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Orange County Sanitation District Regular Meeting of the
Steering Committee
Wednesday, July 25, 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.
· General Manager’s Draft Workplan and Summary of Accomplishments
CONSENT CALENDAR:
1. Approve Minutes of the June 27, 2012 Steering Committee Meeting.
ACTION ITEMS:
2. Authorize one year renewals to the following agreements for state and federal
advocacy:
A. Approve Amendment No. 4 to P.O. 103000 issued to Townsend Public Affairs for State Lobbying Services, Specification No. CS-2007-351BD, in
an amount not to exceed $7,500 per month through June 30, 2013; this is
the last renewal option for the five-year agreement.
B. Approve Amendment No. 4 to P.O. 103001 issued to ENS Resources for Federal Lobbying Services, Specification No. CS-2007-352BD, in an
amount not to exceed $7,500 per month through June 30, 2013; this is
the last renewal option for the five-year agreement.
INFORMATION ITEMS:
3. Public Affairs Report
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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:
Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority v. Orange County Sanitation District, Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Reference No. 1210030062
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:
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ADJOURNMENT: The next Steering Committee meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 22, 2012,
at 5:00 p.m.
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
STEERING COMMITTEE Meeting Date
07/25/12
To Bd. of Dir.
AGENDA REPORT Item Number 2 Item Number
Orange County Sanitation District
FROM: James D. Ruth, General Manager
Originator: Michael Gold, Public Affairs
SUBJECT: Renewal of Legislative Advocates’ Contracts for 2012-13 GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION
Authorize one year renewals to the following agreements for state and federal
advocacy:
A. Approve Amendment No. 4 to P.O. 103000 issued to Townsend Public Affairs for
State Lobbying Services, Specification No. CS-2007-351BD, in an amount not to
exceed $7,500 per month through June 30, 2013; this is the last renewal
option for the five-year agreement.
B. Approve Amendment No. 4 to P.O. 103001 issued to ENS Resources for Federal
Lobbying Services, Specification No. CS-2007-352BD, in an amount not to
exceed $7,500 per month through June 30, 2013; this is the last renewal
option for the five-year agreement.
SUMMARY
Staff recommends that the Steering Committee approve the agreements with Townsend
Public Affairs and ENS Resources for one year (through June 30, 2013) because both firms have performed satisfactorily during the last contract period.
PRIOR COMMITTEE/BOARD ACTIONS June 2011 – Steering Committee approved Amendment No. 3 to the agreements for
Townsend Public Affairs and ENS Resources extended their agreements through June
30, 2012.
June 2010 – Steering Committee approved Amendment No. 2 to the agreements for Townsend Public Affairs and ENS Resources extended their agreements through June
30, 2011.
May 2009 – Steering Committee approved Amendment No. 1 to the agreements for
Townsend Public Affairs and ENS Resources extended their agreements through June 30, 2010.
October 2007 – Board Directors approved five-year agreements with state and federal
legislative advocates and approved four one-year renewals at the discretion of the
Steering Committee.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
In 2007, the Steering Committee directed staff to issue RFPs for legislative advocacy
services at the both the state and federal levels and align the lobbyist contracts with the
fiscal year.
In October 2007, the Steering Committee and Board of Directors approved five-year agreements with Townsend Public Affairs and ENS Resources and stipulated that the
agreements would be annual, granting discretion to the Steering Committee for renewal.
The original agreements started on January 1, 2008 and ran through June 30, 2009.
The current agreements expire on June 30, 2012. Accomplishments over the past year
Since these contracts were originally approved in 2007, there have been some
significant accomplishments with the legislative program. In addition to the greater level
of communication between District directors, staff and legislative advocates, there has been a more clearly defined set of goals, increased focus on key matters and stronger relationships with legislators and their staff. Other accomplishments over the past year
include:
· Regular meetings and phone calls with advocates;
· Advocacy work on behalf of OCSD in Sacramento on the State Budget.
· Assistance with state legislation (supporting/defeating/modifying); especially priority bills related to beach testing, liability, pension reform, bio-cremation, redevelopment and bioenergy.
· District meetings with all Sacramento legislative staff on property tax impacts to
OCSD;
· Meetings in Sacramento with Legislators and staff;
· Up-to-date information on the State Budget in Sacramento
· Successful advocacy trips to Washington, D.C.;
· Regular updates from DC.
· Assistance with the Proposition 84 grant through SAWPA that netted $1 million
for OCSD secondary treatment upgrades and
· Work on the Federal Clean Water Act income rule (10% rule) moving the issue
farther than it had ever moved in the past.
· Attendance at Steering and Board meetings to provide regular updates and information.
Since the first agreements began in 2008, OCSD has spent a total of $850,000 on
legislative advocacy services and we have received $2.3 million in State and Federal
Grants.
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STEERING COMMITTEE Meeting Date 07/25/12 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 Community Open House on July 28
For the first time in several years, OCSD will be holding a community open house on
July 28 with the Orange County Water District. The event will be from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm and will feature plant tours and information booths about who we are and what we do. We will also have a prescription drug drop-off site for residents to bring their unused
medication.
Outreach Efforts As reported in the past, the Public Affairs team is leading efforts to ramp up our outreach efforts in the service area. We are demonstrating our “We’re here for you”
message by explaining who we are and what we do to educate the public about what to
flush down the drain and keeping our sewers clean.
Here are our stats for the fiscal year:
Tours 151 groups 2604 visitors (a record year!)
Outreach 33 events (average about 3 events per month)
In addition to the numerous tours and community events, we are also visiting local
legislative offices and city PIOs to talk about how OCSD protects public health and the
environment.
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Look for us at the OC Fair This year we will have booth at the Orange County Fair August 2-5. We a sharing time
with MWDOC and will have information about OCSD, tours and educational programs.
This is the first time we have been at the OC Fair in many years.
Attached is a list of recent outreach events, meetings and opportunities.
The new Lobby Look
We are updating the displays in the lobby area to reflect our “We’re here for you” tag
line. The displays feature employees and will be used for tours and educational purposes. Not only will there be new displays in the front lobby but we will also have a history timeline in the hall and new plant process pictures. All these displays have been
designed in house.
Responding to the Grand Jury On June 14, 2012 the Orange County Grand Jury released a report, “Transparency Breaking Up Compensation Fog – But Why Hide Pension Costs?” This report rated
Orange County Public Agency Websites for grades on accessibility and content.
OCSD responded to the report because we were given a less than favorable rating on content. We disagreed with the Grand Jury’s initial premise that all public agencies are deliberately trying to hide compensation information, particularly when OCSD has been
posting this information online for more than ten years.
We will be preparing our formal response to the Grand Jury and will copy the Board. In addition, we will be including additional compensation information on www.ocsewers.com.
CASA’s new Executive Director
Last month, the California Association of Sanitation Agencies (our statewide association) announced the appointment of a new executive director.
CASA's Director of Legal & Regulatory Affairs Roberta L. "Bobbi" Larson will serve as
CASA's Executive Director (effective July 1, 2012). Bobbi will leave her law firm and
focus solely on CASA's leadership position. In a CASA news release Bobbi shared, "I'm very excited about this opportunity, and look forward to working with the CASA Executive Board of Directors and staff to further expand and enhance the influence and
impact CASA has on behalf of all its members in all forums discussing clean water.”
Bobbi will continue to oversee CASA's regulatory program and will now be responsible
for directing all of the association's programs and other professional service providers. For those Board Members that have been around CASA awhile, they know that Bobbi
brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the position.
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Grants update In January, we applied to the US Bureau of Reclamation for the WaterSmart grant
program. We requested $1.5 million for project P1-101, the Sludge Dewatering and
Odor Control project at Plant 1. This project has already received $2.3 million from EPA
and $1 million from Proposition 84 funds. We did not secure the WaterSmart Grant. Other grant updates:
· Staff attended the One Water One Watershed (OWOW) 2.0 Workshop at
SAWPA to discuss Round 2 of the Proposition 84 Integrated Regional Water
Management (IRWM) Plan grants. We received a $1 million grant in Round 1.
· Round 2 is now scheduled for 2013 per the California Department of Water
Resources. Note that Round 2 funds are limited to $16,593,333.
· Staff also attended the California Financing Coordination Committee (CFCC) Funding Fair in Riverside. The following State and Federal Agencies presented
at the fair:
o California Department of Public Health (CDPH), o California Department of Water Resources (DWR), o California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), o US Environmental Protection Agency, and
o US Bureau of Reclamation (USBR).
· Based on our research and information provided at the Funding Fair, we have
identified the following current, or near future, grant funding programs that may apply to OCSD’s upcoming projects:
o US EPA California Water and Energy Program (CalWEP) free water and
energy audits for water and wastewater treatment plants.
o SWRCB Water Recycling Funding Program for Construction Projects o SWRCB Clean Beaches Initiative o Southern California Edison (SCE) Self-Generation Incentive Program
(SGIP)
Federal Legislative Update
Legislative Advocate: Eric Sapirstein, ENS Resources
The House and Senate continued to engage in the legislative dance of positioning each
chamber for the eventual Lame Duck Session. During the past month, each chamber
moved forward on legislation to overhaul the nation’s farm bill and in doing so set the stage for a potential final agreement by the end of September when the current law
expires. This action is relevant to wastewater treatment agencies because for the first
time, a public agency and an agricultural interest can develop controls for nutrient
discharges and other sources of water quality impairment, boosting watershed
management options through this program. This is not a big concern for OCSD.
In other areas, there was key action on the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget and infrastructure.
Fiscal Year 2013 Budget
The development of USEPA’s budget is fast becoming a hurry-up and wait scenario. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) issued a statement that the Senate will delay
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consideration of any final spending measures until after the election. This means that the government will (again) operate on a continuing resolution starting October 1 and
most likely extending through the end of the year. Despite this lack of action in the
Senate, the House is moving on spending bills (Interior and Environment
Appropriations). In the past month, the House Committee on Appropriations approved the EPA’s budget
but drew a veto threat from the White House. The administration issued the threat
because the House committee reduced spending beyond an agreed-upon fiscal year
2013 budget plan that was approved as part of last summer’s long-term deficit reduction plan.
For the USEPA, the House Budget means serious reductions with $1.9 billion in cuts. In
the SRF program, wastewater treatment infrastructure assistance was reduced to $689
million. A series of policy riders were also included. Among the most important were:
· Imposing Buy American mandates on the use of SRF funding, which would only
apply to iron and steel. Manufactured goods, such as pumps and other
technologies necessary for treatment, would be exempted.
· Prohibiting the use of any funds to develop, revise or implement any changes to the definition of what waters are considered subject to regulation under the Clean
Water Act.
· Rescinding more than $130 million in unobligated funding in the SRF program
and other grants assistance programs.
· Imposing spending reductions on agency staff at EPA headquarters.
While the Senate Committee on Appropriations has yet to markup its version of an EPA
spending bill, the Buy America mandate appears to be a candidate for inclusion. At the same time, it seems highly unlikely that the committee will adopt the House reductions. Instead, we expect that the committee will agree with the White House that spending
levels were previously agreed-upon and that they should be adhered to as part of any
final spending bill for fiscal year 2013.
As information, these are important industry issues, but OCSD does not currently participate in the State Revolving Loan Fund (SRF) program.
The only unknown for the Senate bill is the rider preventing the development of
guidance or regulations for Waters of the U.S. A number of Senators (in both parties) have been seeking to prevent any changes to the current definition. It is not unrealistic that an agreement to halt action on the effort to redefine Waters of U.S. could be
developed and included in any final bill. This has no impact on OCSD.
Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) Discussion on WRDA renewal has restarted. We do not anticipate any final congressional action this year; however, both the House and Senate staff indicate that
they may begin developing final language over the next several weeks. This language
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could become the basis of a WRDA rewrite that might become the subject of congressional action during a Lame Duck Session.
Water Infrastructure and Clean Water SRF
The legislative effort to address the water infrastructure gap appears sidelined for the moment. Hopes that a WIFIA (Water Infrastructure Financing) bill would be the subject of a House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure hearing were dashed when
state administrators charged with management of their respective SRF programs
denounced the initiative. These stakeholders questioned the approach of a WIFIA
because it would reduce state involvement in determining which projects should receive funding. Under WIFIA, project sponsors would submit projects to EPA or the Treasury Department for funding approval. Additionally, the state officials object to WIFIA
replacing the SRF program to obtain budget savings. Since WIFIA would be a onetime
appropriation, the federal partnership could effectively be diminished or eliminated at
the very time that new and expensive water quality mandates like nutrient controls and emerging contaminants of concern are being imposed. Given this opposition, congressional staff has stated that it is unlikely any further action will take place in the
House until such time as an agreement with the state officials can be reached.
Conflict of Interest Regulation and Appointment to Water Boards Representative Gary Miller received a response to his May letter to USEPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson seeking an answer on whether the agency supports his
bill, H.R. 2765, or can make changes administratively to allow for the appointment of
qualified individuals that have received income from a permittee in prior years. Writing
on behalf of Administrator Jackson, Acting Assistant Administrator Nancy Stoner indicated to Miller that the Agency was examining ways in which to address the issue based on requests from stakeholders. However, she refused to respond to Miller’s direct
request for support of his legislation or whether the agency could administratively take
remedial actions. As a result of this lack of meaningful responses, we are working with
Miller’s staff and committee staff to determine if there is a vehicle to attach his initiative to during the next several months when Congress returns for its Lame Duck Session.
Mr. Miller’s letter and EPA’s response are attached.
State Legislative Update
Legislative Advocates: Christopher Townsend, Heather Dion and Casey Elliott,
Townsend Public Affairs
State Budget
On June 28 the Governor signed the main budget bill, which set forth the spending plan for the $91.3 billion general fund state budget. A few days later, the Governor signed a series of budget trailer bills enacting additional policy and funding changes necessary to
implement the budget. The primary challenge facing the Governor and Legislature was
how to address an estimated $16 billion budget deficit. In addition to the continually
slow economic recovery, this large budget shortfall was the result of lower than expected revenues in the current budget year as well as increased expenditures in the
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current year resulting from court decisions and higher workloads in health and human service programs.
With the passage of Proposition 25 in 2010, requiring only a simple majority to enact the
budget, the Governor and Democratic leadership negotiated how to address the deficit. For the most part, Republican legislators were not involved in developing the spending plan.
Pension Reform
Last October, Governor Brown released his 12-point pension reform plan. In response, the Legislature established a Conference Committee between the two Houses that held several hearings to discuss reform. In addition, Republican legislators also introduced
legislation mirroring the Governor’s proposal. However, little traction was generated due
to the Legislature’s primary focus on passing a budget.
The Governor recently issued a statement saying he could not go along with some of the pension changes put forward by the Legislature in negotiations. He asked that they
continue discussions over the legislative recess to resolve the remaining issues. A
major motivation for the Governor to act on pension reform is to convince voters he is
serious about making changes in advance of his ballot tax measure in November. Simultaneously, another pension reform issue affecting local governments has been
gathering steam. Last November, the voters in the cities of San Diego and San Jose
overwhelmingly supported ballot measures implementing major pension reform
measures. As both of those approved measures are now being challenged in court, Mayors of each city sent letters to legislative leadership this week, citing rumors of potential legislative intervention to overturn or somehow change the results of the
approved reform measures.
After these letters were released, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg told the media he had no intent in pursuing legislation that would overrule the will of the voters in the two cities. The Governor similarly said his proposal did not contain any provisions to
undo voter-approved measures at the local level.
However, while the details of the Legislature’s proposal for pension reform have not been made public, Senator Steinberg has said in the media the Legislature’s pension reform proposal would likely address local governments in the following areas:
· Requirement for local governments to roll back retirement formulas for new city, county and special district employees in the same way formulas have already
been rolled back for new workers at the State level;
· Changing the current formula (2 percent times the number of years worked times
the average of three years’ pay at age 55) for non-safety local government workers to their collection of 2 percent at age 60, the same formula for new State
hires. This multiplier would climb to 2.5 percent if workers retired at age 67.
· Prohibitions applying to current employees on pension spiking, a ban on
retroactive benefit increases, and the elimination of “air time” purchases;
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· Repeal of a State law requiring local governments to offer an offsetting benefit
every time a labor union grants a pension concession.
The Governor’s Office recently stated that they will not be pursuing a pension reform
ballot initiative, but instead the Governor will continue to work with the Legislative leadership over the summer legislative recess.
According to a recent Field Poll, the public is somewhat divided on these issues. The
Field Poll found that 37 percent of likely voters believe public pensions are too ample;
while 36 percent say benefit levels are about right. In addition, 17 percent said benefits are not generous enough and 10 percent had no opinion. However, there is strong
support among the electorate for limiting how much of an employee’s salary is used for
pension calculations and increasing the retirement age.
Regarding the Governor’s strategy of drumming up support for the tax initiative through pension reform, the Field Poll found that 54 percent of likely voters stated that pension
reform wouldn’t affect how they would vote on the tax initiative. Only 11 percent of those
who are inclined to vote against the tax initiative said that pension reform would likely
change their minds. Whereas, 14 percent of those inclined to support the tax initiative
stated that they would vote against the measure if there was pension reform legislation.
PRIOR COMMITTEE/BOARD ACTIONS
N/A ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
CEQA
N/A
BUDGET / DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY COMPLIANCE
N/A
OCSD Legislative Matrix
7/16/2012
Total Measures: 31
Total Tracking Forms: 31
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: 6/25/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/2/2012
Last Amend: 6/25/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/5/2012-S. APPR.
2Year
Dead
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc.
Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
Summary: Under existing law, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, authorizes
the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation
Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are used to finance various existing housing
programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill
development, housing-related parks, and transit-oriented development administered by the
Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 of bond
revenues to the Department of Housing and Community Development and from that amount, allocate
$25,000,000 from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for infill incentive grants,
and $25,000,000 from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for transit-oriented
grants and loans.
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: 6/26/2012-S. THIRD READING
2Year
Dead
Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.
Conc.
Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
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: 6/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/8/2012
Last Amend: 6/26/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/2/2012-S. APPR.
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. This bill 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. 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
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected
to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out
of his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public
retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as
specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent
felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,
his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary,
disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to
service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill
would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on
or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a
distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension
administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes.
Position
AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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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: 6/19/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2012
Last Amend: 6/19/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 6/19/2012-S. E.Q.
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the 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, for specified purposes, provided that
the systems comply with specified requirements. The bill would require a local agency to provide
notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, if the local agency chooses to adopt
a permitting program for rainwater capture systems and approves a permit for a rainwater capture
system connected to the public water system. The bill 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, with a specified exception. 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
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Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be
paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the
cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation as
provided by a specified California Consumer Price Index.
Position
AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or
repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of
Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or
repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in
accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the
agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and
individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a
regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it
within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes
effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions
occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major
regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a
regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. This
bill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming
effective include a statutory override of the regulation.
Position
AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012,
which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the
issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond
Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make
$250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable
Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation
and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of
those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from
the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water
Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of
local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers
within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects ,
consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 6/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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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: 6/28/2012-S. APPR.
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Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
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 2075 (Fong D) Energy: powerplant certification.
Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 3/29/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
with the exclusive jurisdiction to certify an electric generating facility. Existing law defines a facility to
mean an electric transmission line or thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts
or greater. Existing law authorizes a person proposing to construct a facility excluded from the
commission's jurisdiction to waive the exclusion by submitting to the commission a notice of intent to
file an application for certification. This bill would repeal that authorization.
Position
AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater.
Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 5/1/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination
system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue
waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessary
to implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent
nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to
prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the
Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan .
Position
AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/26/2012-A. RLS.
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 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
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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
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional
water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater
in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and
the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act,
authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource
plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these
provisions.
Position
AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan
for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water
resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the
contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various
strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include
an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of
drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan.
Position
AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling.
Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/21/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
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
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 6/27/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 6/27/2012-A. APPR.
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 8/22/2011-A. DESK
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 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: 6/28/2012-A. APPR.
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (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
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/11/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
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.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
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Total Measures: 31
Total Tracking Forms: 31
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: 6/25/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 6/25/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/5/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair Summary: Under existing law, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, housing-related parks, and transit-oriented development administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 of bondrevenues to the Department of Housing and Community Development and from that amount, allocate $25,000,000 from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for infill incentive grants,and $25,000,000 from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for transit-oriented grants and loans. 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: 6/26/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 6/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/8/2012
Last Amend: 6/26/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/2/2012-S. APPR.
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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. This bill 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. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 1633 (Wagner R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age
at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for
various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill
would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service
is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit
the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in
the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted
annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 1639 (Hill D) Retirement: public employees.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers'
Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also
establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and
the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state
other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide
pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any
other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid
to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to
the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits
prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation,
or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to
be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public
employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of
compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision.
Position
AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture.
Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Last Amend: 3/29/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected
to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out
of his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public
retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as
specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent
felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,
his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary,
disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to
service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill
would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on
or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a
distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension
administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes.
Position
AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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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: 6/19/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2012
Last Amend: 6/19/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 6/19/2012-S. E.Q.
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the 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, for specified purposes, provided that
the systems comply with specified requirements. The bill would require a local agency to provide
notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, if the local agency chooses to adopt
a permitting program for rainwater capture systems and approves a permit for a rainwater capture
system connected to the public water system. The bill 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, with a specified exception. 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
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Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be
paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the
cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation as
provided by a specified California Consumer Price Index.
Position
AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or
repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of
Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or
repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in
accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the
agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and
individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a
regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it
within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes
effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions
occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major
regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a
regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. This
bill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming
effective include a statutory override of the regulation.
Position
AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012,
which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the
issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond
Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make
$250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable
Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation
and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of
those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from
the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water
Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of
local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers
within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects ,
consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 6/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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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: 6/28/2012-S. APPR.
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1st House 2nd House
Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
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 2075 (Fong D) Energy: powerplant certification.
Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 3/29/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
with the exclusive jurisdiction to certify an electric generating facility. Existing law defines a facility to
mean an electric transmission line or thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts
or greater. Existing law authorizes a person proposing to construct a facility excluded from the
commission's jurisdiction to waive the exclusion by submitting to the commission a notice of intent to
file an application for certification. This bill would repeal that authorization.
Position
AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater.
Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 5/1/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination
system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue
waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessary
to implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent
nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to
prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the
Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan .
Position
AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/26/2012-A. RLS.
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 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
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1st House 2nd House
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
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional
water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater
in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and
the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act,
authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource
plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these
provisions.
Position
AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan
for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water
resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the
contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various
strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include
an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of
drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan.
Position
AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling.
Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/21/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
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
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 6/27/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 6/27/2012-A. APPR.
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 8/22/2011-A. DESK
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 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: 6/28/2012-A. APPR.
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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
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/11/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
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.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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OCSD Legislative Matrix 7/16/2012
Total Measures: 31
Total Tracking Forms: 31
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: 6/25/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 6/25/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/5/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair Summary: Under existing law, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, housing-related parks, and transit-oriented development administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 of bondrevenues to the Department of Housing and Community Development and from that amount, allocate $25,000,000 from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for infill incentive grants,and $25,000,000 from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for transit-oriented grants and loans. 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: 6/26/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 6/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 6/26/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/2/2012-S. APPR. 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. This bill 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. 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
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Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected
to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out
of his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public
retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as
specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent
felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,
his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary,
disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to
service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill
would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on
or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a
distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension
administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes.
Position
AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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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: 6/19/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2012
Last Amend: 6/19/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 6/19/2012-S. E.Q.
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the 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, for specified purposes, provided that
the systems comply with specified requirements. The bill would require a local agency to provide
notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, if the local agency chooses to adopt
a permitting program for rainwater capture systems and approves a permit for a rainwater capture
system connected to the public water system. The bill 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, with a specified exception. 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
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Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be
paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the
cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation as
provided by a specified California Consumer Price Index.
Position
AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or
repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of
Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or
repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in
accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the
agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and
individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a
regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it
within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes
effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions
occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major
regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a
regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. This
bill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming
effective include a statutory override of the regulation.
Position
AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012,
which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the
issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond
Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make
$250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable
Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation
and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of
those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from
the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water
Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of
local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers
within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects ,
consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 6/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water
Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal
state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The act
requires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and
authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the
state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires
the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies.
Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to,
holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member,
a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication
that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that
a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff
member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or any
interested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is
permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the
communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditional
waivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise
prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the
communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as
defined. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
AB 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: 6/28/2012-S. APPR.
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Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
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 2075 (Fong D) Energy: powerplant certification.
Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 3/29/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
with the exclusive jurisdiction to certify an electric generating facility. Existing law defines a facility to
mean an electric transmission line or thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts
or greater. Existing law authorizes a person proposing to construct a facility excluded from the
commission's jurisdiction to waive the exclusion by submitting to the commission a notice of intent to
file an application for certification. This bill would repeal that authorization.
Position
AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater.
Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 5/1/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination
system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue
waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessary
to implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent
nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to
prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the
Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan .
Position
AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/26/2012-A. RLS.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 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
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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
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional
water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater
in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and
the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act,
authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource
plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these
provisions.
Position
AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan
for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water
resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the
contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various
strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include
an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of
drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan.
Position
AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling.
Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/21/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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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
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 6/27/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 6/27/2012-A. APPR.
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 8/22/2011-A. DESK
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 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: 6/28/2012-A. APPR.
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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
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
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Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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Total Measures: 31
Total Tracking Forms: 31
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: 6/25/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 6/25/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/5/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair Summary: Under existing law, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, housing-related parks, and transit-oriented development administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 of bondrevenues to the Department of Housing and Community Development and from that amount, allocate $25,000,000 from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for infill incentive grants,and $25,000,000 from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for transit-oriented grants and loans. 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: 6/26/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 6/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 6/26/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/2/2012-S. APPR. 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. This bill 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. 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: 6/19/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/19/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/19/2012-S. E.Q.
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the 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, for specified purposes, provided that
the systems comply with specified requirements. The bill would require a local agency to provide
notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, if the local agency chooses to adopt
a permitting program for rainwater capture systems and approves a permit for a rainwater capture
system connected to the public water system. The bill 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, with a specified exception. 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
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Summary: Existing law requires the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as provided, to be
paid to all workers employed on public works projects that exceed $1,000. This bill would increase the
cost threshold to $2,000 and would require that cost threshold to be adjusted annually for inflation as
provided by a specified California Consumer Price Index.
Position
AB 1982 (Gorell R) Regulations: effective date: legislative review.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or
repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of
Administrative Law. That act requires an agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or
repeal an administrative regulation, to determine the economic impact of that regulation, in
accordance with certain procedures. That act defines a major regulation as a regulation that the
agency determines has an expected economic impact on California business enterprises and
individuals in an amount exceeding $50,000,000. That act requires the office to transmit a copy of a
regulation to the Secretary of State for filing if the office approves the regulation or fails to act on it
within 30 days. That act provides that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes
effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, unless prescribed conditions
occur. This bill would require the office to submit to the Legislature for review a copy of each major
regulation that it submits to the Secretary of State. This bill would extend the time period that a
regulation becomes effective after being filed with the Secretary of State from 30 days to 90 days. This
bill would specify that the list of prescribed conditions that prevent a regulation from becoming
effective include a statutory override of the regulation.
Position
AB 2011 (Gatto D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program.
Current Text: Amended: 4/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012,
which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the
issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond
Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make
$250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable
Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation
and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of
those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from
the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water
Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of
local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers
within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects ,
consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 6/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
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Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water
Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal
state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The act
requires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and
authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the
state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires
the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies.
Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to,
holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member,
a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication
that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that
a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff
member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or any
interested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is
permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the
communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditional
waivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise
prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the
communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as
defined. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
AB 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: 6/28/2012-S. APPR.
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Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
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 2075 (Fong D) Energy: powerplant certification.
Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 3/29/2012
Is Fiscal: N
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Summary: Existing law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
with the exclusive jurisdiction to certify an electric generating facility. Existing law defines a facility to
mean an electric transmission line or thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts
or greater. Existing law authorizes a person proposing to construct a facility excluded from the
commission's jurisdiction to waive the exclusion by submitting to the commission a notice of intent to
file an application for certification. This bill would repeal that authorization.
Position
AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater.
Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 5/1/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination
system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue
waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessary
to implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent
nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to
prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the
Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan .
Position
AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/26/2012-A. RLS.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 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
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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
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional
water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater
in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and
the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act,
authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource
plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these
provisions.
Position
AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan
for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water
resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the
contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various
strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include
an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of
drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan.
Position
AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling.
Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/21/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 6/27/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 6/27/2012-A. APPR.
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 8/22/2011-A. DESK
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 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: 6/28/2012-A. APPR.
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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
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Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
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Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/11/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
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.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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OCSD Legislative Matrix 7/16/2012
Total Measures: 31
Total Tracking Forms: 31
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: 6/25/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 6/25/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/5/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair Summary: Under existing law, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, housing-related parks, and transit-oriented development administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 of bondrevenues to the Department of Housing and Community Development and from that amount, allocate $25,000,000 from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for infill incentive grants,and $25,000,000 from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for transit-oriented grants and loans. 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: 6/26/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 6/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 6/26/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/2/2012-S. APPR. 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. This bill 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. 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: 6/19/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/19/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/19/2012-S. E.Q. 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 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, for specified purposes, provided thatthe systems comply with specified requirements. The bill would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, if the local agency chooses to adopt a permitting program for rainwater capture systems and approves a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The bill 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, with a specified exception. 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
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Summary: Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012,
which, if approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide election, would authorize the
issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond
Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. The act would make
$250,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the Safe, Clean, and Reliable
Drinking Water Supply Fund of 2012, for direct expenditures, grants, and loans for water conservation
and water use efficiency plans, projects, and programs. The bill would require up to $50,000,000 of
those water conservation and water use efficiency funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature from
the fund, to be allocated to the Department of Water Resources to establish the CalConserve Water
Conservation Retrofit Program to provide grants to local water agencies for the implementation of
local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs, as prescribed, that assist customers
within the service area of the water agency to carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects ,
consistent with the act . This bill contains other related provisions.
Position
AB 2063 (Alejo D) Ex parte communications.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 6/18/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Under existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water
Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards are the principal
state agencies with responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in the state. The act
requires the state board to formulate and adopt state policies for water quality control, and
authorizes the state board to hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the
state necessary to carry out the powers vested in the state board, as specified. The act also requires
the regional boards to adopt regional water quality control plans in compliance with the state policies.
Existing law requires each regional board to conduct certain proceedings, including, but not limited to,
holding at least 6 regular meetings each calendar year. This bill would prohibit a state board member,
a regional board member, or any interested person, as defined, from engaging in a communication
that would be considered ex parte under the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would provide that
a communication is not ex parte if the communication is between a state or regional board staff
member acting in his or her official capacity and a state board member, regional board member, or any
interested person. The bill would provide that an otherwise prohibited ex parte communication is
permissible if the state or regional board member fully discloses the communication, and the
communication is in regard to waste discharge requirements, water quality certifications, or conditional
waivers of waste discharge requirements, as specified. The bill would also provide that an otherwise
prohibited ex parte communication is permissible if a regional board member fully discloses the
communication, and the communication is in regard to a municipal separate storm sewer permit, as
defined. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
AB 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: 6/28/2012-S. APPR.
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Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
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 2075 (Fong D) Energy: powerplant certification.
Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 3/29/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
with the exclusive jurisdiction to certify an electric generating facility. Existing law defines a facility to
mean an electric transmission line or thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts
or greater. Existing law authorizes a person proposing to construct a facility excluded from the
commission's jurisdiction to waive the exclusion by submitting to the commission a notice of intent to
file an application for certification. This bill would repeal that authorization.
Position
AB 2117 (Gorell R) Waste discharge requirements: stormwater.
Current Text: Amended: 5/1/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 5/1/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination
system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue
waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessary
to implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent
nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to
prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the
Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan .
Position
AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/26/2012-A. RLS.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 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
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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
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional
water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater
in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and
the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act,
authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource
plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these
provisions.
Position
AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan
for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water
resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the
contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various
strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include
an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of
drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan.
Position
AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling.
Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/21/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
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
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 6/27/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 6/27/2012-A. APPR.
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 8/22/2011-A. DESK
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 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: 6/28/2012-A. APPR.
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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
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/11/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
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.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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Total Measures: 31
Total Tracking Forms: 31
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: 6/25/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 6/25/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/5/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair Summary: Under existing law, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, housing-related parks, and transit-oriented development administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 of bondrevenues to the Department of Housing and Community Development and from that amount, allocate $25,000,000 from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for infill incentive grants,and $25,000,000 from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for transit-oriented grants and loans. 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: 6/26/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 6/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 6/26/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/2/2012-S. APPR. 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. This bill 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. 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: 6/19/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/19/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/19/2012-S. E.Q. 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 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, for specified purposes, provided thatthe systems comply with specified requirements. The bill would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, if the local agency chooses to adopt a permitting program for rainwater capture systems and approves a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The bill 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, with a specified exception. 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: 6/28/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair 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 2075 (Fong D) Energy: powerplant certification.
Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 3/29/2012
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Summary: Existing law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
with the exclusive jurisdiction to certify an electric generating facility. Existing law defines a facility to
mean an electric transmission line or thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts
or greater. Existing law authorizes a person proposing to construct a facility excluded from the
commission's jurisdiction to waive the exclusion by submitting to the commission a notice of intent to
file an application for certification. This bill would repeal that authorization.
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
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the
discharge of stormwater in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination
system (NPDES) permit program. Existing law requires the state board or the regional boards to issue
waste discharge requirements which apply and ensure compliance with all applicable provisions of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any more stringent effluent standards or limitations necessary
to implement water quality control plans, or for the protection of beneficial uses, or to prevent
nuisance. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to
prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan, as prescribed, and submit the plan to the
Legislature, by January 1, 2015, subject to agreement by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency to provide grant money to cover the costsof preparing the plan .
Position
AB 2224 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2230 (Gatto D) Recycled water: car washes.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
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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
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional
water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater
in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and
the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act,
authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource
plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these
provisions.
Position
AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
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Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan
for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water
resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the
contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various
strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include
an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of
drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan.
Position
AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling.
Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/21/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 6/27/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 6/27/2012-A. APPR.
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 8/22/2011-A. DESK
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 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: 6/28/2012-A. APPR.
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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
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/11/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
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.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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OCSD Legislative Matrix 7/16/2012
Total Measures: 31
Total Tracking Forms: 31
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: 6/25/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 6/25/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/5/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair Summary: Under existing law, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, housing-related parks, and transit-oriented development administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 of bondrevenues to the Department of Housing and Community Development and from that amount, allocate $25,000,000 from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for infill incentive grants,and $25,000,000 from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for transit-oriented grants and loans. 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: 6/26/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 6/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 6/26/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/2/2012-S. APPR. 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. This bill 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. 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: 6/19/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/19/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/19/2012-S. E.Q. 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 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, for specified purposes, provided thatthe systems comply with specified requirements. The bill would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, if the local agency chooses to adopt a permitting program for rainwater capture systems and approves a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The bill 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, with a specified exception. 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: 6/28/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair 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 2075 (Fong D) Energy: powerplant certification. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: N 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 vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commissionwith the exclusive jurisdiction to certify an electric generating facility. Existing law defines a facility to mean an electric transmission line or thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts or greater. Existing law authorizes a person proposing to construct a facility excluded from the commission's jurisdiction to waive the exclusion by submitting to the commission a notice of intent to file an application for certification. This bill would repeal that authorization. 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
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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
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Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional
water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements for the discharge of stormwater
in accordance with the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program and
the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law, the Stormwater Resource Planning Act,
authorizes a city, county, or special district to develop, jointly or individually, a stormwater resource
plan that meets certain standards. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in these
provisions.
Position
AB 2334 (Fong D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater services.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan
for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water
resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the
contents of the California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various
strategies and information in that plan. This bill would additionally require the department to include
an analysis of water affordability and possible mechanisms to address the lack of affordability of
drinking water and wastewater services in updates of the California Water Plan.
Position
AB 2398 (Hueso D) Water recycling.
Current Text: Amended: 5/21/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/21/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 7/6/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
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Summary: Existing law establishes 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: 6/27/2012-A. APPR.
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 8/22/2011-A. DESK
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 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: 6/28/2012-A. APPR.
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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
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
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.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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AB 1178 (Ma D) Solid waste: place of origin. Current Text: Amended: 8/24/2011 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 8/24/2011 Is Fiscal: N Location: 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: 6/25/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 6/25/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/5/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair Summary: Under existing law, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, housing-related parks, and transit-oriented development administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 of bondrevenues to the Department of Housing and Community Development and from that amount, allocate $25,000,000 from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for infill incentive grants,and $25,000,000 from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for transit-oriented grants and loans. 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: 6/26/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 6/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 6/26/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/2/2012-S. APPR. 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. This bill 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. 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: 6/19/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/19/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/19/2012-S. E.Q. 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 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, for specified purposes, provided thatthe systems comply with specified requirements. The bill would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, if the local agency chooses to adopt a permitting program for rainwater capture systems and approves a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The bill 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, with a specified exception. 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: 6/28/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair 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 2075 (Fong D) Energy: powerplant certification. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: N 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 vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commissionwith the exclusive jurisdiction to certify an electric generating facility. Existing law defines a facility to mean an electric transmission line or thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts or greater. Existing law authorizes a person proposing to construct a facility excluded from the commission's jurisdiction to waive the exclusion by submitting to the commission a notice of intent to file an application for certification. This bill would repeal that authorization. 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 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. 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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2012 pdf html
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
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Last Amend: 6/2/2011
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 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: 6/28/2012-A. APPR.
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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
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
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.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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OCSD Legislative Matrix 7/16/2012
Total Measures: 31
Total Tracking Forms: 31
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: 6/25/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 6/25/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/5/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair Summary: Under existing law, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, housing-related parks, and transit-oriented development administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 of bondrevenues to the Department of Housing and Community Development and from that amount, allocate $25,000,000 from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for infill incentive grants,and $25,000,000 from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for transit-oriented grants and loans. 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: 6/26/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 6/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 6/26/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/2/2012-S. APPR. 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. This bill 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. 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: 6/19/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/19/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/19/2012-S. E.Q. 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 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, for specified purposes, provided thatthe systems comply with specified requirements. The bill would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, if the local agency chooses to adopt a permitting program for rainwater capture systems and approves a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The bill 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, with a specified exception. 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: 6/28/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair 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 2075 (Fong D) Energy: powerplant certification. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: N 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 vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commissionwith the exclusive jurisdiction to certify an electric generating facility. Existing law defines a facility to mean an electric transmission line or thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts or greater. Existing law authorizes a person proposing to construct a facility excluded from the commission's jurisdiction to waive the exclusion by submitting to the commission a notice of intent to file an application for certification. This bill would repeal that authorization. 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 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
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Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 8/22/2011-A. DESK
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
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Summary: Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies and prohibits the
agencies from incurring indebtedness for a specified period. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment
agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the
dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, repay enforceable obligations, as
defined, and to remit unencumbered balances of redevelopment agency funds, including housing
funds, to the county auditor-controller for distribution to taxing entities. This bill would revise the
definition of the term "enforceable obligation" and modify provisions relating to the transfer of housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 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
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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
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
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.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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Total Tracking Forms: 31
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: 6/25/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 6/25/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/5/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair Summary: Under existing law, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, housing-related parks, and transit-oriented development administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 of bondrevenues to the Department of Housing and Community Development and from that amount, allocate $25,000,000 from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for infill incentive grants,and $25,000,000 from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for transit-oriented grants and loans. 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: 6/26/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 6/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 6/26/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/2/2012-S. APPR. 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. This bill 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. 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: 6/19/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/19/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/19/2012-S. E.Q. 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 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, for specified purposes, provided thatthe systems comply with specified requirements. The bill would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, if the local agency chooses to adopt a permitting program for rainwater capture systems and approves a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The bill 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, with a specified exception. 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: 6/28/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair 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 2075 (Fong D) Energy: powerplant certification. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: N 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 vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commissionwith the exclusive jurisdiction to certify an electric generating facility. Existing law defines a facility to mean an electric transmission line or thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts or greater. Existing law authorizes a person proposing to construct a facility excluded from the commission's jurisdiction to waive the exclusion by submitting to the commission a notice of intent to file an application for certification. This bill would repeal that authorization. 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 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: 6/27/2012-A. APPR. 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 housing
funds and responsibilities associated with dissolved redevelopment agencies. The bill would provide
that any amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund of a dissolved
redevelopment agency be transferred to specified entities. The bill would make conforming changes.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
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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
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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.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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OCSD Legislative Matrix 7/16/2012
Total Measures: 31
Total Tracking Forms: 31
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: 6/25/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 6/25/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/5/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair Summary: Under existing law, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, housing-related parks, and transit-oriented development administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 of bondrevenues to the Department of Housing and Community Development and from that amount, allocate $25,000,000 from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for infill incentive grants,and $25,000,000 from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for transit-oriented grants and loans. 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: 6/26/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 6/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 6/26/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/2/2012-S. APPR. 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. This bill 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. 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: 6/19/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/19/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/19/2012-S. E.Q. 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 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, for specified purposes, provided thatthe systems comply with specified requirements. The bill would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, if the local agency chooses to adopt a permitting program for rainwater capture systems and approves a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The bill 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, with a specified exception. 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: 6/28/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair 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 2075 (Fong D) Energy: powerplant certification. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: N 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 vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commissionwith the exclusive jurisdiction to certify an electric generating facility. Existing law defines a facility to mean an electric transmission line or thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts or greater. Existing law authorizes a person proposing to construct a facility excluded from the commission's jurisdiction to waive the exclusion by submitting to the commission a notice of intent to file an application for certification. This bill would repeal that authorization. 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 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: 6/27/2012-A. APPR. 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: 6/28/2012-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.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
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Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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OCSD Legislative Matrix 7/16/2012
Total Measures: 31
Total Tracking Forms: 31
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: 6/25/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 6/25/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/5/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair Summary: Under existing law, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, housing-related parks, and transit-oriented development administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 of bondrevenues to the Department of Housing and Community Development and from that amount, allocate $25,000,000 from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for infill incentive grants,and $25,000,000 from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for transit-oriented grants and loans. 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: 6/26/2012-S. THIRD READING 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 6/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 6/26/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 7/2/2012-S. APPR. 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. This bill 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. 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: 6/19/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/19/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/19/2012-S. E.Q. 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 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, for specified purposes, provided thatthe systems comply with specified requirements. The bill would require a local agency to provide notification to the operator of a public water system, as defined, if the local agency chooses to adopt a permitting program for rainwater capture systems and approves a permit for a rainwater capture system connected to the public water system. The bill 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, with a specified exception. 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: 6/28/2012-S. APPR. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 8/6/2012 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair 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 2075 (Fong D) Energy: powerplant certification. Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: N 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 vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commissionwith the exclusive jurisdiction to certify an electric generating facility. Existing law defines a facility to mean an electric transmission line or thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts or greater. Existing law authorizes a person proposing to construct a facility excluded from the commission's jurisdiction to waive the exclusion by submitting to the commission a notice of intent to file an application for certification. This bill would repeal that authorization. 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 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: 6/27/2012-A. APPR. 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: 6/28/2012-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 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.
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY WASHINGTON, DC. 20460
The Honorable Gary G. Miller
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Congressman Miller:
Thank you for your letter of May 8, 2012, to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, concerning restrictions on the selection of state water quality board
appointments. Your letter requests an update on the EPA's position on these restrictions and on a
proposed statutory amendment to the Clean Water Act. The Administrator has requested that I respond
to your letter.
As your letter stated, the selection of state water quality board appointments is governed by section 304
of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. §1314(i), and associated implementing regulations at 40 CFR
123 .25(c). Section 304(i)(2)(D) requires "that no board or body which approves permit applications or
portions thereof shall include, as a member, any person who receives, or has during the previous two
years received, a significant portion of his income directly or indirectly from permit holders or
applicants for a permit." The EPA defined "significant portion of income" at 40 CFR 123.25(c) (1) (ii),
in part, as "10 percent or more of gross personal income for a calendar year."
In recent years, representatives of the regulated community, the environmental community, state
governments, and the U.S. House of Representatives have expressed interest in exploring flexibilities
with respect to these conflict of interest provisions. The EPA shares an interest in ensuring that talented
and experienced individuals can serve on state boards, consistent with Clean Water Act requirements. In
light of this interest, the EPA has begun to explore whether administrative avenues, such as regulatory
interpretation or modification, are appropriate.
The EPA is currently developing a request for comments on the existing conflict of interest regulations
found at 40 CFR 123 .25(c), and is exploring the options that may exist for modifying the regulations.
The public will have ample opportunity to provide input on what, if any, changes should be made to the
current regulations.
The EPA is also exploring other administrative options for addressing the conflict of interest provision
in the absence of a regulatory change. The EPA plans to consider all of the available administrative
options on this issue.
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Again, thank you for your letter. If you have further questions, please contact me or your staff may call
Greg Spraul in the EPA's Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations at (202) 564-0255.
Nancy K. Stoner
Acting Assistant Administrator
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
07/02/2012 - 930 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom Korean Delegation to tour
P1. Approx. 12
guests.
Jin Kim Tour Guide
07/02/2012 - 1300 - 1430 Plant Tour Boardroom Boy Scout Troop to tour P1.
Approx. 15 guests.
Ryal Wheeler Tour Guide
07/03/2012 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom CSULB Biology Class Tour.
Approx. 10 guest.
Jeff Armstrong Tour Guide
07/09/2012 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Conf. Room C SCE to tour P1.Approx. 12
guests.
Corey Tull Tour Guide
07/10/2012 - 1500 - 1630 Plant Tour Boardroom Rainbow Environmental to
tour P1. Approx. 10 guests.
Deirdre Bingman Host
07/10/2012 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom CSUF Nursing Class to
tour P1. Approx. 15
guests.
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
07/16/2012 - 1330 - 1500 Plant Tour Boardroom Teachers from Vital Link to
tour P1. Approx. 10
guests.
Mark Esquer Tour Guide
07/17/2012 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom Boy Scout Troop to tour P1. Mark Esquer Tour Guide
07/20/2012 - 1500 - 1630 Plant Tour Boardroom Cub Scout troop to tour P1.
Approx. 20 guests.
Mike Zedek Tour Guide
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
Chreyl Scott
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/16/2012
Contact
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
7/16/2012 9:31:31 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/16/2012
Contact
07/20/2012 - 1030 - 1200 Plant Tour Boardroom San Bernardino Community
College to tour P1. Approx.
25 guests.
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
07/23/2012 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom Anaheim Adult Transition
School to tour P1. Approx.
25 guests.
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
07/25/2012 - 1130 - 1330 Westminster Safety Day Sigler Park, 7200
Plaza St.
OCSD to host an
Information Booth.
Faviola Miranda Booth Host
07/26/2012 - 700 - 800 Speaking Engagement La Palma
Hospital
Speaking Engagement for
the La Palma Kiwanis
Group. Approx. 20 guests.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
07/26/2012 - 1445 - 1515 Fuel Cell Station Tour Plant 1 Cell Area ASME 2012 International
Conference on Energy
Sustainability, to tour the
Fuel cell and station.
UCI Tour Guide
07/28/2012- 1000 - 1400 OCSD / OCWD Open
House
OCSD/OCWD Community Open House OCSD & OCWD
Employees
08/2/2012 -
08/5/2012
1000 - 2100 Orange County Fair Costa Mesa
Fairgrounds
OCSD to host an
Information Booth.
OCSD Employees to host
booth
08/10/2012 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom Chinese Delegation from
OC Watersheds to tour P1.
Approx. 15 guests.
Jian Liang Tour Guide
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
7/16/2012 9:31:31 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/16/2012
Contact
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.
Tour Guides: TBD
Cheryl Scott
Cheryl Scott
7/16/2012 9:31:31 AM