CTBA Bills 4/27/06

 

 

CA AB 450

AUTHOR:

Yee (D)

 

TITLE:

Standardized Emergency Management System: Animals

 

FISCAL COMMITTEE:

yes

 

URGENCY CLAUSE:

no

 

INTRODUCED:

02/15/2005

 

LAST AMEND:

04/25/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

LOCATION:

Senate Governmental Organization Committee

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Relates to existing law that requires the Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with specified agencies, to jointly establish a standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency management agencies. Requires the office to approve and adopt, and incorporate the State Animal Response Emergency System Program into the standardized emergency management system.

 

STATUS:

 

 

04/25/2006

From SENATE Committee on GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION with author's amendments.

 

04/25/2006

In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION.

 

NOTES:

Disaster Preparedness

 

Commentary:

 

 

Amended to require OES to adopt CDFA's Animal Response Emergency System. To be heard in Senate GO Committee. CTBA supports it.

 

 

CA AB 1835

AUTHOR:

Lieber (D)

 

TITLE:

Minimum Wage

 

FISCAL COMMITTEE:

yes

 

URGENCY CLAUSE:

no

 

INTRODUCED:

01/10/2006

 

LAST AMEND:

04/05/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

LOCATION:

Assembly Appropriations Committee

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Increases the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour, effective on and after a specified date, and to $7.75 per hour, effective on and after a specified date. Provides for the automatic adjustment of the minimum wage on January 1 of each year thereafter, calculated by multiplying the minimum wage by the previous year's rate of inflation.

 

STATUS:

 

 

04/19/2006

In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.

 

Commentary:

 

 

This is one of 3 bills that would increase the minimum wage and require cost living increases. It is on the Assembly Suspense file

 

 

CA AB 1990

AUTHOR:

Walters (R)

 

TITLE:

Eminent Domain

 

FISCAL COMMITTEE:

no

 

URGENCY CLAUSE:

no

 

INTRODUCED:

02/09/2006

 

LAST AMEND:

04/03/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

LOCATION:

Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Prohibits a city, county, special district, school district, community redevelopment agency, or community development commission or joint powers agency 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. Provides exceptions.

 

STATUS:

 

 

04/26/2006

In ASSEMBLY Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Failed passage.

 

04/26/2006

In ASSEMBLY Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Reconsideration granted.

 

 

CA AB 2187

AUTHOR:

Liu (D)

 

TITLE:

Livestock: Liens

 

FISCAL COMMITTEE:

yes

 

URGENCY CLAUSE:

no

 

INTRODUCED:

02/22/2006

 

LAST AMEND:

04/20/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

LOCATION:

Assembly Appropriations Committee

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Permits a livestock servicer, if the obligations of the owner are not satisfied, to sell livestock of a specified value, without obtaining the consent of the owner, court order, or judgment, if the amount of the lien is at least 50% of the value of the livestock and the servicer sends notice to the owner prior to the sale of that livestock. Requires that notice of sale be signed under penalty of perjury.

 

STATUS:

 

 

04/20/2006

In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.

 

Commentary:

 

 

This is the CTBA sponsored bill to address concerns associated with the lien law as it applies to livestock and equines. It passed unanimously with amendments that have raised some concerns and we are working with the author to improve the bill as it goes through the process

 

 

CA AB 2201

AUTHOR:

La Malfa (R)

 

TITLE:

Vehicles: Farm Equipment: Registration

 

FISCAL COMMITTEE:

yes

 

URGENCY CLAUSE:

no

 

INTRODUCED:

02/22/2006

 

LAST AMEND:

04/04/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

LOCATION:

Assembly Transportation Committee

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Exempts a tractor truck owned by a farmer and operated on a highway exclusively for the purpose of transporting agricultural products, or implements of husbandry, or a vehicle used to transport parts, tools, and welding equipment used in servicing and repair of implements of husbandry, from part of a farm to another part of that farm, or from one farm to another farm that is within a specified radius of each other from vehicle registration requirements.

 

STATUS:

 

 

04/24/2006

In ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION: Not heard.

 

Commentary:

 

 

This appears to be a spot bill at this point.

 

 

CA AB 2443

AUTHOR:

Klehs (D)

 

TITLE:

Fertilizer

 

INTRODUCED:

02/23/2006

 

LAST AMEND:

04/17/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

LOCATION:

Assembly Agriculture Committee

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Increases the assessment for education per dollar of sales of fertilizers. Provides that funding derived from the assessment for education provided in languages understood by agricultural workers shall be given priority. Provides that the secretary shall also impose an assessment on all sales of fertilizing materials to provide funding for the State Department of Health Services for grants to communities with groundwater contaminated with nitrates to access safe drinking water supplies.

 

STATUS:

 

 

04/26/2006

In ASSEMBLY Committee on AGRICULTURE: Failed passage.

 

 

CA AB 2479

AUTHOR:

Cogdill (R)

 

TITLE:

Noxious and Invasive Weeds

 

INTRODUCED:

02/23/2006

 

LAST AMEND:

04/06/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

LOCATION:

Assembly Appropriations Committee

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Increases the percentage of Noxious Weed Management Account funds that shall be made available to the Department of Food and Agriculture.

 

STATUS:

 

 

04/26/2006

From ASSEMBLY Committee on AGRICULTURE: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.

 

 

CA AB 2862

AUTHOR:

Ridley-Thomas (D)

 

TITLE:

Sales of Animals at Pet Stores

 

FISCAL COMMITTEE:

yes

 

URGENCY CLAUSE:

no

 

INTRODUCED:

02/24/2006

 

LAST AMEND:

04/19/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

LOCATION:

Assembly Appropriations Committee

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Establishes procedures for the care and maintenance of animals in the custody of a pet store, and places limitations on the sale or transfer of those animals. Makes the violation of provisions punishable as an infraction or a misdemeanor.

 

STATUS:

 

 

04/19/2006

In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.

 

Commentary:

 

 

This bill has been amended to limit to "Pet Stores, which eliminates our concerns.

 

 

CA AB 2981

AUTHOR:

La Malfa (R)

 

TITLE:

Diesel Fuel: Farming: Refund Procedures

 

INTRODUCED:

02/24/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

LOCATION:

Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Excludes diesel fuel for use on a farm for farming purposes from certain tax collection and refund procedures; requires the ultimate purchaser to remit only any underpayments of taxes; prescribes a refund procedure with respect to any overpayments.

 

STATUS:

 

 

03/20/2006

To ASSEMBLY Committee on REVENUE AND TAXATION.

 

Commentary:

 

 

Assemblyman LaMalfa introduced this in response to the Klehs bill earlier this year. It will most likely be amended but is somthing that CTBA should be able to support

 

 

CA ACA 22

AUTHOR:

La Malfa (R)

 

TITLE:

Eminent Domain: Condemnation Proceedings

 

FISCAL COMMITTEE:

yes

 

URGENCY CLAUSE:

no

 

INTRODUCED:

07/13/2005

 

LAST AMEND:

01/26/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

COMMITTEE:

Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee

 

HEARING:

05/10/2006 9:00 am

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to provide that private property may be taken or damaged only for a stated public use and may not be taken or damaged without the consent of the owner for purposes of economic development, increasing tax revenue, or any other private use, nor for maintaining the present use by a different owner. Provides if the property ceases to be used for the public use, the former owner has the right to reacquire the property. Provides for appraisal of the property.

 

STATUS:

 

 

01/26/2006

From ASSEMBLY Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT with author's amendments.

 

01/26/2006

In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

 

 

CA SB 1162

AUTHOR:

Cedillo (D)

 

TITLE:

Minimum Wage Increase

 

FISCAL COMMITTEE:

yes

 

URGENCY CLAUSE:

yes

 

INTRODUCED:

01/10/2006

 

LAST AMEND:

03/23/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

LOCATION:

Senate Appropriations Committee

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Increases the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour, effective 60 days after its enactment. Increases the minimum wages to $7.75, effective on and after July 1, 2007. Provides that the minimum wage shall be adjusted automatically every year thereafter on January 1, calculated by a specified indexing method. Appropriates a specified amount of funds from the General Fund in the 2005-06 fiscal year to pay for minimum wage increases in state agencies affected by the increase.

 

STATUS:

 

 

04/24/2006

In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.

 

Commentary:

 

 

This is one of 3 bills that would increase the minimum wage and require cost living increases. It passed out of policy committee and is waiting to be heard in Appropriations.

 

 

CA SB 1167

AUTHOR:

Maldonado (R)

 

TITLE:

Minimum Wage Increase

 

INTRODUCED:

01/10/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

LOCATION:

Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Increases the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour, effective on and after September 1, 2006, would further increase the minimum wage to $7.75 per hour, effective on and after July 1, 2007.

 

STATUS:

 

 

03/29/2006

In SENATE Committee on LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Heard, remains in Committee.

 

Commentary:

 

 

Senator Maldonado is carrying this bill for the Governor. It increases the minimum wage, but does not include cost of living increases. It failed in Senate Labor committee

 

 

CA SB 1426

AUTHOR:

Denham (R)

 

TITLE:

Agriculture

 

FISCAL COMMITTEE:

yes

 

URGENCY CLAUSE:

yes

 

INTRODUCED:

02/22/2006

 

LAST AMEND:

04/03/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

COMMITTEE:

Senate Agriculture Committee

 

HEARING:

05/16/2006 9:30 am

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Establishes the Emergency Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund and appropriates a specified amount of funds to that account for detection, emergency eradication, and research on agricultural plant or animal diseases. Creates the Emerging Threat Intervention Account and appropriates a specified amount of funds to that account for imposing of quarantines, sanitary, and police regulations to prevent or exterminate any specified adverse conditions of animal or animal food products.

 

STATUS:

 

 

04/05/2006

Re-referred to SENATE Committee on AGRICULTURE.

 

Commentary:

 

 

This bill is set to be heard in Senate Ag Committee on 05/16/2006

 

 

CA SB 1625

AUTHOR:

Denham (R)

 

TITLE:

Workers' Compensation Insurance

 

INTRODUCED:

02/24/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

LOCATION:

Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Relates to workers' compensation. Allows a uniform experience rating plan to meet the regulatory requirement by requiring an insurer issuing a workers' compensation policy to a horse trainer to attach to the policy an alternate employer endorsement that has been approved by the commissioner.

 

STATUS:

 

 

03/09/2006

To SENATE Committee on LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS.

 

Commentary:

 

 

Issue was resolved administratively so author won't pursue bill.

 

 

CA SB 1640

AUTHOR:

Kuehl (D)

 

TITLE:

Water

 

FISCAL COMMITTEE:

yes

 

URGENCY CLAUSE:

no

 

INTRODUCED:

02/24/2006

 

LAST AMEND:

04/19/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

COMMITTEE:

Senate Appropriations Committee

 

HEARING:

05/08/2006

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Relates to a report of hydrologic conditions of water project facilities to each contractor, water diversions covered by a permit or license for small domestic or livestock stockpond uses, civil liability for failing to file a statement for a diversion or use, the State Water Plan, and coordination of an urban water management plan with utilities that provide electric or gas service. Establishes a groundwater monitoring program for the monitoring of the depth to groundwater in a particular basin.

 

STATUS:

 

 

04/25/2006

From SENATE Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.

 

Commentary:

 

 

This is similar to SB 820 by Kuehl last year which CTBA opposed and was vetoed by the Governor. It passed policy committee and is scheduled to be heard in Appropriations.

 

 

CA SR 20

AUTHOR:

Florez (D)

 

TITLE:

Relative to Tribal Gaming

 

INTRODUCED:

01/04/2006

 

LAST AMEND:

01/30/2006

 

DISPOSITION:

Pending

 

LOCATION:

Senate Rules Committee

 

SUMMARY:

 

 

Provides that a gaming compact negotiated by the Governor between an Indian tribe and the State of California governing the conduct of class III gaming activities on lands that are not federally-recognized Indian lands, as defined by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, at the time the compact is presented to the Senate, shall not be ratified or considered for ratification.

 

STATUS:

 

 

03/27/2006

Withdrawn from SENATE Committee on GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION.

 

03/27/2006

Re-referred to SENATE Committee on RULES.

 

NOTES:

Ratification of Compacts