HomeMy WebLinkAbout10-24-2012 Steering Committee Agenda PacketOctober 17, 2012
NOTICE OF MEETING
STEERING COMMITTEE
ORANGE COUNTY SANITATION DISTRICT
REGULAR MEETING – 5:00 P.M. Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Administration Building
10844 Ellis Avenue
Fountain Valley, California 92708
The Regular Meeting of the Steering Committee of the Orange County Sanitation District will be held at the above location, date and time.
STEERING COMMITTEE AND BOARD MEETING DATES
October 24, 2012
November 28, 2012
*December 19, 2012
January 23, 2013
February 27, 2013
March 27, 2013
April 24, 2013
May 22, 2013
June 28, 2013
July 24, 2013
August 28, 2013
September 25, 2013
*Meeting being held the third Wednesday of the month.
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Orange County Sanitation District Regular Meeting of the
Steering Committee
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 5:00 P.M.
Administration Building
Conference Rooms A & B 10844 Ellis Avenue
Fountain Valley, CA 92708
(714) 593-7130
AGENDA
DECLARATION OF QUORUM:
PUBLIC COMMENTS: If you wish to speak, please complete a Speaker’s Form and give it to the
Clerk of the Board. Speakers are requested to limit comments to three minutes.
REPORTS: The Committee Chair and the General Manager may present verbal reports on
miscellaneous matters of general interest to the Directors. These reports are for information only and
require no action by the Directors.
CONSENT CALENDAR:
1. Approve Minutes of the September 26, 2012 Steering Committee Meeting.
ACTION ITEMS:
None.
INFORMATION ITEMS:
2. Full Cost Recorvery for Urban Runoff Flows
3. Legislative & Regulatory Affairs Report
CLOSED SESSION:
During the course of conducting the business set forth on this agenda as a regular meeting of the
Board, the Chair may convene the Board in closed session to consider matters of pending real estate negotiations, pending or potential litigation, or personnel matters, pursuant to Government Code
Sections 54956.8, 54956.9, 54957 or 54957.6, as noted.
Reports relating to (a) purchase and sale of real property; (b) matters of pending or potential litigation;
(c) employment actions or negotiations with employee representatives; or which are exempt from public
disclosure under the California Public Records Act, may be reviewed by the Board during a permitted closed session and are not available for public inspection. At such time as the Board takes final action
on any of these subjects, the minutes will reflect all required disclosures of information.
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Convene in closed session.
(1) CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL RE. EXISTING LITIGATION (Section 54956.9(a))
One Case:
Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority v. Orange County Water District – Contractual Arbitration before Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services
(2) CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL RE. ANTICIPATED LITIGATION
(Government Code Section 54956.9(b))
Significant Exposure to Litigation
Number of Potential Cases: 1
Reconvene in regular session.
Consideration of action, if any, on matters considered in closed session.
OTHER BUSINESS AND COMMUNICATIONS OR SUPPLEMENTAL AGENDA
ITEMS, IF ANY:
ADJOURNMENT:
The next Steering Committee meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, November 28,
2012, at 5:00 p.m.
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Accommodations for the Disabled: Meeting Rooms are wheelchair accessible. If you require any special disability
related accommodations, please contact the Orange County Sanitation District Clerk of the Board’s office at (714) 593-7130 at least 72 hours prior to the scheduled meeting. Requests must specify the nature of the disability and the type of accommodation requested.
Agenda Posting: In accordance with the requirements of California Government Code Section 54954.2, this agenda
has been posted outside the main gate of the Sanitation District’s Administration Building located at 10844 Ellis Avenue, Fountain Valley, California, not less than 72 hours prior to the meeting date and time above. All public records relating to each agenda item, including any public records distributed less than 72 hours prior to the meeting
to all, or a majority of the Board of Directors, are available for public inspection in the office of the Clerk of the Board. NOTICE TO DIRECTORS: To place items on the agenda for the Committee Meeting, items must be submitted to the
Clerk of the Board 14 days before the meeting. Maria E. Ayala Clerk of the Board
(714) 593-7130 mayala@ocsd.com
For any questions on the agenda, Committee members may contact staff at: General Manager Jim Ruth (714) 593-7110 jruth@ocsd.com
Assistant General Manager Bob Ghirelli (714) 593-7400 rghirelli@ocsd.com Assistant General Manager Jim Herberg (714) 593-7300 jherberg@ocsd.com Director of Facility Support Services Nick Arhontes (714) 593-7210 narhontes@ocsd.com
Director of Finance and Administrative Services Lorenzo Tyner (714) 593-7550 ltyner@ocsd.com
Director of Human Resources Jeff Reed (714) 593-7144 jreed@ocsd.com Director of Operations & Maintenance Ed Torres (714) 593-7080 etorres@ocsd.com
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
AQMD Air Quality Management District
ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers
BOD Biochemical Oxygen Demand
CARB California Air Resources Board
CASA California Association of Sanitation Agencies
CCTV Closed Circuit Television
CRWQCB California Regional Water Quality Control Board
CWA Clean Water Act
CWEA California Water Environment Association
EIR Environmental Impact Report
EMT Executive Management Team
EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FOG Fats, Oils, and Grease
FSSD Facilities Support Services Department
gpd Gallons per day
GWR System Groundwater Replenishment System (also called GWRS)
LOS Level of Service
MGD Million gallons per day
NACWA National Association of Clean Water Agencies
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NWRI National Water Research Institute
O&M Operations and Maintenance
OCCOG Orange County Council of Governments
OCHCA Orange County Health Care Agency
OCSD Orange County Sanitation District
OCWD Orange County Water District
OOBS Ocean Outfall Booster Station
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
POTW Publicly Owned Treatment Works
ppm Parts per million
RFP Request For Proposal
RWQCB Regional Water Quality Control Board
SARFPA Santa Ana River Flood Protection Agency
SARI Santa Ana River Inceptor
SARWQCB Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
SAWPA Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority
SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system
SCAP Southern California Alliance of Publicly Owned Treatment Works
SCAQMD South Coast Air Quality Management District
SOCWA South Orange County Wastewater Authority
SSMP Sanitary Sewer Management Plan
SSO Sanitary Sewer Overflow
SWRCB State Water Resources Control Board
TDS Total Dissolved Solids
TMDL Total Maximum Daily Load
TSS Total Suspended Solids
WDR Waste Discharge Requirements
WEF Water Environment Federation
WERF Water Environment Research Foundation
Activated‐sludge process – A secondary biological wastewater treatment process where bacteria reproduce at a high rate with the introduction of excess air or oxygen, and consume dissolved
nutrients in the wastewater. Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) – The amount of oxygen used when organic matter undergoes
decomposition by microorganisms. Testing for BOD is done to assess the amount of organic matter in
water.
Biosolids – Biosolids are nutrient rich organic and highly treated solid materials produced by the
wastewater treatment process. This high‐quality product can be recycled as a soil amendment on
farm land or further processed as an earth‐like product for commercial and home gardens to improve and maintain fertile soil and stimulate plant growth.
Capital Improvement Program (CIP) – Projects for repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of assets. Also includes treatment improvements, additional capacity, and projects for the support facilities.
Coliform bacteria – A group of bacteria found in the intestines of humans and other animals, but also occasionally found elsewhere used as indicators of sewage pollution. E. coli are the most common
bacteria in wastewater. Collections system – In wastewater, it is the system of typically underground pipes that receive and
convey sanitary wastewater or storm water.
Certificate of Participation (COP) – A type of financing where an investor purchases a share of the
lease revenues of a program rather than the bond being secured by those revenues.
Contaminants of Potential Concern (CPC) – Pharmaceuticals, hormones, and other organic
wastewater contaminants.
Dilution to Threshold (D/T) – the dilution at which the majority of the people detect the odor
becomes the D/T for that air sample.
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
Greenhouse gases – In the order of relative abundance water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane,
nitrous oxide, and ozone gases that are considered the cause of global warming (“greenhouse effect”).
Groundwater Replenishment (GWR) System – A joint water reclamation project that proactively
responds to Southern California’s current and future water needs. This joint project between the
Orange County Water District and the Orange County Sanitation District provides 70 million gallons a day of drinking quality water to replenish the local groundwater supply.
Levels of Service (LOS) – Goals to support environmental and public expectations for performance.
NDMA – N‐Nitrosodimethylamine is an N‐nitrosoamine suspected cancer‐causing agent. It has been
found in the Groundwater Replenishment System process and is eliminated using hydrogen peroxide
with extra ultra‐violet treatment.
National Biosolids Partnership (NBP) – An alliance of the National Association of Clean Water
Agencies (NACWA) and Water Environment Federation (WEF), with advisory support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). NBP is committed to developing and advancing
environmentally sound and sustainable biosolids management practices that go beyond regulatory
compliance and promote public participation in order to enhance the credibility of local agency biosolids programs and improved communications that lead to public acceptance.
Publicly‐owned Treatment Works (POTW) – Municipal wastewater treatment plant.
Santa Ana River Interceptor (SARI) Line – A regional brine line designed to convey 30 million
gallons per day (MGD) of non‐reclaimable wastewater from the upper Santa Ana River basin to the
ocean for disposal, after treatment.
Sanitary sewer – Separate sewer systems specifically for the carrying of domestic and industrial
wastewater. Combined sewers carry both wastewater and urban run‐off. South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) – Regional regulatory agency that
develops plans and regulations designed to achieve public health standards by reducing emissions from business and industry.
Secondary treatment – Biological wastewater treatment, particularly the activated‐sludge process,
where bacteria and other microorganisms consume dissolved nutrients in wastewater.
Sludge – Untreated solid material created by the treatment of wastewater. Total suspended solids (TSS) – The amount of solids floating and in suspension in wastewater.
Trickling filter – A biological secondary treatment process in which bacteria and other microorganisms, growing as slime on the surface of rocks or plastic media, consume nutrients in
wastewater as it trickles over them. Urban runoff – Water from city streets and domestic properties that carry pollutants into the storm
drains, rivers, lakes, and oceans. Wastewater – Any water that enters the sanitary sewer.
Watershed – A land area from which water drains to a particular water body. OCSD’s service area is
in the Santa Ana River Watershed.
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STEERING COMMITTEE Meeting Date
10/24/12
To Bd. of Dir.
AGENDA REPORT Item Number 2 Item Number
Orange County Sanitation District
FROM: James D. Ruth, General Manager
Originator: James D. Herberg, Assistant General Manager
SUBJECT: FULL COST RECOVERY FOR URBAN RUNOFF FLOWS GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION
Information Only Item
SUMMARY
In 2011, the Orange County Sanitation District’s (OCSD) Strategic Plan intitiatives included “full
cost recovery” for Urban Runoff discharges. OCSD staff met with the local participating cities and OC Watersheds, a division within the Orange County Public Works Department, the lead agency for Orange County’s NPDES permit. It was determined that OC Watersheds does not have the
legal authority to impose fees; therefore, they are not an appropriate mechanism for equally allocating the costs to the urban runoff permit holders.
Pursuant to OCSD’s current Dry Weather Urban Runoff Policy (Resolution No. 01-07), no fees or charges were to be imposed until the accumulative discharge of urban runoff from all sources
exceeded 4 MGD. Two new proposed discharges combined with the existing diversion flows would
likely exceed the 4 MGD payment threshold. At present, Urban Runoff permit holders include City of Huntington Beach, Irvine Ranch Water District, the Irvine Company, and Orange County Public
Works.
OCSD staff has formulated three alternative proposals for cost recovery for Urban Runoff
discharges, and staff is seeking additional direction from the Board of Directors. PRIOR COMMITTEE/BOARD ACTIONS
November 2010 - The Board of Directors adopted the updated Strategic Plan which included a new goal, the full-cost recovery for the urban runoff flows.
November 2011 - The Board of Directors adopts the updated Strategic Plan which reiterates the
desire for full-cost recovery for urban runoff flows. Direction is given to negotiate with the County of
Orange as NPDES permit holder.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Since 1999, OCSD has treated a total of 7.0 billion gallons of dry weather urban runoff from the
City of Huntington Beach, Orange County Public Works, City of Newport Beach, Irvine Ranch Water District, and The Irvine Company. The total cost to treat this diverted runoff has reached
$5.9 million during this period. OCSD will continue to receive between 500 and 700 million gallons
per year if current discharge trends remain unchanged and no new diversion systems are added. The urban runoff treatment cost for 2011-12 was $922,000 based upon the reported diversion of
640 million gallons. Treatment costs will increase to $1,013,000 at 2012-13 user fee rates if the diversion flows remain at that level.
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Staff has presented the preliminary Urban Runoff Cost Recovery Plan to the County of Orange Stormwater Technical Advisory Committee, and has met with County of Orange representatives at
OC Watersheds, the City of Newport Beach, and the City of Huntington Beach. Resolution No. 01-07 language implies that the Board will eventually consider imposing costs for the urban runoff diversion flows. Charging for the diversion of urban runoff proportionate to the
treatment costs for such flows would be consistent with OCSD’s policy of full-cost recovery. Without the incentive provided by cost recovery, the urban runoff permittees have little financial
motivation to minimize or eliminate dry weather flows. Once a fee for sewer disposal is imminent,
more stringent practices and strategies, such as managed diversion pumping regimes, stormwater system improvements aimed at controlling infiltration, or wetlands restoration and enhancement,
might become viable alternatives for controlling bacterial levels and pollutant contamination in
Orange County’s recreational waters. Two options for collecting charges are provided for Board/ Committee consideration:
1. Maintain Status Quo Option 1 would maintain the waiver of sewer use charges for all costs below the 4 MGD
threshold, but would proportionally charge the permittees for the entire flow volume if the threshold were exceeded. This option requires no changes to Resolution 01-07.
2. Begin Cost Recovery for Flows Above 4 MGD on a Proportional Basis Option 2 would maintain the waiver of all costs below the 4 MGD threshold, but would
proportionally charge the permittees based upon flow, BOD, and TSS to cover the treatment
costs above the 4 MGD threshold. This option would require Board approval for changes to Resolution 01-07 (repeal and replace) and the addition of language defining the Urban Runoff
Use Charges to the fee Ordinance. It is recommended that these two options retain the originally imposed 10 MGD cap on Urban
Runoff discharges.
Cost Analysis* OCSD would incur $1,960,408 of Urban Runoff treatment costs up to the 4 MGD threshold
under options 1 and 2 based upon 2011-12 flows and sewer use rates. Under option 2, the
permittees would be charged all treatment costs above 4 MGD (to a maximum of 10 MGD) at a potential annual cost of $2,942,772, allocated according to the proportional contribution of each
permittee.
ESTIMATED ANNUAL URBAN RUNOFF TREATMENT COSTS
(Cost Estimates in Million Dollars per Year)
Average Daily
Discharge
Option 1 Option 2
OCSD
Treatment Cost
Permittees’ Cost
OCSD
Treatment Cost
Permittees’ Cost
Up to 4 MGD 1.96 0 1.96 0
6 MGD 0 2.94 1.96 1.84
8 MGD 0 3.92 1.96 1.96
10 MGD 0 4.90 1.96 2.94
* Costs were estimated based upon 2011-12 diversion discharge patterns and FY 2011-12 Class I use charge rates. CEQA
N/A
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STEERING COMMITTEE Meeting Date 10/24/12 To Bd. of Dir.
AGENDA REPORT Item Number 3 Item Number
Orange County Sanitation District FROM: James Herberg, Assitant General Manager
Originator: Michael Gold, Public Affairs Manager
SUBJECT: Legislative Update
GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION
Information Only
SUMMARY
This report is the monthly legislative update that includes legislative and political
information from Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, lobbyists’ activities, and other information
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Federal Legislative Update
Legislative Advocate: Eric Sapirstein, ENS Resources
Not much happened this past month but it is the quiet before the (election) storm. With
Congress on recess and the presidential contest in high gear, Washington has been in
a hurry up and wait mode.
What is important to note is that while all seems quiet, in the background policy makers
on both sides are gearing up for the lame duck session (after the election) and looming
automatic cuts (some are calling the fiscal cliff) that hit on January 2, 2013.
Sequestration
On September 14, the White House transmitted an analysis of the anticipated budget
cuts as required by the Sequestration Transparency Act. This law requires a delineation
of how the Administration would implement, on a programmatic basis, the $55 billion in
domestic and $55 billion in defense spending reductions. The impacts of the reductions are severe and the report is considered the first real step to force Congress to address
the deficit reduction needs in the Lame Duck Session. Absent a resolution, the cuts go
into effect January 2, 2013.
While Washington and the pundits talk of these “devastating” cuts, some are saying they may not be quite so bad. This position stems from the belief that the expiration of
tax cuts and across-the-board cuts would not be immediately felt until later in the year.
Thus, sequestration may be delayed by legislative fiat during the Lame Duck Session
until later in the year to be consistent with the March 27, 2013 expiration of the stopgap-
spending bill.
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Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) Senator Barbara Boxer continues with her stated priority to consider and approve a
WRDA rewrite during the Lame Duck Session. According to Committee on Environment
and Public Works staff, the proposed legislation is drafted and being reviewed by the
committee membership. If the committee considers the bill, it could serve as an end of session rewrite. The House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has yet to develop and circulate a proposal to its membership.
Nonetheless, this Senate effort could result in a process that might result in the
development of an innovative financing program for water infrastructure if the House
and Senate meet during the Lame Duck Session to fashion a compromise. Chemical Security Mandates and Water Infrastructure (CFATS)
Congress continues to review efforts to renew the CFATS program that mandates
chemical security upgrades and vulnerability assessments on industry and, to a limited
extent the water sector. During this review, some in Congress support our position that wastewater agencies should be exempt from the mandates (so we are regulated by EPA rather than Homeland Security) but the Secretary of Defense believes that POTWs
should be regulated by DHS because of possible cyber threats.
Overall, the stage is set for debate about POTW security during budget discussions in December.
Conflict of Interest Regulation and Appointment to Water Boards
Staff continues to work with Representative Miller on H.R. 2765 that he introduced at
our request. This is the bill to income restrictions for water board appointees. As a result of our work with Mr. Miller and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Chairman’s committee staff has stated that they support the legislation, noting that it is a
commonsense response. They confirmed that it is their hope that it can be taken up
during a Lame Duck Session. To this end, we are working with the National League of
Cities to demonstrate that the legislation enjoys national and California support. This is a request from the committee staff in anticipation of making the case to the committee that the issue demands a federal response.
Water Infrastructure and Clean Water SRF
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced draft legislation for infrastructure financing that is similar to an approach discussed before called WIFIA. The Water Infrastructure Financing Act (WIFIA) has been circulating DC for a while and is modeled after
approaches used in the transportation sector. Previous discussions centered on
replacing the State Revolving Loan Fund (SRF) program.
Merkley’s bill is notable because it vests authority for implementation with the U.S. Environmental Protection. Interestingly, in what may be a silent nod to the current effort
to avoid impacts to the federal deficit, there is no specific funding identified. Instead,
“such sums as necessary” are authorized. Earlier proposals in both the House and
Senate established explicit spending levels.
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Among the key elements of the draft bill are provisions that:
• Require assistance to projects that are not less than $20 million (assume pooling
of smaller projects to achieve threshold);
• Provide loan assistance for 35 years with repayments beginning five years after
substantial project completion or 5 years after the date the loan is made;
• Require compliance with Buy America mandate on all iron, steel and manufactured products;
• Mandate compliance with Davis-Bacon prevailing wage standards;
• Identify eligible activities for funding including traditional water quality and
drinking water infrastructure needs along with water recycling, stormwater control needs, and implementation of energy efficient or renewable generation
technologies;
• Authorize assistance to public-private partnerships; and
• Authorize nonpoint pollution control, wastewater security and estuary protection
assistance.
The draft bill also contains provisions that dictate that any assistance (loan or loan
guarantee) is provided consistent with the state priority list and the project incorporates sustainable approaches including water efficiency (reuse) energy efficiency, green
infrastructure and other innovative techniques. So, while the states do not have a direct
role in the award of assistance, states enjoy an indirect influence through the project
priority list. Additionally, EPA is further directed to give weight to applications for
assistance that seek to increase water reuse and other sustainable practices.
State Legislative Update Legislative Advocates: Christopher Townsend, Heather Dion and Casey Elliott,
Townsend Public Affairs
On August 31, the Legislature adjourned the 2011-12 legislative session sending nearly
1,000 bills to the Governor for his consideration. This year, the Legislature tackled many
important issues facing the State of California, including pension reform and the state
budget; however, the one issue that is left hanging is the fate of Proposition 30, the
Governor’s tax initiative. This initiative would temporarily increase sales and income taxes on high income earners in an effort to avoid further significant budget cuts to
education and social services. (Following this report is a summary of all ballot
measures).
In an effort to demonstrate that Sacramento is looking to trim spending, and not just raise taxes, Governor Brown pushed the Legislature to consider, and ultimately pass,
pension reform. A year ago, Governor Brown released a 12-point pension reform plan
meant to start discussions with the Legislature; however, there was little progress made
on the issue until the last weeks of session. Ultimately, Governor Brown reached an
agreement with Democratic leaders to enact substantive pension reform three days before the adjournment of session. While the agreement made significant reforms, it fell
short of the Governor’s original 12-point proposal, as it did not include a hybrid pension
plan for new employees.
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While the pension reform adopted by the Legislature this year was significant, the State will likely need to adopt further legislation in order to fully address the pension issues
that will be facing the State and local agencies.
Looking forward to next session, the Legislature will continue to grapple with the implementation of AB 32 and CEQA reform. On the cap-and-trade program, the Legislature began to address this issue by establishing a framework of how to
appropriate revenue from the program through the passage of AB 1532, a bill
sponsored by Speaker Perez. Signed by the Governor, this bill would specify an
expenditure plan for how revenues from the Cap-and-Trade program should be allocated. In terms of wastewater agencies, the bill outlines funding priorities for programs that invest in energy and water use efficiency, energy storage, and clean and
renewable energy projects.
The Governor also signed SB 535 (de Leon), which requires a minimum of 10 percent of the potential $1 billion in revenue generated by the cap-and-trade program to be directed to disadvantaged communicates to reduce pollution and develop clean energy.
Under this bill, CalEPA will be responsible for identifying priority areas for investment in
programs and projects that reduce greenhouse gas emission or mitigate health impacts
of climate change. There was some momentum to pursue CEQA reform prior to the end of session. This
effort was led by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, working along with numerous
other business groups and being advised by a top political advisor to Governor Brown.
The group developed a framework and potential language for inclusion into a legislative vehicle. Initially, Senator Rubio (D-Bakersfield) indicated that he would amend the CEQA language into a bill he was authoring; however, the language was never formally
introduced as there was strong pushback by numerous environmental groups.
Additionally, a group of thirty-three Democrats, from both houses, penned an opposition
letter indicating they were opposed to any changes whatsoever to CEQA prior to adjournment. Quickly thereafter, Senate Pro Tem Steinberg and Senator Rubio announced that CEQA reform would not be pursued during the 2011-12 legislative
session.
Generally speaking, the measure would have not required CEQA to be carried out for projects that complied with other environmental laws and plans (if those laws/plans provided the same amount of environmental protection as CEQA) and to focus CEQA
litigation on compliance with environmental requirements. Since the decision to delay
consideration, Senator Steinberg has announced there will be a series of public forums
and at least one legislative committee informational hearing on this issue. In addition, Senator Steinberg has named Senator Michael Rubio as the new Chair of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee, so he will have jurisdiction over any CEQA reform
measures that are introduced next session.
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Propositions on the November Ballot The ballot measures qualified for the November election are as follows:
• Proposition 30—Temporary Taxes to Fund Education. Guaranteed Local Public
Safety Funding.
• Proposition 31—State Budget. State and Local Government.
• Proposition 32—Political Contributions by Payroll Deduction. Contributions to
Candidates.
• Proposition 33—Auto Insurance Companies. Prices Based on Driver’s History of
Insurance Coverage.
• Proposition 34—Death Penalty.
• Proposition 35—Human Trafficking. Penalties.
• Proposition 36—Three Strikes Law. Repeat Felony Offenders. Penalties.
• Proposition 37—Genetically Engineered Food. Labeling.
• Proposition 38—Tax to Fund Education and Early Childhood Programs.
• Proposition 39—Tax Treatment for Multistate Businesses. Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Funding.
• Proposition 40—Redistricting. State Senate Districts.
Proposition 30—Temporary Taxes to Fund Education. Guaranteed Local Public Safety Funding. Initiative Constitutional Amendment
This measure temporarily increases the State sales tax rate for all taxpayers and the
personal income tax (PIT) rates for upper-income taxpayers. These temporary tax
increases provide additional revenues to pay for programs funded in the State budget. The State’s 2012–13 budget plan (approved by the Legislature and the Governor in
June 2012) assumes passage of this measure. The budget, however, also includes a
backup plan that requires spending reductions (known as “trigger cuts”) in the event that
voters reject this measure.
This measure also places into the State Constitution certain requirements related to the
recent transfer of some State program responsibilities to local governments. In 2011,
the State transferred the responsibility for administering and funding several programs
to local governments (primarily counties). The transferred program responsibilities
include incarcerating certain adult offenders, supervising parolees, and providing substance abuse treatment services. To pay for these new obligations, the Legislature
passed a law transferring about $6 billion of State tax revenues to local governments
annually. Most of these funds come from a shift of a portion of the sales tax from the
State to local governments.
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The Constitutional provisions related to the 2011 transfer of State program responsibilities, include:
• Guaranteeing Ongoing Revenues to Local Governments. This measure requires
the State to continue providing the tax revenues redirected in 2011 (or equivalent funds) to local governments to pay for the transferred program responsibilities.
The measure also permanently excludes the sales tax revenues redirected to
local governments from the calculation of the minimum funding guarantee for
schools and community colleges.
• Restricting State Authority to Expand Program Requirements. Local governments
would not be required to implement any future State laws that increase local
costs to administer the program responsibilities transferred in 2011, unless the State provided additional money to pay for the increased costs.
• Requiring the State to Share Some Unanticipated Program Costs. The measure
requires the State to pay part of any new local costs that result from certain court actions and changes in federal statutes or regulations related to the transferred program responsibilities.
• Eliminating Potential Mandate Funding Liability. Under the Constitution, the State
must reimburse local governments when it imposes new responsibilities or “mandates” upon them. Under current law, the State could be required to provide
local governments with additional funding (mandate reimbursements) to pay for
some of the transferred program responsibilities. This measure specifies that the
State would not be required to provide such mandate reimbursements.
• Ending State Reimbursement of Open Meeting Act Costs. The Ralph M. Brown
Act requires that all meetings of local legislative bodies be open and public. In
the past, the State has reimbursed local governments for costs resulting from certain provisions of the Brown Act (such as the requirement to prepare and post
agendas for public meetings). This measure specifies that the State would not be
responsible for paying local agencies for the costs of following the open meeting
procedures in the Brown Act.
If this measure fails, the State would not receive the additional revenues generated by
the proposition’s tax increases. In this situation, the 2012–13 budget plan requires that
spending be reduced by $6 billion through trigger cuts as currently scheduled in State
law. Almost all the reductions are to education programs—$5.4 billion to K–14
education and $500 million to public universities. Of the K–14 reductions, roughly $3 billion is a cut in unrestricted funding. Schools and community colleges could respond to
this cut in various ways, including drawing down reserves, shortening the instructional
year for schools, and reducing enrollment for community colleges. The remaining $2.4
billion reduction would increase the amount of late payments to schools and community
colleges back to the 2011–12 level. This could affect the cash needs of schools and community colleges late in the fiscal year, potentially resulting in greater short-term
borrowing.
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Proposition 31—State Budget. State and Local Government. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute
This measure changes certain responsibilities of local governments, the Legislature,
and the Governor. It also changes some aspects of State and local government operations.
• Authorizes and Funds Local Government Plans
o Transfers some state revenues to counties in which local governments
implement plans to coordinate their public services. o Allows these local governments to develop their own procedures for
administering State-funded programs.
o Allows these local governments to transfer local property taxes among
themselves.
• Restricts Legislature’s Ability to Pass Certain Bills
o Restricts the Legislature’s ability to pass certain bills that increase State
costs or decrease revenues unless new funding sources and/or spending reductions are identified (although it does exempt various types of bills
from the above requirement).
o Requires almost all bills and amendments to be available to the public at
least three days before legislative approval.
• Expands Governor’s Ability to Reduce State Spending
o Allows the Governor to reduce spending during State fiscal emergencies
in certain situations.
• Changes Public Budgeting and Oversight Procedures
o Changes the annual State budget process to a two-year State budget
process.
o Requires the Legislature to set aside part of each two-year session for
legislative oversight of public programs. o Requires State and local governments to evaluate the effectiveness of
programs and describe how their budgets meet various objectives.
This measure is expected to result in a decrease in State sales tax revenues of about
$200 million annually, with a corresponding increase of funding to certain local governments, and other, potentially more significant changes in State and local
spending and revenues, the magnitude of which would depend on future decisions by
public officials.
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Proposition 32—Political Contributions by Payroll Deduction. Contributions to Candidates.
Initiative Statute
This measure prohibits unions from using payroll-deducted funds for political purposes, and applies the same use prohibition to payroll deductions, if any, by corporations or government contractors. The measure permits voluntary employee contributions to
employer-sponsored committee or union if authorized yearly, in writing.
The measure prohibits unions and corporations from contributing directly or indirectly to candidates and candidate-controlled committees. However, other political expenditures remain unrestricted, including corporate expenditures from available resources not
limited by payroll deduction prohibition. In addition, it prohibits government contractor
contributions to elected officers or officer-controlled committees.
Proposition 33—Auto Insurance Companies. Prices Based on Driver’s History of Insurance Coverage.
Initiative Statute
This measure allows an insurance company to offer a “continuous coverage” discount on automobile insurance policies to new customers who switch their coverage from another insurer. Under this measure, continuous coverage generally means
uninterrupted automobile insurance coverage with any insurer. Consumers with a lapse
in coverage would still be eligible for this discount, however, if the lapse was:
• Not more than 90 days in the past five years for any reason.
• For no more than 18 months in the last five years due to loss of employment
resulting from layoff or furlough.
• Due to active military service.
Also, children residing with a parent could qualify for the discount based on their
parent’s eligibility. If an insurance company chose to provide such a discount, it would be provided on a
proportional basis. The discount would be based on the number of years in the
immediate previous five years (rounded to a whole number) that the customer was
insured. For example, if a customer was able to demonstrate that he or she had coverage for three of the five previous years, the customer would receive 60 percent of the total continuous coverage discount.
This measure could result in a change in the total amount of automobile insurance
premiums earned by insurance companies in California and, therefore, the amount of premium tax revenues received by the State. For example, introducing continuous coverage discounts could reduce the amount of premiums paid by those who are
eligible for the discounts. However, this would generally be made up by additional
premiums paid by those who are not eligible for such discounts. The net impact on state
premium tax revenues from this measure would probably not be significant.
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Proposition 34—Death Penalty.
Initiative Statute
This measure repeals the State’s current death penalty statute. In addition, it generally requires murderers to work while in prison and provides new State funding for local law enforcement on a limited-term basis.
• Elimination of Death Sentences. Under this measure, no offender could be
sentenced to death by the State. The measure also specifies that offenders currently under a sentence of death would not be executed and instead would be
resentenced to a prison term of life without the possibility of parole. This measure
also allows the California Supreme Court to transfer all of its existing death
penalty direct appeals and habeas corpus petitions to the State’s Courts of
Appeal or superior courts. These courts would resolve issues remaining even after changing these sentences to life without the possibility of parole.
• Inmate Work Requirement. Current State law generally requires that inmates—including murderers—work while they are in prison. California regulations allow for some exceptions to these work requirements, such as for inmates who pose
too great a security risk to participate in work programs. In addition, inmates may
be required by the courts to make payments to victims of crime. This measure
specifies that every person found guilty of murder must work while in State prison and have their pay deducted for any debts they owe to victims of crime, subject to state regulations. Because the measure does not change State regulations,
existing prison practices related to inmate work requirements would not
necessarily be changed.
• Establishment of Fund for Local Law Enforcement. The measure establishes a
new special fund, called the SAFE California Fund, to support grants to police
departments, sheriffs’ departments, and district attorneys’ offices for the purpose
of increasing the rate at which homicide and rapes are solved. For example, the measure specifies that the money could be used to increase staffing in homicide and sex offense investigation or prosecution units. Under the measure, a total of
$100 million would be transferred from the State General Fund to the SAFE
California Fund over four years—$10 million in 2012–13 and $30 million in each
year from 2013–14 through 2015–16. Monies in the SAFE California Fund would be distributed to local law enforcement agencies based on a formula determined by the State Attorney General.
Proposition 35—Human Trafficking. Penalties.
Initiative Statute This measure makes several changes to State law related to human trafficking.
Specifically, it (1) expands the definition of human trafficking, (2) increases the
punishment for human trafficking offenses, (3) imposes new fines to fund services for
human trafficking victims, (4) changes how evidence can be used against human
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trafficking victims, and (5) requires additional law enforcement training on handling human trafficking cases. The measure also places additional requirements on sex
offender registrants.
Currently, human trafficking cases are often prosecuted under federal law, rather than California State law, even when California law enforcement agencies are involved in the investigation of the case. This is partly because these types of crimes often involve
multiple jurisdictions and also because of the federal government’s historical lead role in
such cases. It is unknown whether the expanded definition of human trafficking and
other changes proposed in this measure would significantly increase the number of State human trafficking arrests and convictions or whether most such cases would continue to be handled primarily by federal law enforcement authorities.
Proposition 36—Three Strikes Law. Repeat Felony Offenders. Penalties.
Initiative Statute This measure reduces prison sentences served under the three strikes law by certain
third strikers whose current offenses are non-serious, non-violent felonies. The measure
also allows resentencing of certain third strikers who are currently serving life sentences
for specified non-serious, non-violent felonies. Specifically, this measure:
• Revises three strikes law to impose life sentence only when new felony
conviction is serious or violent.
• Authorizes re-sentencing for offenders currently serving life sentences if third
strike conviction was not serious or violent and judge determines sentence does not pose unreasonable risk to public safety.
• Continues to impose life sentence penalty if third strike conviction was for certain
non-serious, non-violent sex or drug offenses or involved firearm possession.
• Maintains life sentence penalty for felons with non-serious, non-violent third strike
if prior convictions were for rape, murder, or child molestation.
It is estimated that State savings related to prison and parole operations would be reduced by $70 million annually on an ongoing basis, with even higher savings—up to
$90 million annually—over the next couple of decades. These estimates could be higher
or lower by tens of millions of dollars depending on future State actions. Additionally,
there would be one-time State and county costs of a few million dollars over the next
couple of years for court activities related to the resentencing of certain offenders.
Proposition 37—Genetically Engineered Food. Labeling.
Initiative Statute
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This measure makes several changes to State law to explicitly require the regulation of genetically engineered foods. Specifically, the measure:
• Requires labeling on raw or processed food offered for sale to consumers if
made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways.
• Prohibits labeling or advertising such food, or other processed food, as “natural.”
• Exempts foods that are: certified organic; unintentionally produced with
genetically engineered material; made from animals fed or injected with
genetically engineered material but not genetically engineered themselves;
processed with or containing only small amounts of genetically engineered ingredients; administered for treatment of medical conditions; sold for immediate consumption such as in a restaurant; or alcoholic beverages.
The measure could increase annual State costs ranging from a few hundred thousand
dollars to over $1 million to regulate the labeling of genetically engineered foods. There are also potential, but likely not significant, costs to State and local governments due to litigation resulting from possible violations of the requirements of this measure. Some of
these costs would be supported by court filing fees that the parties involved in each
legal case would be required to pay under existing law.
Proposition 38—Tax to Fund Education and Early Childhood Programs. Initiative Statute
This measure increases state PIT rates on all but the lowest income bracket, effective
over the 12-year period from 2013 through 2024. These higher tax rates would result in higher tax liabilities on roughly 60 percent of state PIT returns. (Personal, dependent, senior, and other tax credits, among other factors, would continue to eliminate all tax
liabilities for many lower-income tax filers even if they have income in a bracket affected
by the measure’s rate increases.) The additional 1 percent rate for mental health
services would still apply to income in excess of $1 million. This measure’s rate changes, therefore, would increase these taxpayers’ marginal PIT rates from 10.3 percent to as much as 12.5 percent.
The revenues raised by the measure would be deposited into a newly created California
Education Trust Fund (CETF). These funds would be dedicated exclusively to three purposes: In 2013–14 and 2014–15, the measure allocates 60 percent of CETF funds to schools, 10 percent of funds to Early Care and Education (ECE) programs, and 30
percent of funds to make State debt payments.
In 2015–16 and 2016–17, the same general allocations are authorized but a somewhat higher share could be used for State debt payments. This is because beginning in 2015–16, the measure: (1) limits the growth in total allocations to schools and ECE
programs based on the average growth in California per capita personal income over
the previous five years and (2) dedicates the funds collected above the growth rate to
State debt payments. From 2017–18 through 2023–24, up to 85 percent of CETF funds
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would go to schools and up to 15 percent would go to ECE programs, with revenues in excess of the growth rate continuing to be used for state debt payments.
If adopted by voters, this measure could be amended only by a future ballot measure.
The Legislature would be prohibited from making any modifications to the measure without voter approval.
In the initial years—beginning in 2013–14—the annual amount of additional State
revenues raised would be around $10 billion. (In 2012–13, the measure would result in
additional State revenues of about half this amount.) The total revenues generated would tend to grow over time. Revenues generated in any particular year, however, could be much higher or lower than the prior year. This is mainly because the measure
increases tax rates more for upper-income taxpayers. The income of these individuals
tends to swing more significantly because it is affected to a much greater extent by
changes in the stock market, housing prices, and other investments. Due to the swings in the income of these taxpayers and the uncertainty of their responses to the rate increases, the revenues raised by this measure are difficult to estimate.
Proposition 39—Tax Treatment for Multistate Businesses. Clean Energy and
Energy Efficiency Funding. Initiative Statute
Under this measure, starting in 2013, multistate businesses would no longer be allowed
to choose the method for determining their State taxable income that is most
advantageous for them. Instead, most multistate businesses would have to determine their California taxable income using the single sales factor method. Businesses that operate only in California would be unaffected by this measure.
This measure also includes rules regarding how all multistate businesses calculate the
portion of some sales that are allocated to California for State tax purposes. These include a set of specific rules for certain large cable companies.
In addition, this measure establishes a new State fund, the Clean Energy Job Creation
Fund, to support projects intended to improve energy efficiency and expand the use of
alternative energy. The measure states that the fund could be used to support: (1) energy efficiency retrofits and alternative energy projects in public schools, colleges, universities, and other public facilities; (2) financial and technical assistance for energy
retrofits; and (3) job training and workforce development programs related to energy
efficiency and alternative energy. The Legislature would determine spending from the
fund and be required to use the monies for cost-effective projects run by agencies with expertise in managing energy projects. The measure also (1) specifies that all funded projects must be coordinated with the California Energy Commission and California
Public Utilities Commission and (2) creates a new nine-member oversight board to
annually review and evaluate spending from the fund.
The Clean Energy Job Creation Fund would be supported by some of the new revenue raised by moving to a mandatory single sales factor. Specifically, half of the revenues
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so raised—up to a maximum of $550 million—would be transferred annually to the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund. These transfers would occur for only five fiscal
years—2013–14 through 2017–18.
This measure would increase State revenues by around $1 billion annually starting in 2013–14. (There would be a roughly half-year impact in 2012–13.) The increased revenues would come from some multistate businesses paying more taxes. The
amounts generated by this measure would tend to grow over time.
Proposition 40—Redistricting. State Senate Districts. Referendum
This referendum allows the voters to approve or reject the Senate district boundaries
certified by the Citizens Redistricting Commission. (The Assembly, Board of
Equalization, and Congressional district boundaries certified by the commission are not subject to the referendum.)
If Voters Vote “Yes.” The Senate district boundaries certified by the commission would
be used until the commission establishes new boundaries based on the 2020 federal
census. If Voters Vote “No.” The California Supreme Court would appoint “special masters” to
establish new Senate district boundaries in accordance with the redistricting criteria
specified in the Constitution. (In the past, the court has appointed retired judges to serve
as special masters.) The court would certify the new Senate district boundaries. The new boundaries would be used in future elections until the commission establishes new boundaries based on the 2020 federal census.
If the voters vote “yes” and approve the Senate district maps certified by the
commission, there would be no effect on State or local governments. If the voters vote “no” and reject the Senate district maps certified by the commission, the California Supreme Court would appoint special masters to establish new Senate district
boundaries. This would result in a one-time cost to the State of about $500,000. In
addition, counties would incur one-time costs of about $500,000 statewide to develop
new precinct maps and related election materials for the districts. What Happens if Voters Approve Both Proposition 30 and Proposition 38?
If provisions of two measures approved on the same statewide ballot conflict, the
Constitution specifies that the provisions of the measure receiving more “yes” votes
prevail. Proposition 30 and Proposition 38 on the November statewide ballot both increase personal income tax (PIT) rates and, as such, could be viewed as conflicting.
Proposition 30 and Proposition 38 both contain sections intended to clarify which
provisions are to become effective if both measures pass:
• If Proposition 30 Receives More Yes Votes. Proposition 30 contains a section
indicating that its provisions would prevail in their entirety and none of the
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provisions of any other measure increasing PIT rates—in this case Proposition 38—would go into effect.
• If Proposition 38 Receives More Yes Votes. Proposition 38 contains a section
indicating that its provisions would prevail and the tax rate provisions of any other measure affecting sales or PIT rates—in this case Proposition 30—would not go
into effect. Under this scenario, the spending reductions known as the “trigger
cuts” would take effect as a result of Proposition 30’s tax increases not going into
effect.
PRIOR COMMITTEE/BOARD ACTIONS
N/A
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Attachments
1. OCSD Legislative Matrix (dated 10/11/12)
CEQA
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BUDGET / DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY COMPLIANCE
N/A
OCSD Legislative Matrix
10/11/2012
Total Measures: 26
Total Tracking Forms: 26
AB 1178 (Ma D) Solid waste: place of origin.
Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 8/24/2011
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 8/20/2012-S. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: The existing California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 allows each county, city,
or district to determine aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern and the means by
which the services are to be provided. This bill would prohibit an ordinance enacted by a city or
county, including an ordinance enacted by initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise
restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that
city or county based on place of origin. The bill would provide that this prohibition does not require a
privately owned or operated solid waste facility to accept certain waste, does not allow a privately
owned solid waste facility to abrogate certain agreements, does not prohibit a city, county, or a
regional agency from requiring a privately owned solid waste facility to guarantee permitted capacity
to a host jurisdiction, and does not otherwise limit or affect the land use authority of a city or county .
Position
Support
AB 1615 (Miller R) Human remains.
Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/8/2012
Last Amend: 8/6/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 8/17/2012-S. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law, the Cemetery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of cemeteries,
crematories, and their personnel by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of
Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a person who has had a license or registration under the
jurisdiction of the bureau revoked, suspended, placed on probation, or surrendered under a stipulated
decision, within the immediately preceding 10 years, and who is employed by or who seeks
employment with, a licensed cemetery, a licensed crematory, or a licensed cemetery broker to so
inform the cemetery manager, crematory manager, or cemetery broker, respectively, as defined.
Existing law creates the Cemetery Fund, which is continuously appropriated for the purpose of
implementing the Cemetery Act. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law
establishes certified uniform program agencies, which are agencies certified by the Secretary for
Environmental Protection to implement a specified unified program relating to hazardous waste and
materials in accordance with certain requirements. This bill , until January 1, 2019, would require the
bureau to license and regulate, as specified, hydrolysis facilities and hydrolysis facility managers, as
defined, and would enact requirements substantially similar to those applicable to crematoria. By
expanding the definition of crimes relating to the disposition of human remains and creating new
crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require that specified
fees paid to finance hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing
moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would
require certified unified program agencies to ensure compliance with certain environmental standards,
and to comply with specified reporting requirements. By increasing the duties of local agencies, this bill
would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
Position
AB 1633 (Wagner R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age
at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for
various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill
would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service
is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit
the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in
the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted
annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 1639 (Hill D) Retirement: public employees.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers'
Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also
establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and
the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state
other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide
pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any
other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid
to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to
the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits
prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation,
or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to
be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public
employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of
compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision.
Position
AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture.
Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Last Amend: 3/29/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected
to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out
of his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public
retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as
specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent
felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,
his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary,
disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to
service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill
would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on
or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a
distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension
administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes.
Position
AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Conc.
Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected
to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out
of his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public
retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as
specified. This bill would require any person employed at-will for the purposes of providing services to
an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1,
2013, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, to forfeit
all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a
member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified.
Position
AB 1958 (Grove R) Public contracts: public works: prevailing wages.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/23/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-A. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be
paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the
cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation as
provided by a specified California Consumer Price Index.
Position
AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or
repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of
Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or
repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in
accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the
agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and
individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a
regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it
within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes
effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions
occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major
regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a
regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. This
bill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming
effective include a statutory override of the regulation.
Position
AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012,
which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the
issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond
Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make
$250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable
Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation
and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of
those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from
the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water
Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of
local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers
within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects ,
consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 6/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water
Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal
state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The act
requires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and
authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the
state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires
the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies.
Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to,
holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member,
a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication
that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that
a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff
member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or any
interested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is
permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the
communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditional
waivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise
prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the
communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as
defined. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater.
Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 5/1/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination
system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue
waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessary
to implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent
nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to
prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the
Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan .
Position
AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2311 (Atkins D) Stormwater Resource Planning Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/11/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional
water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater
in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and
the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act,
authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource
plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these
provisions.
Position
AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan
for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water
resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the
contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various
strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include
an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of
drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan.
Position
AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling.
Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/21/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2529 (Wieckowski D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: electrical corporations.
Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 8/24/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit
equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to
adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for
fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a
market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to
be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the commission to credit
directly, in proportion to the increase in electricity cost, to all retail delivery customers of an electrical
corporation all revenues, as specified, the electrical corporation receives as a direct result of the direct
allocation of greenhouse gas allowances in proportion to the increase in electricity costs those
customers incur as a result of the state board adopting a market-based compliance mechanism.
Because a violation of this requirement is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 6/27/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 8/17/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 1061 (Walters R) Professional engineers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/11/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1572 (Pavley D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: AB 32 Investment Fund.
Current Text: Amended: 8/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 8/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions
limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and
to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The state board has adopted by regulation a
program pursuant to the act to cap greenhouse gas emissions and provide for market-based
compliance mechanisms, including the auction of allowances (cap-and-trade program). Existing law
requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or
sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing
law requires a state agency, prior to expending any money appropriated to it by the Legislature from
the fund, to prepare a record consisting of a description of proposed expenditures and of how they
will further the regulatory purposes of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, how they
will achieve specified greenhouse gas emissions reductions, how the agency considered other
objectives of that act, and how the agency will document expenditure results. This bill would
appropriate a specified portion of moneys collected by the state board and derived from the auction or
sale of allowances in the 2012-13 fiscal year from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the state
board. Under the bill, a specified portion of the money appropriated to the state board would be
available to fund prescribed projects that meet certain goals relating to greenhouse gas emissions
reductions. This bill would require any funds allocated to fund or finance eligible projects, as specified,
or awarded, as specified, to be committed by December 31, 2013. This bill would require the state
board , the Strategic Growth Council, and the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to adopt
regulations, and authorize those entities to adopt emergency regulations , for the purposes of funding
eligible projects, as prescribed. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing
Authority and the Strategic Growth Council to prepare and submit to the Legislature, until January 1,
2017, annual reports on funded projects and activities. The bill would require the state board to
publish information on projects on its Internet Web site. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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AB 1178 (Ma D) Solid waste: place of origin. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2011 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 8/24/2011 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/20/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The existing California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 allows each county, city,or district to determine aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern and the means by which the services are to be provided. This bill would prohibit an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that city or county based on place of origin. The bill would provide that this prohibition does not require a privately owned or operated solid waste facility to accept certain waste, does not allow a privately owned solid waste facility to abrogate certain agreements, does not prohibit a city, county, or a regional agency from requiring a privately owned solid waste facility to guarantee permitted capacity to a host jurisdiction, and does not otherwise limit or affect the land use authority of a city or county . Position Support AB 1615 (Miller R) Human remains. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law, the Cemetery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, and their personnel by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a person who has had a license or registration under the jurisdiction of the bureau revoked, suspended, placed on probation, or surrendered under a stipulateddecision, within the immediately preceding 10 years, and who is employed by or who seeks employment with, a licensed cemetery, a licensed crematory, or a licensed cemetery broker to so inform the cemetery manager, crematory manager, or cemetery broker, respectively, as defined. Existing law creates the Cemetery Fund, which is continuously appropriated for the purpose of implementing the Cemetery Act. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law establishes certified uniform program agencies, which are agencies certified by the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a specified unified program relating to hazardous waste and materials in accordance with certain requirements. This bill , until January 1, 2019, would require the bureau to license and regulate, as specified, hydrolysis facilities and hydrolysis facility managers, as defined, and would enact requirements substantially similar to those applicable to crematoria. By expanding the definition of crimes relating to the disposition of human remains and creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require that specified fees paid to finance hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require certified unified program agencies to ensure compliance with certain environmental standards, and to comply with specified reporting requirements. By increasing the duties of local agencies, this billwould impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1633 (Wagner R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2Year
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Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age
at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for
various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill
would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service
is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit
the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in
the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted
annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 1639 (Hill D) Retirement: public employees.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers'
Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also
establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and
the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state
other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide
pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any
other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid
to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to
the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits
prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation,
or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to
be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public
employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of
compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision.
Position
AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture.
Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Last Amend: 3/29/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected
to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out
of his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public
retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as
specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent
felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,
his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary,
disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to
service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill
would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on
or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a
distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension
administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes.
Position
AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected
to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out
of his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public
retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as
specified. This bill would require any person employed at-will for the purposes of providing services to
an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1,
2013, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, to forfeit
all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a
member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified.
Position
AB 1958 (Grove R) Public contracts: public works: prevailing wages.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/23/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be
paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the
cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation as
provided by a specified California Consumer Price Index.
Position
AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or
repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of
Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or
repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in
accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the
agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and
individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a
regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it
within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes
effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions
occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major
regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a
regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. This
bill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming
effective include a statutory override of the regulation.
Position
AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012,
which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the
issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond
Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make
$250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable
Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation
and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of
those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from
the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water
Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of
local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers
within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects ,
consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 6/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water
Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal
state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The act
requires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and
authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the
state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires
the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies.
Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to,
holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member,
a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication
that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that
a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff
member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or any
interested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is
permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the
communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditional
waivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise
prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the
communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as
defined. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater.
Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 5/1/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination
system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue
waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessary
to implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent
nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to
prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the
Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan .
Position
AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2311 (Atkins D) Stormwater Resource Planning Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/11/2012-A. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional
water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater
in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and
the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act,
authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource
plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these
provisions.
Position
AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan
for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water
resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the
contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various
strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include
an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of
drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan.
Position
AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling.
Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/21/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2529 (Wieckowski D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: electrical corporations.
Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 8/24/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-S. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit
equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to
adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for
fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a
market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to
be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the commission to credit
directly, in proportion to the increase in electricity cost, to all retail delivery customers of an electrical
corporation all revenues, as specified, the electrical corporation receives as a direct result of the direct
allocation of greenhouse gas allowances in proportion to the increase in electricity costs those
customers incur as a result of the state board adopting a market-based compliance mechanism.
Because a violation of this requirement is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 6/27/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 8/17/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 1061 (Walters R) Professional engineers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/11/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1572 (Pavley D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: AB 32 Investment Fund.
Current Text: Amended: 8/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 8/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions
limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and
to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The state board has adopted by regulation a
program pursuant to the act to cap greenhouse gas emissions and provide for market-based
compliance mechanisms, including the auction of allowances (cap-and-trade program). Existing law
requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or
sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing
law requires a state agency, prior to expending any money appropriated to it by the Legislature from
the fund, to prepare a record consisting of a description of proposed expenditures and of how they
will further the regulatory purposes of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, how they
will achieve specified greenhouse gas emissions reductions, how the agency considered other
objectives of that act, and how the agency will document expenditure results. This bill would
appropriate a specified portion of moneys collected by the state board and derived from the auction or
sale of allowances in the 2012-13 fiscal year from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the state
board. Under the bill, a specified portion of the money appropriated to the state board would be
available to fund prescribed projects that meet certain goals relating to greenhouse gas emissions
reductions. This bill would require any funds allocated to fund or finance eligible projects, as specified,
or awarded, as specified, to be committed by December 31, 2013. This bill would require the state
board , the Strategic Growth Council, and the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to adopt
regulations, and authorize those entities to adopt emergency regulations , for the purposes of funding
eligible projects, as prescribed. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing
Authority and the Strategic Growth Council to prepare and submit to the Legislature, until January 1,
2017, annual reports on funded projects and activities. The bill would require the state board to
publish information on projects on its Internet Web site. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
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Total Tracking Forms: 26
AB 1178 (Ma D) Solid waste: place of origin. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2011 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 8/24/2011 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/20/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The existing California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 allows each county, city,or district to determine aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern and the means by which the services are to be provided. This bill would prohibit an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that city or county based on place of origin. The bill would provide that this prohibition does not require a privately owned or operated solid waste facility to accept certain waste, does not allow a privately owned solid waste facility to abrogate certain agreements, does not prohibit a city, county, or a regional agency from requiring a privately owned solid waste facility to guarantee permitted capacity to a host jurisdiction, and does not otherwise limit or affect the land use authority of a city or county . Position Support AB 1615 (Miller R) Human remains. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law, the Cemetery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, and their personnel by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a person who has had a license or registration under the jurisdiction of the bureau revoked, suspended, placed on probation, or surrendered under a stipulateddecision, within the immediately preceding 10 years, and who is employed by or who seeks employment with, a licensed cemetery, a licensed crematory, or a licensed cemetery broker to so inform the cemetery manager, crematory manager, or cemetery broker, respectively, as defined. Existing law creates the Cemetery Fund, which is continuously appropriated for the purpose of implementing the Cemetery Act. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law establishes certified uniform program agencies, which are agencies certified by the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a specified unified program relating to hazardous waste and materials in accordance with certain requirements. This bill , until January 1, 2019, would require the bureau to license and regulate, as specified, hydrolysis facilities and hydrolysis facility managers, as defined, and would enact requirements substantially similar to those applicable to crematoria. By expanding the definition of crimes relating to the disposition of human remains and creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require that specified fees paid to finance hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require certified unified program agencies to ensure compliance with certain environmental standards, and to comply with specified reporting requirements. By increasing the duties of local agencies, this billwould impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1633 (Wagner R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1639 (Hill D) Retirement: public employees. Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation, or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision. Position AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes. Position AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012
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Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected
to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out
of his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public
retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as
specified. This bill would require any person employed at-will for the purposes of providing services to
an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1,
2013, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, to forfeit
all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a
member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified.
Position
AB 1958 (Grove R) Public contracts: public works: prevailing wages.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/23/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
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Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be
paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the
cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation as
provided by a specified California Consumer Price Index.
Position
AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
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Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or
repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of
Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or
repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in
accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the
agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and
individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a
regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it
within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes
effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions
occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major
regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a
regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. This
bill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming
effective include a statutory override of the regulation.
Position
AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
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Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012,
which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the
issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond
Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make
$250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable
Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation
and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of
those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from
the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water
Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of
local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers
within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects ,
consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 6/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
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Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water
Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal
state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The act
requires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and
authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the
state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires
the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies.
Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to,
holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member,
a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication
that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that
a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff
member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or any
interested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is
permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the
communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditional
waivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise
prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the
communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as
defined. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater.
Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 5/1/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination
system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue
waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessary
to implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent
nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to
prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the
Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan .
Position
AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2311 (Atkins D) Stormwater Resource Planning Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional
water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater
in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and
the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act,
authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource
plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these
provisions.
Position
AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan
for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water
resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the
contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various
strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include
an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of
drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan.
Position
AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling.
Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/21/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2529 (Wieckowski D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: electrical corporations.
Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 8/24/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit
equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to
adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for
fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a
market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to
be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the commission to credit
directly, in proportion to the increase in electricity cost, to all retail delivery customers of an electrical
corporation all revenues, as specified, the electrical corporation receives as a direct result of the direct
allocation of greenhouse gas allowances in proportion to the increase in electricity costs those
customers incur as a result of the state board adopting a market-based compliance mechanism.
Because a violation of this requirement is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 6/27/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 8/17/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 1061 (Walters R) Professional engineers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1572 (Pavley D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: AB 32 Investment Fund.
Current Text: Amended: 8/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 8/31/2012
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions
limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and
to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The state board has adopted by regulation a
program pursuant to the act to cap greenhouse gas emissions and provide for market-based
compliance mechanisms, including the auction of allowances (cap-and-trade program). Existing law
requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or
sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing
law requires a state agency, prior to expending any money appropriated to it by the Legislature from
the fund, to prepare a record consisting of a description of proposed expenditures and of how they
will further the regulatory purposes of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, how they
will achieve specified greenhouse gas emissions reductions, how the agency considered other
objectives of that act, and how the agency will document expenditure results. This bill would
appropriate a specified portion of moneys collected by the state board and derived from the auction or
sale of allowances in the 2012-13 fiscal year from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the state
board. Under the bill, a specified portion of the money appropriated to the state board would be
available to fund prescribed projects that meet certain goals relating to greenhouse gas emissions
reductions. This bill would require any funds allocated to fund or finance eligible projects, as specified,
or awarded, as specified, to be committed by December 31, 2013. This bill would require the state
board , the Strategic Growth Council, and the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to adopt
regulations, and authorize those entities to adopt emergency regulations , for the purposes of funding
eligible projects, as prescribed. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing
Authority and the Strategic Growth Council to prepare and submit to the Legislature, until January 1,
2017, annual reports on funded projects and activities. The bill would require the state board to
publish information on projects on its Internet Web site. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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Total Measures: 26
Total Tracking Forms: 26
AB 1178 (Ma D) Solid waste: place of origin. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2011 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 8/24/2011 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/20/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The existing California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 allows each county, city,or district to determine aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern and the means by which the services are to be provided. This bill would prohibit an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that city or county based on place of origin. The bill would provide that this prohibition does not require a privately owned or operated solid waste facility to accept certain waste, does not allow a privately owned solid waste facility to abrogate certain agreements, does not prohibit a city, county, or a regional agency from requiring a privately owned solid waste facility to guarantee permitted capacity to a host jurisdiction, and does not otherwise limit or affect the land use authority of a city or county . Position Support AB 1615 (Miller R) Human remains. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law, the Cemetery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, and their personnel by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a person who has had a license or registration under the jurisdiction of the bureau revoked, suspended, placed on probation, or surrendered under a stipulateddecision, within the immediately preceding 10 years, and who is employed by or who seeks employment with, a licensed cemetery, a licensed crematory, or a licensed cemetery broker to so inform the cemetery manager, crematory manager, or cemetery broker, respectively, as defined. Existing law creates the Cemetery Fund, which is continuously appropriated for the purpose of implementing the Cemetery Act. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law establishes certified uniform program agencies, which are agencies certified by the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a specified unified program relating to hazardous waste and materials in accordance with certain requirements. This bill , until January 1, 2019, would require the bureau to license and regulate, as specified, hydrolysis facilities and hydrolysis facility managers, as defined, and would enact requirements substantially similar to those applicable to crematoria. By expanding the definition of crimes relating to the disposition of human remains and creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require that specified fees paid to finance hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require certified unified program agencies to ensure compliance with certain environmental standards, and to comply with specified reporting requirements. By increasing the duties of local agencies, this billwould impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1633 (Wagner R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1639 (Hill D) Retirement: public employees. Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation, or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision. Position AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes. Position AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require any person employed at-will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2013, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, to forfeit all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. Position AB 1958 (Grove R) Public contracts: public works: prevailing wages. Current Text: Introduced: 2/23/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation asprovided by a specified California Consumer Price Index. Position AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. Thisbill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming effective include a statutory override of the regulation. Position AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012,
which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the
issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond
Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make
$250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable
Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation
and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of
those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from
the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water
Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of
local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers
within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects ,
consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 6/18/2012
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Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water
Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal
state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The act
requires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and
authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the
state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires
the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies.
Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to,
holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member,
a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication
that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that
a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff
member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or any
interested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is
permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the
communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditional
waivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise
prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the
communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as
defined. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater.
Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 5/1/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination
system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue
waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessary
to implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent
nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to
prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the
Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan .
Position
AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2311 (Atkins D) Stormwater Resource Planning Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional
water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater
in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and
the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act,
authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource
plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these
provisions.
Position
AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan
for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water
resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the
contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various
strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include
an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of
drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan.
Position
AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling.
Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/21/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2529 (Wieckowski D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: electrical corporations.
Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 8/24/2012
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit
equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to
adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for
fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a
market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to
be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the commission to credit
directly, in proportion to the increase in electricity cost, to all retail delivery customers of an electrical
corporation all revenues, as specified, the electrical corporation receives as a direct result of the direct
allocation of greenhouse gas allowances in proportion to the increase in electricity costs those
customers incur as a result of the state board adopting a market-based compliance mechanism.
Because a violation of this requirement is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 6/27/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 8/17/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 1061 (Walters R) Professional engineers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/11/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1572 (Pavley D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: AB 32 Investment Fund.
Current Text: Amended: 8/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 8/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions
limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and
to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The state board has adopted by regulation a
program pursuant to the act to cap greenhouse gas emissions and provide for market-based
compliance mechanisms, including the auction of allowances (cap-and-trade program). Existing law
requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or
sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing
law requires a state agency, prior to expending any money appropriated to it by the Legislature from
the fund, to prepare a record consisting of a description of proposed expenditures and of how they
will further the regulatory purposes of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, how they
will achieve specified greenhouse gas emissions reductions, how the agency considered other
objectives of that act, and how the agency will document expenditure results. This bill would
appropriate a specified portion of moneys collected by the state board and derived from the auction or
sale of allowances in the 2012-13 fiscal year from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the state
board. Under the bill, a specified portion of the money appropriated to the state board would be
available to fund prescribed projects that meet certain goals relating to greenhouse gas emissions
reductions. This bill would require any funds allocated to fund or finance eligible projects, as specified,
or awarded, as specified, to be committed by December 31, 2013. This bill would require the state
board , the Strategic Growth Council, and the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to adopt
regulations, and authorize those entities to adopt emergency regulations , for the purposes of funding
eligible projects, as prescribed. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing
Authority and the Strategic Growth Council to prepare and submit to the Legislature, until January 1,
2017, annual reports on funded projects and activities. The bill would require the state board to
publish information on projects on its Internet Web site. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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Total Tracking Forms: 26
AB 1178 (Ma D) Solid waste: place of origin. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2011 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 8/24/2011 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/20/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The existing California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 allows each county, city,or district to determine aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern and the means by which the services are to be provided. This bill would prohibit an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that city or county based on place of origin. The bill would provide that this prohibition does not require a privately owned or operated solid waste facility to accept certain waste, does not allow a privately owned solid waste facility to abrogate certain agreements, does not prohibit a city, county, or a regional agency from requiring a privately owned solid waste facility to guarantee permitted capacity to a host jurisdiction, and does not otherwise limit or affect the land use authority of a city or county . Position Support AB 1615 (Miller R) Human remains. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law, the Cemetery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, and their personnel by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a person who has had a license or registration under the jurisdiction of the bureau revoked, suspended, placed on probation, or surrendered under a stipulateddecision, within the immediately preceding 10 years, and who is employed by or who seeks employment with, a licensed cemetery, a licensed crematory, or a licensed cemetery broker to so inform the cemetery manager, crematory manager, or cemetery broker, respectively, as defined. Existing law creates the Cemetery Fund, which is continuously appropriated for the purpose of implementing the Cemetery Act. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law establishes certified uniform program agencies, which are agencies certified by the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a specified unified program relating to hazardous waste and materials in accordance with certain requirements. This bill , until January 1, 2019, would require the bureau to license and regulate, as specified, hydrolysis facilities and hydrolysis facility managers, as defined, and would enact requirements substantially similar to those applicable to crematoria. By expanding the definition of crimes relating to the disposition of human remains and creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require that specified fees paid to finance hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require certified unified program agencies to ensure compliance with certain environmental standards, and to comply with specified reporting requirements. By increasing the duties of local agencies, this billwould impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1633 (Wagner R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1639 (Hill D) Retirement: public employees. Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation, or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision. Position AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes. Position AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require any person employed at-will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2013, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, to forfeit all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. Position AB 1958 (Grove R) Public contracts: public works: prevailing wages. Current Text: Introduced: 2/23/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation asprovided by a specified California Consumer Price Index. Position AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. Thisbill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming effective include a statutory override of the regulation. Position AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make $250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects , consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions. Position AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications. Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 6/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The actrequires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies. Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to, holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member, a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or anyinterested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditionalwaivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as defined. This bill contains other existing laws. Position AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater. Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/1/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessaryto implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan . Position
AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2311 (Atkins D) Stormwater Resource Planning Act.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional
water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater
in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and
the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act,
authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource
plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these
provisions.
Position
AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan
for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water
resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the
contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various
strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include
an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of
drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan.
Position
AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling.
Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/21/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2529 (Wieckowski D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: electrical corporations.
Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 8/24/2012
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit
equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to
adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for
fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a
market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to
be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the commission to credit
directly, in proportion to the increase in electricity cost, to all retail delivery customers of an electrical
corporation all revenues, as specified, the electrical corporation receives as a direct result of the direct
allocation of greenhouse gas allowances in proportion to the increase in electricity costs those
customers incur as a result of the state board adopting a market-based compliance mechanism.
Because a violation of this requirement is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 6/27/2012
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 1061 (Walters R) Professional engineers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1572 (Pavley D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: AB 32 Investment Fund.
Current Text: Amended: 8/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 8/31/2012
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions
limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and
to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The state board has adopted by regulation a
program pursuant to the act to cap greenhouse gas emissions and provide for market-based
compliance mechanisms, including the auction of allowances (cap-and-trade program). Existing law
requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or
sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing
law requires a state agency, prior to expending any money appropriated to it by the Legislature from
the fund, to prepare a record consisting of a description of proposed expenditures and of how they
will further the regulatory purposes of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, how they
will achieve specified greenhouse gas emissions reductions, how the agency considered other
objectives of that act, and how the agency will document expenditure results. This bill would
appropriate a specified portion of moneys collected by the state board and derived from the auction or
sale of allowances in the 2012-13 fiscal year from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the state
board. Under the bill, a specified portion of the money appropriated to the state board would be
available to fund prescribed projects that meet certain goals relating to greenhouse gas emissions
reductions. This bill would require any funds allocated to fund or finance eligible projects, as specified,
or awarded, as specified, to be committed by December 31, 2013. This bill would require the state
board , the Strategic Growth Council, and the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to adopt
regulations, and authorize those entities to adopt emergency regulations , for the purposes of funding
eligible projects, as prescribed. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing
Authority and the Strategic Growth Council to prepare and submit to the Legislature, until January 1,
2017, annual reports on funded projects and activities. The bill would require the state board to
publish information on projects on its Internet Web site. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
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Total Measures: 26
Total Tracking Forms: 26
AB 1178 (Ma D) Solid waste: place of origin. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2011 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 8/24/2011 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/20/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The existing California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 allows each county, city,or district to determine aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern and the means by which the services are to be provided. This bill would prohibit an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that city or county based on place of origin. The bill would provide that this prohibition does not require a privately owned or operated solid waste facility to accept certain waste, does not allow a privately owned solid waste facility to abrogate certain agreements, does not prohibit a city, county, or a regional agency from requiring a privately owned solid waste facility to guarantee permitted capacity to a host jurisdiction, and does not otherwise limit or affect the land use authority of a city or county . Position Support AB 1615 (Miller R) Human remains. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law, the Cemetery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, and their personnel by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a person who has had a license or registration under the jurisdiction of the bureau revoked, suspended, placed on probation, or surrendered under a stipulateddecision, within the immediately preceding 10 years, and who is employed by or who seeks employment with, a licensed cemetery, a licensed crematory, or a licensed cemetery broker to so inform the cemetery manager, crematory manager, or cemetery broker, respectively, as defined. Existing law creates the Cemetery Fund, which is continuously appropriated for the purpose of implementing the Cemetery Act. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law establishes certified uniform program agencies, which are agencies certified by the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a specified unified program relating to hazardous waste and materials in accordance with certain requirements. This bill , until January 1, 2019, would require the bureau to license and regulate, as specified, hydrolysis facilities and hydrolysis facility managers, as defined, and would enact requirements substantially similar to those applicable to crematoria. By expanding the definition of crimes relating to the disposition of human remains and creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require that specified fees paid to finance hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require certified unified program agencies to ensure compliance with certain environmental standards, and to comply with specified reporting requirements. By increasing the duties of local agencies, this billwould impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1633 (Wagner R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1639 (Hill D) Retirement: public employees. Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation, or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision. Position AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes. Position AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require any person employed at-will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2013, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, to forfeit all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. Position AB 1958 (Grove R) Public contracts: public works: prevailing wages. Current Text: Introduced: 2/23/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation asprovided by a specified California Consumer Price Index. Position AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. Thisbill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming effective include a statutory override of the regulation. Position AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make $250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects , consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions. Position AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications. Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 6/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The actrequires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies. Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to, holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member, a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or anyinterested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditionalwaivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as defined. This bill contains other existing laws. Position AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater. Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/1/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessaryto implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan . Position AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisionsin order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2311 (Atkins D) Stormwater Resource Planning Act. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/11/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act, authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these provisions. Position AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the planfor the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan. Position AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling. Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 5/21/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2529 (Wieckowski D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: electrical corporations.
Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 8/24/2012
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit
equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to
adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for
fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a
market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to
be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the commission to credit
directly, in proportion to the increase in electricity cost, to all retail delivery customers of an electrical
corporation all revenues, as specified, the electrical corporation receives as a direct result of the direct
allocation of greenhouse gas allowances in proportion to the increase in electricity costs those
customers incur as a result of the state board adopting a market-based compliance mechanism.
Because a violation of this requirement is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 6/27/2012
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
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Last Amend: 4/9/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 1061 (Walters R) Professional engineers.
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Introduced: 2/13/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1572 (Pavley D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: AB 32 Investment Fund.
Current Text: Amended: 8/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 8/31/2012
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions
limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and
to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The state board has adopted by regulation a
program pursuant to the act to cap greenhouse gas emissions and provide for market-based
compliance mechanisms, including the auction of allowances (cap-and-trade program). Existing law
requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or
sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing
law requires a state agency, prior to expending any money appropriated to it by the Legislature from
the fund, to prepare a record consisting of a description of proposed expenditures and of how they
will further the regulatory purposes of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, how they
will achieve specified greenhouse gas emissions reductions, how the agency considered other
objectives of that act, and how the agency will document expenditure results. This bill would
appropriate a specified portion of moneys collected by the state board and derived from the auction or
sale of allowances in the 2012-13 fiscal year from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the state
board. Under the bill, a specified portion of the money appropriated to the state board would be
available to fund prescribed projects that meet certain goals relating to greenhouse gas emissions
reductions. This bill would require any funds allocated to fund or finance eligible projects, as specified,
or awarded, as specified, to be committed by December 31, 2013. This bill would require the state
board , the Strategic Growth Council, and the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to adopt
regulations, and authorize those entities to adopt emergency regulations , for the purposes of funding
eligible projects, as prescribed. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing
Authority and the Strategic Growth Council to prepare and submit to the Legislature, until January 1,
2017, annual reports on funded projects and activities. The bill would require the state board to
publish information on projects on its Internet Web site. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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Total Measures: 26
Total Tracking Forms: 26
AB 1178 (Ma D) Solid waste: place of origin. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2011 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 8/24/2011 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/20/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The existing California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 allows each county, city,or district to determine aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern and the means by which the services are to be provided. This bill would prohibit an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that city or county based on place of origin. The bill would provide that this prohibition does not require a privately owned or operated solid waste facility to accept certain waste, does not allow a privately owned solid waste facility to abrogate certain agreements, does not prohibit a city, county, or a regional agency from requiring a privately owned solid waste facility to guarantee permitted capacity to a host jurisdiction, and does not otherwise limit or affect the land use authority of a city or county . Position Support AB 1615 (Miller R) Human remains. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law, the Cemetery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, and their personnel by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a person who has had a license or registration under the jurisdiction of the bureau revoked, suspended, placed on probation, or surrendered under a stipulateddecision, within the immediately preceding 10 years, and who is employed by or who seeks employment with, a licensed cemetery, a licensed crematory, or a licensed cemetery broker to so inform the cemetery manager, crematory manager, or cemetery broker, respectively, as defined. Existing law creates the Cemetery Fund, which is continuously appropriated for the purpose of implementing the Cemetery Act. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law establishes certified uniform program agencies, which are agencies certified by the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a specified unified program relating to hazardous waste and materials in accordance with certain requirements. This bill , until January 1, 2019, would require the bureau to license and regulate, as specified, hydrolysis facilities and hydrolysis facility managers, as defined, and would enact requirements substantially similar to those applicable to crematoria. By expanding the definition of crimes relating to the disposition of human remains and creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require that specified fees paid to finance hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require certified unified program agencies to ensure compliance with certain environmental standards, and to comply with specified reporting requirements. By increasing the duties of local agencies, this billwould impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1633 (Wagner R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1639 (Hill D) Retirement: public employees. Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation, or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision. Position AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes. Position AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require any person employed at-will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2013, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, to forfeit all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. Position AB 1958 (Grove R) Public contracts: public works: prevailing wages. Current Text: Introduced: 2/23/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation asprovided by a specified California Consumer Price Index. Position AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. Thisbill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming effective include a statutory override of the regulation. Position AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make $250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects , consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions. Position AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications. Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 6/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The actrequires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies. Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to, holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member, a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or anyinterested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditionalwaivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as defined. This bill contains other existing laws. Position AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater. Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/1/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessaryto implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan . Position AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisionsin order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2311 (Atkins D) Stormwater Resource Planning Act. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/11/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act, authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these provisions. Position AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the planfor the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan. Position AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling. Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 5/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011 to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the stateboard to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2529 (Wieckowski D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: electrical corporations. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 8/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the commission to credit directly, in proportion to the increase in electricity cost, to all retail delivery customers of an electrical corporation all revenues, as specified, the electrical corporation receives as a direct result of the directallocation of greenhouse gas allowances in proportion to the increase in electricity costs those customers incur as a result of the state board adopting a market-based compliance mechanism. Because a violation of this requirement is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position
ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 6/27/2012
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 1061 (Walters R) Professional engineers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1572 (Pavley D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: AB 32 Investment Fund.
Current Text: Amended: 8/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 8/31/2012
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions
limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and
to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The state board has adopted by regulation a
program pursuant to the act to cap greenhouse gas emissions and provide for market-based
compliance mechanisms, including the auction of allowances (cap-and-trade program). Existing law
requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or
sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing
law requires a state agency, prior to expending any money appropriated to it by the Legislature from
the fund, to prepare a record consisting of a description of proposed expenditures and of how they
will further the regulatory purposes of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, how they
will achieve specified greenhouse gas emissions reductions, how the agency considered other
objectives of that act, and how the agency will document expenditure results. This bill would
appropriate a specified portion of moneys collected by the state board and derived from the auction or
sale of allowances in the 2012-13 fiscal year from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the state
board. Under the bill, a specified portion of the money appropriated to the state board would be
available to fund prescribed projects that meet certain goals relating to greenhouse gas emissions
reductions. This bill would require any funds allocated to fund or finance eligible projects, as specified,
or awarded, as specified, to be committed by December 31, 2013. This bill would require the state
board , the Strategic Growth Council, and the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to adopt
regulations, and authorize those entities to adopt emergency regulations , for the purposes of funding
eligible projects, as prescribed. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing
Authority and the Strategic Growth Council to prepare and submit to the Legislature, until January 1,
2017, annual reports on funded projects and activities. The bill would require the state board to
publish information on projects on its Internet Web site. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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Total Measures: 26
Total Tracking Forms: 26
AB 1178 (Ma D) Solid waste: place of origin. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2011 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 8/24/2011 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/20/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The existing California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 allows each county, city,or district to determine aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern and the means by which the services are to be provided. This bill would prohibit an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that city or county based on place of origin. The bill would provide that this prohibition does not require a privately owned or operated solid waste facility to accept certain waste, does not allow a privately owned solid waste facility to abrogate certain agreements, does not prohibit a city, county, or a regional agency from requiring a privately owned solid waste facility to guarantee permitted capacity to a host jurisdiction, and does not otherwise limit or affect the land use authority of a city or county . Position Support AB 1615 (Miller R) Human remains. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law, the Cemetery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, and their personnel by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a person who has had a license or registration under the jurisdiction of the bureau revoked, suspended, placed on probation, or surrendered under a stipulateddecision, within the immediately preceding 10 years, and who is employed by or who seeks employment with, a licensed cemetery, a licensed crematory, or a licensed cemetery broker to so inform the cemetery manager, crematory manager, or cemetery broker, respectively, as defined. Existing law creates the Cemetery Fund, which is continuously appropriated for the purpose of implementing the Cemetery Act. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law establishes certified uniform program agencies, which are agencies certified by the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a specified unified program relating to hazardous waste and materials in accordance with certain requirements. This bill , until January 1, 2019, would require the bureau to license and regulate, as specified, hydrolysis facilities and hydrolysis facility managers, as defined, and would enact requirements substantially similar to those applicable to crematoria. By expanding the definition of crimes relating to the disposition of human remains and creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require that specified fees paid to finance hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require certified unified program agencies to ensure compliance with certain environmental standards, and to comply with specified reporting requirements. By increasing the duties of local agencies, this billwould impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1633 (Wagner R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1639 (Hill D) Retirement: public employees. Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation, or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision. Position AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes. Position AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require any person employed at-will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2013, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, to forfeit all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. Position AB 1958 (Grove R) Public contracts: public works: prevailing wages. Current Text: Introduced: 2/23/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation asprovided by a specified California Consumer Price Index. Position AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. Thisbill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming effective include a statutory override of the regulation. Position AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make $250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects , consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions. Position AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications. Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 6/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The actrequires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies. Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to, holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member, a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or anyinterested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditionalwaivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as defined. This bill contains other existing laws. Position AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater. Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/1/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessaryto implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan . Position AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisionsin order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2311 (Atkins D) Stormwater Resource Planning Act. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/11/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act, authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these provisions. Position AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the planfor the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan. Position AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling. Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 5/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011 to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the stateboard to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2529 (Wieckowski D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: electrical corporations. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 8/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the commission to credit directly, in proportion to the increase in electricity cost, to all retail delivery customers of an electrical corporation all revenues, as specified, the electrical corporation receives as a direct result of the directallocation of greenhouse gas allowances in proportion to the increase in electricity costs those customers incur as a result of the state board adopting a market-based compliance mechanism. Because a violation of this requirement is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/22/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges' Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitutionpermits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees. The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investmentreturns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected fromimpairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees adefined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things, that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws. Position SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions. Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html Introduced: 12/6/2010 Last Amend: 6/27/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, forcompensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure. Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html Introduced: 12/9/2010 Last Amend: 6/2/2011 Is Fiscal: Y
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 1061 (Walters R) Professional engineers.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1572 (Pavley D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: AB 32 Investment Fund.
Current Text: Amended: 8/31/2012 pdf html
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Last Amend: 8/31/2012
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions
limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and
to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The state board has adopted by regulation a
program pursuant to the act to cap greenhouse gas emissions and provide for market-based
compliance mechanisms, including the auction of allowances (cap-and-trade program). Existing law
requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or
sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing
law requires a state agency, prior to expending any money appropriated to it by the Legislature from
the fund, to prepare a record consisting of a description of proposed expenditures and of how they
will further the regulatory purposes of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, how they
will achieve specified greenhouse gas emissions reductions, how the agency considered other
objectives of that act, and how the agency will document expenditure results. This bill would
appropriate a specified portion of moneys collected by the state board and derived from the auction or
sale of allowances in the 2012-13 fiscal year from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the state
board. Under the bill, a specified portion of the money appropriated to the state board would be
available to fund prescribed projects that meet certain goals relating to greenhouse gas emissions
reductions. This bill would require any funds allocated to fund or finance eligible projects, as specified,
or awarded, as specified, to be committed by December 31, 2013. This bill would require the state
board , the Strategic Growth Council, and the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to adopt
regulations, and authorize those entities to adopt emergency regulations , for the purposes of funding
eligible projects, as prescribed. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing
Authority and the Strategic Growth Council to prepare and submit to the Legislature, until January 1,
2017, annual reports on funded projects and activities. The bill would require the state board to
publish information on projects on its Internet Web site. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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AB 1178 (Ma D) Solid waste: place of origin. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2011 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 8/24/2011 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/20/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The existing California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 allows each county, city,or district to determine aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern and the means by which the services are to be provided. This bill would prohibit an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that city or county based on place of origin. The bill would provide that this prohibition does not require a privately owned or operated solid waste facility to accept certain waste, does not allow a privately owned solid waste facility to abrogate certain agreements, does not prohibit a city, county, or a regional agency from requiring a privately owned solid waste facility to guarantee permitted capacity to a host jurisdiction, and does not otherwise limit or affect the land use authority of a city or county . Position Support AB 1615 (Miller R) Human remains. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law, the Cemetery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, and their personnel by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a person who has had a license or registration under the jurisdiction of the bureau revoked, suspended, placed on probation, or surrendered under a stipulateddecision, within the immediately preceding 10 years, and who is employed by or who seeks employment with, a licensed cemetery, a licensed crematory, or a licensed cemetery broker to so inform the cemetery manager, crematory manager, or cemetery broker, respectively, as defined. Existing law creates the Cemetery Fund, which is continuously appropriated for the purpose of implementing the Cemetery Act. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law establishes certified uniform program agencies, which are agencies certified by the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a specified unified program relating to hazardous waste and materials in accordance with certain requirements. This bill , until January 1, 2019, would require the bureau to license and regulate, as specified, hydrolysis facilities and hydrolysis facility managers, as defined, and would enact requirements substantially similar to those applicable to crematoria. By expanding the definition of crimes relating to the disposition of human remains and creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require that specified fees paid to finance hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require certified unified program agencies to ensure compliance with certain environmental standards, and to comply with specified reporting requirements. By increasing the duties of local agencies, this billwould impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1633 (Wagner R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1639 (Hill D) Retirement: public employees. Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation, or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision. Position AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes. Position AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require any person employed at-will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2013, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, to forfeit all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. Position AB 1958 (Grove R) Public contracts: public works: prevailing wages. Current Text: Introduced: 2/23/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation asprovided by a specified California Consumer Price Index. Position AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. Thisbill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming effective include a statutory override of the regulation. Position AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make $250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects , consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions. Position AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications. Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 6/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The actrequires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies. Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to, holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member, a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or anyinterested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditionalwaivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as defined. This bill contains other existing laws. Position AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater. Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/1/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessaryto implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan . Position AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisionsin order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2311 (Atkins D) Stormwater Resource Planning Act. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/11/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act, authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these provisions. Position AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the planfor the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan. Position AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling. Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 5/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011 to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the stateboard to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2529 (Wieckowski D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: electrical corporations. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 8/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the commission to credit directly, in proportion to the increase in electricity cost, to all retail delivery customers of an electrical corporation all revenues, as specified, the electrical corporation receives as a direct result of the directallocation of greenhouse gas allowances in proportion to the increase in electricity costs those customers incur as a result of the state board adopting a market-based compliance mechanism. Because a violation of this requirement is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/22/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges' Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitutionpermits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees. The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investmentreturns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected fromimpairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees adefined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things, that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws. Position SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions. Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html Introduced: 12/6/2010 Last Amend: 6/27/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, forcompensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure. Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html Introduced: 12/9/2010 Last Amend: 6/2/2011 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain, among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019, require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 1/31/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopmentagencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housingfunds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control boards. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 1/11/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined, thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those circumstances. Position
SB 1061 (Walters R) Professional engineers.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1572 (Pavley D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: AB 32 Investment Fund.
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions
limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and
to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The state board has adopted by regulation a
program pursuant to the act to cap greenhouse gas emissions and provide for market-based
compliance mechanisms, including the auction of allowances (cap-and-trade program). Existing law
requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or
sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing
law requires a state agency, prior to expending any money appropriated to it by the Legislature from
the fund, to prepare a record consisting of a description of proposed expenditures and of how they
will further the regulatory purposes of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, how they
will achieve specified greenhouse gas emissions reductions, how the agency considered other
objectives of that act, and how the agency will document expenditure results. This bill would
appropriate a specified portion of moneys collected by the state board and derived from the auction or
sale of allowances in the 2012-13 fiscal year from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the state
board. Under the bill, a specified portion of the money appropriated to the state board would be
available to fund prescribed projects that meet certain goals relating to greenhouse gas emissions
reductions. This bill would require any funds allocated to fund or finance eligible projects, as specified,
or awarded, as specified, to be committed by December 31, 2013. This bill would require the state
board , the Strategic Growth Council, and the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to adopt
regulations, and authorize those entities to adopt emergency regulations , for the purposes of funding
eligible projects, as prescribed. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing
Authority and the Strategic Growth Council to prepare and submit to the Legislature, until January 1,
2017, annual reports on funded projects and activities. The bill would require the state board to
publish information on projects on its Internet Web site. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
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OCSD Legislative Matrix 10/11/2012
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Total Tracking Forms: 26
AB 1178 (Ma D) Solid waste: place of origin. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2011 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 8/24/2011 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/20/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The existing California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 allows each county, city,or district to determine aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern and the means by which the services are to be provided. This bill would prohibit an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that city or county based on place of origin. The bill would provide that this prohibition does not require a privately owned or operated solid waste facility to accept certain waste, does not allow a privately owned solid waste facility to abrogate certain agreements, does not prohibit a city, county, or a regional agency from requiring a privately owned solid waste facility to guarantee permitted capacity to a host jurisdiction, and does not otherwise limit or affect the land use authority of a city or county . Position Support AB 1615 (Miller R) Human remains. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law, the Cemetery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, and their personnel by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a person who has had a license or registration under the jurisdiction of the bureau revoked, suspended, placed on probation, or surrendered under a stipulateddecision, within the immediately preceding 10 years, and who is employed by or who seeks employment with, a licensed cemetery, a licensed crematory, or a licensed cemetery broker to so inform the cemetery manager, crematory manager, or cemetery broker, respectively, as defined. Existing law creates the Cemetery Fund, which is continuously appropriated for the purpose of implementing the Cemetery Act. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law establishes certified uniform program agencies, which are agencies certified by the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a specified unified program relating to hazardous waste and materials in accordance with certain requirements. This bill , until January 1, 2019, would require the bureau to license and regulate, as specified, hydrolysis facilities and hydrolysis facility managers, as defined, and would enact requirements substantially similar to those applicable to crematoria. By expanding the definition of crimes relating to the disposition of human remains and creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require that specified fees paid to finance hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require certified unified program agencies to ensure compliance with certain environmental standards, and to comply with specified reporting requirements. By increasing the duties of local agencies, this billwould impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1633 (Wagner R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1639 (Hill D) Retirement: public employees. Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation, or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision. Position AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes. Position AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require any person employed at-will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2013, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, to forfeit all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. Position AB 1958 (Grove R) Public contracts: public works: prevailing wages. Current Text: Introduced: 2/23/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation asprovided by a specified California Consumer Price Index. Position AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. Thisbill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming effective include a statutory override of the regulation. Position AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make $250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects , consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions. Position AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications. Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 6/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The actrequires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies. Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to, holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member, a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or anyinterested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditionalwaivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as defined. This bill contains other existing laws. Position AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater. Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/1/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessaryto implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan . Position AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisionsin order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2311 (Atkins D) Stormwater Resource Planning Act. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/11/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act, authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these provisions. Position AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the planfor the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan. Position AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling. Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 5/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011 to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the stateboard to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2529 (Wieckowski D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: electrical corporations. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 8/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the commission to credit directly, in proportion to the increase in electricity cost, to all retail delivery customers of an electrical corporation all revenues, as specified, the electrical corporation receives as a direct result of the directallocation of greenhouse gas allowances in proportion to the increase in electricity costs those customers incur as a result of the state board adopting a market-based compliance mechanism. Because a violation of this requirement is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/22/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges' Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitutionpermits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees. The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investmentreturns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected fromimpairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees adefined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things, that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws. Position SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions. Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html Introduced: 12/6/2010 Last Amend: 6/27/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, forcompensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure. Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html Introduced: 12/9/2010 Last Amend: 6/2/2011 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain, among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019, require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 1/31/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopmentagencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housingfunds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control boards. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 1/11/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined, thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those circumstances. Position SB 1061 (Walters R) Professional engineers. Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline. Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system, fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existinglaws. Position SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/22/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisionsin order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/11/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1572 (Pavley D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: AB 32 Investment Fund.
Current Text: Amended: 8/31/2012 pdf html
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources
Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of
greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions
limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and
to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically
feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board
to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The state board has adopted by regulation a
program pursuant to the act to cap greenhouse gas emissions and provide for market-based
compliance mechanisms, including the auction of allowances (cap-and-trade program). Existing law
requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or
sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing
law requires a state agency, prior to expending any money appropriated to it by the Legislature from
the fund, to prepare a record consisting of a description of proposed expenditures and of how they
will further the regulatory purposes of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, how they
will achieve specified greenhouse gas emissions reductions, how the agency considered other
objectives of that act, and how the agency will document expenditure results. This bill would
appropriate a specified portion of moneys collected by the state board and derived from the auction or
sale of allowances in the 2012-13 fiscal year from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the state
board. Under the bill, a specified portion of the money appropriated to the state board would be
available to fund prescribed projects that meet certain goals relating to greenhouse gas emissions
reductions. This bill would require any funds allocated to fund or finance eligible projects, as specified,
or awarded, as specified, to be committed by December 31, 2013. This bill would require the state
board , the Strategic Growth Council, and the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to adopt
regulations, and authorize those entities to adopt emergency regulations , for the purposes of funding
eligible projects, as prescribed. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing
Authority and the Strategic Growth Council to prepare and submit to the Legislature, until January 1,
2017, annual reports on funded projects and activities. The bill would require the state board to
publish information on projects on its Internet Web site. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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OCSD Legislative Matrix 10/11/2012
Total Measures: 26
Total Tracking Forms: 26
AB 1178 (Ma D) Solid waste: place of origin. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2011 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 8/24/2011 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/20/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The existing California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 allows each county, city,or district to determine aspects of solid waste handling that are of local concern and the means by which the services are to be provided. This bill would prohibit an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that city or county based on place of origin. The bill would provide that this prohibition does not require a privately owned or operated solid waste facility to accept certain waste, does not allow a privately owned solid waste facility to abrogate certain agreements, does not prohibit a city, county, or a regional agency from requiring a privately owned solid waste facility to guarantee permitted capacity to a host jurisdiction, and does not otherwise limit or affect the land use authority of a city or county . Position Support AB 1615 (Miller R) Human remains. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law, the Cemetery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of cemeteries, crematories, and their personnel by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a person who has had a license or registration under the jurisdiction of the bureau revoked, suspended, placed on probation, or surrendered under a stipulateddecision, within the immediately preceding 10 years, and who is employed by or who seeks employment with, a licensed cemetery, a licensed crematory, or a licensed cemetery broker to so inform the cemetery manager, crematory manager, or cemetery broker, respectively, as defined. Existing law creates the Cemetery Fund, which is continuously appropriated for the purpose of implementing the Cemetery Act. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law establishes certified uniform program agencies, which are agencies certified by the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a specified unified program relating to hazardous waste and materials in accordance with certain requirements. This bill , until January 1, 2019, would require the bureau to license and regulate, as specified, hydrolysis facilities and hydrolysis facility managers, as defined, and would enact requirements substantially similar to those applicable to crematoria. By expanding the definition of crimes relating to the disposition of human remains and creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require that specified fees paid to finance hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require certified unified program agencies to ensure compliance with certain environmental standards, and to comply with specified reporting requirements. By increasing the duties of local agencies, this billwould impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1633 (Wagner R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 1639 (Hill D) Retirement: public employees. Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation, or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision. Position AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes. Position AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly outof his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would require any person employed at-will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2013, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, to forfeit all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. Position AB 1958 (Grove R) Public contracts: public works: prevailing wages. Current Text: Introduced: 2/23/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation asprovided by a specified California Consumer Price Index. Position AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. Thisbill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming effective include a statutory override of the regulation. Position AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program. Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make $250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects , consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions. Position AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications. Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 6/18/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The actrequires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies. Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to, holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member, a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or anyinterested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditionalwaivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as defined. This bill contains other existing laws. Position AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater. Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/1/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessaryto implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan . Position AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisionsin order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2311 (Atkins D) Stormwater Resource Planning Act. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/11/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act, authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these provisions. Position AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the planfor the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan. Position AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling. Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 5/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011 to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the stateboard to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2529 (Wieckowski D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: electrical corporations. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 8/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the commission to credit directly, in proportion to the increase in electricity cost, to all retail delivery customers of an electrical corporation all revenues, as specified, the electrical corporation receives as a direct result of the directallocation of greenhouse gas allowances in proportion to the increase in electricity costs those customers incur as a result of the state board adopting a market-based compliance mechanism. Because a violation of this requirement is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/22/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges' Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitutionpermits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees. The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investmentreturns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected fromimpairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees adefined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things, that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws. Position SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions. Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html Introduced: 12/6/2010 Last Amend: 6/27/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/17/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, forcompensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure. Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html Introduced: 12/9/2010 Last Amend: 6/2/2011 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain, among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019, require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 1/31/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/6/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopmentagencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housingfunds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control boards. Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html Introduced: 1/11/2012 Last Amend: 4/9/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined, thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those circumstances. Position SB 1061 (Walters R) Professional engineers. Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/13/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline. Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system, fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existinglaws. Position SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/22/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisionsin order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/11/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made. The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certainrequests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position SB 1572 (Pavley D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: AB 32 Investment Fund. Current Text: Amended: 8/31/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 8/31/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-A. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, andto adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum, technologically feasible, and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The state board has adopted by regulation a program pursuant to the act to cap greenhouse gas emissions and provide for market-based compliance mechanisms, including the auction of allowances (cap-and-trade program). Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing law requires a state agency, prior to expending any money appropriated to it by the Legislature from the fund, to prepare a record consisting of a description of proposed expenditures and of how they will further the regulatory purposes of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, how they will achieve specified greenhouse gas emissions reductions, how the agency considered other objectives of that act, and how the agency will document expenditure results. This bill would appropriate a specified portion of moneys collected by the state board and derived from the auction orsale of allowances in the 2012-13 fiscal year from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the state board. Under the bill, a specified portion of the money appropriated to the state board would be available to fund prescribed projects that meet certain goals relating to greenhouse gas emissions reductions. This bill would require any funds allocated to fund or finance eligible projects, as specified, or awarded, as specified, to be committed by December 31, 2013. This bill would require the state board , the Strategic Growth Council, and the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to adopt regulations, and authorize those entities to adopt emergency regulations , for the purposes of fundingeligible projects, as prescribed. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing Authority and the Strategic Growth Council to prepare and submit to the Legislature, until January 1, 2017, annual reports on funded projects and activities. The bill would require the state board to publish information on projects on its Internet Web site. This bill contains other related provisions. Position SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/22/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 9/1/2012-S. DEAD 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges' Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitutionpermits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees. The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investmentreturns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
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