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HomeMy WebLinkAbout08-22-2012 Steering Committee Agenda Packet08/22/12 Steering Committee Agenda Page 1 of 3 Orange County Sanitation District Regular Meeting of the Steering Committee Wednesday, August 22, 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. · Biosolids Contract Update CONSENT CALENDAR: 1. Approve Minutes of the July 25, 2012 Steering Committee Meeting. ACTION ITEMS: 2. Recommend to the Board of Directors to: Decline Proposal from EnerTech to enter into a New Agreement for Management of Biosolids. INFORMATION ITEMS: 3. Public Affairs Report 08/22/12 Steering Committee Agenda Page 2 of 3 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. Convene in closed session. (1) CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL RE. EXISTING LITIGATION (Subdivision (a) of Section 54956.9) Case: Orange County Sanitation District v. Liberty Mutual, et al., U.S. District Court, Central District of California, Case No. SACV 12-854-JVS (AJWx) 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, September 26, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. 08/22/12 Steering Committee Agenda Page 3 of 3 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 Page 1 of 2 STEERING COMMITTEE Meeting Date 08/22/12 To Bd. of Dir. 08/22/12 AGENDA REPORT Item Number 2 Item Number Orange County Sanitation District FROM: James D. Ruth, General Manager Originator: Jim Herberg, Assistant General Manager SUBJECT: EnerTech Proposal GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION Decline Proposal from EnerTech to Enter into a New Agreement for Management of Biosolids. SUMMARY At the regular June meeting, the Board took action to declare EnerTech in default of the 2006 Agreement based on unsuccessful completion of the Interim Technical Plan by the deadline of June 11, 2012. The Board also directed staff to cease all shipments of biosolids to EnerTech's Rialto facility pursuant to the 2006 Agreement. The Board further authorized staff to negotiate terms of a new agreement providing for continued deliveries to EnerTech at a reduced price. The new agreement was to include language confirming that neither a new agreement, nor the Orange County Sanitation District’s (Sanitation District) decision to continue to provide biosolids, would in any way revive the Sanitation District’s obligations under the old agreement. EnerTech met with staff and made a two-pronged proposal for a short-term and long- term agreement. The short-term agreement would be for a reduced rate while EnerTech continues to demonstrate and commission the facility. The long-term agreement would start as soon as the facility is fully commissioned, but no later than two years from the start of the short-term agreement. While staff would like to see the EnerTech facility successfully commissioned, the progress to date suggests that EnerTech is not able to meet the long-term obligations established in the previously terminated contract. Also, the proposed reduced rate is still well above the Sanitation District’s lowest cost option, land application. Staff does not recommend accepting EnerTech’s proposal and does not recommend further consideration of resuming shipments of biosolids to EnerTech’s Rialto facility at this time. Staff is not confident that the facility will reliably operate at 600 tons per day of throughput, and the proposed fee is higher than other options currently available to the Sanitation District. Staff recommends revisiting the Rialto facility if EnerTech can successfully commission the facility in the future. Page 2 of 2 PRIOR COMMITTEE/BOARD ACTIONS June 2012 – Declared EnerTech in default of 2006 Agreement and directed staff to cease shipments to the Rialto facility and provide notice to EnerTech. Directed staff to negotiate a new agreement providing for continued shipments without reviving the Sanitation District’s obligations under the old agreement. March 2012 - Adopted Amendment No. 3 with EnerTech which provides the following changes to the existing contract: (1) Extends the time for completion of the Interim Technical Plan from March 13, 2012 to June 11, 2012 (90 days); (2) Continues the reduced management fee and accumulation of rebates during the time of extension; and (3) Provides a mechanism to cease delivery of biosolids to EnerTech immediately after June 11, 2012 if EnerTech does not successfully complete commissioning of the facility, as defined. February 2011 - Adopted Amendment No. 2 to Agreement with EnerTech, implementing an Interim Technical Plan, which included performance measures to be completed no later than March 13, 2012. In addition, Amendment No. 2 includes: (1) a reduced fee provision for diverted biosolids to alterative sties during the period of February 16, 2011 to March 13, 2013; (2) a partial reimbursement provision of past management fees for diverted biosolids in the amount of $1,047,501.55; and (3) a partial rebate provision of future management fees for diverted biosolids. November 2006 - Adopted Amendment No. 1 to Agreement with EnerTech, increasing the amount of biosolids from 200 tons to 225 tons, and revising the contract period to 25 years with one (1) five-year option, and to increase cost from $69.40 to $72.40 per ton (plus other variable costs). July 2005 - Adopted 10-year Agreement with EnerTech Environmental California, LLC with four (4) five-year options at an initial cost of $69.40 per ton of biosolids managed. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION N/A CEQA N/A BUDGET / DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY COMPLIANCE The recommended action does not authorize additional budget expenditures. JH:gc Page 1 of 3 STEERING COMMITTEE Meeting Date 08/22/12 To Bd. of Dir. AGENDA REPORT Item Number 3 Item Number Orange County Sanitation District FROM: James D. Ruth, General Manager Originator: Michael Gold, Public Affairs Manager SUBJECT: Public Affairs update GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION Information Only SUMMARY This report is the monthly Public Affairs Division update that includes legislative and political information from Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, lobbyists’ activities, and outreach education and communication programs to member cities, employees and the public. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Public Affairs Update OCSD wins a public outreach award We are very pleased to announce that at CASA’s annual conference this month, OCSD won the Outstanding Public Outreach/Education Award (large agency) for our social media efforts. This award recognizes programs that are intended to educate the public on important agency issues. As a result of the award, we will probably present at a future CASA conference session. OCSD Community Open House a huge success! Thank you to all the Board members that attended the OCSD Community Open House on July 28! The event was a huge success with over 1100 people visiting OCSD and OCWD. In addition to visiting booths and speaking to staff about who we are and what we do, nearly 600 people (about 20 percent of our annual total) took tours. All’s fair at the OCFair Following the Open House, OCSD staff had a booth at the OC Fair August 2-5. This is the first time in many years we participated in the Fair and it is part of our aggressive outreach efforts to educate the public about OCSD and how they can protect the environment. One of the very positive things about being at the Fair is several people recognized us because they came to the Open House. Our What 2 Flush bags were very popular and we estimate about 1500 people visited our booth. Page 2 of 3 Grants update – Proposition 84 OWOW round two The Santa Ana Watershed Protection Authority (SAWPA) announced round two of their One Water One Watershed grant program. These are the Integrated Regional Watershed Management grants from Proposition 84. OCSD received $1 million in round one for project P1-101. Staff attended an informational workshop about these grants and will evaluate projects for consideration. The biggest hurdle with these grants is that the State of California attaches many reporting requirements. Staff will keep the Board informed of our progress. Federal Legislative Update Legislative Advocate: Eric Sapirstein, ENS Resources Congress is back in session for a brief period then they will adjourn until the election. As a result of the continued partisan rancor, not much will get done until November as both parties position themselves to appeal to voters. As we have been reporting all year, the one bright spot for OCSD has been the advancement of the conflict of interest legislation sponsored by Representative Gary Miller. As we have been reporting, staff is gearing up for what could be a productive Lame Duck session following the election when many issues will come to a head, including infrastructure financing and regulatory reform. Conflict of Interest Regulation and Appointment to Water Boards On August 6 the USEPA responded Representative Gary Miller about his conflict of interest proposal. Generally, EPA’s response is positive because they did not close to the door to making changes and they asked appropriate and positive questions. Most importantly, EPA acknowledged that they could make changes administratively. Mr. Miller will continue to move his bill along while EPA considers an administrative change. If after the election EPA has failed to act, Miller will push his bill forward. The response from EPA is attached. State Legislative Update Legislative Advocates: Christopher Townsend, Heather Dion and Casey Elliott, Townsend Public Affairs After a month of summer recess, the Legislature reconvened on August 6 with a full agenda to address before adjournment at the end of the month. Generally, the last month of the Legislative Session is hectic with bills and amendments; however this year has been relatively quiet as the Legislature has struggled with the budget deficit and both parties continue to posture prior to the November election. With the budget battle now concluded, the focus of the Governor and Democratic Legislative leadership is focused on the passage of Proposition 30, the Governor’s tax Page 3 of 3 initiative, in order to avoid the proposed “trigger cuts.” To drum up support for the measure, there is increasing momentum to enact some form of comprehensive pension reform. Last October, Governor Brown released a 12-point pension reform plan to start discussions with the Legislature. Since then, the Legislature has established a Conference Committee which held several hearings across the state to discuss pension reform, and numerous legislators have introduced legislation mirroring the Governor’s proposal. However, the Governor and Democratic legislative leadership failed to come to an agreement on pension reform prior to the legislative summer recess and have continued discussions in an effort to reach consensus on legislation prior to adjournment at the end of August. It should be noted that the Governor and Legislative leadership are in agreement on certain reforms, such as a ban on pension spiking and “air time” purchases. However, there remains a disagreement on the more aggressive measures put forth by the Governor, such as a “hybrid” pension reform plan and an increase of the retirement age. As the election continues to get closer, it is likely that the Legislature will pass pension reform legislation, but it will be not go as far as the Governor’s proposal. One bill of note is Assemblyman Jeff Miller’s AB 1615 dealing with chemical cremation. This bill is around for the third year and OCSD continues to work with Miller’s office and CASA. Some in the water quality community are concerned about this bill and its impact to water recycling; but the bill maintains local permitting authority. Currently, AB 1615 is on suspense and may stay there meaning it will be dead until next year. If it does pass, there is a chance the Governor will veto because it has some state costs associated with the measure. OCSD is neutral on AB 1615. PRIOR COMMITTEE/BOARD ACTIONS N/A ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Attachments 1. EPA Technical Assistance on HR 2765, dated 08/06/12 2. OCSD Legislative Matrix, dated 08/09/12 3. OCSD Outreach Report, 08/14/12 4. SAWPA One Water One Watershed 2.0 2012 Call for Projects Fact Sheet CEQA N/A BUDGET / DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY COMPLIANCE N/A OCSD Legislative Matrix 8/9/2012 Total Measures: 30 Total Tracking Forms: 30     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: 9/1/2011-S. E.Q.  2Year Dead 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 1585 (John A. Pérez D)   Community development.  Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/2/2012  Last Amend: 8/6/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/6/2012-S. APPR.  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/13/2012  11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)   SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair  Summary:  Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to retain the housing assets, functions, and powers previously performed by the redevelopment agency, excluding amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would transfer to the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibility to perform housing functions in the territorial jurisdiction of a former redevelopment agency, if there is no local housing authority in that jurisdiction, the local housing authority selected does not accept the responsibility for performing housing functions, or certain local housing authorities vote, on or before February 15, 2013, to transfer that responsibility to the department due to financial hardship. The bill would create a continuously appropriated fund within the State Treasury, the State Low and Moderate Income Housing Trust Fund, for the transfer of assets of local housing funds for these purposes, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       Position                                AB 1606 (Perea D)   Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures.  Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/7/2012  Last Amend: 5/17/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/9/2012-A. CONCURRENCE  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #88  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. This bill would instead authorize the employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. The bill would also authorize an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. The bill would specify that the procedural right of an employee organization to request a factfinding panel cannot be expressly or voluntarily waived . The bill would also specify that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.       Position                                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: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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 1750 (Solorio D)   Rainwater Capture Act of 2012.  Current Text: Amended: 8/7/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/17/2012  Last Amend: 8/7/2012  Is Fiscal: N  Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #212  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  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 national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. This bill would enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which would authorize residential, commercial, and governmental landowners to install, maintain, and operate rain barrel systems, as defined, and rainwater capture systems, as defined, as specified, if certain requirements are met . The act would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, when the local agency issues a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The act, except as specified, would also require a landowner that installs a rainwater capture system where a permit is not required to notify the operator of the public water system prior to installation . The bill would prohibit the California Building Standards Commission from adopting any regulation relating to a water quality standard for the indoor use of rainwater pursuant to the act without the concurrence of the State Department of Public Health. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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. 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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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 2069 (Solorio D)   Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits.  Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/23/2012  Last Amend: 5/24/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #261  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law provides for the payment of a scholarship to dependents of specified peace officers if the peace officer is killed in the performance of his or her duty or if the officer suffers death or permanent disability as a result of specified accidents or injuries incurred in the performance of his or her duties. Existing law also requires the employer of a peace officer who is killed in the performance of his or her duty, or who suffers death as a result of specified accidents or injuries, to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's spouse unless the spouse elects to receive a lump-sum survivor's benefit in lieu of monthly benefits. This bill would extend these peace officer benefits to Sheriff's Special Officers of the County of Orange.       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  2Year Dead 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 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: 4/26/2012-A. RLS.  2Year Dead 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 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 2230 (Gatto D)   Recycled water: car washes.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/24/2012  Is Fiscal: N  Location: 6/28/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #114  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take appropriate actions to prevent waste or the unreasonable use of water. Under existing law, the board makes determinations with regard to the availability of recycled water. This bill would require an in-bay car wash, as defined, or a conveyor car wash, as defined, permitted and constructed after January 1, 2014, to either install, use, and maintain a water recycling system, as defined, that recycles and reuses at least 60% of the wash and rinse water, or to enter into a contract to use recycled water provided by a retail water supplier to wash and rinse vehicles.       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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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                                ACA 22 (Smyth R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 2/22/2012-A. PRINT  2Year Dead 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 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: 8/9/2012-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE  2Year Dead 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, 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: 8/22/2011-A. DESK  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 965 (Wright D)   State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control  boards: ex parte communications.  Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 1/11/2012  Last Amend: 6/21/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/8/2012-A. APPR.  2Year Dead 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 (regional boards) implement the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act by prescribing waste discharge requirements for discharges to the waters of the state, as specified. Existing law authorizes the state board and regional boards to hold hearings necessary for carrying out their duties, as specified. This bill would provide that the ex parte communications provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act do not apply to specified proceedings of the state board or a regional board. The bill would, instead, define an ex parte communication as an oral or written communication with one or more board members regarding those specified state or regional board proceedings , and would specify the only instances in which an ex parte communication involving those specified proceedings is permissible . The bill would permit oral ex parte communications at any time by any board member if the board member involved in the communication notifies, and provides specified requirements for the participation of, all interested persons , as defined . The bill would permit written ex parte communications by any person provided that the interested person who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all interested persons , as specified. The bill would require that if an individual ex parte communication meeting or call is granted to any interested person , all other interested persons shall also be granted individual ex parte meetings of a substantially equal period of time with the board member. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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                                SCA 18 (Huff R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.  2Year Dead 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 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                            Page 1 / 12 OCSD Legislative Matrix 8/9/2012 Total Measures: 30 Total Tracking Forms: 30    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: 9/1/2011-S. E.Q. 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 1585 (John A. Pérez D)   Community development. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/13/2012  11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair  Summary:  Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to retain the housing assets, functions, and powers previously performed by the redevelopment agency, excluding amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would transfer to the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibility to perform housing functions in the territorial jurisdiction of a former redevelopment agency, if there is no local housing authority in that jurisdiction, the local housing authority selected does not accept the responsibility for performing housing functions, or certain local housing authoritiesvote, on or before February 15, 2013, to transfer that responsibility to the department due to financialhardship. The bill would create a continuously appropriated fund within the State Treasury, the State Low and Moderate Income Housing Trust Fund, for the transfer of assets of local housing funds for these purposes, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      Position                             AB 1606 (Perea D)   Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures. Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/7/2012 Last Amend: 5/17/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/9/2012-A. CONCURRENCE 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #88  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. This bill would instead authorize the employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. The bill would also authorize an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. The bill would specify that the procedural right of an employee organization to request a factfinding panel cannot be expressly or voluntarily waived . The bill would also specify that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.       Position                                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: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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 1750 (Solorio D)   Rainwater Capture Act of 2012.  Current Text: Amended: 8/7/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/17/2012  Last Amend: 8/7/2012  Is Fiscal: N  Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #212  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  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 national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. This bill would enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which would authorize residential, commercial, and governmental landowners to install, maintain, and operate rain barrel systems, as defined, and rainwater capture systems, as defined, as specified, if certain requirements are met . The act would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, when the local agency issues a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The act, except as specified, would also require a landowner that installs a rainwater capture system where a permit is not required to notify the operator of the public water system prior to installation . The bill would prohibit the California Building Standards Commission from adopting any regulation relating to a water quality standard for the indoor use of rainwater pursuant to the act without the concurrence of the State Department of Public Health. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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. 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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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 2069 (Solorio D)   Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits.  Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/23/2012  Last Amend: 5/24/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #261  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law provides for the payment of a scholarship to dependents of specified peace officers if the peace officer is killed in the performance of his or her duty or if the officer suffers death or permanent disability as a result of specified accidents or injuries incurred in the performance of his or her duties. Existing law also requires the employer of a peace officer who is killed in the performance of his or her duty, or who suffers death as a result of specified accidents or injuries, to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's spouse unless the spouse elects to receive a lump-sum survivor's benefit in lieu of monthly benefits. This bill would extend these peace officer benefits to Sheriff's Special Officers of the County of Orange.       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  2Year Dead 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 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: 4/26/2012-A. RLS.  2Year Dead 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 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 2230 (Gatto D)   Recycled water: car washes.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/24/2012  Is Fiscal: N  Location: 6/28/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #114  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take appropriate actions to prevent waste or the unreasonable use of water. Under existing law, the board makes determinations with regard to the availability of recycled water. This bill would require an in-bay car wash, as defined, or a conveyor car wash, as defined, permitted and constructed after January 1, 2014, to either install, use, and maintain a water recycling system, as defined, that recycles and reuses at least 60% of the wash and rinse water, or to enter into a contract to use recycled water provided by a retail water supplier to wash and rinse vehicles.       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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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                                ACA 22 (Smyth R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 2/22/2012-A. PRINT  2Year Dead 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 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: 8/9/2012-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE  2Year Dead 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, 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: 8/22/2011-A. DESK  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 965 (Wright D)   State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control  boards: ex parte communications.  Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 1/11/2012  Last Amend: 6/21/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/8/2012-A. APPR.  2Year Dead 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 (regional boards) implement the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act by prescribing waste discharge requirements for discharges to the waters of the state, as specified. Existing law authorizes the state board and regional boards to hold hearings necessary for carrying out their duties, as specified. This bill would provide that the ex parte communications provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act do not apply to specified proceedings of the state board or a regional board. The bill would, instead, define an ex parte communication as an oral or written communication with one or more board members regarding those specified state or regional board proceedings , and would specify the only instances in which an ex parte communication involving those specified proceedings is permissible . The bill would permit oral ex parte communications at any time by any board member if the board member involved in the communication notifies, and provides specified requirements for the participation of, all interested persons , as defined . The bill would permit written ex parte communications by any person provided that the interested person who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all interested persons , as specified. The bill would require that if an individual ex parte communication meeting or call is granted to any interested person , all other interested persons shall also be granted individual ex parte meetings of a substantially equal period of time with the board member. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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                                SCA 18 (Huff R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.  2Year Dead 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 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                            Page 2 / 12 OCSD Legislative Matrix 8/9/2012 Total Measures: 30 Total Tracking Forms: 30    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: 9/1/2011-S. E.Q. 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 1585 (John A. Pérez D)   Community development. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/13/2012  11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair  Summary:  Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to retain the housing assets, functions, and powers previously performed by the redevelopment agency, excluding amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would transfer to the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibility to perform housing functions in the territorial jurisdiction of a former redevelopment agency, if there is no local housing authority in that jurisdiction, the local housing authority selected does not accept the responsibility for performing housing functions, or certain local housing authoritiesvote, on or before February 15, 2013, to transfer that responsibility to the department due to financialhardship. The bill would create a continuously appropriated fund within the State Treasury, the State Low and Moderate Income Housing Trust Fund, for the transfer of assets of local housing funds for these purposes, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      Position                             AB 1606 (Perea D)   Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures. Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/7/2012 Last Amend: 5/17/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/9/2012-A. CONCURRENCE 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #88  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. This bill would instead authorize the employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. The bill would also authorize an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. The bill would specify that the procedural right of an employee organization to request a factfinding panel cannot be expressly or voluntarily waived . The bill would also specify that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.      Position                             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: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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 1750 (Solorio D)   Rainwater Capture Act of 2012.  Current Text: Amended: 8/7/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/17/2012  Last Amend: 8/7/2012  Is Fiscal: N  Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #212  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  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 national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. This bill would enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which would authorize residential, commercial, and governmental landowners to install, maintain, and operate rain barrel systems, as defined, and rainwater capture systems, as defined, as specified, if certain requirements are met . The act would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, when the local agency issues a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The act, except as specified, would also require a landowner that installs a rainwater capture system where a permit is not required to notify the operator of the public water system prior to installation . The bill would prohibit the California Building Standards Commission from adopting any regulation relating to a water quality standard for the indoor use of rainwater pursuant to the act without the concurrence of the State Department of Public Health. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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. 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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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 2069 (Solorio D)   Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits.  Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/23/2012  Last Amend: 5/24/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #261  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law provides for the payment of a scholarship to dependents of specified peace officers if the peace officer is killed in the performance of his or her duty or if the officer suffers death or permanent disability as a result of specified accidents or injuries incurred in the performance of his or her duties. Existing law also requires the employer of a peace officer who is killed in the performance of his or her duty, or who suffers death as a result of specified accidents or injuries, to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's spouse unless the spouse elects to receive a lump-sum survivor's benefit in lieu of monthly benefits. This bill would extend these peace officer benefits to Sheriff's Special Officers of the County of Orange.       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  2Year Dead 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 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: 4/26/2012-A. RLS.  2Year Dead 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 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 2230 (Gatto D)   Recycled water: car washes.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/24/2012  Is Fiscal: N  Location: 6/28/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #114  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take appropriate actions to prevent waste or the unreasonable use of water. Under existing law, the board makes determinations with regard to the availability of recycled water. This bill would require an in-bay car wash, as defined, or a conveyor car wash, as defined, permitted and constructed after January 1, 2014, to either install, use, and maintain a water recycling system, as defined, that recycles and reuses at least 60% of the wash and rinse water, or to enter into a contract to use recycled water provided by a retail water supplier to wash and rinse vehicles.       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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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                                ACA 22 (Smyth R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 2/22/2012-A. PRINT  2Year Dead 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 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: 8/9/2012-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE  2Year Dead 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, 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: 8/22/2011-A. DESK  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 965 (Wright D)   State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control  boards: ex parte communications.  Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 1/11/2012  Last Amend: 6/21/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/8/2012-A. APPR.  2Year Dead 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 (regional boards) implement the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act by prescribing waste discharge requirements for discharges to the waters of the state, as specified. Existing law authorizes the state board and regional boards to hold hearings necessary for carrying out their duties, as specified. This bill would provide that the ex parte communications provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act do not apply to specified proceedings of the state board or a regional board. The bill would, instead, define an ex parte communication as an oral or written communication with one or more board members regarding those specified state or regional board proceedings , and would specify the only instances in which an ex parte communication involving those specified proceedings is permissible . The bill would permit oral ex parte communications at any time by any board member if the board member involved in the communication notifies, and provides specified requirements for the participation of, all interested persons , as defined . The bill would permit written ex parte communications by any person provided that the interested person who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all interested persons , as specified. The bill would require that if an individual ex parte communication meeting or call is granted to any interested person , all other interested persons shall also be granted individual ex parte meetings of a substantially equal period of time with the board member. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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                                SCA 18 (Huff R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.  2Year Dead 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 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                            Page 3 / 12 OCSD Legislative Matrix 8/9/2012 Total Measures: 30 Total Tracking Forms: 30    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: 9/1/2011-S. E.Q. 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 1585 (John A. Pérez D)   Community development. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/13/2012  11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair  Summary:  Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to retain the housing assets, functions, and powers previously performed by the redevelopment agency, excluding amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would transfer to the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibility to perform housing functions in the territorial jurisdiction of a former redevelopment agency, if there is no local housing authority in that jurisdiction, the local housing authority selected does not accept the responsibility for performing housing functions, or certain local housing authoritiesvote, on or before February 15, 2013, to transfer that responsibility to the department due to financialhardship. The bill would create a continuously appropriated fund within the State Treasury, the State Low and Moderate Income Housing Trust Fund, for the transfer of assets of local housing funds for these purposes, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      Position                             AB 1606 (Perea D)   Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures. Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/7/2012 Last Amend: 5/17/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/9/2012-A. CONCURRENCE 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #88  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. This bill would instead authorize the employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. The bill would also authorize an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. The bill would specify that the procedural right of an employee organization to request a factfinding panel cannot be expressly or voluntarily waived . The bill would also specify that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.      Position                             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: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 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 1750 (Solorio D)   Rainwater Capture Act of 2012.  Current Text: Amended: 8/7/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/17/2012  Last Amend: 8/7/2012  Is Fiscal: N  Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #212  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  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 national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. This bill would enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which would authorize residential, commercial, and governmental landowners to install, maintain, and operate rain barrel systems, as defined, and rainwater capture systems, as defined, as specified, if certain requirements are met . The act would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, when the local agency issues a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The act, except as specified, would also require a landowner that installs a rainwater capture system where a permit is not required to notify the operator of the public water system prior to installation . The bill would prohibit the California Building Standards Commission from adopting any regulation relating to a water quality standard for the indoor use of rainwater pursuant to the act without the concurrence of the State Department of Public Health. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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. 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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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 2069 (Solorio D)   Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits.  Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/23/2012  Last Amend: 5/24/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #261  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law provides for the payment of a scholarship to dependents of specified peace officers if the peace officer is killed in the performance of his or her duty or if the officer suffers death or permanent disability as a result of specified accidents or injuries incurred in the performance of his or her duties. Existing law also requires the employer of a peace officer who is killed in the performance of his or her duty, or who suffers death as a result of specified accidents or injuries, to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's spouse unless the spouse elects to receive a lump-sum survivor's benefit in lieu of monthly benefits. This bill would extend these peace officer benefits to Sheriff's Special Officers of the County of Orange.       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  2Year Dead 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 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: 4/26/2012-A. RLS.  2Year Dead 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 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 2230 (Gatto D)   Recycled water: car washes.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/24/2012  Is Fiscal: N  Location: 6/28/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #114  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take appropriate actions to prevent waste or the unreasonable use of water. Under existing law, the board makes determinations with regard to the availability of recycled water. This bill would require an in-bay car wash, as defined, or a conveyor car wash, as defined, permitted and constructed after January 1, 2014, to either install, use, and maintain a water recycling system, as defined, that recycles and reuses at least 60% of the wash and rinse water, or to enter into a contract to use recycled water provided by a retail water supplier to wash and rinse vehicles.       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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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                                ACA 22 (Smyth R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 2/22/2012-A. PRINT  2Year Dead 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 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: 8/9/2012-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE  2Year Dead 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, 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: 8/22/2011-A. DESK  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 965 (Wright D)   State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control  boards: ex parte communications.  Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 1/11/2012  Last Amend: 6/21/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/8/2012-A. APPR.  2Year Dead 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 (regional boards) implement the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act by prescribing waste discharge requirements for discharges to the waters of the state, as specified. Existing law authorizes the state board and regional boards to hold hearings necessary for carrying out their duties, as specified. This bill would provide that the ex parte communications provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act do not apply to specified proceedings of the state board or a regional board. The bill would, instead, define an ex parte communication as an oral or written communication with one or more board members regarding those specified state or regional board proceedings , and would specify the only instances in which an ex parte communication involving those specified proceedings is permissible . The bill would permit oral ex parte communications at any time by any board member if the board member involved in the communication notifies, and provides specified requirements for the participation of, all interested persons , as defined . The bill would permit written ex parte communications by any person provided that the interested person who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all interested persons , as specified. The bill would require that if an individual ex parte communication meeting or call is granted to any interested person , all other interested persons shall also be granted individual ex parte meetings of a substantially equal period of time with the board member. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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                                SCA 18 (Huff R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.  2Year Dead 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 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                            Page 4 / 12 OCSD Legislative Matrix 8/9/2012 Total Measures: 30 Total Tracking Forms: 30    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: 9/1/2011-S. E.Q. 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 1585 (John A. Pérez D)   Community development. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/13/2012  11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair  Summary:  Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to retain the housing assets, functions, and powers previously performed by the redevelopment agency, excluding amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would transfer to the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibility to perform housing functions in the territorial jurisdiction of a former redevelopment agency, if there is no local housing authority in that jurisdiction, the local housing authority selected does not accept the responsibility for performing housing functions, or certain local housing authoritiesvote, on or before February 15, 2013, to transfer that responsibility to the department due to financialhardship. The bill would create a continuously appropriated fund within the State Treasury, the State Low and Moderate Income Housing Trust Fund, for the transfer of assets of local housing funds for these purposes, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      Position                             AB 1606 (Perea D)   Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures. Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/7/2012 Last Amend: 5/17/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/9/2012-A. CONCURRENCE 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #88  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. This bill would instead authorize the employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. The bill would also authorize an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. The bill would specify that the procedural right of an employee organization to request a factfinding panel cannot be expressly or voluntarily waived . The bill would also specify that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.      Position                             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: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 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 1750 (Solorio D)   Rainwater Capture Act of 2012. Current Text: Amended: 8/7/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 8/7/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #212  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  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 national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. This bill would enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which would authorize residential, commercial, and governmental landowners to install, maintain, and operate rain barrel systems, as defined, and rainwater capture systems, as defined, as specified, if certain requirements are met . The act would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, when the local agency issues a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The act, except as specified, would also require a landowner that installs arainwater capture system where a permit is not required to notify the operator of the public water system prior to installation . The bill would prohibit the California Building Standards Commission from adopting any regulation relating to a water quality standard for the indoor use of rainwater pursuant to the act without the concurrence of the State Department of Public Health. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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 2069 (Solorio D)   Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits.  Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/23/2012  Last Amend: 5/24/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #261  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law provides for the payment of a scholarship to dependents of specified peace officers if the peace officer is killed in the performance of his or her duty or if the officer suffers death or permanent disability as a result of specified accidents or injuries incurred in the performance of his or her duties. Existing law also requires the employer of a peace officer who is killed in the performance of his or her duty, or who suffers death as a result of specified accidents or injuries, to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's spouse unless the spouse elects to receive a lump-sum survivor's benefit in lieu of monthly benefits. This bill would extend these peace officer benefits to Sheriff's Special Officers of the County of Orange.       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  2Year Dead 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 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: 4/26/2012-A. RLS.  2Year Dead 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 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 2230 (Gatto D)   Recycled water: car washes.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/24/2012  Is Fiscal: N  Location: 6/28/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #114  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take appropriate actions to prevent waste or the unreasonable use of water. Under existing law, the board makes determinations with regard to the availability of recycled water. This bill would require an in-bay car wash, as defined, or a conveyor car wash, as defined, permitted and constructed after January 1, 2014, to either install, use, and maintain a water recycling system, as defined, that recycles and reuses at least 60% of the wash and rinse water, or to enter into a contract to use recycled water provided by a retail water supplier to wash and rinse vehicles.       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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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                                ACA 22 (Smyth R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 2/22/2012-A. PRINT  2Year Dead 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 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: 8/9/2012-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE  2Year Dead 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, 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: 8/22/2011-A. DESK  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 965 (Wright D)   State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control  boards: ex parte communications.  Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 1/11/2012  Last Amend: 6/21/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/8/2012-A. APPR.  2Year Dead 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 (regional boards) implement the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act by prescribing waste discharge requirements for discharges to the waters of the state, as specified. Existing law authorizes the state board and regional boards to hold hearings necessary for carrying out their duties, as specified. This bill would provide that the ex parte communications provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act do not apply to specified proceedings of the state board or a regional board. The bill would, instead, define an ex parte communication as an oral or written communication with one or more board members regarding those specified state or regional board proceedings , and would specify the only instances in which an ex parte communication involving those specified proceedings is permissible . The bill would permit oral ex parte communications at any time by any board member if the board member involved in the communication notifies, and provides specified requirements for the participation of, all interested persons , as defined . The bill would permit written ex parte communications by any person provided that the interested person who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all interested persons , as specified. The bill would require that if an individual ex parte communication meeting or call is granted to any interested person , all other interested persons shall also be granted individual ex parte meetings of a substantially equal period of time with the board member. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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                                SCA 18 (Huff R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.  2Year Dead 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 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                            Page 5 / 12 OCSD Legislative Matrix 8/9/2012 Total Measures: 30 Total Tracking Forms: 30    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: 9/1/2011-S. E.Q. 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 1585 (John A. Pérez D)   Community development. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/13/2012  11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair  Summary:  Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to retain the housing assets, functions, and powers previously performed by the redevelopment agency, excluding amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would transfer to the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibility to perform housing functions in the territorial jurisdiction of a former redevelopment agency, if there is no local housing authority in that jurisdiction, the local housing authority selected does not accept the responsibility for performing housing functions, or certain local housing authoritiesvote, on or before February 15, 2013, to transfer that responsibility to the department due to financialhardship. The bill would create a continuously appropriated fund within the State Treasury, the State Low and Moderate Income Housing Trust Fund, for the transfer of assets of local housing funds for these purposes, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      Position                             AB 1606 (Perea D)   Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures. Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/7/2012 Last Amend: 5/17/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/9/2012-A. CONCURRENCE 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #88  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. This bill would instead authorize the employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. The bill would also authorize an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. The bill would specify that the procedural right of an employee organization to request a factfinding panel cannot be expressly or voluntarily waived . The bill would also specify that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.      Position                             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: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 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 1750 (Solorio D)   Rainwater Capture Act of 2012. Current Text: Amended: 8/7/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 8/7/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #212  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  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 national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. This bill would enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which would authorize residential, commercial, and governmental landowners to install, maintain, and operate rain barrel systems, as defined, and rainwater capture systems, as defined, as specified, if certain requirements are met . The act would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, when the local agency issues a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The act, except as specified, would also require a landowner that installs arainwater capture system where a permit is not required to notify the operator of the public water system prior to installation . The bill would prohibit the California Building Standards Commission from adopting any regulation relating to a water quality standard for the indoor use of rainwater pursuant to the act without the concurrence of the State Department of Public Health. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      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 2069 (Solorio D)   Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits. Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #261  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law provides for the payment of a scholarship to dependents of specified peace officers if the peace officer is killed in the performance of his or her duty or if the officer suffers death or permanent disability as a result of specified accidents or injuries incurred in the performance of his or her duties. Existing law also requires the employer of a peace officer who is killed in the performance of his or her duty, or who suffers death as a result of specified accidents or injuries, to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's spouse unless the spouse elects to receive a lump-sum survivor's benefit in lieu of monthly benefits. This bill would extend these peace officer benefits to Sheriff's Special Officers of the County of Orange.       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  2Year Dead 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 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: 4/26/2012-A. RLS.  2Year Dead 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 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 2230 (Gatto D)   Recycled water: car washes.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/24/2012  Is Fiscal: N  Location: 6/28/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #114  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take appropriate actions to prevent waste or the unreasonable use of water. Under existing law, the board makes determinations with regard to the availability of recycled water. This bill would require an in-bay car wash, as defined, or a conveyor car wash, as defined, permitted and constructed after January 1, 2014, to either install, use, and maintain a water recycling system, as defined, that recycles and reuses at least 60% of the wash and rinse water, or to enter into a contract to use recycled water provided by a retail water supplier to wash and rinse vehicles.       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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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                                ACA 22 (Smyth R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 2/22/2012-A. PRINT  2Year Dead 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 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: 8/9/2012-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE  2Year Dead 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, 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: 8/22/2011-A. DESK  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 965 (Wright D)   State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control  boards: ex parte communications.  Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 1/11/2012  Last Amend: 6/21/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/8/2012-A. APPR.  2Year Dead 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 (regional boards) implement the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act by prescribing waste discharge requirements for discharges to the waters of the state, as specified. Existing law authorizes the state board and regional boards to hold hearings necessary for carrying out their duties, as specified. This bill would provide that the ex parte communications provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act do not apply to specified proceedings of the state board or a regional board. The bill would, instead, define an ex parte communication as an oral or written communication with one or more board members regarding those specified state or regional board proceedings , and would specify the only instances in which an ex parte communication involving those specified proceedings is permissible . The bill would permit oral ex parte communications at any time by any board member if the board member involved in the communication notifies, and provides specified requirements for the participation of, all interested persons , as defined . The bill would permit written ex parte communications by any person provided that the interested person who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all interested persons , as specified. The bill would require that if an individual ex parte communication meeting or call is granted to any interested person , all other interested persons shall also be granted individual ex parte meetings of a substantially equal period of time with the board member. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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                                SCA 18 (Huff R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.  2Year Dead 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 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                            Page 6 / 12 OCSD Legislative Matrix 8/9/2012 Total Measures: 30 Total Tracking Forms: 30    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: 9/1/2011-S. E.Q. 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 1585 (John A. Pérez D)   Community development. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/13/2012  11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair  Summary:  Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to retain the housing assets, functions, and powers previously performed by the redevelopment agency, excluding amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would transfer to the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibility to perform housing functions in the territorial jurisdiction of a former redevelopment agency, if there is no local housing authority in that jurisdiction, the local housing authority selected does not accept the responsibility for performing housing functions, or certain local housing authoritiesvote, on or before February 15, 2013, to transfer that responsibility to the department due to financialhardship. The bill would create a continuously appropriated fund within the State Treasury, the State Low and Moderate Income Housing Trust Fund, for the transfer of assets of local housing funds for these purposes, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      Position                             AB 1606 (Perea D)   Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures. Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/7/2012 Last Amend: 5/17/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/9/2012-A. CONCURRENCE 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #88  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. This bill would instead authorize the employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. The bill would also authorize an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. The bill would specify that the procedural right of an employee organization to request a factfinding panel cannot be expressly or voluntarily waived . The bill would also specify that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.      Position                             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: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 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 1750 (Solorio D)   Rainwater Capture Act of 2012. Current Text: Amended: 8/7/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 8/7/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #212  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  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 national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. This bill would enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which would authorize residential, commercial, and governmental landowners to install, maintain, and operate rain barrel systems, as defined, and rainwater capture systems, as defined, as specified, if certain requirements are met . The act would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, when the local agency issues a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The act, except as specified, would also require a landowner that installs arainwater capture system where a permit is not required to notify the operator of the public water system prior to installation . The bill would prohibit the California Building Standards Commission from adopting any regulation relating to a water quality standard for the indoor use of rainwater pursuant to the act without the concurrence of the State Department of Public Health. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      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 2069 (Solorio D)   Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits. Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #261  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law provides for the payment of a scholarship to dependents of specified peace officers if the peace officer is killed in the performance of his or her duty or if the officer suffers death or permanent disability as a result of specified accidents or injuries incurred in the performance of his or her duties. Existing law also requires the employer of a peace officer who is killed in the performance of his or her duty, or who suffers death as a result of specified accidents or injuries, to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's spouse unless the spouse elects to receive a lump-sum survivor's benefit in lieu of monthly benefits. This bill would extend these peace officer benefits to Sheriff's Special Officers of the County of Orange.       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: 4/26/2012-A. RLS. 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 2230 (Gatto D)   Recycled water: car washes. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/28/2012-S. THIRD READING  2Year Dead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf. Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #114  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take appropriate actions to prevent waste or the unreasonable use of water. Under existing law, the board makes determinations with regard to the availability of recycled water. This bill would require an in-bay car wash, as defined, or a conveyor car wash, as defined, permitted and constructed after January 1, 2014, to either install, use, and maintain a water recycling system, as defined, that recycles and reuses at least 60% of the wash and rinse water, or to enter into a contract to use recycled water provided by a retail water supplier to wash and rinse vehicles.       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  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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                                ACA 22 (Smyth R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 2/22/2012-A. PRINT  2Year Dead 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 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: 8/9/2012-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE  2Year Dead 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, 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: 8/22/2011-A. DESK  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 965 (Wright D)   State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control  boards: ex parte communications.  Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 1/11/2012  Last Amend: 6/21/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/8/2012-A. APPR.  2Year Dead 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 (regional boards) implement the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act by prescribing waste discharge requirements for discharges to the waters of the state, as specified. Existing law authorizes the state board and regional boards to hold hearings necessary for carrying out their duties, as specified. This bill would provide that the ex parte communications provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act do not apply to specified proceedings of the state board or a regional board. The bill would, instead, define an ex parte communication as an oral or written communication with one or more board members regarding those specified state or regional board proceedings , and would specify the only instances in which an ex parte communication involving those specified proceedings is permissible . The bill would permit oral ex parte communications at any time by any board member if the board member involved in the communication notifies, and provides specified requirements for the participation of, all interested persons , as defined . The bill would permit written ex parte communications by any person provided that the interested person who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all interested persons , as specified. The bill would require that if an individual ex parte communication meeting or call is granted to any interested person , all other interested persons shall also be granted individual ex parte meetings of a substantially equal period of time with the board member. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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                                SCA 18 (Huff R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.  2Year Dead 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 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                            Page 7 / 12 OCSD Legislative Matrix 8/9/2012 Total Measures: 30 Total Tracking Forms: 30    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: 9/1/2011-S. E.Q. 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 1585 (John A. Pérez D)   Community development. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/13/2012  11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair  Summary:  Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to retain the housing assets, functions, and powers previously performed by the redevelopment agency, excluding amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would transfer to the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibility to perform housing functions in the territorial jurisdiction of a former redevelopment agency, if there is no local housing authority in that jurisdiction, the local housing authority selected does not accept the responsibility for performing housing functions, or certain local housing authoritiesvote, on or before February 15, 2013, to transfer that responsibility to the department due to financialhardship. The bill would create a continuously appropriated fund within the State Treasury, the State Low and Moderate Income Housing Trust Fund, for the transfer of assets of local housing funds for these purposes, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      Position                             AB 1606 (Perea D)   Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures. Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/7/2012 Last Amend: 5/17/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/9/2012-A. CONCURRENCE 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #88  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. This bill would instead authorize the employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. The bill would also authorize an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. The bill would specify that the procedural right of an employee organization to request a factfinding panel cannot be expressly or voluntarily waived . The bill would also specify that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.      Position                             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: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 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 1750 (Solorio D)   Rainwater Capture Act of 2012. Current Text: Amended: 8/7/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 8/7/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #212  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  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 national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. This bill would enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which would authorize residential, commercial, and governmental landowners to install, maintain, and operate rain barrel systems, as defined, and rainwater capture systems, as defined, as specified, if certain requirements are met . The act would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, when the local agency issues a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The act, except as specified, would also require a landowner that installs arainwater capture system where a permit is not required to notify the operator of the public water system prior to installation . The bill would prohibit the California Building Standards Commission from adopting any regulation relating to a water quality standard for the indoor use of rainwater pursuant to the act without the concurrence of the State Department of Public Health. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      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 2069 (Solorio D)   Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits. Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #261  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law provides for the payment of a scholarship to dependents of specified peace officers if the peace officer is killed in the performance of his or her duty or if the officer suffers death or permanent disability as a result of specified accidents or injuries incurred in the performance of his or her duties. Existing law also requires the employer of a peace officer who is killed in the performance of his or her duty, or who suffers death as a result of specified accidents or injuries, to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's spouse unless the spouse elects to receive a lump-sum survivor's benefit in lieu of monthly benefits. This bill would extend these peace officer benefits to Sheriff's Special Officers of the County of Orange.       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: 4/26/2012-A. RLS. 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 2230 (Gatto D)   Recycled water: car washes. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/28/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #114  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take appropriate actionsto prevent waste or the unreasonable use of water. Under existing law, the board makes determinations with regard to the availability of recycled water. This bill would require an in-bay car wash, as defined, or a conveyor car wash, as defined, permitted and constructed after January 1, 2014, to either install, use, and maintain a water recycling system, as defined, that recycles and reuses at least 60% of the wash and rinse water, or to enter into a contract to use recycled water provided by a retail water supplier to wash and rinse vehicles.       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 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                                ACA 22 (Smyth R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 2/22/2012-A. PRINT  2Year Dead 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 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: 8/9/2012-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE  2Year Dead 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, 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: 8/22/2011-A. DESK  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 965 (Wright D)   State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control  boards: ex parte communications.  Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 1/11/2012  Last Amend: 6/21/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/8/2012-A. APPR.  2Year Dead 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 (regional boards) implement the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act by prescribing waste discharge requirements for discharges to the waters of the state, as specified. Existing law authorizes the state board and regional boards to hold hearings necessary for carrying out their duties, as specified. This bill would provide that the ex parte communications provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act do not apply to specified proceedings of the state board or a regional board. The bill would, instead, define an ex parte communication as an oral or written communication with one or more board members regarding those specified state or regional board proceedings , and would specify the only instances in which an ex parte communication involving those specified proceedings is permissible . The bill would permit oral ex parte communications at any time by any board member if the board member involved in the communication notifies, and provides specified requirements for the participation of, all interested persons , as defined . The bill would permit written ex parte communications by any person provided that the interested person who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all interested persons , as specified. The bill would require that if an individual ex parte communication meeting or call is granted to any interested person , all other interested persons shall also be granted individual ex parte meetings of a substantially equal period of time with the board member. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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                                SCA 18 (Huff R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.  2Year Dead 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 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                            Page 8 / 12 OCSD Legislative Matrix 8/9/2012 Total Measures: 30 Total Tracking Forms: 30    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: 9/1/2011-S. E.Q. 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 1585 (John A. Pérez D)   Community development. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/13/2012  11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair  Summary:  Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to retain the housing assets, functions, and powers previously performed by the redevelopment agency, excluding amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would transfer to the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibility to perform housing functions in the territorial jurisdiction of a former redevelopment agency, if there is no local housing authority in that jurisdiction, the local housing authority selected does not accept the responsibility for performing housing functions, or certain local housing authoritiesvote, on or before February 15, 2013, to transfer that responsibility to the department due to financialhardship. The bill would create a continuously appropriated fund within the State Treasury, the State Low and Moderate Income Housing Trust Fund, for the transfer of assets of local housing funds for these purposes, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      Position                             AB 1606 (Perea D)   Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures. Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/7/2012 Last Amend: 5/17/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/9/2012-A. CONCURRENCE 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #88  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. This bill would instead authorize the employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. The bill would also authorize an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. The bill would specify that the procedural right of an employee organization to request a factfinding panel cannot be expressly or voluntarily waived . The bill would also specify that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.      Position                             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: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 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 1750 (Solorio D)   Rainwater Capture Act of 2012. Current Text: Amended: 8/7/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 8/7/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #212  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  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 national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. This bill would enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which would authorize residential, commercial, and governmental landowners to install, maintain, and operate rain barrel systems, as defined, and rainwater capture systems, as defined, as specified, if certain requirements are met . The act would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, when the local agency issues a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The act, except as specified, would also require a landowner that installs arainwater capture system where a permit is not required to notify the operator of the public water system prior to installation . The bill would prohibit the California Building Standards Commission from adopting any regulation relating to a water quality standard for the indoor use of rainwater pursuant to the act without the concurrence of the State Department of Public Health. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      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 2069 (Solorio D)   Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits. Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #261  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law provides for the payment of a scholarship to dependents of specified peace officers if the peace officer is killed in the performance of his or her duty or if the officer suffers death or permanent disability as a result of specified accidents or injuries incurred in the performance of his or her duties. Existing law also requires the employer of a peace officer who is killed in the performance of his or her duty, or who suffers death as a result of specified accidents or injuries, to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's spouse unless the spouse elects to receive a lump-sum survivor's benefit in lieu of monthly benefits. This bill would extend these peace officer benefits to Sheriff's Special Officers of the County of Orange.       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: 4/26/2012-A. RLS. 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 2230 (Gatto D)   Recycled water: car washes. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/28/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #114  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take appropriate actionsto prevent waste or the unreasonable use of water. Under existing law, the board makes determinations with regard to the availability of recycled water. This bill would require an in-bay car wash, as defined, or a conveyor car wash, as defined, permitted and constructed after January 1, 2014, to either install, use, and maintain a water recycling system, as defined, that recycles and reuses at least 60% of the wash and rinse water, or to enter into a contract to use recycled water provided by a retail water supplier to wash and rinse vehicles.       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                             ACA 22 (Smyth R)   Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 2/22/2012-A. PRINT 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: 8/9/2012-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE  2Year Dead 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, 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: 8/22/2011-A. DESK  2Year Dead 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 965 (Wright D)   State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control  boards: ex parte communications.  Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 1/11/2012  Last Amend: 6/21/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/8/2012-A. APPR.  2Year Dead 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 (regional boards) implement the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act by prescribing waste discharge requirements for discharges to the waters of the state, as specified. Existing law authorizes the state board and regional boards to hold hearings necessary for carrying out their duties, as specified. This bill would provide that the ex parte communications provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act do not apply to specified proceedings of the state board or a regional board. The bill would, instead, define an ex parte communication as an oral or written communication with one or more board members regarding those specified state or regional board proceedings , and would specify the only instances in which an ex parte communication involving those specified proceedings is permissible . The bill would permit oral ex parte communications at any time by any board member if the board member involved in the communication notifies, and provides specified requirements for the participation of, all interested persons , as defined . The bill would permit written ex parte communications by any person provided that the interested person who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all interested persons , as specified. The bill would require that if an individual ex parte communication meeting or call is granted to any interested person , all other interested persons shall also be granted individual ex parte meetings of a substantially equal period of time with the board member. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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                                SCA 18 (Huff R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.  2Year Dead 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 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                            Page 9 / 12 OCSD Legislative Matrix 8/9/2012 Total Measures: 30 Total Tracking Forms: 30    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: 9/1/2011-S. E.Q. 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 1585 (John A. Pérez D)   Community development. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/13/2012  11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair  Summary:  Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to retain the housing assets, functions, and powers previously performed by the redevelopment agency, excluding amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would transfer to the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibility to perform housing functions in the territorial jurisdiction of a former redevelopment agency, if there is no local housing authority in that jurisdiction, the local housing authority selected does not accept the responsibility for performing housing functions, or certain local housing authoritiesvote, on or before February 15, 2013, to transfer that responsibility to the department due to financialhardship. The bill would create a continuously appropriated fund within the State Treasury, the State Low and Moderate Income Housing Trust Fund, for the transfer of assets of local housing funds for these purposes, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      Position                             AB 1606 (Perea D)   Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures. Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/7/2012 Last Amend: 5/17/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/9/2012-A. CONCURRENCE 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #88  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. This bill would instead authorize the employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. The bill would also authorize an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. The bill would specify that the procedural right of an employee organization to request a factfinding panel cannot be expressly or voluntarily waived . The bill would also specify that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.      Position                             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: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 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 1750 (Solorio D)   Rainwater Capture Act of 2012. Current Text: Amended: 8/7/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 8/7/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #212  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  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 national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. This bill would enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which would authorize residential, commercial, and governmental landowners to install, maintain, and operate rain barrel systems, as defined, and rainwater capture systems, as defined, as specified, if certain requirements are met . The act would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, when the local agency issues a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The act, except as specified, would also require a landowner that installs arainwater capture system where a permit is not required to notify the operator of the public water system prior to installation . The bill would prohibit the California Building Standards Commission from adopting any regulation relating to a water quality standard for the indoor use of rainwater pursuant to the act without the concurrence of the State Department of Public Health. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      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 2069 (Solorio D)   Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits. Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #261  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law provides for the payment of a scholarship to dependents of specified peace officers if the peace officer is killed in the performance of his or her duty or if the officer suffers death or permanent disability as a result of specified accidents or injuries incurred in the performance of his or her duties. Existing law also requires the employer of a peace officer who is killed in the performance of his or her duty, or who suffers death as a result of specified accidents or injuries, to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's spouse unless the spouse elects to receive a lump-sum survivor's benefit in lieu of monthly benefits. This bill would extend these peace officer benefits to Sheriff's Special Officers of the County of Orange.       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: 4/26/2012-A. RLS. 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 2230 (Gatto D)   Recycled water: car washes. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/28/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #114  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take appropriate actionsto prevent waste or the unreasonable use of water. Under existing law, the board makes determinations with regard to the availability of recycled water. This bill would require an in-bay car wash, as defined, or a conveyor car wash, as defined, permitted and constructed after January 1, 2014, to either install, use, and maintain a water recycling system, as defined, that recycles and reuses at least 60% of the wash and rinse water, or to enter into a contract to use recycled water provided by a retail water supplier to wash and rinse vehicles.       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                             ACA 22 (Smyth R)   Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 2/22/2012-A. PRINT 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: 8/9/2012-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 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: 8/22/2011-A. DESK 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  2Year Dead 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 965 (Wright D)   State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control  boards: ex parte communications.  Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 1/11/2012  Last Amend: 6/21/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 8/8/2012-A. APPR.  2Year Dead 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 (regional boards) implement the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act by prescribing waste discharge requirements for discharges to the waters of the state, as specified. Existing law authorizes the state board and regional boards to hold hearings necessary for carrying out their duties, as specified. This bill would provide that the ex parte communications provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act do not apply to specified proceedings of the state board or a regional board. The bill would, instead, define an ex parte communication as an oral or written communication with one or more board members regarding those specified state or regional board proceedings , and would specify the only instances in which an ex parte communication involving those specified proceedings is permissible . The bill would permit oral ex parte communications at any time by any board member if the board member involved in the communication notifies, and provides specified requirements for the participation of, all interested persons , as defined . The bill would permit written ex parte communications by any person provided that the interested person who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all interested persons , as specified. The bill would require that if an individual ex parte communication meeting or call is granted to any interested person , all other interested persons shall also be granted individual ex parte meetings of a substantially equal period of time with the board member. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.       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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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                                SCA 18 (Huff R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.  2Year Dead 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 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                            Page 10 / 12 OCSD Legislative Matrix 8/9/2012 Total Measures: 30 Total Tracking Forms: 30    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: 9/1/2011-S. E.Q. 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 1585 (John A. Pérez D)   Community development. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/13/2012  11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair  Summary:  Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to retain the housing assets, functions, and powers previously performed by the redevelopment agency, excluding amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would transfer to the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibility to perform housing functions in the territorial jurisdiction of a former redevelopment agency, if there is no local housing authority in that jurisdiction, the local housing authority selected does not accept the responsibility for performing housing functions, or certain local housing authoritiesvote, on or before February 15, 2013, to transfer that responsibility to the department due to financialhardship. The bill would create a continuously appropriated fund within the State Treasury, the State Low and Moderate Income Housing Trust Fund, for the transfer of assets of local housing funds for these purposes, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      Position                             AB 1606 (Perea D)   Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures. Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/7/2012 Last Amend: 5/17/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/9/2012-A. CONCURRENCE 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #88  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. This bill would instead authorize the employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. The bill would also authorize an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. The bill would specify that the procedural right of an employee organization to request a factfinding panel cannot be expressly or voluntarily waived . The bill would also specify that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.      Position                             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: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 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 1750 (Solorio D)   Rainwater Capture Act of 2012. Current Text: Amended: 8/7/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 8/7/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #212  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  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 national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. This bill would enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which would authorize residential, commercial, and governmental landowners to install, maintain, and operate rain barrel systems, as defined, and rainwater capture systems, as defined, as specified, if certain requirements are met . The act would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, when the local agency issues a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The act, except as specified, would also require a landowner that installs arainwater capture system where a permit is not required to notify the operator of the public water system prior to installation . The bill would prohibit the California Building Standards Commission from adopting any regulation relating to a water quality standard for the indoor use of rainwater pursuant to the act without the concurrence of the State Department of Public Health. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      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 2069 (Solorio D)   Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits. Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #261  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law provides for the payment of a scholarship to dependents of specified peace officers if the peace officer is killed in the performance of his or her duty or if the officer suffers death or permanent disability as a result of specified accidents or injuries incurred in the performance of his or her duties. Existing law also requires the employer of a peace officer who is killed in the performance of his or her duty, or who suffers death as a result of specified accidents or injuries, to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's spouse unless the spouse elects to receive a lump-sum survivor's benefit in lieu of monthly benefits. This bill would extend these peace officer benefits to Sheriff's Special Officers of the County of Orange.       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: 4/26/2012-A. RLS. 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 2230 (Gatto D)   Recycled water: car washes. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/28/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #114  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take appropriate actionsto prevent waste or the unreasonable use of water. Under existing law, the board makes determinations with regard to the availability of recycled water. This bill would require an in-bay car wash, as defined, or a conveyor car wash, as defined, permitted and constructed after January 1, 2014, to either install, use, and maintain a water recycling system, as defined, that recycles and reuses at least 60% of the wash and rinse water, or to enter into a contract to use recycled water provided by a retail water supplier to wash and rinse vehicles.       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                             ACA 22 (Smyth R)   Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 2/22/2012-A. PRINT 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: 8/9/2012-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 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: 8/22/2011-A. DESK 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 965 (Wright D)   State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control boards: ex parte communications. Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 1/11/2012 Last Amend: 6/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/8/2012-A. APPR. 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 (regional boards) implement the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act by prescribing waste discharge requirements for discharges to the waters of the state, as specified. Existing law authorizes the state board and regional boards to hold hearings necessary for carrying out their duties, as specified. This bill would provide that the ex parte communications provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act do not apply to specified proceedings of the state board or a regional board. The bill would, instead, define an ex parte communication as an oral or written communication with one or more board members regarding those specified state or regional board proceedings , and would specify the only instances in which an ex parte communication involving those specified proceedings is permissible . The bill would permit oral ex parte communications at any time by any board member if the board member involved in the communication notifies, and provides specified requirements for the participation of, all interested persons , as defined . The bill would permit written ex parte communications by any person provided that the interested person who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all interested persons , as specified. The bill would require that if an individual ex parte communication meeting or call is granted to any interested person , all other interested persons shall also be granted individual ex parte meetings of a substantially equal period of time with the board member. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      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 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  2Year Dead 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 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  2Year Dead 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                                SCA 18 (Huff R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.  2Year Dead 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 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                            Page 11 / 12 OCSD Legislative Matrix 8/9/2012 Total Measures: 30 Total Tracking Forms: 30    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: 9/1/2011-S. E.Q. 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 1585 (John A. Pérez D)   Community development. Current Text: Amended: 8/6/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 8/6/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/13/2012  11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair  Summary:  Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to retain the housing assets, functions, and powers previously performed by the redevelopment agency, excluding amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would transfer to the Department of Housing and Community Development the responsibility to perform housing functions in the territorial jurisdiction of a former redevelopment agency, if there is no local housing authority in that jurisdiction, the local housing authority selected does not accept the responsibility for performing housing functions, or certain local housing authoritiesvote, on or before February 15, 2013, to transfer that responsibility to the department due to financialhardship. The bill would create a continuously appropriated fund within the State Treasury, the State Low and Moderate Income Housing Trust Fund, for the transfer of assets of local housing funds for these purposes, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      Position                             AB 1606 (Perea D)   Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures. Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/7/2012 Last Amend: 5/17/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/9/2012-A. CONCURRENCE 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #88  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. This bill would instead authorize the employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. The bill would also authorize an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. The bill would specify that the procedural right of an employee organization to request a factfinding panel cannot be expressly or voluntarily waived . The bill would also specify that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.      Position                             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: 8/6/2012-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 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 1750 (Solorio D)   Rainwater Capture Act of 2012. Current Text: Amended: 8/7/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 8/7/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #212  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  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 national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, stormwater resource plans that meet certain standards. This bill would enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which would authorize residential, commercial, and governmental landowners to install, maintain, and operate rain barrel systems, as defined, and rainwater capture systems, as defined, as specified, if certain requirements are met . The act would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, when the local agency issues a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The act, except as specified, would also require a landowner that installs arainwater capture system where a permit is not required to notify the operator of the public water system prior to installation . The bill would prohibit the California Building Standards Commission from adopting any regulation relating to a water quality standard for the indoor use of rainwater pursuant to the act without the concurrence of the State Department of Public Health. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      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 2069 (Solorio D)   Workers' compensation: peace officer benefits. Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 5/24/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/7/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #261  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law provides for the payment of a scholarship to dependents of specified peace officers if the peace officer is killed in the performance of his or her duty or if the officer suffers death or permanent disability as a result of specified accidents or injuries incurred in the performance of his or her duties. Existing law also requires the employer of a peace officer who is killed in the performance of his or her duty, or who suffers death as a result of specified accidents or injuries, to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's spouse unless the spouse elects to receive a lump-sum survivor's benefit in lieu of monthly benefits. This bill would extend these peace officer benefits to Sheriff's Special Officers of the County of Orange.       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: 4/26/2012-A. RLS. 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 2230 (Gatto D)   Recycled water: car washes. Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/24/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/28/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House  Calendar:  8/9/2012  #114  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE  Summary: Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take appropriate actionsto prevent waste or the unreasonable use of water. Under existing law, the board makes determinations with regard to the availability of recycled water. This bill would require an in-bay car wash, as defined, or a conveyor car wash, as defined, permitted and constructed after January 1, 2014, to either install, use, and maintain a water recycling system, as defined, that recycles and reuses at least 60% of the wash and rinse water, or to enter into a contract to use recycled water provided by a retail water supplier to wash and rinse vehicles.       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                             ACA 22 (Smyth R)   Public employees' retirement. Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 2/22/2012-A. PRINT 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: 8/9/2012-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE 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: 8/22/2011-A. DESK 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 965 (Wright D)   State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control boards: ex parte communications. Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 1/11/2012 Last Amend: 6/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 8/8/2012-A. APPR. 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 (regional boards) implement the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act by prescribing waste discharge requirements for discharges to the waters of the state, as specified. Existing law authorizes the state board and regional boards to hold hearings necessary for carrying out their duties, as specified. This bill would provide that the ex parte communications provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act do not apply to specified proceedings of the state board or a regional board. The bill would, instead, define an ex parte communication as an oral or written communication with one or more board members regarding those specified state or regional board proceedings , and would specify the only instances in which an ex parte communication involving those specified proceedings is permissible . The bill would permit oral ex parte communications at any time by any board member if the board member involved in the communication notifies, and provides specified requirements for the participation of, all interested persons , as defined . The bill would permit written ex parte communications by any person provided that the interested person who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all interested persons , as specified. The bill would require that if an individual ex parte communication meeting or call is granted to any interested person , all other interested persons shall also be granted individual ex parte meetings of a substantially equal period of time with the board member. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.      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                             SCA 18 (Huff R)   Public employees' retirement.  Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012   pdf   html  Introduced: 2/22/2012  Is Fiscal: Y  Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.  2Year Dead 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 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                            Page 12 / 12 Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee 08/01/2012 - 930 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom Coastkeeper - Boys and Girls Club to tour P1. Ingrid Hellebrand Tour Guide 08/10/2012 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom Chinese Delegation from OC Watersheds to tour P1. Approx. 15 guests. Jian Liang Tour Guide 08/14/2012 - 1200- 100 OCSD Chat Room Boardroom Carla Dillion to present on New Zealand Wastewater Carla Dillon Speaker 08/16/2012 - 1230 - 1730 Westminster Green Expo Westminster Civic Center OCSD to host an information booth at this year's 4th Annual Green Expo. OCSD Employees 08/25/2012 - 900 - 1200 Speaking Engagement Fullerton College Preparing for Career Opportunities in the Urban Water Treatment Industry. Alex Shaaban Speaker 08/29/2012 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom Santa Ana Public Works to tour P1. Approx. 45 guests. EMT Tour Guides 09/18/2012 - 1000 - 1200 Plant Tours Boardroom OCSD Vendor event and plant tours. 2 tours Corey Tull Tour Guide. 09/29/2012 - 900 - 1400 University of CA Landscape Open House and Vendor Fair South Coast Research and Extension Center OCSD to host information Booth. Faviola Miranda Booth Host Cheryl Scott Cheryl Scott Cheryl Scott Cheryl Scott OCSD Outreach Report - 08/14/2012 Contact Cheryl Scott Cheryl Scott Cheryl Scott Cheryl Scott 8/14/2012 6:58:53 AM