HomeMy WebLinkAbout05.Public Affairs_Att 1Bill Number Author Summary OCSD Position Notes Status
AB 213 Silva Requires State Agencies to notice "interested
parties" of proposed actions on rules and
regulations.
Support Suspense file
AB 262 Harkey Revises the boundaries of the Santa Ana
Regional Water Quality Control Board to
include south Orange County.
Watch Two-year bill
AB 457 Wagner Allows bidders of public contract work to
recover full attorney's costs for challenging
an award if their bid is determined to be
invalid due to errors or omissions of the
agency.
Oppose Offering amendments for
reciprocity
Two-year bill
AB 512 Gordon This bill would expand the definition of an
eligible renewable generating facility to
include facilities that have a generating
capacity of no more than 5 megawatts to
allow bill credits for generating renewable
energy.
Support Assembly Floor
AB 646 Atkins Changes exsiting law so that during labor
negotations, agencies are no longer allowed
to declare an impasse and impose a contract.
Instead, the agency must appoint a mediator
to recommend a settlement.
Oppose In Appropriations Committee
AB 741 Huffman Allows the creation of voluntary assessment
districts to finance the cost of converting
septic to sewer, connecting to a community
system and replacing damaged sewer
laterals.
Support This bill is sponsored by IRWD In Sentate Rules (passed
Assembly)
AB 1178 Ma This bill seeks to clarify existing law to
prohibit discriminatory restrictions on the
disposal of solid waste based on its place of
origin.
Support In Appropriations Committee
AB 1354 Huber Eliminates the 5% retention requirements for
public work contracts and prohibits any
contract retention amount.
Oppose Two-year bill
OCSD Legislative Bill Tracking - 2011
Bill Number Author Summary OCSD Position Notes Status
OCSD Legislative Bill Tracking - 2011
SB 482 Kehoe Shifts the responsbility of beach testing from
th Department of Public Health to the State
Water Resources Control Board and allows
the Board to levy fees on wastewater
treatment agencies to pay for administration
of the program.
Oppose In Appropriations Committee
SB 771 Kehoe This bill expands the energy sources that are
eligible to receive funds through the
Renewable Resources Trust Fund to include
digester gas and waste gas to fuel cell power
generation.This bill changes the current
definition of eligible renewable energy to
include digester or other gasses from
wastewater treatment.
Support In Appropriations Committee
SB 900 Steinberg
Provides that a person would not be
disqualified from being a member of a
RWQCB if they receive, or a significant
portiontheir income from a person subject to
waste discharge requirements, or an
applicant for waste discharge requirements,
that govern discharges not within the
jurisdiction of that RWQCB.
Support Consistent with our efforts at the
federal level to change the 10
percent income rule.
In Appropriations Committee
Bill Number Author Summary OCSD Position Notes Status
OCSD Legislative Bill Tracking - 2011
Bell-related Bills
AB 162 Smyth Requires that if an independent audit reveals
irregularities, the findings are sent to the
State Controller.
AB 187 Lara Authorizes the Controller to establish a high-
risk audit program to identify agencies the
State Auditor views as being at risk of waste,
fraud or abuse.
AB 229 Lara Requires the Controller to receive all audits
within 9 months of preparation and directs
the Controller to develop a plan to review all
local agency audits.
AB 253 Smyth Requires the Controller to develop guidelines
for local government audits based on input
from a specified group of city officials
AB 1287 Buchanan
Requires all agencies to comply with GAO
standards for audits and requires auditors to
complete a GAO quality control review.
AB 1344 Feuer Prohbits employment contracts from having
automatic renewal clauses or automatic
increases in excess of cost-of-living
adjustments. Also, this bill requires all
meetings be noticed on an agency's website
(if they have one).
SB 46 Correa
Requires all public officials to file statements
of economic interest and these statements to
be filed on the public agency's website.
SB 186 Kehoe Give the State Controller discretion to audit
or investigate any local agency to ensure
compliance with laws, ordinances and grant
agreements and allows the Controller to
charge the agency for the cost of the
investigation.
Watch
Bill Number Author Summary OCSD Position Notes Status
OCSD Legislative Bill Tracking - 2011
SB 449 Pavley
Authorizes the Controller to conduct reviews
of local agencies finances to determine if
there may be problems and develop a
committee of officials to assist agencies with
finanical problems (upon request).