's disability is permanent and stationary, no more than 60 days have elapsed after the date the employee was informed that his or her disability is permanent and stationary, the employer has not offered the employee regular, modified, or alternative work, and the employer has not informed the employee that it will not offer the employee regular, modified, or alternative work. This bill contains other existing laws.

Status: 01/14/2010-Referred to Com. on INS.

Current Location: 01/14/2010-A INS.

AB 1648     ( Jeffries)  Vehicles: firefighter's driver's license. ( Introduced  01/13/2010)

Position:  W1

Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a restricted driver's license for the appropriate class of vehicle to a firefighter for the operation of firefighting equipment. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation regarding testing and licensing for a restricted firefighter's driver's license.

Status: 01/14/2010-From printer. May be heard in committee February 13.

Current Location: 01/13/2010-A PRINT

AB 1651     ( De La Torre)  Public Employees' Retirement Law: furloughs: retirement credit. ( Amended  03/02/2010)

Position:  ?

The Public Employees' Retirement Law provides retirement benefits based upon a member's final compensation and years of credited service. That law provides that members in the personal leave program shall receive credit for service that would have been credited had the employee not been in the personal leave program. This bill would provide that the calculations for retirement allowances , under the Public Employees' Retirement Law , for specified local safety members and members who are employees of specified educational entities and who are subject to mandatory furloughs shall include, as credit for service and compensation, the amount of service and compensation that would have been credited and paid had the member not been subject to mandatory furloughs on or after July 1, 2008, as specified .

Status: 03/03/2010-Re-referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S.

Current Location: 03/03/2010-A P.E.,R. & S.S.

AB 1654     ( Conway)  School districts: emergency vehicles. ( Introduced  01/15/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law authorizes school district governing boards to provide and maintain motor vehicles for use of that district's security or police department. Existing law further provides that these motor vehicles are authorized emergency vehicles and may be equipped and operated as specified in the Vehicle Code. This bill would authorize school district governing boards that do not operate security or police departments to provide and maintain motor vehicles for the use of the district in emergency situations. The bill would provide that these vehicles would be authorized emergency vehicles, as defined, when operated in an emergency situation by an authorized district employee.

Status: 01/27/2010-Referred to Com. on ED.

Current Location: 01/27/2010-A ED.

AB 1658     ( Lieu)  County employees' retirement: service credit: safety members. ( Amended  03/01/2010)

Position:  ?

The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes a member of that system who becomes a safety member by operation of a specified law to receive service credit, as a safety member, for duties performed, prior to the change in law, which, under current law constitutes service as a safety member. Existing law requires a member that elects to receive the service credit to pay an amount equal to the contributions the member would have made for that service, plus interest. This bill would authorize specified members in the County of Los Angeles that become safety members by operation of a specified consolidation of departments within that county to receive service credit, as a safety member, for duties performed as an officer prior to the consolidation. This bill would require a member that elects to receive the service credit to pay an amount equal to the contributions , together with the regular interest the member would have made for that service , either by a lump sum payment or by installment payments.

Status: 03/02/2010-Re-referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S.

Current Location: 03/02/2010-A P.E.,R. & S.S.

AB 1660     ( Salas)  Airports: emergency aircraft flights for medical purposes. ( Introduced  01/19/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law exempts an emergency aircraft flight for medical purposes, as defined, by law enforcement, fire fighting, military, or certain other persons, from local ordinances adopted by a city, county, or city and county, that restrict flight departures and arrivals to particular hours of the day or night, that restrict the departure or arrival of aircraft based upon the aircraft's noise level, or that restrict the operation of certain types of aircraft. This bill would also exempt from the above types of local ordinances the aircraft or equipment used during a medical emergency, or emergency personnel and first responders involved in treating the medical emergency, for purposes of returning to its base of operation. The bill would also make a clarifying change.

Status: 01/27/2010-Set for hearing. Referred to Com. on TRANS.

Current Location: 01/27/2010-A TRANS.

AB 1669     ( Jeffries)  Department of Forestry and Fire Protection: employment: criminal background checks. ( Introduced  01/20/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL-Fire) to be responsible for the fire protection, fire prevention, maintenance, and enhancement of the state's forest, range, and brushland resources, contract fire protection, associated emergency services, and assistance in civil disasters and other nonfire emergencies. This bill would require the department to conduct a state and federal level criminal offender record information search through the Department of Justice prior to hiring an applicant for a permanent position as a firefighter with the department or the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, with exceptions, beginning on January 1, 2012. The bill would require the department to conduct the same criminal offender record information search for applicants of both permanent and seasonal positions as a firefighter, with exceptions, beginning on January 1, 2014. The bill would require the Department of Justice to provide the information electronically, and would require the department to request the Department of Justice to provide subsequent arrest notification services. The bill would require the applicant to pay the fee charged by the Department of Justice for processing the request, unless otherwise negotiated under collective bargaining procedures, and would require the department to refund the fee once that person had been employed for 24 months cumulatively. This bill contains other related provisions.

Status: 02/04/2010-Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

Current Location: 02/04/2010-A NAT. RES.

AB 1696     ( Berryhill, Bill)  Death benefits: payment duration. ( Introduced  01/28/2010)

Position:  COSPONSOR

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, that generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, and in the course of, employment. Existing law provides certain methods for determining workers' compensation benefits payable to a worker or his or her dependents for purposes of temporary disability, permanent total disability, permanent partial disability, and in the case of death. Existing law provides that totally dependent minor children of the deceased worker shall receive death benefits until the youngest child attains 18 years of age, or until the death of a child physically or mentally incapacitated from earning, at a weekly rate of at least $224. This bill would extend death benefits until 19 years of age if the child is still attending high school.

Status: 02/11/2010-Referred to Com. on INS.

Current Location: 02/11/2010-A INS.

AB 1699     ( Hernandez)  State employees: compensation. ( Introduced  02/01/2010)

Position:  S1

The California Constitution requires the Legislature to pass a budget bill by June 15 of each year for the fiscal year commencing on July 1. Existing law provides that no state officer or employee shall be deemed to have a break in service or to have terminated his or her employment, for any purpose, or to have incurred any change in his or her authority, status, or jurisdiction or in his or her salary or other conditions of employment, solely because of the failure to enact a Budget Act for a fiscal year prior to the beginning of that fiscal year. Under the California Constitution, money may be drawn from the Treasury only through an appropriation made by law and upon a Controller's duly drawn warrant. This bill would continuously appropriate from the General Fund and other specified funds to the Controller an amount necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees, as defined, for work performed on or after July 1 of a fiscal year for which no budget has been enacted. This bill contains other related provisions.

Status: 02/11/2010-Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S.

Current Location: 02/11/2010-A P.E.,R. & S.S.

AB 1856     ( Fong)  Public employees' retirement. ( Introduced  02/12/2010)

Position:  ?

The Public Employees' Retirement Law provides a comprehensive set of rights and benefits based upon age, service credit, and final compensation. Under the Public Employees' Retirement Law, members may elect to receive service credit for various types of public service, and this election is effective only if an appropriate payment, or authorization for payment, of the contributions and interest required for the credit is made. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

Status: 02/16/2010-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.

Current Location: 02/12/2010-A PRINT

AB 1913     ( Davis)  Retirement: pension fund. ( Introduced  02/16/2010)

Position:  ?

The Public Employees' Retirement Law creates the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, which is a trust fund created and administered solely for the benefit of the members and retired members of this system and their survivors and beneficiaries. The Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System has the exclusive control of the administration and investment of the retirement fund. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to encourage equal opportunity, and to establish quantifiable goals, for state pension fund utilization of emerging investment managers in the management of assets in specific asset classes.

Status: 02/17/2010-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.

Current Location: 02/16/2010-A PRINT

AB 1987     ( Hernandez)  Public retirement: final compensation: computation: retirees. ( Introduced  02/17/2010)

Position:  W1

The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), which provides a defined benefit to its members based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. PERL defines "final compensation" for purposes of calculating a member's retirement allowance. The State Teachers' Retirement Law and the retirement laws for county employees and city employees also provide for a defined benefit based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. This bill would provide, effective July 1, 2011, that any change in salary, compensation, or remuneration principally for the purpose of enhancing a member's benefits would not be included in the calculation of a member's final compensation for purposes of determining that member's defined benefit. The bill would require the board of each state and local public retirement system to establish, by regulation, accountability provisions that would include an ongoing audit process to ensure that a change in a member's salary, compensation, or remuneration is not made principally for the purpose of enhancing a member's retirement benefits. This bill would limit the calculation of a member's final compensation to an amount not to exceed the average increase in compensation received within the final compensation period and the 2 preceding years by employees in the same or a related group as that member. This bill would also require a board of each state and local public retirement system to establish, by regulation, a requirement that a retired person may not perform services for any employer covered by a state or local retirement system until that person has been separated from service for a period of at least 6 months. This bill contains other related provisions.

Status: 03/04/2010-Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S.

Current Location: 03/04/2010-A P.E.,R. & S.S.

AB 2008     ( Arambula)  Public employment: furloughs. ( Introduced  02/17/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law sets forth the general policy that the workweek of a state employee shall be 40 hours and authorizes workweeks of different hours to be established in order to meet varying needs of different state agencies. Existing law also authorizes the Governor to require that the 40-hour workweek be worked in 4 days in any state agency or part thereof when the Governor determines that the best interests of the state would be served thereby. Existing law vests the Department of Personnel Administration with the duties and responsibilities exercised by the State Personnel Board with respect to the administration of salaries, hours, and other personnel-related matters. This bill would, except as otherwise specifically authorized by the Legislature, provide that employees of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Employment Development Department, the Franchise Tax Board, and the State Board of Equalization would not be subject to furloughs implemented by any Executive order or by any other action of a state agency, board, or commission. The bill would also prohibit a state agency, board, or commission from directly or indirectly implementing, or assisting in implementing, a furlough of those employees. The bill would define "employee" for the purpose of those provisions and would also specify that nothing in the bill shall be construed as legal authorization for the imposition of furloughs on employees through an Executive order.

Status: 03/04/2010-Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S.

Current Location: 03/04/2010-A P.E.,R. & S.S.

AB 2051     ( Tran)  Emergency services: preparedness. ( Introduced  02/18/2010)

Position:  ?

The California Emergency Services Act establishes, within the office of the Governor, the California Emergency Management Agency and sets forth the duties of the agency and its secretary with respect to specified emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities within the state. This bill would authorize the agency to prepare, in voluntary cooperation with specific local governmental and nongovernmental entities, a specialized plan to mobilize senior citizens and disabled persons during an emergency or natural disaster.

Status: 03/04/2010-Referred to Com. on G.O.

Current Location: 03/04/2010-A G.O.

AB 2105     ( Hagman)  Land use: Subdivision Map Act. ( Introduced  02/18/2010)

Position:  ?

The Subdivision Map Act defines the term "subdivision" to mean the division, by a subdivider, of a unit or units of land, or any portion thereof, shown on the latest equalized county assessment role as a unit or contiguous units, for the purpose of sale, lease, or financing. The act requires property to be considered as contiguous units, even if the property is separated by a facility, if the units are in close enough proximity to be reasonably used together to create a single subdivision project. This bill would modify the definition of the term "subdivision" for purposes of the act by expressly exempting property separated by specified types of facilities from being considered as contiguous units.

Status: 03/04/2010-Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

Current Location: 03/04/2010-A L. GOV.

AB 2151     ( Torres)  Public employment: disaster service workers: oath or affirmation of allegiance. ( Introduced  02/18/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law requires all disaster service workers to, before they enter upon the duties of their employment, take and subscribe to an oath or affirmation, as specified. Existing law authorizes, in the case of intermittent, temporary, emergency or successive employments and in the discretion of the employing agency, the taking and subscribing of that oath to be effective for all successive periods of employment which commence within one calendar year from the date of that subscription. Notwithstanding that provision, the oath taken and subscribed by a person who is a member of an emergency organization sanctioned by a state agency or an accredited disaster council, whose members are duly enrolled or registered with the Office of Emergency Services, or any accredited disaster council of any political subdivision, is effective for the period the person remains a member with that organization. This bill would replace the term "Office of Emergency Services" with the term "California Emergency Management Agency" in the above described provision pertaining to oaths. This bill contains other existing laws.

Status: 02/19/2010-From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

Current Location: 02/18/2010-A PRINT

AB 2253     ( Coto)  Workers' compensation: cancer presumption. ( Introduced  02/18/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law requires an employer to provide, or pay for all reasonable costs of, medical services necessary to care for or relieve work-related injuries. Existing law further provides that in the case of active firefighting members of certain state and local fire departments and in the case of certain peace officers, a compensable injury includes cancer that develops or manifests itself during the period when the firefighter or peace officer demonstrates that he or she was exposed, while in the service of the public agency, to a known carcinogen, as defined, and the carcinogen is reasonably linked to the disabling cancer. Existing law establishes a presumption that the cancer in these cases is presumed to arise out of, and in the course of, employment, unless the presumption is controverted by evidence that the primary site of the cancer has been established and that the carcinogen to which the member has demonstrated exposure is not reasonably linked to the disabling cancer. This bill would, instead, extend the presumption to a member following termination of service for a period of one year for each full year of the requisite service, but not to exceed 180 months in any circumstance, commencing with the last date actually worked in the specified capacity. This bill contains other existing laws.

Status: 02/19/2010-From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

Current Location: 02/18/2010-A PRINT

AB 2269     ( Adams)  Workers' compensation: injury presumption: heart trouble. ( Introduced  02/18/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing workers' compensation law generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, and in the course of, employment. This bill would add security officers employed at certain hospitals, developmental centers, and community centers to the list of persons to whom the above-described provisions apply. This bill contains other existing laws.

Status: 02/21/2010-From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

Current Location: 02/18/2010-A PRINT

AB 2301     ( Logue)  Fire protection: defensible space. ( Introduced  02/18/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law requires that a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains an occupied dwelling or occupied structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered land, brush-covered land, grass-covered land, or land that is covered with flammable material that is within a very high fire hazard severity zone, as designated by a local agency, to maintain a defensible space of 100 feet from each side and from the front and rear of the structure. Existing law requires that a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains a building or structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered land, brush-covered land, grass-covered land, or land that is covered with flammable material, within a state responsibility area, to maintain a defensible space of 100 feet from each side and from the front and rear of the structure. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Status: 02/21/2010-From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

Current Location: 02/18/2010-A PRINT

AB 2331     ( Skinner)  Local government: employees: firefighters. ( Introduced  02/19/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law authorizes the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program to administer, prepare, and circulate to local governments a list of permanent career civilian federal, state, and local government firefighters eligible for appointment to a firefighter position and authorizes a permanent career civilian federal, state, or local government firefighter to apply for placement on the list after he or she receives a notice of termination of position or a priority placement notice, and requires his or her name to remain on the list for a period of 48 months. This bill would require the removal of a firefighter's name from the list upon notification that he or she has obtained new employment or has been reemployed. The bill would also authorize the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program to update the list, as specified.

Status: 02/22/2010-Read first time.

Current Location: 02/19/2010-A PRINT

AB 2351     ( Chesbro)  Forest resources: demonstration state forests: campgrounds: user fees. ( Introduced  02/19/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law authorizes money in the Forest Resources Improvement Fund (fund) to be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the cost of operations associated with the management of state lands operated as demonstration state forests by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Existing law requires, among other things, that receipts from the sales of forest products be deposited on a monthly basis with the State Treasurer in the fund. This bill would authorize the department to collect recreational user fees for overnight camping and reserved group activities on a demonstration state forest. The bill would allow the department to charge a fee in the amount that would reimburse the department's costs related to maintaining and improving, among other things, campground facilities. The bill would require the fees to be deposited into the fund. This bill contains other related provisions.

Status: 02/22/2010-Read first time.

Current Location: 02/19/2010-A PRINT

AB 2360     ( Chesbro)  Forest resources: Forest Resources Improvement Fund. ( Introduced  02/19/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law authorizes money in the Forest Resources Improvement Fund (the fund) to be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the cost of operations associated with the management of state lands operated as demonstration state forests by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The bill would authorize money in the fund to be used to implement approved management plans and to fund public education, restoration, research, and monitoring activities related to a demonstration forest. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Status: 02/22/2010-Read first time.

Current Location: 02/19/2010-A PRINT

AB 2399     ( Strickland, Audra)  Fire protection districts. ( Introduced  02/19/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law, for purposes of the Fire Protection District Law of 1987, defines the term "city" to mean any city whether general law or charter, including a city and county, and including any city the name of which includes the word "town." This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.

Status: 02/22/2010-Read first time.

Current Location: 02/19/2010-A PRINT

AB 2492     ( Ammiano)  Property taxation: change in ownership. ( Introduced  02/19/2010)

Position:  ?

The California Constitution generally limits ad valorem taxes on real property to 1% of the full cash value of that property. For purposes of this limitation, "full cash value" is defined as the assessor's valuation of real property as shown on the 1975-76 tax bill under "full cash value" or, thereafter, the appraised value of that real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred. Existing property tax law specifies those circumstances in which the transfer of ownership interests in a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other legal entity results in a change in ownership of the real property owned by that entity, and generally provides that a change in ownership as so described occurs when a legal entity or other person obtains a controlling or majority ownership interest in the legal entity. This bill would, pursuant to legislative findings and declarations, state the intent of the Legislature to enact a program to specify those circumstances under which nonresidential commercial and industrial property undergoes a change in ownership, to ensure that all real property is assessed at fair market value when that real property undergoes a change in ownership.

Status: 02/22/2010-Read first time.

Current Location: 02/19/2010-A PRINT

AB 2510     ( Fletcher)  Public employees' retirement: compensation. ( Introduced  02/19/2010)

Position:  ?

The Public Employees' Retirement Law defines the term "compensation" for purposes of determining required contributions and benefits. Existing law requires an employer to report compensation paid and to identify the pay period in which the compensation is earned. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that section.

Status: 02/22/2010-Read first time.

Current Location: 02/19/2010-A PRINT

AB 2545     ( De La Torre)  Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act: prepaid communications service. ( Introduced  02/19/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing provisions of the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act establish the number "911" as the primary emergency telephone number of use in the state. The existing Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act generally imposes a surcharge on amounts paid by every person in the state for intrastate telephone service that is imposed at a percentage rate, not less than 0.5% nor more than 0.75% as annually estimated to provide revenues sufficient to fund "911" emergency telephone system costs for the current fiscal year. Surcharge amounts are paid to the State Board of Equalization on a monthly basis by the telephone service supplier and are deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the State Emergency Telephone Number Account in the General Fund. Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations, except to the extent regulation of commercial mobile radio service is preempted by federal regulation. This bill would require the PUC to open proceedings or expand the scope of existing proceedings to determine an equitable manner for mobile telephony service providers to collect the surcharge from users of prepaid communications services, and would require the PUC to advise the board of its determination. This bill contains other related provisions.

Status: 02/22/2010-Read first time.

Current Location: 02/19/2010-A PRINT

AB 2550     ( Smyth)  Municipal utility districts. ( Introduced  02/19/2010)

Position:  ?

The Municipal Utility District Act governs the formation and governance of a municipal utility district. The act defines for its purposes the terms "district," "special district," and "board." This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those definitions.

Status: 02/22/2010-Read first time.

Current Location: 02/19/2010-A PRINT

AB 2601     ( Jeffries)  Firefighting. ( Introduced  02/19/2010)

Position:  ?

The State Assistance for Fire Equipment Act authorizes the Secretary of Emergency Management to acquire specified firefighting apparatus and equipment for resale to a local agency, as defined, that provides fire suppression services or a fire company. Existing law also establishes the State Assistance for Fire Equipment Account, a continuously appropriated fund, for purposes of the act. Existing law requires the secretary to consult with a specified committee before adopting regulations implementing the act. This bill would annually appropriate $45,600,000 of revenue received by the state from the accessing of oil and gas reserves located beneath state coastal waters, generally known as the "T-Ridge Project," for firefighting purposes, including, but not limited to, the purchase of firefighting and rescue vehicles and equipment, vegetation management and defensible space projects, and specified training courses and materials, thereby making an appropriation. This bill would also require the secretary to consult with additional specified individuals involved in firefighting before adopting certain regulations.

Status: 02/22/2010-Read first time.

Current Location: 02/19/2010-A PRINT

AB 2606     ( Hagman)  Insurance: fire: standard form policy. ( Introduced  02/19/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law requires that all fire insurance policies on subject matter in this state be on the adopted standard form, except as provided. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

Status: 02/22/2010-Read first time.

Current Location: 02/19/2010-A PRINT

ABX8 33     ( Portantino)  State employment: salary freeze. ( Introduced  01/28/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law requires the Department of Personnel Administration to establish and adjust salary ranges for each class of position in the state civil service, subject to specified merit limits and except as specified. Existing law requires the salary range to be based on the principle that like salaries shall be paid for comparable duties and responsibilities. Existing law allows the state to enter into memoranda of understanding relating to employer-employee relations with employee organizations representing certain state employees. This bill would, until January 1, 2013, prohibit a person employed by the state whose base salary on or after the effective date of the bill is greater than $150,000 per year from receiving a salary increase while employed in the same position or classification. The bill would exempt from this prohibition a person whose compensation is governed by an operative memorandum of understanding, as described above, a person who has been exempted by Executive order of the Governor, as specified, and a person whose salary is set pursuant to the California Constitution. The bill would make related legislative findings and declarations regarding the state budget deficit. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Status: 01/29/2010-From printer.

Current Location: 01/28/2010-A PRINT

ABX8 36     ( Ma)  Emergency services: property insurance surcharge. ( Introduced  02/09/2010)

Position:  S

Existing law establishes the California Emergency Management Agency, which is responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for certain manmade disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people and property. This bill would establish the Local Government Mutual Aid Enhancement Program in the agency, and would require funds, as specified, deposited in the Emergency Response Fund, to be allocated to the program upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the Secretary of California Emergency Management to allocate funds to specified entities, for the purpose of enhancing or sustaining fire and rescue disaster mutual aid capacity to combat the effect of all hazard disasters, as provided. This bill would also require the secretary, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a strategy, as provided, for the enhancement of mutual aid, and would require each fire and rescue operational area to submit a 3-year strategy for the enhancement of fire and rescue disaster mutual aid, as specified, to the secretary. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Status: 02/10/2010-From printer.

Current Location: 02/09/2010-A PRINT

ABX8 42     ( Jeffries)  Firefighting. ( Introduced  02/16/2010)

Position:  W

The State Assistance for Fire Equipment Act authorizes the Secretary of Emergency Management to acquire specified firefighting apparatus and equipment for resale to a local agency, as defined, that provides fire suppression services or a fire company. Existing law also establishes the State Assistance for Fire Equipment Account, a continuously appropriated fund, for purposes of the act. Existing law requires the secretary to consult with a specified committee before adopting regulations implementing the act. This bill would annually appropriate $45,600,000 of revenue received by the state from the accessing of oil and gas reserves located beneath state coastal waters, generally known as the "T-Ridge Project," for firefighting purposes, including, but not limited to, the purchase of firefighting and rescue vehicles and equipment, vegetation management and defensible space projects, and specified training courses and materials, thereby making an appropriation. This bill would also require the secretary to consult with additional specified individuals involved in firefighting before adopting certain regulations. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Status: 02/17/2010-From printer.

Current Location: 02/16/2010-A PRINT

ACR 106     ( Caballero)  CAL-FIRE Firefighter Matt Will Memorial Highway. ( Amended  02/09/2010)

Position:  SPONSOR

This measure would designate the portion of State Highway Route 156 from State Highway Route 25 to State Highway Route 101 as the CAL- FIRE Firefighter Matt Will Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost for appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

Status: 02/10/2010-Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

Current Location: 02/10/2010-A TRANS.

SB 330     ( Yee)  Public records: state agency: auxiliary organizations. ( Amended  12/15/2009)

Position:  ?

The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection and to make copies available upon request and payment of a fee unless those records are exempt from disclosure. The act defines the terms "local agency" and "state agency" for purposes of the act. This bill would revise the definition of the term "local agency" to additionally include specified auxiliary organizations established for the purpose of providing support services and specialized programs for the general benefit of a community college. This bill contains other related provisions.

Status: 02/11/2010-To Coms. on HIGHER ED. and G.O.

Current Location: 02/11/2010-A HIGHER ED.

SB 839     ( Runner)  Emergency Alert System: law enforcement officers. ( Amended  02/24/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law requires the California Highway Patrol to activate the Emergency Alert System at the request of an authorized person at a law enforcement agency if a child 17 years of age or younger, or an individual with a proven mental or physical disability, has been abducted and is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death, and other conditions are met. This bill would require the California Highway Patrol, at the request of an authorized person at a law enforcement agency, to activate the Emergency Alert System and issue a blue alert, as defined, if a law enforcement officer has been killed, suffers serious bodily injury, or is assaulted with a deadly weapon, the suspect has fled the scene of the offense, and other specified conditions are met. This bill would also require the California Highway Patrol to include information describing blue alerts on its Internet Web site.

Status: 02/24/2010-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

Current Location: 02/24/2010-S PUB. S.

SB 883     ( Ashburn)  Public employees' retirement: service credit. ( Introduced  01/19/2010)

Position:  ?

The Public Employees' Retirement Law provides a comprehensive set of rights and benefits for members of the Public Employees' Retirement System 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 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 a technical, and nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

Status: 02/04/2010-To Com. on RLS.

Current Location: 02/04/2010-S RLS.

SB 884     ( Ashburn)  Public employees' retirement: service credit. ( Introduced  01/19/2010)

Position:  ?

The Public Employees' Retirement Law provides a comprehensive set of rights and benefits for members of the Public Employees' Retirement System 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 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 a technical, and nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

Status: 02/04/2010-To Com. on RLS.

Current Location: 02/04/2010-S RLS.

SB 897     ( Cox)  Subdivision maps. ( Introduced  01/25/2010)

Position:  ?

The Subdivision Map Act establishes a statewide regulatory framework for controlling the subdividing of land. It generally requires a subdivider to submit and file a tentative or vesting tentative map, which is made for the purpose of showing the design and improvement of a proposed subdivision and the existing conditions in and around it. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the vesting tentative map requirement.

Status: 02/04/2010-To Com. on RLS.

Current Location: 02/04/2010-S RLS.

SB 902     ( Ashburn)  Fire protection: county regulation. ( Introduced  01/26/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law authorizes the organization of fire companies by filing a certificate with the county Fire and Rescue Operational Area Coordinator, as specified. Existing law authorizes a county which has a population of 1,000,000 or more to regulate the formation, continued existence, and ongoing operations of fire companies, as specified. This bill would remove the requirement that a county have a population of 1,000,000 or more persons in order to regulate the formation, continued existence, and ongoing operations of fire companies.

Status: 03/02/2010-Set for hearing April 7.

Current Location: 02/11/2010-S L. GOV.

SB 989     ( Hollingsworth)  Workers' compensation: permanent disability rating schedule. ( Introduced  02/08/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the above-described provisions. This bill contains other existing laws.

Status: 02/18/2010-To Com. on RLS.

Current Location: 02/18/2010-S RLS.

SB 1026     ( Wyland)  Workers' compensation. ( Introduced  02/12/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Under this system, the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board has jurisdiction to determine these claims. Existing law prohibits petitions filed with the appeals board concerning a continuing temporary disability award from being granted while the injured worker is pursuing a rehabilitation plan. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.

Status: 02/25/2010-To Com. on RLS.

Current Location: 02/25/2010-S RLS.

SB 1082     ( Ashburn)  Public retirement: social security. ( Introduced  02/17/2010)

Position:  ?

The Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement system is required, upon application by a public agency, as defined, to execute an agreement with the federal government for the coverage of the public employees of the agency under the federal Social Security Act in conformity with specified regulations. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the provision of law that defines those entities that constitute a "public agency" that is eligible to execute an agreement for coverage under the federal Social Security Act.

Status: 02/25/2010-To Com. on RLS.

Current Location: 02/25/2010-S RLS.

SB 1139     ( Correa)  State retirement: benefit programs. ( Introduced  02/18/2010)

Position:  ?

The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) provides a comprehensive set of rights and benefits for various employees of the state and local agencies. That law also establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and sets forth the provisions for the delivery of benefits, including retirement benefits and an optional tax-deferred compensation program, to its members. Under that law, the retirement benefits of a retirement system member are based, in part, on the completed service credit and compensation received by that member. This bill would make technical and clarifying changes to those provisions of law, including amendments that rename the current "deferred compensation program" as the "tax-preferred retirement savings program."

Status: 02/25/2010-To Com. on P.E. & R.

Current Location: 02/25/2010-S P.E. & R.

SB 1147     ( DeSaulnier)  Department of Public Safety. ( Introduced  02/18/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law provides for the safety of the public, as specified. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to create a Department of Public Safety, the head of which shall serve in the Governor's cabinet.

Status: 02/25/2010-To Com. on RLS.

Current Location: 02/25/2010-S RLS.

SB 1207     ( Kehoe)  Land use: general plan: safety element: fire hazard impacts. ( Introduced  02/18/2010)

Position:  ?

The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan that includes various elements, including, among others, a safety element for the protection of the community from unreasonable risks associated with, among other things, wildland and urban fires. The safety element includes requirements for state responsibility areas, as defined, and very high fire hazard severity zones, as defined. This bill would revise the safety element requirements for state responsibility areas and very high fire hazard severity zones, as specified, and require the safety element, prior to January 1, 2015, and thereafter upon each revision of the housing element, to be reviewed and updated as necessary to address the risk of fire in state responsibility areas and very high fire hazard severity zones, taking into account specified considerations, including, among others, the most recent version of the Office of Planning and Research's "Fire Hazard Planning" document, which this bill would require the office to update on or before January 1, 2012. By imposing new duties on a city or county with regard to reviewing and updating its general plan, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Status: 03/04/2010-To Coms. on L. GOV. and EQ.

Current Location: 03/04/2010-S L. GOV.

SB 1209     ( Romero)  Public employees' retirement: postretirement death benefits. ( Introduced  02/18/2010)

Position:  ?

The Public Employees' Retirement Law requires that, upon the death of any state or school member after retirement and while receiving a retirement allowance, the sum of $2,000 be paid to the member's designated beneficiary, as specified. Existing law provides that the additional employer contributions required to fund this benefit be computed as a level percentage of member compensation, and these are deposited in the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would increase the amount of that payment to $6,163 with respect to those school members. By providing for funds in the Public Employees' Retirement Fund to be spent for a new purpose, and by increasing contributions to that fund, this bill would make an appropriation.

Status: 03/04/2010-To Com. on P.E. & R.

Current Location: 03/04/2010-S P.E. & R.

SB 1220     ( Wolk)  Vehicles: emergency vehicles: fire apparatus. ( Introduced  02/18/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law requires specified authorized emergency vehicles owned and operated by a governmental agency that are first purchased on or after January 1, 1994, to meet certain size, weight, and load requirements, including the requirement that the manufacturer weigh and certify fire apparatus to determine compliance with weight requirements. Existing law defines a "fire apparatus" as, among other things, a vehicle designed, maintained, and used exclusively for the suppression of fires or for fire prevention activities, including the training of firefighters. This bill would instead define a "fire apparatus" as a vehicle designed to be used under emergency conditions to transport personnel and equipment, or to support the suppression of fires or mitigation of other hazardous situations, consistent with Standard 1901 of the National Fire Protection Association. This bill contains other related provisions.

Status: 03/04/2010-To Com. on T. & H.

Current Location: 03/04/2010-S T. & H.

SB 1258     ( Kehoe)  Emergency services: property insurance surcharge. ( Introduced  02/19/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law establishes the California Emergency Management Agency, which is responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for certain manmade disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people and property. This bill would establish the Local Government Mutual Aid Enhancement Program in the agency, and would require funds, as specified, deposited in the Emergency Response Fund, to be allocated to the program upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the Secretary of California Emergency Management to allocate funds to specified entities, for the purpose of enhancing or sustaining fire and rescue disaster mutual aid capacity to combat the effect of all hazard disasters, as provided. This bill would also require the secretary, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a strategy, as provided, for the enhancement of mutual aid, and would require each fire and rescue operational area to submit a 3-year strategy for the enhancement of fire and rescue disaster mutual aid, as specified, to the secretary. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Status: 03/04/2010-To Coms. on G.O. and B., F. & I.

Current Location: 03/04/2010-S G.O.

SB 1280     ( Negrete McLeod)  Fire protection: state facilities. ( Introduced  02/19/2010)

Position:  SPONSOR

Existing law establishes the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in the Natural Resources Agency. The department is responsible for the fire protection, fire prevention, maintenance, and enhancement of the state's forest, range, and brushland resources, contract fire protection, associated emergency services, and assistance in civil disasters and other nonfire emergencies. This bill would require a fire station of the department to be the primary responder for an emergency call requesting emergency assistance that is made from a facility that is operated by the state if certain conditions are met, including if the fire station is immediately aware of the call, the call requests emergency assistance of a type for which the fire station is equipped to respond, the fire station is open, staffed, and available for response, and the fire station is within a specified vicinity of the facility.

Status: 03/04/2010-To Com. on N.R. & W.

Current Location: 03/04/2010-S N.R. & W.

SB 1425     ( Simitian)  Public retirement: final compensation: computation: retirees. ( Introduced  02/19/2010)

Position:  W1

The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), which provides a defined benefit to its members based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. PERL defines "final compensation" for purposes of calculating a member's retirement allowance. The State Teachers' Retirement Law and the retirement laws for county employees and city employees also provide for a defined benefit based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. This bill would provide, effective July 1, 2011, that any change in salary, compensation, or remuneration principally for the purpose of enhancing a member's benefits would not be included in the calculation of a member's final compensation for purposes of determining that member's defined benefit. The bill would require the board of each state and local public retirement system to establish, by regulation, accountability provisions that would include an ongoing audit process to ensure that a change in a member's salary, compensation, or remuneration is not made principally for the purpose of enhancing a member's retirement benefits. This bill would limit the calculation of a member's final compensation to an amount not to exceed the average increase in compensation received within the final compensation period and the 2 preceding years by employees in the same or a related group as that member. This bill would also require a board of each state and local public retirement system to establish, by regulation, a requirement that a retired person may not perform services for any employer covered by a state or local retirement system until that person has been separated from service for a period of at least 6 months. This bill contains other related provisions.

Status: 02/21/2010-From print. May be acted upon on or after March 23.

Current Location: 02/19/2010-S PRINT

SBX8 13     ( Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review)  Emergency services: property insurance surcharge. ( Amended  02/22/2010)

Position:  ?

(1) Existing law establishes the California Emergency Management Agency, which is responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for certain manmade disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people and property. This bill would establish the Local Government Mutual Aid Enhancement Program in the agency, and would require funds, as specified, deposited in the Emergency Response Fund, to be allocated to the program upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the Secretary of California Emergency Management to allocate funds to specified entities, for the purpose of enhancing or sustaining fire and rescue disaster mutual aid capacity to combat the effect of all hazard disasters, as provided. This bill would also require the secretary, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a strategy, as provided, for the enhancement of mutual aid, and would require each fire and rescue operational area to submit a 3-year strategy for the enhancement of fire and rescue disaster mutual aid, as specified, to the secretary. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Status: 02/22/2010-Read third time. Amended. To third reading.

Current Location: 02/22/2010-A THIRD READING

SBX8 29     ( Steinberg)  Public employment: furloughs. ( Amended  03/04/2010)

Position:  ?

Existing law sets forth the general policy that the workweek of a state employee shall be 40 hours and authorizes workweeks of different hours to be established in order to meet varying needs of different state agencies. Existing law also authorizes the Governor to require that the 40-hour workweek be worked in 4 days in any state agency or part thereof when the Governor determines that the best interests of the state would be served thereby. Existing law vests the Department of Personnel Administration with the duties and responsibilities exercised by the State Personnel Board with respect to the administration of salaries, hours, and other personnel-related matters. This bill would exempt employees in positions funded at least 95% by sources other than the General Fund, employees of the Franchise Tax Board, and employees of the State Board of Equalization from furloughs implemented by any state agency, board, or commission. The bill would also prohibit a state agency, board, or commission from directly or indirectly implementing, or assisting in implementing, a furlough of those employees. The bill would define "employee" for the purpose of those provisions and would also specify that nothing in those provisions shall be construed as legal authorization for the imposition of furloughs on employees through an Executive order. The bill would also make related findings and declarations in support of this measure. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Status: 03/04/2010-Read third time. Amended. To third reading.

Current Location: 03/04/2010-A THIRD READING

SBX8 40     ( Kehoe)  Emergency services: property insurance surcharge. ( Introduced  02/10/2010)

Position:  S

Existing law establishes the California Emergency Management Agency, which is responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for certain manmade disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people and property. This bill would establish the Local Government Mutual Aid Enhancement Program in the agency, and would require funds, as specified, deposited in the Emergency Response Fund, to be allocated to the program upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the Secretary of California Emergency Management to allocate funds to specified entities, for the purpose of enhancing or sustaining fire and rescue disaster mutual aid capacity to combat the effect of all hazard disasters, as provided. This bill would also require the secretary, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a strategy, as provided, for the enhancement of mutual aid, and would require each fire and rescue operational area to submit a 3-year strategy for the enhancement of fire and rescue disaster mutual aid, as specified, to the secretary. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Status: 02/10/2010-Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS.

Current Location: 02/10/2010-S RLS.

SCA 12     ( Kehoe)  Public safety services: local government. ( Introduced  02/25/2009)

Position:  S

The California Constitution prohibits any ad valorem tax on real property from exceeding 1% of the full cash value of the property, subject to certain exceptions. This measure would create an additional exception to the 1% limit on ad valorem tax on real property, for an ad valorem rate imposed by a city, county, city and county, or special district to pay for bonded indebtedness incurred to fund facilities, buildings, or equipment used directly and exclusively to provide emergency services to the public, or to fund the related acquisition or lease of real property, if approved by 55% of the voters of the city, county, city and county, or special district, as applicable. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Status: 02/25/2010-Placed on inactive file on request of Senator Kehoe.

Current Location: 02/25/2010-S INACTIVE FILE

SCR 75     ( Hollingsworth)  Wildfires: United States Forest Service. ( Introduced  02/18/2010)

Position:  ?

This measure would declare that there is an ongoing emergency due to the threat of wildfire, call on the federal government to take immediate measures to prevent imminent catastrophic wildfires, and request Governor Schwarzenegger to advocate at the federal level for the United States Forest Service to undertake prevention and maintenance work in the state's federal forest lands and to encourage a change in management structure in the United States Forest Service to coordinate decisionmaking authority over state project decisions inside the state.

Status: 02/17/2010-Introduced. To Com. on RLS.

Current Location: 02/18/2010-S RLS.

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