FIRE Amended Legislation
Report Date: 5/30/2007

AB 384

(Portantino) Firefighters. (A-05/29/2007   html   pdf)

Status:05/29/2007-Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

Current Location:05/29/2007-A SECOND READING

Calendar Events:05/31/07 1 ASM SECOND READING FILE

Summary:

Existing law requires the Regents of the University of California, the Board of Directors of the Hastings College of the Law, and the Trustees of the California State University to excuse the mandatory systemwide tuition and fees of any surviving spouse or surviving child, natural or adopted, of a deceased person who was a resident of the state, who was employed by a public agency, who was a contractor, or who was an employee of a contractor, as defined, whose principal duties consisted of active law enforcement service or active fire suppression and prevention, and who was killed in the performance of those duties. This bill would enact the California Fallen Federal Firefighter Survivor Assistance Act of 2007, which would excuse the mandatory systemwide tuition and fees of any surviving spouse or surviving child or stepchild of a deceased firefighter employed by the federal government who was a resident of, and whose regular duty assignment was to perform firefighting services in, this state, upon specified circumstances. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1098

(Saldana) Hazardous materials: administrative: penalties: liability. (A-05/29/2007   html   pdf)

Status:05/29/2007-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q.

Current Location:05/29/2007-S E.Q.

Calendar Events:

Summary:

Existing law requires that, in order to protect the public health and safety and the environment, a business, as defined, establish and implement a business plan, meeting specified requirements, relating to the handling and release or threatened release of hazardous materials. A business that violates or knowingly violates any provision with regard to the business plan is liable to an administering agency for a prescribed administrative penalty. This bill would remove the requirement that the amount of the administrative penalty be set by the governing board of the administrative agency. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SB 343

(Negrete McLeod) Local agencies: open meetings: documents. (A-05/25/2007   html   pdf)

Status:05/29/2007-Read second time. To third reading. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. Set for hearing May 31.

Current Location:05/29/2007-S L. GOV.

Calendar Events:05/31/07 8:45 a.m. or upon call of the Chair - Room 3191 SEN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Summary:

The Ralph M. Brown Act requires that any meeting of a legislative body of a local agency be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend. The act requires the body to post an agenda at least 72 hours before a regular meetingand provides that agendas and any other writings, when distributed to all, or a majority of all, of the members of a legislative body of a local agency by any person in connection with a matter subject to discussion or consideration at a meeting of the body are public records subject to the public disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act . This bill would provide that if a writing that is a public record under these provisions, and that relates to an agenda item for an open session of a regular meeting of the legislative body of a local agency, is distributed less than 72 hours prior to that meeting, the writing shall be made available for public inspection either at a designated public office or location or by posting it on the agency's Internet Web site. This bill also would require each local agency to designate a public office or location where writings that are distributed to members less than 72 hours before a regular meeting will be available for public inspection and to list the address of this office or location on the agendas for all meetings of the legislative body of that agency. It would make these provisions effective on July 1, 2008 .