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Orange County Sanitation District Regular Meeting of the
Steering Committee
Wednesday, June 27, 20125:00 P.M.
Administration Building
Conference Rooms A & B10844 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.
GM Transition Plan Update
CONSENT CALENDAR:
1. Approve Minutes of the May 23, 2012 Steering Committee Meeting.
NON CONSENT ITEM(S):
2. Recommend to the Board of Directors to:
A. Declare Enertech in immediate and material default of the 2006 Agreement based on Enertech's failure to complete the Interim Technical
Plan by the deadline of June 11, 2012 as set forth in the Third
Amendment.
B. Direct staff to cease all shipments of biosolids to Enertech's Rialto facility pursuant to the 2006 Agreement, effective immediately.
C. Direct the General Manager to provide notice to Enertech of Enertech's
immediate and material default and the District's decision to cease all
shipments of biosolids to the Rialto facility effective immediately.
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INFORMATION ITEMS:
3. Public Affairs Report
CLOSED SESSION
During the course of conducting the business set forth on this agenda as a regular meeting of the
Board, the Chair may convene the Board in closed session to consider matters of pending real estate
negotiations, pending or potential litigation, or personnel matters, pursuant to Government Code
Sections 54956.8, 54956.9, 54957 or 54957.6, as noted.
Reports relating to (a) purchase and sale of real property; (b) matters of pending or potential litigation;
(c) employment actions or negotiations with employee representatives; or which are exempt from public
disclosure under the California Public Records Act, may be reviewed by the Board during a permitted
closed session and are not available for public inspection. At such time as the Board takes final action
on any of these subjects, the minutes will reflect all required disclosures of information.
Convene in closed session. (1) CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL RE. EXISTING LITIGATION
(Subdivision (a) of Section 54956.9)
Cases: Santa Ana Watershed Protection Agency v. Orange County Sanitation District, Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Reference No. 1210030062
Mladen Buntich v. Orange County Sanitation District, Riverside County Superior Court, Case No. RIC 1201005 Orange County Sanitation District v. Liberty Mutual, United States District Court, Central District of California, Case No. 8:12-cv-00854-AG-AJW
Reconvene in regular session.
Consideration of action, if any, on matters considered in closed session.
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OTHER BUSINESS AND COMMUNICATIONS OR SUPPLEMENTAL AGENDA
ITEMS, IF ANY:
ADJOURNMENT:
The next Steering Committee meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, July 25, 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
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STEERING COMMITTEE Meeting Date 06/27/12 To Bd. of Dir. 06/27/12
AGENDA REPORT Item Number 2 Item Number
Orange County Sanitation District FROM: James D. Ruth, General Manager
Originator: Jim Herberg, Assistant General Manager Env. Compliance: Jim Colston, Env. Compliance Manager
SUBJECT: Termination of EnerTech Agreement
GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION
A. Declare EnerTech in immediate and material default of the 2006 Agreement based
on EnerTech's failure to complete the Interim Technical Plan by the deadline of
June 11, 2012 as set forth in the Third Amendment.
B. Direct staff to cease all shipments of biosolids to EnerTech's Rialto facility pursuant
to the 2006 Agreement, effective immediately.
C. Direct the General Manager to provide notice to EnerTech of EnerTech's immediate and material default and the District's decision to cease all shipments of biosolids to the Rialto facility effective immediately.
SUMMARY
Since the start-up of EnerTech’s Rialto, California facility in November 2008, the facility
has only processed one-third of its contractual commitment due to technical problems.
In response to these problems and at EnerTech’s request, in February 2011, the Board
approved an amendment to the Agreement allowing EnerTech to implement an Interim Technical Plan for modifications necessary to get the facility to full production. As
specified in Amendment No. 2, the Interim Technical Plan shall be deemed complete
when the facility achieves an average daily processing rate of at least 600 Wet Tons
Per Day (WTPD) over thirty (30) consecutive days, with a minimum of 319 WTPD
undergoing the SlurryCarb process (30-day Completion Test) no later than March 13, 2012.
On February 14, 2012, EnerTech informed The Orange County Sanitation District
(OCSD) that they are not able to complete performance of the Interim Technical Plan.
Despite the complete installation of modifications defined in the Interim Technical Plan, EnerTech was confronted with multiple start-up issues with the new process equipment
in place and needed additional time for commissioning and performance testing. As a
result in March 2012, OCSD granted and adopted Amendment No. 3 for an extension to
complete the Interim Technical Plan for a period of 90-days (March 13, 2012 to June 11,
2012).
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As specified in Section D of Amendment No. 3, “it is the intent of the District to declare EnerTech in default under the 2006 Agreement if EnerTech does not successfully
demonstrate operation of the facility by June 11, 2012.” Amendment No. 3 further states
if the operational deadline is not met, “the District shall have the option to declare
EnerTech in immediate and material default of its obligations” and removed the curing rights under the original Agreement, and providing a 30-day window for an abbreviated termination process.
On June 5, 2012, EnerTech informed OCSD that they are not able to complete
performance of the Interim Technical Plan due to multiple operational issues, and they are not able to complete the 30-day Completion Test. At this point, OCSD staff does not believe that EnerTech will successfully complete commissioning and long-term
operation of the facility. Staff recommends that OCSD exercise its option under the
Third Amendment to the 2006 Agreement to declare EnerTech in immediate and
material default of the 2006 Agreement and cease all shipments of biosolids to the Rialto facility.
PRIOR COMMITTEE/BOARD ACTIONS
March 2012 – Adopted Amendment No. 3 with EnerTech which provides the following changes to the existing contract: (1) Extends the time for completion of the Interim Technical Plan from March 13, 2012 to June 11, 2012 (90 days); (2) Continues the
reduced management fee and accumulation of rebates during the time of extension;
and (3) Provides a mechanism to cease delivery of biosolids to EnerTech immediately
after June 11, 2012 if EnerTech does not successfully complete commissioning of the facility, as defined.
February 2011 – Adopted Amendment No. 2 to Agreement with EnerTech,
implementing an Interim Technical Plan, which included performance measures to be
completed no later than March 13, 2012. In addition, Amendment No. 2 include: (1) a reduce fee provision for diverted biosolids to alterative sties during the period of February 16, 2011 to March 13, 2013; (2) a partial reimbursement provision of past
management fees for diverted biosolids in the amount of $1,047,501.55; and (3) a
partial rebate provision of future management fees for diverted biosolids.
November 2006 – Adopted Amendment No. 1 to Agreement with EnerTech, increasing the amount of Biosolids from 200 tons to 225 tons, and revising the contract period to
25 years with one (1) five-year option, and to increase cost from $69.40 to $72.40 per
ton (plus other variable costs).
July 2005 – Adopted 10-year Agreement with EnerTech Environmental California, LLC with four (4) five-year options at an initial cost of $69.40 per ton of biosolids managed.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The 2005 Agreement with EnerTech was intended to provide a long-term, reliable
alternative to land application. The 2003 Long Range Biosolids Management Plan
deemed land application not to be viable beyond 2010 and therefore, OCSD needed to pursue a long-term, reliable alternative.
After almost four years of operation and fixes, EnerTech has not been able to
demonstrate that this technology is reliable in the short or long-term. OCSD’s cost for this long-term, reliable alternative was higher than land application, but lower than other energy options. Since the facility started commissioning in late 2008, OCSD has paid
approximately $1.4 million annually above the average cost of our land application and
composting alternatives (about 8% of the annual biosolids budget). This additional cost
can be viewed as insurance for the sustainability of our biosolids program. OCSD, based on the nature of its operations, must always be willing to invest money in research and development; such investments inherently have risk, and this particular
technology was not successful.
OCSD wisely did not build the EnerTech facility itself; it was the bondholders that took on the vast majority of the risk. In the short-term, OCSD has many options for the biosolids that previously had been sent to EnerTech - more than 10 times OCSD’s daily
biosolids production.
In the long-term, OCSD will continue to assess its biosolids needs and options. The Board will consider long-term strategy at the strategic plan workshop in the fall.
CEQA
N/A BUDGET/DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY COMPLIANCE
N/A
ATTACHMENT
EnerTech Timeline
JH:JC:jb:gc
JuneMarch20052007200820112006200020032004
EnerTech Timeline
RFP Concerns
•Scaling up from
pilot
•Onsite treatment
of air and water
side streams
Feb 2011
Amendment
•Technical Plan
milestones
•Credit for
diversions
•Performance test
by 3/13/12
March 2012
Amendment
•90‐day extension
•Credits extended
•Performance test
by 6/11/12
June 2012 Decision
•Performance test
incomplete
•Continued problems
with treating side
streams
•Reduced capacity
•Termination
procedures
recommended
EnerTech Performance Feb. 2011 –May 2012
Total Tons: 111,200
Total Cost: $5,300,000
Diversion Credit: $1,083,818
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STEERING COMMITTEE Meeting Date 06/27/2012 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.
Video Contest Winner
This year we hosted our first-ever video contest for high school students asking them to develop a short public service announcement on safe sewer practices. We received 17
entries from high schools all over the service area. The winners will be announced at
the Board Meeting.
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:
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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.
Attached is a list of all the events, meetings and outreach opportunities for the past
year.
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.
Moreover, special districts were evaluated on standard that was originally
recommended only to cities and the county.
Our response was sent to all Board members on June 14 and posted to OCSD’s
Website and on Facebook.
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).
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· 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)
We are currently researching some grant opportunities for public education and
outreach.
Federal Legislative Update
Legislative Advocate: Eric Sapirstein, ENS Resources
The past month was basically slow walk toward the Independence Day recess, starting
at the end of June. From a procedural point of view, not much has been accomplished
as Congress is reluctant to work on the range of issues, including infrastructure and the 2013 spending bills. As we have previously reported all signs point towards most of the
heavy lifting occurring after the November election during the lame duck session.
Fiscal Year 2013 Budget and Beyond
The Interior and Environment spending bill that supports USEPA programs remains suspended in both chambers. Complicating matters, in the House, Members are
seeking to violate the deficit reduction agreement and impose additional spending
reductions beyond those agreed to last August. These two factors suggest that the
agency’s budget will not be resolved until the lame duck session.
To make matters more complex, the automatic spending cuts and expiring Bush tax
cuts add to Congressional uncertainty. While we have been sounding this alarm all
year, a real concern is that all these elements will converge to disrupt EPA and water
quality programs. All eyes will be focused on Congress when they return in September
to see if any agreements can be reached prior to the election.
Water Resources Development Act (WRDA)
Any effort that previously existing to renew WRDA have basically evaporated. Actually,
this has nothing to do with a lack of support for these programs. Congress cannot reach
agreement on unrelated transportation program reauthorization, so they are spending all their time on transportation issues that would have otherwise been devoted to
WRDA. Once again, it looks like if any action happens it will be in December.
Conflict of Interest Regulation and Appointment to Water Boards (No Change)
The ongoing “wait and see” situation surrounding USEPA’s willingness to consider regulatory revisions to the Income Restriction Rule remains. EPA has yet to ask for
public comment on a proposed rule, leading Representative Gary Miller to send a letter
to USEPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson (in early May). In that letter, Miller outlined his
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concerns (as provided by the District) that the current income restriction rule is outdated and creates barriers to the selection of qualified individuals.
Assuming that USEPA responds to Miller in a timely manner, the information provided
to Miller will either affirm that USEPA will update the rule or make it clear that the
Congressman needs to move forward with his bill, H.R. 2765. POTW Liability Under Federal Consent Agreements
A renewed effort to address liability through consent decrees and orders has occurred
with the Committee on Judiciary’s approval of the Sunshine on Regulatory Decrees and
Settlements Act (H.R. 3862). The bill seeks to require a series of steps that must be met before any consent decree or settlement agreement is reached. This could, if enacted, provide new opportunities for a local government, like the District, to protect its interests
against frivolous litigation and judicial threats. Specifically, the bill provides that a
mediation process would be required as part of any effort to impose a decree, require
public hearings and public comments, and require approval by the Attorney General of any decree or settlement litigated by the Department of Justice among other conditions.
Finally, the legislation would extend a new right to an agency to seek review of any
settlement if the requested review is based on a belief that the proposed settlement is
not in the public’s interest or not in the interest of the public based upon the duties of the agency’s obligations to the public. Next steps include House floor debate and a vote that could occur later this summer or in early fall.
State Legislative Update
Legislative Advocates: Christopher Townsend, Heather Dion and Casey Elliott,
Townsend Public Affairs
State Political Highlights
On June 5 California voters participated in the State’s first open primary. Under the new
ballot rules, the top two candidates, regardless of party affiliation, move onto the General Election. Despite these changes, the results generally followed the same historical trends with incumbents faring well. In fact, not one incumbent failed to at least
make the runoff election; however, as many as 29 state and congressional districts will
see two members of the same party facing each other. Moving on to the General
Election, State Democrats need to win two out of four swing seats to secure a two-thirds majority in the State Senate, which would allow Senate Democrats to approve tax increases without Republican votes.
California voters also approved Proposition 28, which changes California’s term limit law
that had been in place for over two decades. Prior to Proposition 28, lawmakers were allowed to serve three two-years terms in the Assembly and two four-year terms in the Senate, for a total of 14 years in the legislature. Under Proposition 28, lawmakers can
now serve 12 years in the Legislature, but a legislator’s entire tenure can now be in one
house. Proposition 28 will not apply to current officeholders.
With the Primary over, the State Legislature's focus will return to passing a budget by June 15. On May 14, Governor Brown released his May Budget Revise announcing that
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the projected budget deficit had increased from roughly $9 billion in January to an estimated $16 billion now. This increased shortfall was the result of lower revenues in
the current year and the budget year as well as increased expenditures in the current
year due to court decisions and a higher workload in health and human services.
Governor Brown’s $91.4 billion budget also proposes “serious cuts” in his May Revise. These cuts equate to $8.3 billion (an additional $4.1 billion from the January proposal)
to address the $15.7 billion deficit.
Among some of the more significant components pulled from the revised budget proposal:
· Assumes passage of his November ballot initiative, implementing temporary
increased taxes on the affluent and a quarter-percent increase in the sales tax.
· Proposes to transfer $1.4 billion in redevelopment funds from local agencies to
the General Fund through a legislative framework.
· Proposes using $292 million from the national mortgage settlement.
· Proposes a 5 percent furlough for State employees, resulting in a 4-day, 9.5
hour-work day week.
· Proposes various reductions to hospital and nursing home funding to lower Medi-Cal costs.
· Proposes reducing In-Home Support Services hours by 7 percent.
· Additional cuts would take place in education with failure of the ballot initiative, including $5.5 billion to K-12 and community colleges, and $250 million less for
UC and CSU.
In the midst of the budget deficit and the Governor’s efforts to convince voters to
embrace his tax initiative, a recent Public Policy Institute poll found that a plurality of likely voters now disapprove of Governor Brown’s performance – 43 percent
disapprove, while 42 percent approve. In April, the Governor’s job approval rating
among likely voters was 47 percent. The drop in his approval ratings comes after
Governor Brown announced an enlarged budget deficit of $15.7 billion. Despite this
shift, likely voters remain supportive of his tax initiative with 56 percent in approval versus 38 percent in disapproval; an increase in support since April.
Pension Reform
In San Diego and San Jose, voters approved significant pension reform measures on
June 5 to assist their cities in addressing their unfunded pension liabilities.
In San Jose, nearly 70 percent of voters supported a proposal that provides workers
with the choice between increasing their pension contribution to 13 percent of their pay,
currently 5 to 11 percent, or switching to a lower-cost plan with reduced benefits. In
addition, the measure reduces benefits for new hires and tightens rules for disability retirements. Mayor Chuck Reed of San Jose, a Democrat, pushed this reform measure
in order to restore eliminated police positions and to reopen firehouses that were closed
on certain days, as well as allow for the city to open four closed libraries.
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In San Diego, where pension cuts have already been implemented, voters supported
eliminating pensions for new city employees. By a 66 to 34 percent margin, voters
endorsed Proposition B, which provides newly hired city workers with a 401(k) program,
but keeps in place pensions for new public safety officials. The San Diego measure also calls for a five-year freeze on "pensionable" pay levels and removes elected leaders' ability to improve retirement packages without a popular vote. Unions in both cities filed
lawsuits in court, but the strong public support for these measures will likely motivate
other financially strained cities and states to follow their lead.
Back in October 2011, Governor Brown released his 12-Point Pension Reform Plan; however, it has failed to gain significant traction in the Democratically-controlled
legislature. In response to these aggressive reform measures, Governor Brown
reiterated his call for pension reform. He stated that the pension reform votes in San
Jose and San Diego are a "powerful wake-up call," and following the budget battle, "people should feel confident that pension reform is next on the agenda." Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg reacted by saying that some reductions in public
employees' benefits will be needed to enhance Brown's case for tax increases to
stabilize the state's budget. Steinberg also said the elections did not "change a thing for
me. My opinion is the same: We know we need to get pension reform done before the end of the legislative session and we will get it done."
Overall, local pension measures have experienced major success at the ballot box.
Before Tuesday's vote, 18 pension reform measures had passed, and only two had
failed, both in San Francisco. On average, those measures passed with 62.7 percent of the vote, according to the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility, a pension-reform advocacy group.
Redevelopment
Assembly Speaker Perez has previously indicated that he is in favor of providing economic development tools to local government but that the State must ensure that these tools are effective, provide real benefit (not at the expense of another local
government agency) and need to be targeted to maximize state resources. Both major
RDA cleanup bills, Assembly Speaker Perez’s AB 1585 and Senate Pro Tem
Steinberg’s SB 654, continue to progress in the legislative process, and it is likely that the two bills will be reconciled into one single RDA cleanup bill.
The major wildcard in the RDA cleanup/future local economic development program
conversation is the Governor. He has not indicated what he is willing to support either in
public or privately to legislators. While we know that his office is working with the Department of Finance to identify problems with RDA dissolution, there has not been any public acknowledgement that the dissolution process is flawed or requires any
cleanup. The Legislature continues to keep the Governor updated on their actions, but it
is unlikely that the Governor will seriously engage in the cleanup/moving forward
conversation until the Legislature gets closer to passing bills for his consideration.
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During our briefings with Legislative District Staff, we emphasize the District’s concerns related to redevelopment as well as educate the staff on potential impacts. Specifically,
we emphasize OCSD’s strong opposition to any RDA cleanup legislation that would
reallocate property tax increment from one local public agency to another. Our concerns
and opposition are in line with the Speaker Perez’s comments regarding any potential cleanup legislation.
Specific Activities for the Month:
· TPA continues to monitor, report, and promote the following state legislative and advocacy goals: o Proactive protection of OCSD property tax funding.
o Outreach and education at both the staff-staff and elected-board member
levels. o Ongoing analysis of legislative measures including but not limited to environmental mandates that could affect the District’s operations, local government transparency measures, and budget measures redirecting
fees to local wastewater agencies.
o The potential for regulatory streamlining and pension reform. o Round II of IRWM funding
§ Expected to be announced in fall 2012;
§ Approximately $16 million will be available;
§ Based on feedback from DWR, SAWPA is expected to focus on
funding multi-jurisdictional projects in Round 2.
· TPA is monitoring, analyzing and tracking legislation as it is introduced on behalf of the OCSD. TPA also drafts letters, when appropriate, for OCSD consideration
on particular budget or legislative matters of interest. TPA also provides regular
legislative matrices outlining the current status of bills of interest to OCSD.
· Per OCSD’s staff request, TPA crafted an analysis on redistricting and its impact on the federal and state analysis.
PRIOR COMMITTEE/BOARD ACTIONS N/A
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
· Outreach Calendar, FY 2011-2012
· Legislative Matrix
CEQA
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7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
07/05/2011 - 1400 - 1530 Plant Tour Boardroom Foreign Delegation from
Vietnam to tour Plant 1.
Approx. 25 guests.
Mark Esquer Tour Guide
07/12/2011 - 1330 - 1500 Plant Tour Boardroom OC Educators from Vital
Link to tour Plant 1 and
Career discussion. Approx.
10 guests.
Mark Esquer, Dave Heinz
and Thys DeVries Hosts
07/13/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Guests from Alain
Municipality Abu Dhabi to
tour P1. Approx. 2 guests.
David Phillips Tour Guide
07/14/2011 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom CSUF Nursing Class to
tour P1.Approx. 9 guests.
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
07/21/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom OCHCA Nursing Program
to tour P1. Approx. 25
guests.
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
07/26/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom New Employee/Open to
Public Tour. Approx. 25
guests
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
07/28/2011 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Rooms A & B GOALS group to tour P1.
Approx. 25 guests.
Ryal Wheeler Tour Guide
07/29/2011 - 1400 - 1530 Plant Tour Boardroom Chinese Delegation to tour
P1. Approx. 32 guests.
YJ Shao Tour Guide
08/01/2011 - 1200 - 1300 Speaking Engagement Anaheim Mr. Ruth to speak to the
Anaheim Rotary Club.
Approx. 50 guests.
Mr. Ruth Speaker
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
08/08/2011 - 1600 - 1700 Speaking Engagement Fullerton Mr. Ruth to speak to
Fullerton Positive Group.
Approx. 30 guests.
Mr. Ruth Speaker
08/08/2011 - 1000 - 1200 Plant Tour Boardroom Korean Env. Inst. to tour
P1. Approx. 5 guests
Jin Kim Tour Guide
08/09/2011 - 1200 - 1300 Speaking Engagement Old Ranch
Country Club, Seal
Beach
Los Alamitos/Seal Beach
Rotary has requested a
speaker. Approx. 30
attendees.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
08/09/2011 - 730 - 830 Speaking Engagement Irvine OCBC Speaking
Engagement "Infrastructure
Committee"
Nick Arhontes Speaker
08/12/2011 - 1000 - 1200 Plant Tour Boardroom UCI Chi Epsilon group to
tour P1. Approx. 4 guests.
Nick Arhontes Tour Guide
08/14/2011 - 1000 - 1200 Plant Tour Boardroom UCI Chi Epsilon group to
tour P1. Approx. 4 guests.
Nick Arhontes Tour Guide
08/15/2011 - 930 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom Zhangjiagand Jangsu
Province (Chinese
Delegation) to tour P1.
Approx. 23 guests.
YJ Shao Tour Guide
08/16/2011 - 1000 - 1200 Grand Opening Event P1 Hydrogen Fuel Cell power
and fueling station Grand
Opening Event.
Public Affairs Host
08/17/2011 - 1200 - 1300 Speaking Engagement Garden Grove Jennifer Cabral to speak to
the Garden Grove Rotary
Club.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
08/19/2011 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom OC Public Works - Chinese
Visitors to tour P1. Approx.
15 guests
YJ Shao Tour Guide
08/23/2011 - 11:30 - 1300 VIP Appreciation Milesquare OCSD Volunteers to be
recognized at Luncheon
Public Affairs Host
08/25/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Chinese Environmental
Scientist to tour P1.
Approx. 25 guests
YJ Shao Tour Guide
08/26/2011 - 1330 - 1500 Plant Tour Boardroom Chinese Delegation to tour
P1. Approx. 20 guests
YJ Shao Tour Guide
08/29/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Korean Env. group to tour
P1. Approx. 3 guests
Jin Kim/J. Burror Tour
Guides
08/30/2011 - 1400 - 1530 Plant Tour Rooms A & B Chinese Delegation to tour
Plant 1. Approx. 22
guests.
YJ Shao Tour Guide
08/30/2011 - 730 - 830 Speaking Engagement FV Regional
Hospital
Jennifer Cabral to speak to
the Fountain Valley Rotary
Club.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
08/31/2011 - 1300 - 1500 Plant Tour Boardroom Delegation from Japan to
tour P1.
Ed Torres, Jeff Brown Tour
Guides
09/06/2011 - 1200 - 1300 Speaking Engagement Brea Jennifer Cabral to speak to
the Brea Rotary Club
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
09/06/2011 - 1630 - 1730 Speaking Engagement CSLB Cal St Long Beach Career
Speaking Engagement.
Approx. 30 guests.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
09/07/2011 - 1700 - 1800 Plant Tour P2 Operations
Center
OSCD Board members to
tour P2.
Chris Cervellone Tour
Guide
09/12/2011 - 930 - 1000 Plant Tour Boardroom Delegation from Kenya to
tour P1
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
09/15/2011 - 700 - 830 Speaking Engagement Embassy Suites
Brea
Brea Kiwanis Club
Speaking Engagement.
Approx. 25 guests
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
09/15/2011 - 1030 - 1200 Plant Tour Boardroom Generation Water to tour
P1. Approx. 20 guests.
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
09/16/2011 - 700 - 800 Speaking Engagement Yorba Linda Jennifer Cabral to speak to
the Yorba Linda Rotary
Club
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
09/19/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Saur Co. France
representatives to tour P1.
Approx. 2 guests
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
09/20/2011 - 1400 - 1530 Plant Tour Boardroom Chinese Delegation
(Shuyang County) to tour
P1. Approx. 25 guests.
YJ Shao tour Guide
09/21/2011 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom CSULB Nursing Program to
tour P1. Approx. 11
guests.
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
09/22/2011 - 930 - 1000 Plant Tour Boardroom USGBC - OC to tour P1.
Approx. 25 guests
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
09/22/2011 - 1800 - 1900 Speaking Engagement OCWD -
Boardroom
American Academy of
Environmental Engineers
Jim Herberg Speaker
09/23/2011 - 1030 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom Nick Arhontes to give tour
of P1.
Nick Arhontes Tour Guide
09/27/2011 - 1400 - 1600 Plant Tour Boardroom HB City Env. Board to tour
P1. Approx. 15 guests
Gary Conklin Tour Guide
09/28/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom New Employee/Open to
Public Tour
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
09/28/2011 - 1300 - 1500 Plant Tour Boardroom Fullerton College to tour P1 Vincent Lockyer Tour
Guide
09/29/2011 - 1300 - 1430 Plant Tour Boardroom Chinese Delegation from
Qingdao to tour P1.
Approx. 20 guests
YJ Shao Tour Guide
09/29/2011 - 930 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom Kenya Delegation to tour
P1. Approx. 13 guests.
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
09/30/2011 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom CSUF to tour Plant 1.
Approx. 20 guests.
Mark Esquer Tour Guide
09/30/2011 - 700 - 800 Speaking Engagement Citrus Cafe -
Tustin
Jennifer Cabral to speak to
the Tustin Kiwanis Club.
Approx. 15 guests.
09/30/2011 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom CSUF to tour Plant 1.
Approx. 20 guests.
Mark Esquer Tour Guide
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
10/03/2011 - 1300 - 1430 Plant Tour Boardroom Fullerton College (group 2)
to tour P1. Approx. 25
guests.
Ryal Wheeler Tour Guide
10/05/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Goldenwest College to tour
P1. Approx. 35 guests. (2
tours)
Ann Crafton and Ingrid
Hellebrand Tour Guides
10/05/2011 - 1300 - 1430 Plant Tour Room C OCHCA Nursing Program
to tour P1. Approx. 13
guests.
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
10/05/2011 - 700 - 800 Speaking Engagement Placentia Jennifer Cabral to speak to
the Placentia Rotary Club.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
10/07/2011 - 1000 - 1200 Plant Tour Boardroom UCI - Chi Epsilon Tour.
Approx. 25 guests
Nick Arhontes Tour Guide
10/11/2011 - 1300 - 1500 SARI Groundbreaking
Ceremony
Corona, CA EMT and Board Members
to attend ceremony.
EMT
10/12/2011 - 730 - 830 Speaking Engagement Tustin Jennifer Cabral to speak to
the Tustin Chamber of
Commerce
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
10/13/2011 - 0 - 1300 Fuel Cell Tour Boardroom Tom Meregillano Dr.
Margalef of UCI to take
group from Tri-Tac meeting
to tour the cell stations.
Approx. 20 guests.
Tom Meregillano
10/16/2011 - 1100 - 1300 Plant Tour Boardroom WEFTEC / Air Products to
tour P1 and P2. Approx. 35
guests.
Shabir Basrai Tour Guide
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
10/17/2011 - 1300 - 1430 Plant Tour Boardroom Korean Engineers from the
WEFTEC conf. to tour P1.
Approx. 17 guests.
Jin Kim Tour Guide
10/18/2011 - 1030 - 0 Plant Tour Boardroom WEFTEC 2011 Annual
Technical Exhibition and
Conference will be touring
P1. Approx. 50 guests.
Bob Ghirelli and Jim
Herberg Tour Guides
10/18/2011 - 1200 - 1300 Speaking Engagement Citrus Grill, Tustin Jennifer Cabral to speak to
the Tustin Lions Club.
Approx. 25 guests.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
10/19/2011 - 1400 - 1530 Plant Tour Boardroom Chinese Delegation from
Changzhou to tour P1.
Approx. 25 guests
YJ Shao Tour Guide
10/19/2011 - 1600 - 1700 Plant Tour Plant 1 RMTC - Hawaii to tour P1.
Approx. 4 guests.
Ron Wade Tour Guide
10/20/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Santiago High School
Coastkeeper Group to tour
P1. Approx. 50 guests.
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
10/21/2011 - 1300 - 1430 Plant Tour Boardroom Santiago College to tour
P1. Approx. 30 guests
Simon Watson Tour Guide
10/21/2011 - 1400 - 1530 Plant Tour A & B Chinese Delegation to tour
Plant 1. Approx. 25 guests.
YJ Shao Tour Guide
10/24/2011 - 1030 - 1200 Plant Tour Boardroom Hope International
University to tour P1.
Approx. 11 guests.
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
10/25/2011 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom CSUF Faculty - School of
Nursing Tour. Approx. 12
guests.
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
10/26/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Chinese Delegation to tour
Plant 1. Approx. 23 guest.
YJ Shao Tour Guide
10/27/2011 - 1200 - 1400 Plant Tours Boardroom SARBS of CWEA to tour
P1. Approx. 50 guests. (2
tours)
Ann Crafton and Ingrid
Hellebrand Tour Guides
10/28/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Hope International
University to tour P1.
Approx. 11 guests.
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
10/28/2011 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom UCI Extension Class to tour
P1. Approx.. 10 guests.
Ryal Wheeler Tour Guide
11/01/2011 - 1300 - 1500 Plant Tour Boardroom Vanguard University to tour
P1. Approx. 40 guests, 2
tours.
Marc Brown and Ingrid
Hellebrand Tour Guides
11/03/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Eastside Christian High
School to tour P1. Approx.
25 guests.
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
11/04/2011 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom Los Angeles ISA group 1 to
tour P1. Approx. 25
guests.
David Phillips and Richard
Birdsell Tour Guides
11/05/2011 - 830 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom CSUF Engineering to Tour
P1. Approx. 30 guests.
Mark Esquer Tour Guide
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
11/09/2011 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom Home School to tour P1.
Approx. 25 guests.
Ryal Wheeler Tour Guide
11/15/2011 - 1300 - 1500 Hydrogen Cell Tour Boardroom CA. Hydrogen Business
Council to tour Hydrogen
Cell. Approx. 30 guests.
UCI Tour Guides
11/16/2011 - 1200 - 1300 Speaking Engagement Garden Grove Jennifer Cabral to speak to
the Garden Grove Lions
Club. Approx. 25 guests.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
11/17/2011 - 1200 - 1330 Plant Tour A & B Industrial Env. Coalition Of
OC group to tour Plant 1.
Approx. 35 guests.
Tour Guide: Ryal Wheeler
11/17/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Room C OCHCA Nursing Program
to tour P1. Approx. 12
guests.
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
11/21/2011 - 1400 - 330 Plant Tour Boardroom Chinese Delegation to tour
P1. Approx. 25 guests
YJ Shao Tour Guide
11/22/2011 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom CSULB Nursing group to
tour P1. Approx. 13
guests.
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
11/23/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Fullerton College (group 3)
to tour P1 Approx. 25
guests.
Vincent Lockyer Tour
Guide
11/28/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Cypress College to tour P1.
Approx. 25 guests.
Mike McCarthy Tour Guide
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
11/29/2011 - 1900 - 2030 Speaking Engagement Westridge Golf
Course - La Habra
Jennifer Cabral to speak to
the La Habra Lions
Approx. 90 guests.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
11/29/2011 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom New Employee/Open to the
Public Regular Tour.
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
11/30/2011 - 930 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom CSULB to tour P1. Approx.
20 guests.
Mark Esquer Tour Guide
12/01/2011 - 1800 - 1930 Speaking Engagement Marie Calendars
Anaheim
Anaheim Lions Speaking
Engagement. Approx. 15
guests.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
12/02/2011 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom CSULB Chemical
Engineering group to tour
P1. Approx. 10 guests
Ryal Wheeler Tour Guide
12/03/2011 - 830 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom CSUF to tour Plant 1.
Approx. 30 guests.
Mark Esquer Tour Guide
12/06/2011 - 1445 - 1600 Plant Tour Boardroom Boy Scout Troop to tour P1.
Approx. 15 guests
Simon Watson Tour Guide
12/07/2011 - 1400 - 1530 Plant Tour Room A Korean Delegation to tour
P1. Approx. 11 guests
Jin Kim Tour Guide
12/08/2011 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tours Boardroom Coastkeepers from Chavez
High School to tour P1.
Approx. 40 guests. 2 tours.
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
12/08/2011 - 700 - 800 Speaking Engagement Villa Park Jennifer Cabral to speak to
the Villa Park Rotary.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
12/12/2011 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom Tustin Middle School to
tour P1. Approx. 65 guests.
2 tours
Tour Guide: TBD
12/21/2011 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom IRS Project Tour Chris Cervellone Tour
Guide
01/10/2012 - 715 - 845 Plant Tour Boardroom LA San Engineers Approx.
5 guests
Vincent Lockyer Tour
Guide
01/11/2012 - 930 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom Dana Hills High School to
tour P1. Approx. 50 guests.
Ingrid Hellebrand and Ann
Crafton Tour Guides
01/11/2011 - 1130 - 1230 Speaking Engagement Orange Jennifer Cabral to speak to
the Orange Chamber..
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
01/12/2011 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tours Boardroom Coastkeepers from Orange
High School to tour P1.
Approx. 40 guests. 2 tours.
Ingrid Hellebrand & Randy
Kleinman Tour Guides
01/12/2012 - 1330 - 1500 Cell Station Tour Room C CA Hydrogen Business
Council group to tour Fuel
Cell Station.
UCI - Tour Guide
01/12/2012 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom Orange High School
Coastkeepers Group to
tour P1. Approx. 50 guests,
2 tours
Ingrid Hellebrand and
Randy Kleinman Tour
Guides
01/12/2012 - 1200 - 1300 Speaking Engagement Tustin Ranch Golf
Course
Tustin/Santa Ana Rotary
Speaking Engagement.
Approx. 35 guests.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
01/13/2012 - 930 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom Dana Hills High School to
tour P1. Approx. 50 guests.
Randy Kleinman and Ann
Crafton Tour Guides
01/18/2012 - 1130 - 30 Speaking Engagement Dave and Busters,
Orange CA
Jennifer Cabral to Speak to
the Orange Chamber.
Approx. 40 guests.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
01/19/2012 - 1100 - 1230 Plant Tour Baordroom CSULB Chemistry Club to
tour P1. Approx. 20 guests.
Ann Crafton and Mike Von
Winckelmann Tour Guides
01/26/2012 - 1500 - 430 Plant Tour Boardroom HB Webelos Troop to tour
P1. Approx. 15 guests.
Ryal Wheeler Tour Guide
01/27/2012 - 900 -1000 Public Relations Los Angeles LA City Council Hearing Faviola Miranda
01/27/2012 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom UCI Chi Epsilon Civil Eng.
Group to tour P1. Approx.
20 guests
Randy Kleinman, Tour
Guide
01/30/2012 - 900 -1000 Public Relations Tustin PIO meeting with Lisa
Woolery
Jennifer Cabral
01/31/2012 - 900 -1000 Public Relations Fountain Valley PIO meeting with Matt
Morgensen
Jennifer Cabral
01/31/2012 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom New Employee/Open to
Public tour.
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
02/02/2012 - 900 -1000 Public Relations Costa Mesa
Sanitary District
PIO meeting with AJ Cully Jennifer Cabral
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
02/07/2012 - 900 -1000 Public Relations City of Cypress PIO meeting with Andy Tse Jennifer Cabral
02/07/2012 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom Tustin Middle School to
tour P1. Approx. 65 guests.
2 tours
Vincent Lockyer, Ingrid
Hellebrand and Paula
Zeller Tour Guides
02/08/2012 - 100 - 200 Public Relations Placentia PIO meeting with Jeannette
Ortega
Jennifer Cabral
02/14/2012 - 200-0300 Public Relations Huntington Beach,
CA
PIO meeting with Laurie
Frymire
Jennifer Cabral
02/14/2012 - 1300 - 1500 Cell Station Tour Boardroom CA Hydrogen Business
Council group to tour Fuel
Cell Station.
UCI - Tour Guide
02/16/2012 - 200-0300 Public Relations Seal Beach PIO meeting with Sean
Crumby/Michael Ho
Jennifer Cabral
02/17/2012 - 700 - 800 Speaking Engagement Yorba Linda Jennifer Cabral to Speak to
the Yorba Linda Rotary.
Approx. 35 guests.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
02/21/2012 - 200-0300 Public Relations IRWD PIO meeting with Beth
Beeman
Jennifer Cabral
02/28/2012 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom Beckman High School to
tour P1. Approx. 37 guests
Ingrid Hellebrand / Paula
Zeller Tour Guides
02/29/2012 - 200-0300 Public Relations La Habra PIO meeting with Jennifer
Cervantez
Jennifer Cabral
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
02/29/2012 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom Katella High School to tour
P1.
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
03/22/2012 - 1930 - 2030 Speaking Engagement 8220 Katella Ave Jennifer Cabral to speak to
a plumbing class from
Trade School. Approx. 15
students.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
03/22/2012 - 1000 - 1200 Plant Tour Rooms A & B Chapman University to tour
P1. Approx. 40 guests.
Barbara Collins & Corey
Tull Tour Guides
03/23/2012 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom Divine Mercy Home School
to tour P1. Approx. 15
guests.
Randy Kleinman Tour
Guide
03/26/2012 - 200-0300 Public Relations Orange PIO meeting with Paul
Sitkoff
Jennifer Cabral
03/27/2012 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom New Employee/Open to the
Public Tour.
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
03/30/2012 - 930 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom Marina High School to tour
P1. Approx. 20 guests
Mark Esquer Tour Guide
03/31/2012 - - Irvine Mud Run Irvine Lake OCSD to Host Information
Booth.
OCSD Staff
04/03/2012 - 200-0300 Public Relations John Wayne
Airport
PIO meeting with Jenny
Wedge
Jennifer Cabral
04/04/2012 - 200-0300 Public Relations Michael Gold meeting with
David Taylor of Allan
Mansoor's Office
Michael Gold
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
04/04/2012 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom CSULB Nursing Class to
tour P1. Approx. 23
students.
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
04/05/2012 - 730 - 830 Speaking Engagement Anaheim
Assistance
League
Anaheim Chamber
Speaking Engagement.
Approx. 30 guests
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
04/05/2012 - 1500 - 1600 Fuel Cell Tour Boardroom UCI to host Fuel Cell and
Station Tour.
UCI
04/09/2012 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom Pacifica High School to tour
P1. Approx. 40 students
Ingrid Hellebrand & Vincent
Lockyer Tour Guides
04/11/2012 - 200-0300 Public Relations Michael Gold meeting with
John Nam of Jose Solorio's
Office
Michael Gold
04/11/2012 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom CSUF Nursing Program to
tour P1. Approx. 13 guests
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
04/12/2012 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom CSUF Nursing Program to
tour P1. Approx. 13 guests
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
04/17/2012 - 1100 - 1200 Career Mentoring UCI Alex Shaaban to speak at
the UCI Physical Sciences
Mentoring Program.
Alex Shaaban Speaker
04/18/2012 - 1600 - 1700 Speaking Engagement GG Community
Center
Jennifer Cabral to present
to the Garden Grove
Sanitation Advisory Board.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
04/18/2012 - 1600 - 1700 Speaking Engagement OCBC Workforce Development Jeff Reed/Janine Aguliar
04/18/2012 - 730 -830 Public Relations Michael Gold meeting with
Tammy Tran of Senator
Correa's Office
Michael Gold
04/18/2012 - 200 -300 Public Relations Michael Gold meeting with
Erik Weigand of Jim Silva's
Office
Michael Gold
04/18/2012 - 930 - 1430 Green Coast Day Orange Coast
College
OCSD to host a booth at
Green Coast Day.
OCSD Staff to host booth
04/19/2012 - 1300 - 1500 Plant Tour Boardroom SCCWRP to tour P1.
Approx. 50 guests.
Jeff Armstrong Tour Guide
04/20/2012 - 1300 - 1400 Plant Tour Boardroom Brian Marks of Norman S.
Swight Mechanical
Equipment to tour P1.
Nick Arhontes Tour Guide
04/23/2012 - 1430 - 1600 Plant Tour Boardroom CSULB Microbial Ecology
class to tour P1. Approx. 1
guests
Ryal Wheeler Tour Guide
04/24/2012 - 1100 - 1200 Public Relations Michael Gold meeting with
Tim Shaw of Bob Huff's
Office
Michael Gold
04/25/2012 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom OCHCA Nursing Program
to tour P1. Approx. 13
guests
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
04/27/2012 - 900 - 1000 Career Day Huntington Beach,
CA
Grace Lutheran School
Career day. Approx. 30
students
Simon Watson presenter
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
05/01/2012 - 1200 - 1300 Speaking Engagement Meadowlark Golf
Course
Huntington Beach Kiwanis
Speaking Engagement.
Approx. 50 guests.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
05/03/2012 - 1730 - 1830 Plant Tour P1 Santiago Canyon College
to tour Collections. Approx.
35 guests
Simon Watson Tour Guide
05/03/2012 - 1430 - 1600 Plant Tour Boardroom GoldenWest College to
tour P1. Approx. 20 guests
Ryal Wheeler Tour Guide
05/03/2012 - 1900 - 2100 Speaking Engagement HB Old World
Restaurant
Huntington Beach Lions
Club Speaking
Engagement. Approx. 40
guests
Faviola Miranda Speaker
05/04/2012 - 1300 - 1430 Plant Tour Boardroom Community College to tour
P1. Approx. 25 guests
Ann Crafton Tour Guide
05/08/2012 - 1200 - 1500 Public Affairs Outreach Santa Ana Michael Gold meeting with
the Grand Jury.
Michael Gold
05/09/2012 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tour Boardroom Fullerton College Group 3
to tour P1. Approx. 25
guests
Mike Zedek Tour Guide
05/09/2012 - 900 - 1100 Speaking Engagement UCI Paula Zeller to Speak at
UCI: Water: At the
Intersection of Technology
and Humanity
Paula Zeller Speaker
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
05/09/2012 - 1500 - 1600 Public Affairs Outreach Michael Gold meeting with
San Han of Assemblyman
Wagner's office
Michael Gold
05/10/2012 - 1100 - 1200 Public Affairs Outreach Michael Gold meeting with
Bruce Whitaker of
Assemblyman Norby's
office.
Michael Gold
05/10/2012 - 1345 - 1515 Plant Tour Rooms A & B UCI to tour P1. Approx. 20
guests.
Ryal Wheeler Tour Guide
05/11/2012 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Mike Larkin giving 3 guests
a plant 1 tour.
Mike Larkin Tour Guide
05/14/2012 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Room C Cypress College Marine
Biology Class to tour P1.
Approx. 25 guests
Mike McCarthy Tour Guide
05/14/2012 - 1000 - 1200 Plant Tour P1 & P2 General Council to tour
Plants 1 & 2. 3 Guests.
Chris Cervellone Tour
Guide
05/15/2012 - 830 - 1030 Cell Station Tour Plant 1 Cell Area ACT 2012 EXPO to tour
Fuel Cell and Station.
UCI Tour Guides
05/17/2012 - 1000 - 1400 County of Orange Green
Fair
SA Civic Center OCSD to host Information
booth. Approx. 3000
attendees
OCSD Employees to host
booth
05/18/2012 - 800 - 1200 Career Day Anaheim Crescent Career Day -
Elementary School,
Approx. 120 attendees.
Victoria Pilko and Lisa
Rothbart Speakers
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
05/18/2012 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom Westminster High School,
Special Ed Class to tour
P1. Approx. 22 guests
Cindy Murra Tour Guide
05/19/2012 - 900 - 1030 OC Public Works Open
House
Orange, CA OC Public Works Open
House
Al Garcia
05/22/2012 - 900 - 1100 Plant Tours Boardroom Godinez High School to
tour P1. Approx. 50 guests.
Pat McNelly and Ryal
Wheeler Tour guides
05/22/2012 - 1300 - 1500 Plant Tours Boardroom Godinez High School to
tour P1. Approx. 50 guests.
Mike Zedek Tour Guide
05/23/2012 - 1600 - 1700 OCSD Honor Walk
Presentation
OCSD Admin.
Building
Honor Walk presentation.
Honoree's are Pat Bourdy,
Gregg Pamson, and Jim
Wybenga.
Public Information Group
05/23/2012 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom Chinese Delegation from
CSU Dominguez Hills to
tour P1. Approx. 10 guests.
Morris Ying Tour Guide
05/29/2012 - 900 - 1030 Plant Tour Boardroom New Employee/Open to the
Public by-monthly tour.
Ingrid Hellebrand Tour
Guide
05/31/2012 - 1200 - 1300 Speaking Engagement FV Bowl FV Kiwanis Group
Speaking Engagement.
Approx. 20 guests.
Jennifer Cabral Speaker
06/03/2012 - - Tustin Street Fair Tustin OCSD to Host Information
Booth.
Various OCSD Employees
7/15/2011 7:58:59 AM
Date Time Organization/Event Location Purpose Attendee
OCSD Outreach Report - 07/15/2011 - 6/15/12
06/06/2012 - 900 - 1100 WHALES Presentations CMHS Ingrid to attend and judge
presentations
Ingrid Hellebrand
06/07/2012 - 700 - 900 Speaking Engagement Clarion Hotel,
Anaheim
Jim Ruth/Jennifer Cabral to
speak to Anaheim Kiwanis.
Approx. 25 guests.
Jim Ruth Speaker
06/06/2012 - 900 - 1100 WHALES Presentations Orange High
School
Charlie McGee to attend
and judge presentations
Charlie McGee
06/07/2012 - 1000 - 1130 Plant Tour Boardroom Waldorf School of Orange
County to tour P1.
Corey Tull and Sonja
Morgan Tour guides
06/08/2012 - Fountain Valley
Summerfest
Milesquare Park OCSD to Host Information
Booth
Various OCSD Employees
06/09/2012 - Fountain Valley
Summerfest
Milesquare Park OCSD to Host Information
Booth
Various OCSD Employees
06/10/2012 - Fountain Valley
Summerfest
Milesquare Park OCSD to Host Information
Booth
Various OCSD Employees
06/13/2012 - 1230 - 1330 Plant Tour Boardroom OCHC Nursing Class to
tour P1
Corey Tull Tour Guide
OCSD Legislative Matrix
6/8/2012
Total Measures: 34
Total Tracking Forms: 34
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
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AB 1585 (John A. Pérez D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/2/2012
Last Amend: 3/21/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/19/2012-S. G. & F.
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Summary: Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as
of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of 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 modify the scope 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
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: 5/17/2012-S. APPR.
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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: 3/29/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/8/2012
Last Amend: 3/29/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 6/7/2012-S. E.Q.
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Calendar: 6/18/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman
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 connected to hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing
moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make a 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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Summary: Existing state and local public retirement systems provide defined benefits based on age
at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation for
various employment classifications in connection with the benefits provided by these systems. This bill
would prohibit the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service
is not included in the federal social security system from exceeding $100,000. The bill would prohibit
the retirement benefit paid to a member of any public retirement system whose service is included in
the federal social security system from exceeding $80,000. Those amounts would be adjusted
annually by each public retirement system using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 1639 (Hill D) Retirement: public employees.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers'
Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also
establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and
the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state
other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide
pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any
other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid
to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to
the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits
prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation,
or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to
be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public
employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of
compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision.
Position
AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture.
Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Last Amend: 3/29/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected
to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out
of his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public
retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as
specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent
felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,
his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary,
disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to
service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill
would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on
or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a
distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension
administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes.
Position
AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected
to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out
of his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public
retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as
specified. This bill would require any person employed at-will for the purposes of providing services to
an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1,
2013, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, to forfeit
all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a
member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified.
Position
AB 1750 (Solorio D) Rainwater Capture Act of 2012.
Current Text: Amended: 6/6/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2012
Last Amend: 6/6/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 6/6/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Calendar: 6/12/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY,
Chair
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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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: 4/30/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/30/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/31/2012-S. E.Q.
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Calendar: 7/2/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman
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, 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 any of the following: a state board member, regional board
member, or any interested person. The bill would also provide that a communication is not ex parte if
the communication is limited entirely to procedure or practice, as specified. 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: 6/7/2012-S. L. & I.R.
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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: 5/24/2012-S. E. U., & C.
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Calendar: 6/11/2012 2 p.m. or upon adjournment of Business, Professions and Economic
Development and Public Employment and Retirement John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, PADILLA, Chair
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: 4/19/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Calendar: 6/26/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY,
Chair
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: 6/7/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2452 (Ammiano D) Political Reform Act of 1974: online disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 5/8/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/8/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. E. & C.A.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 3191 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS, CORREA, Chair
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires specified candidates, committees, slate mailer
organizations, and lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to file campaign statements and
reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State, as specified. The act requires certain of
these entities to also file campaign statements and reports with local filing officers, as specified. This
bill , with certain exceptions, would authorize a local government agency to require an elected officer,
candidate, committee, or other person required to file specified statements, reports, or other
documents to file those statements, reports, or other documents online or electronically with a local
filing officer. The bill would prescribe criteria that must be satisfied by a local government agency that
requires online or electronic filing of statements, reports, or other documents, as specified, including,
among others, that the system be available free of charge to filers and to the public for viewing filings,
and that the system include a procedure for filers to comply with the requirement that they sign
statements and reports under penalty of perjury. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
Position
AB 2567 (Carter D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 3/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. G. & F.
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Calendar: 6/13/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, WOLK, Chair
Summary: Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments,
fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of
written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus
Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply
with Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law establishes notice, protest,
and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees and charges by local government
agencies pursuant to Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law authorizes
an agency that provides water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or
charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for
water or adjustments for inflation, if that agency complies with specified procedures. This bill would
additionally authorize an agency that provides wastewater collection service to adopt a schedule of
fees or charges, as specified. This bill would also authorize an agency that provides water,
wastewater, sewer , or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing
automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wastewater treatment , if that agency complies
with specified procedures.
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: 1/10/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 1/10/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/12/2012-A. E. & R.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND
REDISTRICTING, FONG, Chair
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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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: 4/16/2012-A. H. & C.D.
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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 900 (Leno D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 4/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/2/2012-S. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
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Calendar:
6/11/2012 #21 ASSEMBLY IN CONFERENCE
6/11/2012 #20 SENATE IN CONFERENCE (SENATE BILLS)
Summary: Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust, including establishing
procedures for foreclosure in the case of default. This bill would express the intent of Legislature to
enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the
servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement.
Position
Support
SB 964 (Wright D) Administrative Procedure Act: State Water Resources Control Board and California
regional water quality control boards.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California
regional water quality control boards and authorizes them to adopt regulations to carry out their
powers and duties. Existing law generally requires state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance
with prescribed procedures and requirements, and requires the Office of Administrative Law to review
adopted regulations and to make specified determinations. However, existing law grants to the State
Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards various
exemptions to the above requirements, including an exemption for the adoption of regulations for the
issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits. This bill would
provide that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of
specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers
issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined,
thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those
circumstances.
Position
SB 965 (Wright D) State Water Resources Control Board and California regional water quality control
boards: ex parte communications.
Current Text: Amended: 5/2/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 5/2/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/30/2012-A. DESK
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (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. 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 for the participation of, all parties, as specified. The bill would
permit written ex parte communications by any party provided that the interested person, as defined,
who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all parties, as specified. The
bill would require that if an individual ex parte comm unication meeting or call is granted to any
interested party, all other parties 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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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law recognizes various engineering disciplines. Existing law
prohibits the practicing of civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering by any person who has not
passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the board in that discipline.
Existing law makes various violations of the Professional Engineers Act a crime, including the practice
or offer to practice by a person of civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering without authorization as
provided by the act. This bill would also prohibit the practice of agricultural, chemical, control system,
fire protection, industrial, metallurgical, nuclear, petroleum, and traffic engineering, as defined, by any
person who has not passed a specified examination and who is not appropriately licensed by the
board in the particular discipline. The bill would authorize any licensed engineer to practice
engineering work in any of those fields in which he or she is competent and proficient. The bill would
make other changes to related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
Position
SB 1176 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/27/2012-S. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/11/2012-S. DEAD
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1st House 2nd House
Summary: The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 authorizes a
city or district to provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside its jurisdictional
boundaries if the city or district requests and receives permission to do so from the local agency
formation commission in the affected county. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize a
city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundaries but within its
sphere of influence in anticipation of a later change of organization, or outside its sphere of influence
to respond to an existing or impending threat to the public health or safety of the residents of the
affected territory, under specified circumstances. This bill would additionally authorize the commission
to authorize a city or district to provide new or existing services outside its jurisdictional boundaries
and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private
properties, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing, in which certain determinations are made.
The bill would also authorize the commission to delegate to its executive officer the approval of certain
requests to authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries or outside its sphere of influence, as described above, under specified circumstances. The
bill would also make certain technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SCA 18 (Huff R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/22/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 3/1/2012-S. P.E. & R.
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
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OCSD Legislative Matrix 6/8/2012
Total Measures: 34
Total Tracking Forms: 34
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) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 3/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/19/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of 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 modify the scope of the term "enforceable obligation" andmodify 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 andModerate 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 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: 5/17/2012-S. APPR. 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: 3/29/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/8/2012
Last Amend: 3/29/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 6/7/2012-S. E.Q.
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Calendar: 6/18/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman
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 connected to hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing
moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make a 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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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
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers'
Retirement System for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their members. Existing law also
establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides pension benefits to elected judges and
the Legislators' Retirement System, which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state
other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide
pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. This bill would specify that, in addition to any
other benefit limitations prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid
to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, to
the extent that the benefits payable under the system are subject to the compensation limits
prescribed by a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, the maximum salary, compensation,
or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not exceed the amount permitted to
be taken into account under that provision of federal law. The bill would also prohibit a public
employer from making contributions to any qualified public retirement plan based on any portion of
compensation that exceeds the amount specified in that federal provision.
Position
AB 1649 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement: felony forfeiture.
Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Last Amend: 3/29/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered
1st House 2nd House
Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected
to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out
of his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public
retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as
specified. This bill would require that a public employee, as defined, who is convicted of any violent
felony, serious felony, or a sex offense, as defined, for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of,
his or her official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary,
disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, forfeit retirement benefits attributable to
service performed on and after the earliest date of the commission of the felony, as specified. The bill
would also require any contributions to the public retirement system made by the public employee on
or after that date to be returned, without interest, to the public employee upon the occurrence of a
distribution event, as defined, unless otherwise ordered by a court or determined by the pension
administrator. The bill would also make related, conforming changes.
Position
AB 1653 (Cook R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/13/2012
Last Amend: 4/9/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/25/2012-A. DEAD
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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: 6/6/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2012
Last Amend: 6/6/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 6/6/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Calendar: 6/12/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY,
Chair
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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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: 4/30/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/30/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/31/2012-S. E.Q.
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Calendar: 7/2/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman
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, 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 any of the following: a state board member, regional board
member, or any interested person. The bill would also provide that a communication is not ex parte if
the communication is limited entirely to procedure or practice, as specified. 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: 6/7/2012-S. L. & I.R.
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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: 5/24/2012-S. E. U., & C.
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Calendar: 6/11/2012 2 p.m. or upon adjournment of Business, Professions and Economic
Development and Public Employment and Retirement John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, PADILLA, Chair
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: 4/19/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Calendar: 6/26/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY,
Chair
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: 6/7/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2452 (Ammiano D) Political Reform Act of 1974: online disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 5/8/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/8/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. E. & C.A.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 3191 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS, CORREA, Chair
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires specified candidates, committees, slate mailer
organizations, and lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to file campaign statements and
reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State, as specified. The act requires certain of
these entities to also file campaign statements and reports with local filing officers, as specified. This
bill , with certain exceptions, would authorize a local government agency to require an elected officer,
candidate, committee, or other person required to file specified statements, reports, or other
documents to file those statements, reports, or other documents online or electronically with a local
filing officer. The bill would prescribe criteria that must be satisfied by a local government agency that
requires online or electronic filing of statements, reports, or other documents, as specified, including,
among others, that the system be available free of charge to filers and to the public for viewing filings,
and that the system include a procedure for filers to comply with the requirement that they sign
statements and reports under penalty of perjury. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
Position
AB 2567 (Carter D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 3/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. G. & F.
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Calendar: 6/13/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, WOLK, Chair
Summary: Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments,
fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of
written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus
Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply
with Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law establishes notice, protest,
and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees and charges by local government
agencies pursuant to Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law authorizes
an agency that provides water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or
charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for
water or adjustments for inflation, if that agency complies with specified procedures. This bill would
additionally authorize an agency that provides wastewater collection service to adopt a schedule of
fees or charges, as specified. This bill would also authorize an agency that provides water,
wastewater, sewer , or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing
automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wastewater treatment , if that agency complies
with specified procedures.
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: 1/10/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 1/10/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/12/2012-A. E. & R.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND
REDISTRICTING, FONG, Chair
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: 4/16/2012-A. H. & C.D.
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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 900 (Leno D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 4/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/2/2012-S. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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Calendar:
6/11/2012 #21 ASSEMBLY IN CONFERENCE
6/11/2012 #20 SENATE IN CONFERENCE (SENATE BILLS)
Summary: Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust, including establishing
procedures for foreclosure in the case of default. This bill would express the intent of Legislature to
enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the
servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement.
Position
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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: 5/2/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 5/2/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/30/2012-A. DESK
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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. 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 for the participation of, all parties, as specified. The bill would
permit written ex parte communications by any party provided that the interested person, as defined,
who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all parties, as specified. The
bill would require that if an individual ex parte comm unication meeting or call is granted to any
interested party, all other parties 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: 34
Total Tracking Forms: 34
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) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 3/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/19/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of 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 modify the scope of the term "enforceable obligation" andmodify 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 andModerate 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 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: 5/17/2012-S. APPR. 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: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 6/7/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/18/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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 connected to hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make a 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
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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: 6/6/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2012
Last Amend: 6/6/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 6/6/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Calendar: 6/12/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY,
Chair
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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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: 4/30/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/30/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/31/2012-S. E.Q.
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Calendar: 7/2/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman
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, 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 any of the following: a state board member, regional board
member, or any interested person. The bill would also provide that a communication is not ex parte if
the communication is limited entirely to procedure or practice, as specified. 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: 6/7/2012-S. L. & I.R.
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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: 5/24/2012-S. E. U., & C.
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Calendar: 6/11/2012 2 p.m. or upon adjournment of Business, Professions and Economic
Development and Public Employment and Retirement John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, PADILLA, Chair
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: 4/19/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Calendar: 6/26/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY,
Chair
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: 6/7/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2452 (Ammiano D) Political Reform Act of 1974: online disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 5/8/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/8/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. E. & C.A.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 3191 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS, CORREA, Chair
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires specified candidates, committees, slate mailer
organizations, and lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to file campaign statements and
reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State, as specified. The act requires certain of
these entities to also file campaign statements and reports with local filing officers, as specified. This
bill , with certain exceptions, would authorize a local government agency to require an elected officer,
candidate, committee, or other person required to file specified statements, reports, or other
documents to file those statements, reports, or other documents online or electronically with a local
filing officer. The bill would prescribe criteria that must be satisfied by a local government agency that
requires online or electronic filing of statements, reports, or other documents, as specified, including,
among others, that the system be available free of charge to filers and to the public for viewing filings,
and that the system include a procedure for filers to comply with the requirement that they sign
statements and reports under penalty of perjury. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
Position
AB 2567 (Carter D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 3/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. G. & F.
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Calendar: 6/13/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, WOLK, Chair
Summary: Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments,
fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of
written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus
Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply
with Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law establishes notice, protest,
and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees and charges by local government
agencies pursuant to Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law authorizes
an agency that provides water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or
charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for
water or adjustments for inflation, if that agency complies with specified procedures. This bill would
additionally authorize an agency that provides wastewater collection service to adopt a schedule of
fees or charges, as specified. This bill would also authorize an agency that provides water,
wastewater, sewer , or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing
automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wastewater treatment , if that agency complies
with specified procedures.
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: 1/10/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 1/10/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/12/2012-A. E. & R.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND
REDISTRICTING, FONG, Chair
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: 4/16/2012-A. H. & C.D.
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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 900 (Leno D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 4/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/2/2012-S. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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Calendar:
6/11/2012 #21 ASSEMBLY IN CONFERENCE
6/11/2012 #20 SENATE IN CONFERENCE (SENATE BILLS)
Summary: Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust, including establishing
procedures for foreclosure in the case of default. This bill would express the intent of Legislature to
enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the
servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement.
Position
Support
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: 5/2/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 5/2/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/30/2012-A. DESK
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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. 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 for the participation of, all parties, as specified. The bill would
permit written ex parte communications by any party provided that the interested person, as defined,
who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all parties, as specified. The
bill would require that if an individual ex parte comm unication meeting or call is granted to any
interested party, all other parties 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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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
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Total Tracking Forms: 34
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) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 3/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/19/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of 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 modify the scope of the term "enforceable obligation" andmodify 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 andModerate 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 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: 5/17/2012-S. APPR. 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: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 6/7/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/18/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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 connected to hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make a 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: 6/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/6/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/6/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Calendar: 6/12/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY,
Chair
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
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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
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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: 4/30/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/30/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/31/2012-S. E.Q.
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Calendar: 7/2/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman
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, 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 any of the following: a state board member, regional board
member, or any interested person. The bill would also provide that a communication is not ex parte if
the communication is limited entirely to procedure or practice, as specified. 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: 6/7/2012-S. L. & I.R.
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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: 5/24/2012-S. E. U., & C.
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Calendar: 6/11/2012 2 p.m. or upon adjournment of Business, Professions and Economic
Development and Public Employment and Retirement John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, PADILLA, Chair
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: 4/19/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Calendar: 6/26/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY,
Chair
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: 6/7/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2452 (Ammiano D) Political Reform Act of 1974: online disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 5/8/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/8/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. E. & C.A.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 3191 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS, CORREA, Chair
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires specified candidates, committees, slate mailer
organizations, and lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to file campaign statements and
reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State, as specified. The act requires certain of
these entities to also file campaign statements and reports with local filing officers, as specified. This
bill , with certain exceptions, would authorize a local government agency to require an elected officer,
candidate, committee, or other person required to file specified statements, reports, or other
documents to file those statements, reports, or other documents online or electronically with a local
filing officer. The bill would prescribe criteria that must be satisfied by a local government agency that
requires online or electronic filing of statements, reports, or other documents, as specified, including,
among others, that the system be available free of charge to filers and to the public for viewing filings,
and that the system include a procedure for filers to comply with the requirement that they sign
statements and reports under penalty of perjury. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
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AB 2567 (Carter D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 3/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. G. & F.
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Calendar: 6/13/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, WOLK, Chair
Summary: Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments,
fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of
written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus
Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply
with Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law establishes notice, protest,
and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees and charges by local government
agencies pursuant to Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law authorizes
an agency that provides water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or
charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for
water or adjustments for inflation, if that agency complies with specified procedures. This bill would
additionally authorize an agency that provides wastewater collection service to adopt a schedule of
fees or charges, as specified. This bill would also authorize an agency that provides water,
wastewater, sewer , or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing
automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wastewater treatment , if that agency complies
with specified procedures.
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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: 1/10/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 1/10/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/12/2012-A. E. & R.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND
REDISTRICTING, FONG, Chair
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: 4/16/2012-A. H. & C.D.
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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 900 (Leno D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 4/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/2/2012-S. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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Calendar:
6/11/2012 #21 ASSEMBLY IN CONFERENCE
6/11/2012 #20 SENATE IN CONFERENCE (SENATE BILLS)
Summary: Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust, including establishing
procedures for foreclosure in the case of default. This bill would express the intent of Legislature to
enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the
servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement.
Position
Support
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: 5/2/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 5/2/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/30/2012-A. DESK
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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. 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 for the participation of, all parties, as specified. The bill would
permit written ex parte communications by any party provided that the interested person, as defined,
who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all parties, as specified. The
bill would require that if an individual ex parte comm unication meeting or call is granted to any
interested party, all other parties 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 6/8/2012
Total Measures: 34
Total Tracking Forms: 34
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) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 3/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/19/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of 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 modify the scope of the term "enforceable obligation" andmodify 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 andModerate 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 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: 5/17/2012-S. APPR. 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: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 6/7/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/18/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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 connected to hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make a 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: 6/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/6/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/6/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/12/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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
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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: 4/30/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/23/2012
Last Amend: 4/30/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/31/2012-S. E.Q.
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Calendar: 7/2/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman
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, 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 any of the following: a state board member, regional board
member, or any interested person. The bill would also provide that a communication is not ex parte if
the communication is limited entirely to procedure or practice, as specified. 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: 6/7/2012-S. L. & I.R.
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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: 5/24/2012-S. E. U., & C.
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Calendar: 6/11/2012 2 p.m. or upon adjournment of Business, Professions and Economic
Development and Public Employment and Retirement John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, PADILLA, Chair
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: 4/19/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Calendar: 6/26/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY,
Chair
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: 6/7/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2452 (Ammiano D) Political Reform Act of 1974: online disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 5/8/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/8/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. E. & C.A.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 3191 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS, CORREA, Chair
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires specified candidates, committees, slate mailer
organizations, and lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to file campaign statements and
reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State, as specified. The act requires certain of
these entities to also file campaign statements and reports with local filing officers, as specified. This
bill , with certain exceptions, would authorize a local government agency to require an elected officer,
candidate, committee, or other person required to file specified statements, reports, or other
documents to file those statements, reports, or other documents online or electronically with a local
filing officer. The bill would prescribe criteria that must be satisfied by a local government agency that
requires online or electronic filing of statements, reports, or other documents, as specified, including,
among others, that the system be available free of charge to filers and to the public for viewing filings,
and that the system include a procedure for filers to comply with the requirement that they sign
statements and reports under penalty of perjury. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
Position
AB 2567 (Carter D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 3/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. G. & F.
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Calendar: 6/13/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, WOLK, Chair
Summary: Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments,
fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of
written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus
Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply
with Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law establishes notice, protest,
and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees and charges by local government
agencies pursuant to Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law authorizes
an agency that provides water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or
charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for
water or adjustments for inflation, if that agency complies with specified procedures. This bill would
additionally authorize an agency that provides wastewater collection service to adopt a schedule of
fees or charges, as specified. This bill would also authorize an agency that provides water,
wastewater, sewer , or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing
automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wastewater treatment , if that agency complies
with specified procedures.
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: 1/10/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 1/10/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/12/2012-A. E. & R.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND
REDISTRICTING, FONG, Chair
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: 4/16/2012-A. H. & C.D.
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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 900 (Leno D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 4/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/2/2012-S. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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Calendar:
6/11/2012 #21 ASSEMBLY IN CONFERENCE
6/11/2012 #20 SENATE IN CONFERENCE (SENATE BILLS)
Summary: Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust, including establishing
procedures for foreclosure in the case of default. This bill would express the intent of Legislature to
enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the
servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement.
Position
Support
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: 5/2/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 5/2/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/30/2012-A. DESK
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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. 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 for the participation of, all parties, as specified. The bill would
permit written ex parte communications by any party provided that the interested person, as defined,
who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all parties, as specified. The
bill would require that if an individual ex parte comm unication meeting or call is granted to any
interested party, all other parties 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
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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: 34
Total Tracking Forms: 34
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) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 3/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/19/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of 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 modify the scope of the term "enforceable obligation" andmodify 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 andModerate 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 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: 5/17/2012-S. APPR. 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: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 6/7/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/18/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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 connected to hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make a 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: 6/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/6/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/6/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/12/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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: 4/30/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/30/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/31/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 7/2/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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, 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 memberacting in his or her official capacity and any of the following: a state board member, regional board member, or any interested person. The bill would also provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is limited entirely to procedure or practice, as specified. 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: 6/7/2012-S. L. & I.R. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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
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Last Amend: 3/29/2012
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Calendar: 6/11/2012 2 p.m. or upon adjournment of Business, Professions and Economic
Development and Public Employment and Retirement John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, PADILLA, Chair
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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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
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Calendar: 6/26/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY,
Chair
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
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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
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 6/7/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2452 (Ammiano D) Political Reform Act of 1974: online disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 5/8/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/8/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. E. & C.A.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 3191 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS, CORREA, Chair
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires specified candidates, committees, slate mailer
organizations, and lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to file campaign statements and
reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State, as specified. The act requires certain of
these entities to also file campaign statements and reports with local filing officers, as specified. This
bill , with certain exceptions, would authorize a local government agency to require an elected officer,
candidate, committee, or other person required to file specified statements, reports, or other
documents to file those statements, reports, or other documents online or electronically with a local
filing officer. The bill would prescribe criteria that must be satisfied by a local government agency that
requires online or electronic filing of statements, reports, or other documents, as specified, including,
among others, that the system be available free of charge to filers and to the public for viewing filings,
and that the system include a procedure for filers to comply with the requirement that they sign
statements and reports under penalty of perjury. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
Position
AB 2567 (Carter D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 3/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. G. & F.
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Calendar: 6/13/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, WOLK, Chair
Summary: Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments,
fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of
written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus
Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply
with Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law establishes notice, protest,
and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees and charges by local government
agencies pursuant to Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law authorizes
an agency that provides water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or
charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for
water or adjustments for inflation, if that agency complies with specified procedures. This bill would
additionally authorize an agency that provides wastewater collection service to adopt a schedule of
fees or charges, as specified. This bill would also authorize an agency that provides water,
wastewater, sewer , or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing
automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wastewater treatment , if that agency complies
with specified procedures.
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: 1/10/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 1/10/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/12/2012-A. E. & R.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND
REDISTRICTING, FONG, Chair
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: 4/16/2012-A. H. & C.D.
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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 900 (Leno D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 4/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/2/2012-S. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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Calendar:
6/11/2012 #21 ASSEMBLY IN CONFERENCE
6/11/2012 #20 SENATE IN CONFERENCE (SENATE BILLS)
Summary: Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust, including establishing
procedures for foreclosure in the case of default. This bill would express the intent of Legislature to
enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the
servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement.
Position
Support
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: 5/2/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 5/2/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/30/2012-A. DESK
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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. 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 for the participation of, all parties, as specified. The bill would
permit written ex parte communications by any party provided that the interested person, as defined,
who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all parties, as specified. The
bill would require that if an individual ex parte comm unication meeting or call is granted to any
interested party, all other parties 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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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
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OCSD Legislative Matrix 6/8/2012
Total Measures: 34
Total Tracking Forms: 34
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) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 3/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/19/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of 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 modify the scope of the term "enforceable obligation" andmodify 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 andModerate 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 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: 5/17/2012-S. APPR. 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: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 6/7/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/18/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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 connected to hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make a 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: 6/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/6/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/6/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/12/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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: 4/30/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/30/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/31/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 7/2/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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, 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 memberacting in his or her official capacity and any of the following: a state board member, regional board member, or any interested person. The bill would also provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is limited entirely to procedure or practice, as specified. 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: 6/7/2012-S. L. & I.R. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 5/24/2012-S. E. U., & C. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/11/2012 2 p.m. or upon adjournment of Business, Professions and Economic Development and Public Employment and Retirement John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, PADILLA, Chair 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
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Location: 4/19/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Calendar: 6/26/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY,
Chair
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
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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
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Location: 6/7/2012-S. N.R. & W.
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2452 (Ammiano D) Political Reform Act of 1974: online disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 5/8/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/8/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. E. & C.A.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 3191 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS, CORREA, Chair
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires specified candidates, committees, slate mailer
organizations, and lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to file campaign statements and
reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State, as specified. The act requires certain of
these entities to also file campaign statements and reports with local filing officers, as specified. This
bill , with certain exceptions, would authorize a local government agency to require an elected officer,
candidate, committee, or other person required to file specified statements, reports, or other
documents to file those statements, reports, or other documents online or electronically with a local
filing officer. The bill would prescribe criteria that must be satisfied by a local government agency that
requires online or electronic filing of statements, reports, or other documents, as specified, including,
among others, that the system be available free of charge to filers and to the public for viewing filings,
and that the system include a procedure for filers to comply with the requirement that they sign
statements and reports under penalty of perjury. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
Position
AB 2567 (Carter D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 3/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. G. & F.
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Calendar: 6/13/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, WOLK, Chair
Summary: Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments,
fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of
written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus
Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply
with Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law establishes notice, protest,
and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees and charges by local government
agencies pursuant to Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law authorizes
an agency that provides water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or
charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for
water or adjustments for inflation, if that agency complies with specified procedures. This bill would
additionally authorize an agency that provides wastewater collection service to adopt a schedule of
fees or charges, as specified. This bill would also authorize an agency that provides water,
wastewater, sewer , or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing
automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wastewater treatment , if that agency complies
with specified procedures.
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: 1/10/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 1/10/2012
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND
REDISTRICTING, FONG, Chair
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
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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: 4/16/2012-A. H. & C.D.
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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 900 (Leno D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 4/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/2/2012-S. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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6/11/2012 #20 SENATE IN CONFERENCE (SENATE BILLS)
Summary: Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust, including establishing
procedures for foreclosure in the case of default. This bill would express the intent of Legislature to
enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the
servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement.
Position
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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: 5/2/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 5/2/2012
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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. 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 for the participation of, all parties, as specified. The bill would
permit written ex parte communications by any party provided that the interested person, as defined,
who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all parties, as specified. The
bill would require that if an individual ex parte comm unication meeting or call is granted to any
interested party, all other parties 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.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
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Summary: Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the State
Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to their employees.
Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension benefits to
elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective
officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions
in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents of the
University of California have established the University of California Retirement System as a trust for
this purpose. This bill, on and after January 1, 2013, would prohibit a public retirement system from
allowing the purchase of additional retirement service credit, as described above. The bill would
except from this prohibition an official application to purchase this type of service credit received by
the retirement system prior to January 1, 2013. The bill would prohibit any member who does not
have at least 5 years of service credit before the operative date of this bill, or any person hired on or
after that date, from purchasing additional retirement service credit. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 1498 (Emmerson R) Local agency formation commission: powers.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2012 pdf html
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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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Total Measures: 34
Total Tracking Forms: 34
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) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 3/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/19/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of 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 modify the scope of the term "enforceable obligation" andmodify 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 andModerate 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 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: 5/17/2012-S. APPR. 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: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 6/7/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/18/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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 connected to hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make a 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: 6/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/6/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/6/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/12/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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: 4/30/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/30/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/31/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 7/2/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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, 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 memberacting in his or her official capacity and any of the following: a state board member, regional board member, or any interested person. The bill would also provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is limited entirely to procedure or practice, as specified. 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: 6/7/2012-S. L. & I.R. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 5/24/2012-S. E. U., & C. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/11/2012 2 p.m. or upon adjournment of Business, Professions and Economic Development and Public Employment and Retirement John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, PADILLA, Chair 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: 4/19/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/26/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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
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Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the
California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with
authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public
Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for
groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to
develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by
December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria
would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the
feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to
provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law
requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011
to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and
adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the
feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the state
board to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling
criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate
those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing
law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per
year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state
board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water
Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the
Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would
require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for
groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or
before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced
treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria
for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to
review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department
on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and
contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as
appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be
submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil
penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled
water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
AB 2452 (Ammiano D) Political Reform Act of 1974: online disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 5/8/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 5/8/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. E. & C.A.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 3191 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS, CORREA, Chair
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires specified candidates, committees, slate mailer
organizations, and lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to file campaign statements and
reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State, as specified. The act requires certain of
these entities to also file campaign statements and reports with local filing officers, as specified. This
bill , with certain exceptions, would authorize a local government agency to require an elected officer,
candidate, committee, or other person required to file specified statements, reports, or other
documents to file those statements, reports, or other documents online or electronically with a local
filing officer. The bill would prescribe criteria that must be satisfied by a local government agency that
requires online or electronic filing of statements, reports, or other documents, as specified, including,
among others, that the system be available free of charge to filers and to the public for viewing filings,
and that the system include a procedure for filers to comply with the requirement that they sign
statements and reports under penalty of perjury. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
Position
AB 2567 (Carter D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/24/2012
Last Amend: 3/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/31/2012-S. G. & F.
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Calendar: 6/13/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, WOLK, Chair
Summary: Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments,
fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of
written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus
Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply
with Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law establishes notice, protest,
and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees and charges by local government
agencies pursuant to Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law authorizes
an agency that provides water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or
charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for
water or adjustments for inflation, if that agency complies with specified procedures. This bill would
additionally authorize an agency that provides wastewater collection service to adopt a schedule of
fees or charges, as specified. This bill would also authorize an agency that provides water,
wastewater, sewer , or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing
automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wastewater treatment , if that agency complies
with specified procedures.
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: 1/10/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 1/10/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/12/2012-A. E. & R.
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND
REDISTRICTING, FONG, Chair
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: 4/16/2012-A. H. & C.D.
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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 900 (Leno D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 4/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/2/2012-S. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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Calendar:
6/11/2012 #21 ASSEMBLY IN CONFERENCE
6/11/2012 #20 SENATE IN CONFERENCE (SENATE BILLS)
Summary: Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust, including establishing
procedures for foreclosure in the case of default. This bill would express the intent of Legislature to
enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the
servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement.
Position
Support
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: 5/2/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 5/2/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/30/2012-A. DESK
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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. 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 for the participation of, all parties, as specified. The bill would
permit written ex parte communications by any party provided that the interested person, as defined,
who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all parties, as specified. The
bill would require that if an individual ex parte comm unication meeting or call is granted to any
interested party, all other parties 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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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) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 3/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/19/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of 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 modify the scope of the term "enforceable obligation" andmodify 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 andModerate 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 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: 5/17/2012-S. APPR. 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: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 6/7/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/18/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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 connected to hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make a 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: 6/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/6/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/6/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/12/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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: 4/30/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/30/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/31/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 7/2/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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, 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 memberacting in his or her official capacity and any of the following: a state board member, regional board member, or any interested person. The bill would also provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is limited entirely to procedure or practice, as specified. 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: 6/7/2012-S. L. & I.R. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 5/24/2012-S. E. U., & C. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/11/2012 2 p.m. or upon adjournment of Business, Professions and Economic Development and Public Employment and Retirement John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, PADILLA, Chair 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: 4/19/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/26/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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: 6/7/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011 to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the stateboard to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2452 (Ammiano D) Political Reform Act of 1974: online disclosure. Current Text: Amended: 5/8/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 5/8/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/31/2012-S. E. & C.A. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 3191 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, CORREA, Chair Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires specified candidates, committees, slate mailer organizations, and lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to file campaign statements and reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State, as specified. The act requires certain of these entities to also file campaign statements and reports with local filing officers, as specified. This bill , with certain exceptions, would authorize a local government agency to require an elected officer, candidate, committee, or other person required to file specified statements, reports, or other documents to file those statements, reports, or other documents online or electronically with a local filing officer. The bill would prescribe criteria that must be satisfied by a local government agency that requires online or electronic filing of statements, reports, or other documents, as specified, including, among others, that the system be available free of charge to filers and to the public for viewing filings,and that the system include a procedure for filers to comply with the requirement that they sign statements and reports under penalty of perjury. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position
AB 2567 (Carter D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2012 pdf html
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Calendar: 6/13/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, WOLK, Chair
Summary: Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments,
fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of
written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus
Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply
with Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law establishes notice, protest,
and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees and charges by local government
agencies pursuant to Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law authorizes
an agency that provides water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or
charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for
water or adjustments for inflation, if that agency complies with specified procedures. This bill would
additionally authorize an agency that provides wastewater collection service to adopt a schedule of
fees or charges, as specified. This bill would also authorize an agency that provides water,
wastewater, sewer , or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing
automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wastewater treatment , if that agency complies
with specified procedures.
Position
ACA 22 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2012 pdf html
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Summary: Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including the Public
Employees' Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), the Judges'
Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937, among others, and these systems provide defined pension benefits to public
employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. The California Constitution
permits a city or county to adopt a charter for purposes of its governance that supersedes general
laws of the state in regard to specified subjects, including compensation of city or county employees.
The California Constitution also establishes the University of California as a public trust with full
powers of organization and government, subject only to specified limitations. Charter cities and the
University of California may establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional
authority. These pension systems are funded by employee and employer contributions and investment
returns. Existing law provides that public employee pension benefits are a form of deferred
compensation, the right to which vests in the employee on contractual principles and is protected from
impairment by the California Constitution and the United States Constitution. This measure would
require each public retirement system, as defined in statute, to provide one or more hybrid pension
plans meeting the requirements of this measure to each public employer that provides its employees a
defined benefit pension plan administered by the public retirement system. The measure would
require that a hybrid pension plan consist of a defined benefit component and a defined contribution
or alternative plan design component, as specified. The measure would require, among other things,
that a hybrid pension plan be designed with a goal of providing annually during retirement, based on
a full career in public service, as defined, replacement income of 75% of a public employee's final
compensation. The measure would require the Director of Finance, on or before January 1, 2013, to
establish initial criteria and requirements for one or more hybrid pension plans, as specified. The
measure would require, on and after July 1, 2013, each public retirement system to administer, and
make available to each public employer that provides a defined benefit pension plan, one or more
hybrid pension plans, except as specified, for public employees hired in each member classification in
the public retirement system. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position
SB 31 (Correa D) Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
Current Text: Amended: 1/10/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 1/10/2012
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND
REDISTRICTING, FONG, Chair
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/16/2012-A. H. & C.D.
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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 900 (Leno D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 4/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
Location: 5/2/2012-S. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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6/11/2012 #20 SENATE IN CONFERENCE (SENATE BILLS)
Summary: Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust, including establishing
procedures for foreclosure in the case of default. This bill would express the intent of Legislature to
enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the
servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement.
Position
Support
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: 5/2/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 5/2/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 5/30/2012-A. DESK
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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. 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 for the participation of, all parties, as specified. The bill would
permit written ex parte communications by any party provided that the interested person, as defined,
who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all parties, as specified. The
bill would require that if an individual ex parte comm unication meeting or call is granted to any
interested party, all other parties 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: 34
Total Tracking Forms: 34
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) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 3/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/19/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of 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 modify the scope of the term "enforceable obligation" andmodify 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 andModerate 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 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: 5/17/2012-S. APPR. 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: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 6/7/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/18/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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 connected to hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make a 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: 6/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/6/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/6/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/12/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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: 4/30/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/30/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/31/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 7/2/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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, 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 memberacting in his or her official capacity and any of the following: a state board member, regional board member, or any interested person. The bill would also provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is limited entirely to procedure or practice, as specified. 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: 6/7/2012-S. L. & I.R. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 5/24/2012-S. E. U., & C. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/11/2012 2 p.m. or upon adjournment of Business, Professions and Economic Development and Public Employment and Retirement John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, PADILLA, Chair 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: 4/19/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/26/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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: 6/7/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011 to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the stateboard to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2452 (Ammiano D) Political Reform Act of 1974: online disclosure. Current Text: Amended: 5/8/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 5/8/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/31/2012-S. E. & C.A. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 3191 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, CORREA, Chair Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires specified candidates, committees, slate mailer organizations, and lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to file campaign statements and reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State, as specified. The act requires certain of these entities to also file campaign statements and reports with local filing officers, as specified. This bill , with certain exceptions, would authorize a local government agency to require an elected officer, candidate, committee, or other person required to file specified statements, reports, or other documents to file those statements, reports, or other documents online or electronically with a local filing officer. The bill would prescribe criteria that must be satisfied by a local government agency that requires online or electronic filing of statements, reports, or other documents, as specified, including, among others, that the system be available free of charge to filers and to the public for viewing filings,and that the system include a procedure for filers to comply with the requirement that they sign statements and reports under penalty of perjury. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2567 (Carter D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees. Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 3/26/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/31/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/13/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, WOLK, Chair Summary: Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments, fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply with Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law establishes notice, protest, and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees and charges by local government agencies pursuant to Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law authorizes an agency that provides water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for water or adjustments for inflation, if that agency complies with specified procedures. This bill would additionally authorize an agency that provides wastewater collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges, as specified. This bill would also authorize an agency that provides water, wastewater, sewer , or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wastewater treatment , if that agency complieswith specified procedures. 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: 1/10/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Last Amend: 1/10/2012
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Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND
REDISTRICTING, FONG, Chair
Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves
his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local
government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for
compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government
agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any
officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for
the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or
proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or
contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this
prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with
decisionmaking authority . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Last Amend: 6/2/2011
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Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by
agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified
periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain,
among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing
reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires
that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public
inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019,
require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is
required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation
disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position
SB 654 (Steinberg D) Redevelopment.
Current Text: Amended: 1/31/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 1/31/2012
Is Fiscal: Y
Location: 4/16/2012-A. H. & C.D.
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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 900 (Leno D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 4/26/2012
Is Fiscal: N
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6/11/2012 #20 SENATE IN CONFERENCE (SENATE BILLS)
Summary: Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust, including establishing
procedures for foreclosure in the case of default. This bill would express the intent of Legislature to
enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the
servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement.
Position
Support
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
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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: 5/2/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 5/2/2012
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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. 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 for the participation of, all parties, as specified. The bill would
permit written ex parte communications by any party provided that the interested person, as defined,
who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all parties, as specified. The
bill would require that if an individual ex parte comm unication meeting or call is granted to any
interested party, all other parties 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
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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) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 3/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/19/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of 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 modify the scope of the term "enforceable obligation" andmodify 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 andModerate 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 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: 5/17/2012-S. APPR. 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: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 6/7/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/18/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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 connected to hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make a 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: 6/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/6/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/6/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/12/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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: 4/30/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/30/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/31/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 7/2/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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, 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 memberacting in his or her official capacity and any of the following: a state board member, regional board member, or any interested person. The bill would also provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is limited entirely to procedure or practice, as specified. 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: 6/7/2012-S. L. & I.R. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 5/24/2012-S. E. U., & C. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/11/2012 2 p.m. or upon adjournment of Business, Professions and Economic Development and Public Employment and Retirement John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, PADILLA, Chair 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: 4/19/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/26/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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: 6/7/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011 to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the stateboard to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2452 (Ammiano D) Political Reform Act of 1974: online disclosure. Current Text: Amended: 5/8/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 5/8/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/31/2012-S. E. & C.A. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 3191 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, CORREA, Chair Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires specified candidates, committees, slate mailer organizations, and lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to file campaign statements and reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State, as specified. The act requires certain of these entities to also file campaign statements and reports with local filing officers, as specified. This bill , with certain exceptions, would authorize a local government agency to require an elected officer, candidate, committee, or other person required to file specified statements, reports, or other documents to file those statements, reports, or other documents online or electronically with a local filing officer. The bill would prescribe criteria that must be satisfied by a local government agency that requires online or electronic filing of statements, reports, or other documents, as specified, including, among others, that the system be available free of charge to filers and to the public for viewing filings,and that the system include a procedure for filers to comply with the requirement that they sign statements and reports under penalty of perjury. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2567 (Carter D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees. Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 3/26/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/31/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/13/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, WOLK, Chair Summary: Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments, fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply with Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law establishes notice, protest, and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees and charges by local government agencies pursuant to Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law authorizes an agency that provides water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for water or adjustments for inflation, if that agency complies with specified procedures. This bill would additionally authorize an agency that provides wastewater collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges, as specified. This bill would also authorize an agency that provides water, wastewater, sewer , or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wastewater treatment , if that agency complieswith specified procedures. 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: 1/10/2012 pdf html Introduced: 12/6/2010 Last Amend: 1/10/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/12/2012-A. E. & R. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND REDISTRICTING, FONG, Chair 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: 4/16/2012-A. H. & C.D. 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 900 (Leno D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Last Amend: 4/26/2012
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6/11/2012 #20 SENATE IN CONFERENCE (SENATE BILLS)
Summary: Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust, including establishing
procedures for foreclosure in the case of default. This bill would express the intent of Legislature to
enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the
servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement.
Position
Support
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: 5/2/2012 pdf html
Introduced: 1/11/2012
Last Amend: 5/2/2012
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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. 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 for the participation of, all parties, as specified. The bill would
permit written ex parte communications by any party provided that the interested person, as defined,
who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all parties, as specified. The
bill would require that if an individual ex parte comm unication meeting or call is granted to any
interested party, all other parties 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
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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 6/8/2012
Total Measures: 34
Total Tracking Forms: 34
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) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 3/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/19/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of 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 modify the scope of the term "enforceable obligation" andmodify 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 andModerate 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 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: 5/17/2012-S. APPR. 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: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 6/7/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/18/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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 connected to hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make a 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: 6/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/6/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/6/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/12/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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: 4/30/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/30/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/31/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 7/2/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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, 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 memberacting in his or her official capacity and any of the following: a state board member, regional board member, or any interested person. The bill would also provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is limited entirely to procedure or practice, as specified. 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: 6/7/2012-S. L. & I.R. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 5/24/2012-S. E. U., & C. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/11/2012 2 p.m. or upon adjournment of Business, Professions and Economic Development and Public Employment and Retirement John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, PADILLA, Chair 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: 4/19/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/26/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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: 6/7/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011 to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the stateboard to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2452 (Ammiano D) Political Reform Act of 1974: online disclosure. Current Text: Amended: 5/8/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 5/8/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/31/2012-S. E. & C.A. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 3191 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, CORREA, Chair Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires specified candidates, committees, slate mailer organizations, and lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to file campaign statements and reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State, as specified. The act requires certain of these entities to also file campaign statements and reports with local filing officers, as specified. This bill , with certain exceptions, would authorize a local government agency to require an elected officer, candidate, committee, or other person required to file specified statements, reports, or other documents to file those statements, reports, or other documents online or electronically with a local filing officer. The bill would prescribe criteria that must be satisfied by a local government agency that requires online or electronic filing of statements, reports, or other documents, as specified, including, among others, that the system be available free of charge to filers and to the public for viewing filings,and that the system include a procedure for filers to comply with the requirement that they sign statements and reports under penalty of perjury. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2567 (Carter D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees. Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 3/26/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/31/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/13/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, WOLK, Chair Summary: Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments, fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply with Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law establishes notice, protest, and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees and charges by local government agencies pursuant to Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law authorizes an agency that provides water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for water or adjustments for inflation, if that agency complies with specified procedures. This bill would additionally authorize an agency that provides wastewater collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges, as specified. This bill would also authorize an agency that provides water, wastewater, sewer , or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wastewater treatment , if that agency complieswith specified procedures. 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: 1/10/2012 pdf html Introduced: 12/6/2010 Last Amend: 1/10/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/12/2012-A. E. & R. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND REDISTRICTING, FONG, Chair 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: 4/16/2012-A. H. & C.D. 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 900 (Leno D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure. Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 4/26/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/2/2012-S. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/11/2012 #21 ASSEMBLY IN CONFERENCE 6/11/2012 #20 SENATE IN CONFERENCE (SENATE BILLS) Summary: Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust, including establishing procedures for foreclosure in the case of default. This bill would express the intent of Legislature to enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement. Position Support 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: 5/2/2012 pdf html Introduced: 1/11/2012 Last Amend: 5/2/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/30/2012-A. DESK 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. 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 for the participation of, all parties, as specified. The bill would
permit written ex parte communications by any party provided that the interested person, as defined,
who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all parties, as specified. The
bill would require that if an individual ex parte comm unication meeting or call is granted to any
interested party, all other parties 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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Total Measures: 34
Total Tracking Forms: 34
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) Redevelopment. Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/2/2012 Last Amend: 3/21/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/19/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of 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 modify the scope of the term "enforceable obligation" andmodify 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 andModerate 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 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: 5/17/2012-S. APPR. 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: 3/29/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/8/2012 Last Amend: 3/29/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 6/7/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/18/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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 connected to hydrolysis facility regulation be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. By depositing moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make a 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: 6/6/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/17/2012 Last Amend: 6/6/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 6/6/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/12/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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: 4/30/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/23/2012 Last Amend: 4/30/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/31/2012-S. E.Q. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 7/2/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, SIMITIAN, Chairman 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, 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 memberacting in his or her official capacity and any of the following: a state board member, regional board member, or any interested person. The bill would also provide that a communication is not ex parte if the communication is limited entirely to procedure or practice, as specified. 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: 6/7/2012-S. L. & I.R. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House 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: 5/24/2012-S. E. U., & C. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/11/2012 2 p.m. or upon adjournment of Business, Professions and Economic Development and Public Employment and Retirement John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS, PADILLA, Chair 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: 4/19/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/26/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER, PAVLEY, Chair 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: 6/7/2012-S. N.R. & W. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Summary: Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and the California regional water quality control boards (regional boards) as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health (department) to adopt uniform water recycling criteria for indirect potable water reuse for groundwater recharge, as defined, by December 31, 2013. Existing law requires the department to develop and adopt uniform water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation, as defined, by December 31, 2016, if a specified expert panel convened by the department finds that the criteria would adequately protect public health. Existing law requires the department to investigate the feasibility of developing uniform water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse, as defined, and to provide a final report on that investigation to the Legislature by December 31, 2016. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the state board, to report to the Legislature from 2011 to 2016, inclusive, as part of the annual budget process, on the progress towards developing and adopting the water recycling criteria for surface water augmentation and its investigation of the feasibility of developing water recycling criteria for direct potable reuse. Existing law requires the stateboard to enter into an agreement with the department to assist in implementing the water recycling criteria provisions. This bill would enact the Water Recycling Act of 2012 to revise and consolidate those and other provisions relating to recycled water, and make other conforming changes to existing law. The act would establish a statewide goal to recycle a total of 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2020 and 2.5 million acre-feet of water per year by 2030. The act would require the state board and regional boards, the department, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Water Resources, and other state agencies to exercise the authority and discretion granted to them by the Legislature to encourage the use of recycled water and meet the goals of the act. The act would require the department, on or before December 31, 2013, to adopt drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The bill would require the department, on or before December 31, 2016, to develop and adopt drinking water criteria for the use of advanced treated purified water for raw water augmentation projects not subject to the drinking water criteria for groundwater recharge projects utilizing recycled water. The act would subject those criteria to review by an expert panel convened and administered by the department to advise the department on public health issues and scientific and technical matters. The act would prescribe the types and contents of permits for recycled water to be issued by the state board or a regional board, as appropriate. Because certain reports submitted as part of the permit application process would be submitted under penalty of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. The act would establish the Water Recycling Research Fund and require that certain civil penalties be deposited into the fund, to be expended by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to conduct or fund research necessary to support the continued and safe use of recycled water in the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2452 (Ammiano D) Political Reform Act of 1974: online disclosure. Current Text: Amended: 5/8/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 5/8/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/31/2012-S. E. & C.A. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - Room 3191 SENATE ELECTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, CORREA, Chair Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires specified candidates, committees, slate mailer organizations, and lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers to file campaign statements and reports online or electronically with the Secretary of State, as specified. The act requires certain of these entities to also file campaign statements and reports with local filing officers, as specified. This bill , with certain exceptions, would authorize a local government agency to require an elected officer, candidate, committee, or other person required to file specified statements, reports, or other documents to file those statements, reports, or other documents online or electronically with a local filing officer. The bill would prescribe criteria that must be satisfied by a local government agency that requires online or electronic filing of statements, reports, or other documents, as specified, including, among others, that the system be available free of charge to filers and to the public for viewing filings,and that the system include a procedure for filers to comply with the requirement that they sign statements and reports under penalty of perjury. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Position AB 2567 (Carter D) Sewer collection agency: schedule of fees. Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/24/2012 Last Amend: 3/26/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/31/2012-S. G. & F. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/13/2012 9:30 a.m. - Room 112 SENATE GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE, WOLK, Chair Summary: Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution generally require that assessments, fees, and charges be submitted to property owners for approval or rejection after the provision of written notice and the holding of a public hearing. Existing law, the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply with Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law establishes notice, protest, and hearing procedures for the levying of new or increased fees and charges by local government agencies pursuant to Articles XIII C and XIII D of the California Constitution. Existing law authorizes an agency that provides water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for water or adjustments for inflation, if that agency complies with specified procedures. This bill would additionally authorize an agency that provides wastewater collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges, as specified. This bill would also authorize an agency that provides water, wastewater, sewer , or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wastewater treatment , if that agency complieswith specified procedures. 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: 1/10/2012 pdf html Introduced: 12/6/2010 Last Amend: 1/10/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 4/12/2012-A. E. & R. 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc.Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/19/2012 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 444 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND REDISTRICTING, FONG, Chair 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: 4/16/2012-A. H. & C.D. 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 900 (Leno D) Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure. Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2012 pdf html Introduced: 2/18/2011 Last Amend: 4/26/2012 Is Fiscal: N Location: 5/2/2012-S. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE 2YearDead Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Desk Policy Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered 1st House 2nd House Calendar: 6/11/2012 #21 ASSEMBLY IN CONFERENCE 6/11/2012 #20 SENATE IN CONFERENCE (SENATE BILLS) Summary: Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust, including establishing procedures for foreclosure in the case of default. This bill would express the intent of Legislature to enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and make permanent the servicing standards and other provisions of the National Mortgage Settlement. Position Support 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: 5/2/2012 pdf html Introduced: 1/11/2012 Last Amend: 5/2/2012 Is Fiscal: Y Location: 5/30/2012-A. DESK 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. 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 for the participation of, all parties, as specified. The bill would permit written ex parte communications by any party provided that the interested person, as defined, who makes the communications provides copies of the communication to all parties, as specified. The bill would require that if an individual ex parte comm unication meeting or call is granted to any interested party, all other parties 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 2Year
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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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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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