FIRE Legislative Status Report Report Date: 8/18/2006 AB 44 (Cohn) Crime. (E-08/14/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/14/2006-Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. Current Location:08/14/2006-A ENROLLMENT Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law provides that any person who unlawfully and maliciously damages any wireless communication device with the intent to prevent the use of the device to summon assistance or to notify law enforcement of a crime is punishable by a fine not exceeding $500, by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would provide that these provisions are also violated when one obstructs the use of that equipment, and that this crime is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 103 (Cohn) Pupil safety: disaster preparedness. (A-05/22/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/10/2006-Read second time. To third reading. Current Location:08/10/2006-S THIRD READING Calendar Events:08/21/06 170 SEN THIRD READING FILE   Summary: Existing law makes each school district and county office of education responsible for the overall development of all comprehensive school safety plans for its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires a school safety plan to include disaster procedures, including, among others, an earthquake emergency procedure system and a school building disaster plan. This bill would require the State Department of Education to electronically distribute disaster preparedness educational materials and lesson plans that are currently available to local school districts and county offices of education . This bill would require the State Department of Education to ensure that the materials are available in at least the 3 most dominant primary languages spoken by English learners in California. This bill contains other related provisions.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 134 (Nunez) Public infrastructure bonds. (A-03/10/2006  html  pdf) Status:03/11/2006-Read third time. Urgency clause refused adoption. (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 3255.) Current Location:07/11/2005-S INACTIVE FILE Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law, the California Constitution, prohibits the Legislature from creating a debt or liability that singly or in the aggregate with any previous debts or liabilities exceeds the sum of $300,000, except by an act that (a) authorizes the debt for a single object or work specified in the act, (b) has been passed by a 2/3 vote of all the members elected to each house of the Legislature, (c) has been submitted to the people at a statewide general or primary election, and (d) has received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at that election. This bill would enact A Plan for California's Future: The Traffic Safety and Congestion, Flood Protection, Clean Water, Schools, and Parks Act to authorize $39,591,000,000 of state general obligation bonds. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 158 (Bermudez) Railroads: safety study. (A-08/10/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/16/2006-In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Current Location:08/16/2006-A CONCURRENCE Calendar Events:08/21/06 52 ASM CONCURRENCE   Summary: Existing law establishes the safety division of the Public Utilities Commission. The safety division is responsible for inspection, surveillance, and investigation of the rights-of-way, facilities, equipment, and operations of railroads and public mass transit guideways, and for enforcing state and federal laws, regulations, orders, and directives relating to transportation of persons or commodities, or both, of any nature or description, by rail. Existing law requires every railroad corporation that transports hazardous materials, as defined, in the state to provide a system map of the state to the Office of Emergency Services and to the commission showing certain information, to annually submit a copy of its emergency handling guidelines to the office, and to provide specified information in the event of an incident where there is a release or threatened release of a hazardous material. Under existing law, the commission is required to annually report to the Legislature regarding sites on railroad lines in the state that it finds to be hazardous, including a list of all commodities transported on railroad lines that could pose a hazard to the public or the environment in the event of a train derailment or other accident, a description of the quantities of these commodities, and the locations and routes over which these materials are transported, and a list of all railroad derailment accident sites in the state on which accidents have occurred within at least the previous 5 years. This bill would create the Special Railroad Safety Task Force, comprised of specified members. The bill would require the task force to meet monthly from January 2007 to December 2007, inclusive, and to study certain railroad safety issues, and make recommendations for improving railroad safety measures. The bill would require the task force, no later than 90 days after its last meeting, to submit a written report to the commission setting forth its findings and recommendations relating to railroad safety issues. The bill would require the commission to include the findings and recommendations of the task force in its July 1, 2008, report to the Legislature on sites on railroad lines that are found to be hazardous. These provisions would become inoperative on July 1, 2008, and would be repealed on January 1, 2009, unless a later enacted statute deletes or extends that date. This bill contains other related provisions.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 211 (Cohn) Sexual offender treatment: minors. (A-03/22/2006  html  pdf) Status:05/25/2006-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. Current Location:03/30/2006-S PUB. S. Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law entitles a minor adjudged a ward of the court for commission of an offense that is defined as a sexually violent offense to specific treatment as a sexual offender. This bill would require that the same sexual offender treatment be provided to a ward for the commitment of other specified crimes of rape, sodomy, lewd and lascivious acts, oral copulation, or acts of sexual penetration.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Support   AB 326 (Blakeslee) Telephone corporations: universal service. (E-08/16/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/14/2006-Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. Current Location:08/14/2006-A ENROLLMENT Calendar Events:   Summary: Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix just and reasonable rates and charges. Existing law establishes the California High-Cost Fund-A Administrative Committee Fund in the State Treasury and requires that the moneys in the fund be expended, upon appropriation, only to accomplish a specified telecommunications universal service program. Existing law provides that moneys in the fund are the proceeds of rates and are held in trust for the benefit of ratepayers and to compensate telephone corporations for their costs of providing universal service. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations that, because maintenance of universal public switched telephone network service throughout the state and maintenance of public safety answering points in high-cost areas of the state rely on appropriations from the fund, maintaining adequate funding levels for the fund is critical to public health and safety.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 350 (Houston) Fire protection district boards: contract bidding procedures. (A-08/08/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/14/2006-Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. Current Location:08/16/2006-A L. GOV. Calendar Events:08/23/06 Upon Call of the Chair-Room 3162 ASM LOCAL GOVERNMENT   Summary: Existing law permits a fire protection district board to contract for special services in specified fields and other services incidental to the district's operation. Existing law requires fire protection districts with a final budget less than $1,000,000 to award contracts for special services exceeding $10,000 to the lowest responsible bidder after notice. Existing law allows fire protection districts the option to award special services contracts pursuant to the contracting and purchasing procedures that apply to their principal county's government. This bill would increase the threshold amount for special services from $10,000 to $25,000.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 389 (Arambula) Swimming pool safety. (A-01/09/2006  html  pdf) Status:02/02/2006-Referred to Com. on RLS. Current Location:02/02/2006-S RLS. Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law, the Swimming Pool Safety Act, establishes certain safety standards requiring swimming pool enclosures, safety pool covers, or exit alarms, as defined, or certain other means of protection, and requires each swimming pool for which a construction permit is issued on or after January 1, 1998, and that is located at a private, single-family home, to meet at least one of these safety standards. This bill would authorize and encourage the department to produce and distribute such a document if one has not been donated and approved by January 1, 2007, or approved by the department. This bill contains other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 450 (Yee) Standardized emergency management system: animals. (A-04/25/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/17/2006-Do pass as amended. Current Location:08/14/2006-S APPR. SUSPENSE FILE Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with all interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local emergency management agencies, to jointly establish by regulation a standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency response agencies, to include specified components. This bill would require the office to approve and adopt, and incorporate the California Anim al Response Emergency System program into the standardized emergency management system .   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 456 (Torrico) Public employees' retirement: fraud. (A-07/07/2005  html  pdf) Status:09/08/2005-To inactive file on motion of Assembly Member Torrico. Current Location:09/08/2005-A INACTIVE FILE Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law provides that it is a crime to make a knowingly false material statement or representation for the purpose of obtaining workers' compensation, or supporting or denying a workers' compensation claim. The Public Employee's Retirement Law, the Teachers' Retirement Law, and the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 prescribe the rights, benefits, and duties of members of the retirement systems established by those laws. This bill would make it a crime for a person to make or present false material statements and representations in connection with those retirement systems' benefits and applications, as specified, or to aid or abet someone in this regard. The bill would also make it a crime for a person to knowingly accept, with the intent to keep for personal benefit, a payment from any of those retirement systems with the knowledge that one was not entitled to the benefit. The bill would provide that a violation of these provisions is punishable by up to one year in a county jail, or a fine, or both, and restitution, as specified. The bill would require any restitution order imposed to be satisfied before any criminal fine imposed may be collected, and would further provide that its provisions are cumulative. By creating a new crime or expanding an existing crime, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Support   AB 458 (Horton, Jerome) Probation: criminal street gang activity: City of Inglewood. (A-06/29/2006  html  pdf) Status:06/29/2006-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. Current Location:06/29/2006-S PUB. S. Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law generally establishes probation and generally authorizes courts to fashion probation conditions as necessary. This bill would provide that, for any person sentenced to probation in Los Angeles County for a violation of provisions related to criminal street gang activity, the court shall impose, as a condition of probation, that the person shall not enter a designated area of the City of Inglewood for any unlawful purpose. The bill would state that a court would not be required to impose that condition if the Inglewood City Council does not adopt a resolution designating that area. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 463 (Tran) Subsurface installations: excavation. (A-05/23/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/15/2006-Senate amendments be concurred in. Current Location:08/15/2006-A CONCURRENCE Calendar Events:08/21/06 48 ASM CONCURRENCE   Summary: Existing law authorizes an excavator to determine the exact location of subsurface installations that are in conflict with the excavation before using any vacuum excavation devices or power-operated or power-driven excavating or boring equipment within the approximate location of the subsurface installation, provided there is an express written mutual agreement, as specified, and with a specified exception. If there is no express agreement, the excavator is required to use hand-tools to determine the location of subsurface installations, as specified. This bill would instead provide that, if documented notice of the intent to use vacuum excavation devices, or power-operated or power-driven excavating or boring equipment has been provided to the subsurface installation operator or operators and it is mutually agreeable to the operator or operators of the subsurface installation and the excavator, the excavator may use vacuum excavation devices or power-operated or power-driven excavating or boring tools within the approximate location of the subsurface installation. This bill contains other related provisions.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Support   AB 573 (Wolk) Design professionals: indemnity. (A-06/27/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/17/2006-Senate amendments be concurred in. Current Location:08/14/2006-A JUD. Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law provides that agreements contained in or affecting any construction contract that purport to indemnify the promisee against liability for damages for death or bodily injury to persons, injury to property, or any other loss, damage, or expense arising from the sole negligence or willful misconduct of the promisee or the promisee's agents, servants, or independent contractors who are directly responsible to the promisee, or for defects in design furnished by those persons, are against public policy and are void and unenforceable, except as specified. Existing law also provides that provisions, clauses, covenants, or agreements relating to construction contracts with a public agency that purport to impose on the contractor, or relieve the public agency from liability for the active negligence of the public agency, are void and unenforceable. This bill would provide, for all contracts, and amendments thereto, entered into on or after January 1, 2007, with a public agency for design professional services, that all provisions, clauses, covenants, and agreements contained in, collateral to, or affecting any such contract, and amendments thereto, that purport to indemnify, including the cost to defend, the public agency by a design professional against liability for claims against the public agency, are unenforceable, except for claims that arise out of or relate to the negligence, recklessness, or willful misconduct of the design professional.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 586 (Negrete McLeod) Medical disaster mobilization. (A-06/14/2006  html  pdf) Status:06/28/2006-Read second time. To third reading. Current Location:06/28/2006-S THIRD READING Calendar Events:08/21/06 99 SEN THIRD READING FILE   Summary: Pursuant to the Emergency Medical Services System and Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, the Emergency Medical Services Authority is established within the California Health and Human Services Agency to administer the emergency medical services system to coordinate and integrate effective and efficient emergency medical services throughout the 58 counties of the state. This bill would authorize the county health officer and the local EMS agency administrator to jointly act as the medical health operational area coordinator . It would , if an operational area has a medical health operational area coordinator, designate the medical health operational area coordinator, in cooperation with various agencies, as the entity responsible for ensuring the development of a medical and health disaster plan, and would set forth the contents of the plan. The bill would authorize appointment of another person to perform that role, if the county health officer and the local EMS agency are unable to do so. The bill would require the State Department of Health Services and the Emergency Medical Services Authority to adopt related regulations. This bill contains other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Support   AB 773 (Mullin) Redevelopment: referendum. (E-08/14/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/14/2006-Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m. Current Location:08/14/2006-A ENROLLED Calendar Events:   Summary: The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities in order to address the effects of blight, as defined, in those communities and prescribes certain requirements applicable to referendum petitions circulated in cities or counties with over 500,000 in population, relating to a redevelopment plan that is subject to a referendum, including, among other things, that the petition be submitted to the clerk of the legislative body within 90 days of the adoption of the ordinance. This bill would, notwithstanding any other provision of law, make this 90-day requirement applicable to all cities and counties. This bill contains other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 782 (Mullin) Redevelopment: project area. (C-07/24/2006  html  pdf) Status:07/24/2006-Chaptered by the Secretary of State, Chapter Number 113, Statutes of 2006 Current Location:07/24/2006-A CHAPTERED Calendar Events:   Summary: The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of blight, as defined, in those communities. That law also specifies both the physical and economic conditions that cause blight and defines a project area as a "predominantly urbanized" area of a community that is a blighted area. One criterion of blight is that the land in the project area is characterized by the existence of subdivided lots of irregular form and shape and inadequate size for proper usefulness and development that are in multiple ownership. This bill would delete this criterion from the definition of "blight" for purposes of these provisions.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 1112 (Cohn) Pupil nutrition: California Fresh Start Pilot Program. (A-05/23/2006  html  pdf) Status:05/26/2006-Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. Current Location:05/26/2006-S RLS. Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law establishes in state government the California Fresh Start Pilot Program, administered by the State Department of Education in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture and the State Department of Health Services, to encourage public schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide fruits and vegetables that have not been deep fried to pupils in order to supplement other fruits and vegetables that have not been deep fried and that are available to those pupils, and in order to promote the consumption of nutritious fruits and vegetables by schoolage children. This bill would replace references to "nutritious" fruits and vegetables with references to "fresh" fruits and vegetables in the above-described provisions of existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 1162 (Mullin) Eminent domain. (A-09/02/2005  html  pdf) Status:09/06/2005-Re-referred to Com. on RLS. Current Location:09/06/2005-S RLS. Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law authorizes public entities to seize private property under the power of eminent domain. This bill would prohibit, until January 1, 2008, a community redevelopment agency, or community development commission or joint powers agency, as specified, from exercising the power of eminent domain to acquire owner-occupied residential real property if ownership of the property will be transferred to a private party or private entity. This bill contains other related provisions.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 1405 (Evans) State Fire Marshal. (A-08/14/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/16/2006-Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. Current Location:08/16/2006-S RLS. Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to gather statistical information and report annually regarding fires and other specified incidents within the state. This bill would additionally require the State Marshal's report to include a comparison of response times and staffing performance objectives relative to fire departments, as specified. This bill contains other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 1423 (Bogh) Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. (A-06/29/2006  html  pdf) Status:06/29/2006-Read second time, amended, and to third reading. Current Location:06/29/2006-S THIRD READING Calendar Events:08/21/06 109 SEN THIRD READING FILE   Summary: Under existing law, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in the Resources Agency is responsible for, among other things, providing fire protection, fire prevention, forest and range protection, and enhancement implements and apparatus as necessary. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2007, permit reference to the department, where appropriate and as determined by the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection , as CAL-FIRE. The bill would also prohibit any supplies, forms, insignias , signs, or logos from being destroyed or changed as a result of the reference authorization and would require that they continue to be used until exhausted or unserviceable.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1467 (Nunez) Transportation projects: facilities: public-private partnerships. (C-05/19/2006  html  pdf) Status:05/19/2006-Chaptered by the Secretary of State, Chapter Number 32 Current Location:05/19/2006-A CHAPTERED Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law, until January 1, 2003, authorized the Department of Transportation to solicit proposals and enter into agreements with private entities or consortia for the construction and lease of no more than 2 toll road projects, and specified the terms and requirements applicable to those projects. Existing law authorizes the department to construct high-occupancy vehicle and other preferential lanes. This bill, until January 1, 2012, would instead authorize the department and regional transportation agencies, as defined, to enter into comprehensive development lease agreements with public and private entities, or consortia of those entities, for certain transportation projects that may charge certain users of those projects tolls and user fees, subject to various terms and requirements. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1519 (Emmerson) Government records: video monitoring. (A-06/26/2006  html  pdf) Status:06/27/2006-In committee: Set second hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. Current Location:06/26/2006-S JUD. Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law contains various record retention provisions applicable to counties, applicable to cities, and applicable to districts and other entities of local government. Existing law generally allows cities, counties, and special districts to authorize the destruction of recordings of routine video monitoring after one year and of recordings of telephone and radio communications after 100 days. This bill would authorize destruction of recordings of routine video monitoring after 210 days, unless specified circumstances apply. If the recordings are evidence in any pending claim or litigation, or are of an event that was or is the subject of an incident report, the recordings would be required to be preserved until the pending claim, litigation, or incident report is resolved. It would require, for entities utilizing a security system purchased or installed prior to January 1, 2006, to preserve the recordings for as long as the technology allows. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1568 (Torrico) County employees: retirement boards. (E-08/14/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/14/2006-Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. Current Location:08/14/2006-A ENROLLMENT Calendar Events:   Summary: The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 prohibits a member or employee of a retirement board from becoming an endorser, surety, or obligor on, or from having any personal interest in the making of an investment for the board, or in the gains or profits that accrue from those investments, except as specified. This bill would prohibit a member or employee of a retirement board or board of investments from selling or providing any investment product, that would be considered an asset of the fund, to a retirement system, as specified. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1602 (Laird) Local government finance. (A-08/07/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/16/2006-In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Current Location:08/16/2006-A CONCURRENCE Calendar Events:08/21/06 56 ASM CONCURRENCE   Summary: The Vehicle License Fee (VLF) Law establishes, in lieu of any ad valorem property tax upon vehicles, an annual license fee for any vehicle subject to registration in this state. Under existing law, the Controller is required to allocate vehicle license fee revenues in the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account (MVLFA) first to the County of Orange, then to cities for which the population was computed under a specified statute on August 5, 2004, and then to all cities and cities and counties on a monthly basis in the amounts determined under specified formulas. Existing law requires that these VLF Law allocations to cities and cities and counties be based upon population, as provided. Existing law also requires that a portion of the revenues derived under the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax (MVFT) Law, the Use Fuel Tax (UFT) Law, and the Diesel Fuel Tax (DFT) Law be allocated to cities and cities and counties based upon population. This bill would change the manner in which the population of a city or a city and county that meets certain criteria is determined for purposes of each of these allocations, but would require that the allocations from the Transportation Tax Fund be based upon population determined in the manner required under existing law. This bill would specify that a population determination based upon 300% of a city's registered voters would be available only to cities that were incorporated before August 5, 2004. This bill would specify that the population of a city that is incorporated on or after August 5, 2004, and before July 1, 2009, is that city's actual population, as defined, increased by specified percentages for the first 60 months following the city's incorporation. This bill would specify that the population of a city that incorporates on or after July 1, 2009, is that city's actual population, as defined. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 1664 (De La Torre) Fireworks. (A-06/26/2006  html  pdf) Status:06/27/2006-Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. Current Location:06/27/2006-S RLS. Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law, the State Fireworks Law, provides a framework for the regulation by the State Fire Marshal and by local agencies of fireworks, as specified. A person who violates any provision or regulation thereof is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined at least $500, but not more than $1,000. This bill would increase the fine to at least $2,000 and not more than $5,000. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 1783 (Nunez) Infrastructure financing. (I-01/04/2006  html  pdf) Status:01/05/2006-From printer. May be heard in committee February 4. Current Location:01/04/2006-A DEAD Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law generally provides for the issuance of various types of public financing instruments. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature, in enacting the California Infrastructure, Improvement, Smart Growth, Economic Reinvestment, and Emergency Preparedness Financing Act of 2006, to provide for the financing of state and local government infrastructure through various funding sources, including bonds, fees, assessments, and other sources. The financing would be used to fund purposes such as transportation, flood control, safe water systems, environmental improvement, housing, hospital seismic safety repair, and emergency public safety communications equipment, among others.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1833 (Arambula) Public Safety Bond Acts of 2006 and 2010. (I-01/10/2006  html  pdf) Status:01/11/2006-From printer. May be heard in committee February 10. Current Location:01/10/2006-A DEAD Calendar Events:   Summary: Under existing law, various bond acts have been approved by the voters to provide funds for county jail expenditures and new prison construction. This bill would enact the Public Safety Bond Act of 2006, which, if adopted, would authorize, for purposes of financing the construction, expansion, renovation, replacement or reconstruction of county jail facilities; for the replacement or relocation of facilities that support emergency fire response activities; for the development of a new state DNA laboratory; for the renovation or improvement of state correctional facilities; and for the development of state military facilities, the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond law, of bonds in the amount of $2,610,000,000. The bill would require the Secretary of State to submit the bond act to the voters at the 2006 general election. This bill contains other related provisions.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1848 (Bermudez) Homeland security: interoperable public safety communication network. (A-06/22/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/17/2006-Do pass. Current Location:08/14/2006-S APPR. SUSPENSE FILE Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law provides for the coordination of state and local public safety agencies and emergency response teams to respond to emergencies. Existing law administered by the Federal Communications Commission authorizes public safety agencies or entities to operate radio communication systems on specified frequencies of the radio spectrum and directs states to oversee the interoperability of the public safety spectrum. This bill would designate the annual report to serve as the state strategic plan for establishing a statewide integrated interoperable public safety communications network and would require the report to include implementation strategies and timelines. This bill contains other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1871 (Benoit) Public safety: law enforcement communications. (A-08/07/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/07/2006-Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. Current Location:08/07/2006-S APPR. Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law establishes various programs relating to law enforcement. Existing law requires every public agency to establish and have in operation a telephone system that automatically connects a person dialing the digits "911" to an established public safety answering point, as specified. Existing law provides that no telephone corporation shall make subscriber information available to others, except as specified. This bill would, until January 1, 2010, require telecommunications service providers to provide law enforcement agencies with customer information , as defined, under exigent circumstances, as specified. This bill would require telecommunications service providers to maintain all requests from law enforcement agencies for customer information for at least 2 years and provide that after a release of customer information to a law enforcement agency a telecommunications provider shall be entitled to obtain from the agency all legal documents, as specified, that formed the basis for the agency's request. This bill would specify that information obtained pursuant to these provisions shall be used solely for the purpose of rendering emergency aid by law enforcement to the customer, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1873 (Torrico) Child protection: safe surrender. (A-06/27/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/16/2006-In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Current Location:08/16/2006-A CONCURRENCE Calendar Events:08/21/06 105 ASM CONCURRENCE   Summary: Existing law designates certain locations as safe-surrender sites for the safe surrender of newborn children who are 72 hours of age or younger. This bill would expand the scope of those provisions to apply to children who are 30 days old or younger. The bill would permit a local fire agency upon the approval of the appropriate governing body of the agency to designate a safe-surrender site. The bill would specify that a safe-surrender site and its personnel have no liability for a surrendered child prior to taking actual physical custody of the child. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Support   AB 1885 (Garcia) Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund. (I-01/23/2006  html  pdf) Status:01/24/2006-From printer. May be heard in committee February 23. Current Location:01/23/2006-A DEAD Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law creates in the State Treasury the Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund and the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for the receipt and deposit of moneys received by the state from Indian tribes pursuant to the terms of gaming compacts and authorizes moneys in those funds to be used for certain purposes. Existing law establishes the method of calculating the distribution of appropriations from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for grants to local government agencies impacted by tribal gaming. This bill would declare the Legislature's intent to enact legislation relating to the administration of those grants.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1889 (Nava) California Emergency Council. (I-01/23/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/10/2006-Read second time. To third reading. Current Location:08/10/2006-S THIRD READING Calendar Events:08/21/06 187 SEN THIRD READING FILE   Summary: Existing law creates the California Emergency Council, consisting of a specified membership including the Governor, who is required to be ex officio chairperson of the council. The council is required to meet upon call of the Governor, not less frequently than annually. This bill would also require the membership of the council to include the Adjutant General, the Director of Homeland Security or its successor entity, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Director of Emergency Services, who may be ex officio chairperson at the Governor's discretion. The bill would require the meetings of the council to take place in Sacramento.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1906 (Blakeslee) Emergency services: earthquake scenarios. (A-06/29/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/07/2006-Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. (AYES 13. NOES 0.) (PASS) Current Location:08/07/2006-S APPR. SUSPENSE FILE Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law creates the Department of Conservation and imposes powers and duties on the department with regard to earthquake study, investigation, and development of earthquake disaster scenarios. This bill would require the department to update the existing earthquake scenarios, and develop new scenarios as appropriate, for major regions in the state by January 1, 2013, and report the findings to specified state agencies.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 1912 (Maze) Employment rights. (A-04/24/2006  html  pdf) Status:04/27/2006-In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. Current Location:04/25/2006-A DEAD Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law prohibits employers from using certain inquiries or specific actions or refusals by employees or applicants as a basis for discharging or refusing to hire employees or applicants. This bill would prohibit an employer from discharging or refusing to hire an employee or applicant on the basis that the employee or applicant legally stores a firearm in his or her vehicle at the worksite , locked up and out of public view . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1927 (DeVore) Prevailing wages: payroll records. (I-02/01/2006  html  pdf) Status:05/17/2006-From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). Current Location:02/14/2006-A DEAD Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law generally requires the payment of the general prevailing rate of per diem wages to workers employed on public works, as defined, costing over $1,000. Existing law requires each contractor and subcontractor performing work on a public work to keep payroll records regarding his or her employees. Existing law authorizes an employee, a member of the public, a public agency, and a joint labor-management committee to inspect these payroll records. Existing law requires the obliteration of an employee's name, address, and social security number from these payroll records when the records are provided for inspection to the public or a public agency, but only requires the obliteration of an employee's name and social security number from these payroll records when the records are provided for inspection to a joint labor-management committee. This bill would additionally require the obliteration of an employee's address from these payroll records when the records are provided for inspection to a joint labor-management committee.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 1961 (Richman) Public Employees' retirement system: performance audit. (I-02/06/2006  html  pdf) Status:04/19/2006-In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage. Current Location:03/30/2006-A DEAD Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law creates the Public Employees' Retirement System to provide specified pension and health benefits for public employees, retirees, and their beneficiaries. Existing law creates the Bureau of State Audits, which is headed by the State Auditor, who is required to conduct financial and performance audits as directed by statute. This bill would require the Bureau of State Audits to conduct and complete a performance audit of the Public Employees' Retirement System on or before December 31, 2007, and every 3 years thereafter, and to report its findings to the Board of Administration of the system and the Legislature. The bill would require the audit to include specified elements. The bill would also require the Board of Administration of the system to report back to the Legislature on the implementation of any recommendations made as a result of the performance audit within one year after receiving the report.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1984 (Harman) County employees' retirement systems: boards of retirement. (I-02/09/2006  html  pdf) Status:02/21/2006-Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. Current Location:02/21/2006-A DEAD Calendar Events:   Summary: The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 sets forth the membership composition requirements for the board of retirement of counties subject to certain provisions regarding safety members, and requires that the board consist of 9 members and one alternate member. Existing law specifies that the alternate member be a safety member from specified classes, including among others, deputy sheriffs, park rangers, prosecutors, and fire suppression personnel. This bill additionally would permit certain safety members, including probation officers and juvenile hall counselors, to serve as an alternate member of the retirement board.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1990 (Walters) Eminent domain. (A-04/03/2006  html  pdf) Status:06/08/2006-From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). Current Location:04/04/2006-A DEAD Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law authorizes public entities to seize private property under the power of eminent domain. This bill would prohibit a city, county, city and county, special district, school district, community redevelopment agency, or community development commission or joint powers agency, as specified, from exercising the power of eminent domain to acquire any real property if ownership of the property will be transferred to a private party or private entity , except as specified .   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 1992 (Canciamilla) Solid waste: dumping. (A-08/16/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/15/2006-From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. Current Location:08/15/2006-S THIRD READING Calendar Events:08/21/06 262 SEN THIRD READING FILE   Summary: Existing law provides that a person who places, deposits, or dumps, or who causes to be placed, deposited, or dumped, or who causes or allows to overflow, sewage, sludge, cesspool or septic tank effluent, or accumulation of human excreta, or garbage, in or upon specified public property, or upon private property into or upon which the public is admitted by easement, license, or otherwise, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law provides that this prohibition does not apply to the placing, depositing, or dumping of garbage upon private property by the owner, or a person authorized by the owner, of the private property, except that such action is prohibited from creating a public health and safety hazard or a fire hazard, as determined by specified entities. Existing law defines "garbage" for these purposes. Existing law requires a state fish and game warden, city police officer, sheriff, sheriff's deputy, and other peace officers of the state, to enforce these provisions. This bill would repeal the definition of garbage and instead use the term "solid waste," as the bill would define that term. The bill would provide that the placing, depositing, dumping, or overflow of solid waste and the other described substances on private property, without the owner's consent, rather than, into or upon private property which the public is admitted by easement, license, or otherwise, is a misdemeanor. The bill would prohibit placing, depositing, or dumping of solid waste upon private property by the owner or a person authorized by the owner, of the private property, from creating a nuisance, as determined by specified entities. The bill would include in the list of entities that determine whether the placing, depositing, or dumping of solid waste is a public health and safety hazard, nuisance, or fire hazard, a local enforcement agency. If AB 1688 is enacted and becomes effective on or before January 1, 2007, the bill also would include in the list of persons who are required to enforce these provisions, a person regularly employed as an investigator or inspector for illegal dumping enforcement, as specified. Because the bill would change the definition of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim   AB 2011 (Vargas) Local agency investments. (E-08/16/2006  html  pdf) Status:08/14/2006-Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. Current Location:08/14/2006-A ENROLLMENT Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law prescribes the instruments in, and criteria by, which local agencies, as defined, may invest surplus funds. This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2012, the investment of up to 30% of those funds in certificates of deposit at a commercial bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union that uses a private sector entity that assists in the placement of certificates of deposit under specified conditions.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch   AB 2035 (Cogdill) Conservation camps: Madera County. (I-02/14/2006  html  pdf) Status:05/25/2006-In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. (APPR. SUSPENSE FILE) Current Location:04/05/2006-A DEAD Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law establishes conservation camps under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. This bill would require the Department of Corrections to house up to 120 inmates trained as conservation camp inmates at the Central California Women's Facility, or the Valley State Prison for Women. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Forestry would be authorized to use these inmates in the same manner as inmate crews housed at conservation camps. The operation of this bill would be contingent upon funding being provided from any public or private source, and a determination that there are enough female inmates who are eligible for purposes of the bill. This bill contains other related provisions.   Organization Assigned Position Priority Subject Groups FIRE RHeim Watch FIRE I.C.: SOLIS   AB 2039 (Tran) Fireworks. (I-02/14/2006  html  pdf) Status:04/19/2006-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. Current Location:02/23/2006-A DEAD Calendar Events:   Summary: Existing law generally regulates the sale, possession, use and transportation of fireworks. Existing law provides that, subject to exceptions, any person who violates any of those provisions, or any regulations issued pursuant to these provisions, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would additionally provide that, subject to exceptions, any person who violates any of those provisions or any regulations issued pursuant to those provisions involving any dangerous fireworks item, as defined, or any combination of any dangerous fireworks items, having the total net weight of explos