Bill Folder 4.22.08
CA AB 1770 / AUTHOR: / Laird (D)
TITLE: / Budget Act Of 2008
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / yes
LAST AMEND: / 04/10/2008
LOCATION: / Assembly Budget Committee
SUMMARY:
Makes appropriations for support of state government for the 2008-09 fiscal year.
DIGEST:
AB 1770, as amended, Laird. 2008-09 Budget.
STATUS:
04/10/2008 / From ASSEMBLY Committee on BUDGET with author's amendments.
04/10/2008 / In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on BUDGET.
NOTES: / Budget Act Of 2008
Commentary:
LOCATION: Assembly Budget Committee
SUMMARY:
Makes appropriations for support of state government for the 2008-09 fiscal year.
STATUS:
01/28/2008 To ASSEMBLY Committee on BUDGET.
PRIVATE FILE: Budget
CA AB 1869 / AUTHOR: / Anderson (R)
TITLE: / State Boards and Commissions: Reorganization
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/03/2008
LOCATION: / Assembly Business and Professions Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to the reorganization or repeal of various boards, commissions, and committees to include the high-speed railroad authority, seismic safety commission, the Office of Higher Education and Financial Aid, the unemployment insurance, workers' compensation, and occupational safety and health appeals boards, the electricity oversight board, the water commission, the Colorado River Board, the Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority, the state waste management board, and health boards.
DIGEST:
[A> AB 1869, as amended, Anderson. State boards and commissions: reorganization. <A]
STATUS:
04/15/2008 / In ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS: Failed passage.
VOTES:
04/15/2008 / Assembly Business and Professions Committee / F 1-7
Commentary002:
This bill would have deleted all the boards and commisssions. It died a bipartisan death in the Assembly Business and Professions Committee
CA AB 1925 / AUTHOR: / Eng (D)
TITLE: / Franchise Tax Board
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/07/2008
LOCATION: / Assembly Second Reading File
SUMMARY:
Requires governmental licensing entity issuing professional or occupational licenses to provide to the Franchise Tax Board the name and social security number or federal taxpayer identification number of each individual licensee. Requires the Franchise Tax Board, if an individual licensee fails to pay taxes for which a notice of state lien has been recorded, to send a notice of suspension to the licensing entity and to the licensee. Requires the board to meet certain requirements relating to the suspension.
DIGEST:
AB 1925, as amended, Eng. Franchise Tax Board: [D> business and <D] professional [A> or occupational <A] licenses.
STATUS:
04/14/2008 / In ASSEMBLY Committee on REVENUE AND TAXATION: To Suspense File.
04/14/2008 / From ASSEMBLY Committee on REVENUE AND TAXATION: Do pass as amended to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/01/2008 / Assembly Business and Professions Committee / P 6-3
04/14/2008 / Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee / F 6-3
NOTES: / Franchise Tax Board
Position: / Watch 03/12/2008
CA AB 1988 / AUTHOR: / Swanson (D)
TITLE: / Employee Safety
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/03/2008
LOCATION: / Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Clarifies that a place of employment may be deemed dangerous because of a particular machine, device, apparatus, or equipment, as well as a condition or practice in a place of employment, constituting an imminent hazard to employees. Requires the Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board to resolve appeals in a manner designed to maximize the furtherance of safe and healthy working conditions, or public safety, consistent with due process and with specified principles of reasonableness.
DIGEST:
AB 1988, as amended, Swanson. Employee [D> safety: violations. <D] [A> safety. <A]
STATUS:
04/17/2008 / From ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/16/2008 / Assembly Labor and Employment Committee / P 6-2
CA AB 2049 / AUTHOR: / Saldana (D)
TITLE: / Sexual Battery: Professional Services
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/09/2008
LOCATION: / Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Expands the crime of sexual battery to include any person who performs professional services that entail having access to another person's body, who touches an intimate part of that person's body against the will of the person and for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse while performing those services.
DIGEST:
AB 2049, as amended, Saldana. Sexual battery: [D> healing professionals.
STATUS:
04/15/2008 / From ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
03/26/2008 / Assembly Public Safety Committee / P 7-0
04/15/2008 / Assembly Business and Professions Committee / P 10-0
Position: / Watch 03/12/2008
CA AB 2076 / AUTHOR: / Fuentes (D)
TITLE: / Hiring Practices: Employment Verification
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / no
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/16/2008
COMMITTEE: / Assembly Labor and Employment Committee
HEARING: / 04/23/2008 1:30 pm
SUMMARY:
Prohibits the State from participating in any electronic employment verification system, unless required by federal law. Prohibits a county or municipality from requiring any employer to use an electronic employment verification system.
DIGEST:
AB 2076, as amended, Fuentes. Employment: hiring [D> practices. <D] [A> practices: electronic employment verification. <A]
STATUS:
04/16/2008 / From ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT with author's amendments.
04/16/2008 / In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT.
CA AB 2081 / AUTHOR: / Coto (D)
TITLE: / Workers' Compensation
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / no
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/21/2008
LOCATION: / Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Prohibits an officer or director who is a sole shareholder holding holding less than 10% of the shares of the corporation from excluding himself or herself from workers compensation coverage required to be provided to other employees of the corporation, and from being subject to the specified election requirement. Prohibits a worker's compensation claims adjuster or person or entity providing medical review services to receive compensation or inducement for a referred evaluation or consultation.
DIGEST:
AB 2081, as amended, Coto. Workers' compensation.
STATUS:
04/21/2008 / In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/16/2008 / Assembly Insurance Committee / P 6-0
04/16/2008 / Assembly Insurance Committee / P 9-0
CA AB 2134 / AUTHOR: / Swanson (D)
TITLE: / Employment Discrimination: Family and Medical Leave
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/03/2008
COMMITTEE: / Assembly Appropriations Committee
HEARING: / 04/23/2008 9:00 am
SUMMARY:
Conforms the types of leave available under the Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act to the revised federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. Expands the eligibility for the military service-related provisions to include an employee who is the grandparent, grandchild, or sibling of the service member.
DIGEST:
AB 2134, as amended, Swanson. Employment discrimination [A> : family and medical leave <A] .
STATUS:
04/09/2008 / From ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/09/2008 / Assembly Labor and Employment Committee / P 7-0
CA AB 2375 / AUTHOR: / Hernandez (D)
TITLE: / Health Care Workforce: Master Plan
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/10/2008
LOCATION: / Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to establish the Health Professions Workforce Task Force to assist in the development of a health professions workforce master plan for the state. Requires the task force to submit recommendations for a health professions workforce master plan. Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to compile a baseline report to assess the state's health professional workforce data collection capacity and to report their findings to the task force.
DIGEST:
AB 2375, as amended, Hernandez. Health professions workforce: master plan.
STATUS:
04/17/2008 / From ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/01/2008 / Assembly Health Committee / P 10-3
04/16/2008 / Assembly Labor and Employment Committee / P 6-2
NOTES: / Health Care Workforce: Master Plan
CA AB 2416 / AUTHOR: / Fuentes (D)
TITLE: / State Small Business Board
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
COMMITTEE: / Assembly Appropriations Committee
HEARING: / 04/23/2008 9:00 am
SUMMARY:
Requires the State Small Business Board to advise the Governor and others about innovative financial products. Requires the board to examine new financial products that could be derived through the innovative use of existing state resources.
DIGEST:
AB 2416, as introduced, Fuentes. California Small Business Board.
STATUS:
04/08/2008 / From ASSEMBLY Committee on JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE ECONOMY: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/08/2008 / Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and The Economy Committee / P 6-0
NOTES: / State Small Business Board
CA AB 2423 / AUTHOR: / Bass (D)
TITLE: / Professions and Vocations: Licensure
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LOCATION: / Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Authorizes the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians, the Veterinary Medical Board, the Structural Pest Control Board, and the Director of Consumer Affairs, to issue a probationary license or registration to an applicant. Requires these boards to request that an applicant with a dismissed conviction provide proof of that dismissal. Authorizes the boards to revoke at any time required license or registration.
DIGEST:
AB 2423, as introduced, Bass. Professions and vocations: licensure.
STATUS:
04/15/2008 / From ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/15/2008 / Assembly Business and Professions Committee / P 10-0
NOTES: / Professions and Vocations: Licensure
CA AB 2427 / AUTHOR: / Eng (D)
TITLE: / Professions and Vocations
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / no
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LOCATION: / SENATE
SUMMARY:
Amends existing law that makes it unlawful for a city or county to prohibit a person, authorized by one of the agencies of the Department of Consumer Affairs to engage in a particular business, from engaging in that business. Makes it unlawful for a city or county to prohibit that person from engaging in any act or series of acts that fall within the statutory or regulatory definition of that business, occupation, or profession.
DIGEST:
AB 2427, as introduced, Eng. Professions and vocations.
STATUS:
04/21/2008 / In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
VOTES:
04/09/2008 / Assembly Business and Professions Committee / P 10-0
04/21/2008 / Assembly Floor / P 65-7
NOTES: / Professions and Vocations
CA AB 2440 / AUTHOR: / Laird (D)
TITLE: / Medi-Cal: Reimbursement Codes
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/03/2008
LOCATION: / SENATE
SUMMARY:
Relates to coding and reimbursement procedures under the Medi-Cal program in connection with payment of claims. Requires the State Department of Health Care Services to update specified diagnostic and reimbursement codes and publish the updated codes in the Medi-Cal provider bulletin. Prohibits the department from denying a reimbursement claim based on a provider using the current year codes. Requires the department to ensure that the fiscal intermediary enters the updated code into the Medi-Cal database.
DIGEST:
AB 2440, as amended, Laird. Medi-Cal: reimbursement codes.
STATUS:
04/21/2008 / In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.
VOTES:
03/25/2008 / Assembly Health Committee / P 16-0
04/16/2008 / Assembly Appropriations Committee / P 17-0
04/21/2008 / Assembly Floor / P 76-0
NOTES: / Medi-Cal: Reimbursement Codes
CA AB 2692 / AUTHOR: / Hernandez (D)
TITLE: / Insurance: Workers' Compensation
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 03/24/2008
LOCATION: / Assembly Insurance Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Insurance Commissioner to determine the minimum reasonable pure loss ratio for all workers' compensation insurers. Establishes procedures for determining whether the rate of an individual insurer is excessive relative to the minimum reasonable pure loss ratio and would provide for the refund of excess proceeds to employers insured by the insurer during the time when an excessive rate was in effect.
DIGEST:
AB 2692, as amended, Hernandez. Insurance: workers' compensation.
STATUS:
04/16/2008 / In ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE: Not heard.
NOTES: / Insurance: Workers' Compensation
CA AB 2716 / AUTHOR: / Ma (D)
TITLE: / Employment: Paid Sick Leave
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 03/24/2008
LOCATION: / Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires employers to provide paid sick time, upon request of employee, for diagnosis, care, or treatment of health conditions of the employee or an employees family member, or for leave related to domestic violence or sexual assault. Provides that an employer would be prohibited from discriminating or retaliating against an employee who requests paid sick time. Exempts construction employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement if the agreement expressly waives the requirements of these provisions.
DIGEST:
AB 2716, as amended, Ma. Employment: paid sick leave.
STATUS:
04/15/2008 / From ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/09/2008 / Assembly Labor and Employment Committee / P 6-2
04/15/2008 / Assembly Judiciary Committee / P 7-3
NOTES: / This bill mandates the San Francisco sick leave program become state law. The bill was heard in Assembly Judiciary today and pa
CA AB 2734 / AUTHOR: / Krekorian (D)
TITLE: / Health Care Practitioners: Cards: Advertisements
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/17/2008
COMMITTEE: / Assembly Appropriations Committee
HEARING: / 04/23/2008 9:00 am
SUMMARY:
Requires a business card or professional card disseminated by or caused to be disseminated by a licensed physician, surgeon, dentist, chiropractor, or osteopath or a person required to be licensed as such to include a valid license number or a fictitious name permit number. Prohibits such licensees from disseminating or causing to be disseminated an advertisement or promotional material that does not contain specified information. Prohibits the use of a license number that is not a current and valid number.
DIGEST:
AB 2734, as amended, Krekorian. Health care practitioners: [A> business cards and <A] advertisements.
STATUS:
04/17/2008 / From ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS with author's amendments.
04/17/2008 / In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/09/2008 / Assembly Business and Professions Committee / P 6-0
NOTES: / Health Care Practitioners: Advertisements
CA AB 2854 / AUTHOR: / Mendoza (D)
TITLE: / California Small Business Advocate: Internet Site
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/10/2008
COMMITTEE: / Assembly Appropriations Committee
HEARING: / 04/23/2008 9:00 am
SUMMARY:
Requires the California Small Business Advocate to establish a one-stop location on its Internet Web site for posting announcements of business-related programs and services offered by state entities and other specified information. Requires the advocate to determine the programs, information, announcements, and services for posting and requires state agencies to cooperate with the advocate in administering the one-stop location on its Web site.
DIGEST:
AB 2854, as amended, Mendoza. California Small Business Advocate: Internet Web site.
STATUS:
04/10/2008 / In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/08/2008 / Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and The Economy Committee / P 7-0
CA AB 3061 / AUTHOR: / Assembly Labor and Employment Committee
TITLE: / Employees: Indemnification
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/03/2008
COMMITTEE: / Assembly Appropriations Committee
HEARING: / 04/23/2008 9:00 am
SUMMARY:
Amends existing law that requires an employer to indemnify his or her employee for expenditures or losses incurred by the employee in direct consequence of the discharge of his or her duties. Clarifies that an employer is required to reimburse employees for the necessary expenditures and losses incurred in the course of employment. Establishes the federal Internal Revenue Service standard mileage rate as a reasonable per mile reimbursement rate for the use of a personally provided vehicle for work purposes.
DIGEST:
AB 3061, as amended, Committee on Labor and Employment. Employees: indemnification.
STATUS:
04/09/2008 / From ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/09/2008 / Assembly Labor and Employment Committee / P 6-2
NOTES: / Employees: Indemnification
CA AB 3062 / AUTHOR: / Assembly Labor and Employment Committee
TITLE: / Employment: Termination: Garnishment of Wages
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
COMMITTEE: / Assembly Appropriations Committee
HEARING: / 04/23/2008 9:00 am
SUMMARY:
Prohibits an employer from terminating an employee because garnishment of the employee's wages has been threatened or the employee's wages have been subjected to garnishment.
DIGEST:
AB 3062, as introduced, Committee on Labor and Employment. Employment: termination: garnishment of wages.
STATUS:
04/09/2008 / From ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/09/2008 / Assembly Labor and Employment Committee / P 6-2
NOTES: / Employment: Termination: Garnishment of Wages
CA AB 3063 / AUTHOR: / Assembly Labor and Employment Committee
TITLE: / Employment: Criminal History
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/14/2008
LOCATION: / Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Prohibits an employer from asking an applicant for employment to disclose, or utilizing in an employment-related decision, information concerning a criminal conviction, the record of which has been judicially ordered sealed, expunged, or statutorily eradicated, or information concerning a misdemeanor conviction for which probation has been successfully completed or otherwise discharged and the case has been judicially dismissed.
DIGEST:
AB 3063, as amended, Committee on Labor and Employment. Employment: criminal history.
STATUS:
04/14/2008 / In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/09/2008 / Assembly Labor and Employment Committee / P 6-2
NOTES: / Employment: Criminal History
CA SB 1332 / AUTHOR: / Negrete McLeod (D)
TITLE: / Medi-Cal: Managed Care
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/07/2008
COMMITTEE: / Senate Appropriations Committee
HEARING: / 04/28/2008 10:00 am
SUMMARY:
Establishes the Medi-Cal Managed Care Pilot Program. Provides that the Department of Health Services would require seniors and persons with disabilities in specified counties who are not expressly excluded from enrollment to enroll in a Medi-Cal management care health plan. Requires the department to complete an implementation plan containing specified elements. Requires the establishment of a local stakeholder advisory committee. Imposes various requirements on managed care plans under the program.
DIGEST:
SB 1332, as amended, Negrete McLeod. Medi-Cal: managed care.
STATUS:
04/16/2008 / From SENATE Committee on HEALTH: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/16/2008 / Senate Health Committee / P 10-0
NOTES: / Medi-Cal: Managed Care
CA SB 1402 / AUTHOR: / Corbett (D)
TITLE: / Reporting Requirements
FISCAL COMMITTEE: / yes
URGENCY CLAUSE: / no
LAST AMEND: / 04/10/2008
COMMITTEE: / Senate Appropriations Committee
HEARING: / 04/28/2008 10:00 am
SUMMARY:
Amends existing law that requires entities within the Department of Consumer Affairs and the Department of Real Estate to provide certain criminal records information. Adds the Board of Chiropractic Examiners to the entities required to provide such information. Requires insurers providing liability insurance to chiropractors to send settlement of arbitration information to the Chiropractic Examiners Board of any settlement or arbitration award of over a certain amount.
DIGEST:
SB 1402, as amended, Corbett. Reporting requirements.
STATUS:
04/17/2008 / Withdrawn from SENATE Committee on RULES.
04/17/2008 / Re-referred to SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
VOTES:
04/14/2008 / Senate Business, Professions & Economic Development Committee / P 7-1
NOTES: / Reporting Requirements