| Child care: before and after school programs. | AB 1393 (2003-2004) | Bates | Support | Yes |
| This bill extends the sunset date on various afterschool programs. |
| Confidentiality of medical information: transcription services. | AB 3035 (2003-2004) | Dymally | Support | No |
| Prohibits a UC health provider from disclosing medical information to a person or entity who provides
transcription of medical data. |
| Contracting for noninstructional services. | AB 1646 (2003-2004) | Benoit | Oppose | No |
| This bill authorizes school districts, county offices of education and community college districts to contract for the provision of any non-instructional services of any type. |
| Corporate liability. | SB 523 (2003-2004) | Escutia | Support | Yes |
| This bill makes technical corrections to the changes in construction defects law. |
| Corporation taxes: water's-edge election: inverted corporations. | SB 1067 (2003-2004) | | Support | No |
| Treats certain corporations that move their headquarters out of the United States
as though they were inside the United States for purposes of the corporation tax.
|
| Electricity: financing energy recovery. | AB 914 (2003-2004) | Reyes | Support | No |
| This bill would authorize the Public Utilities Commission to issue financing orders to support the issuance of energy recovery bonds by the bank. |
| Health care coverage. | AB 254 (2003-2004) | Montanez | Support | Yes |
| This bill denies eligibility for a state elderly insurance program so that consumers can be eligible for a lower-priced plan. |
| Health care. | AB 1627 (2003-2004) | Frommer | Support | Yes |
| This bill requires hospitals to make public their charge description masters. |
| Local public employees' retirement: benefits. | AB 1587 (2003-2004) | Yee | Support | Yes |
| This bill makes various changes regarding retirement board elections and the provision of retirement benefits. |
| Metropolitan water districts: contracting. | AB 3084 (2003-2004) | | Support | No |
| Authorizes the board of directors of a
metropolitan water district to contact for services
customarily performed by employees to achieve cost savings
if it meets certain conditions. |
| Older Adults System of Care Demonstration Project. | AB 1164 (2003-2004) | Berg | Support | No |
| Extends grants to specific county mental health departments for the Older Adults System of Care Demonstration Project to six years. |
| Personal income and corporation taxes: tax credit: workers' compensation. | SB 375 (2003-2004) | Margett | Oppose | No |
| This bill creates a tax credit for 50% of the amount paid by a taxpayer for workers' compensation during the taxable year. |
| Prison education reform. | AB 1219 (2003-2004) | Montanez | Support | No |
| Creates a statewide system and governing board, and standards for inmate education. |
| Public employees. | AB 1875 (2003-2004) | Maldonado | Support | Yes |
| Makes various changes regarding the meet and confer rights of state management employees that are defined as excluded under existing State employer-employee collective bargaining statutes. |
| Registered nurses: wages and hours of employment violations: fines. | SB 197 (2003-2004) | Burton | Support | No |
| This bill provides treble civil penalties for acute care hospitals that are operated for profit and who fail to give registered nurses meal or rest periods. |
| San Diego County Water Authority: voting. | SB 994 (2003-2004) | Hollingsworth | Oppose | No |
| This bill revises the voting procedures within the San Diego County Water Authority. |
| Sports facilities leases: local government. | AB 3003 (2003-2004) | Kehoe | Support | No |
| Requires mitigation from one city to another when a
professional sports team moves within California. |
| State employees' retirement: state safety membership. | SB 9 (2003-2004) | McClintock | Oppose | No |
| This bill repeals a provision of the Public Employees' Retirement Law dealing with the classification of certain employees. |
| University of California: salaries of administrators. | AB 303 (2003-2004) | Reyes | Support | No |
| This bill prohibits any funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for University of California (UC) administrative salaries from being encumbered until the UC Regents certify to the state Controller that any administrative salary increase in the previous year does not exceed the highest salary increase for any university employee whose salary is determined by collective bargaining. |
| "S" corporation: federal conformity. | AB 1148 (2003-2004) | Wyland | Oppose | No |
| Excludes certain sales or other dispositions of corporate assets from imposition of the built-in gains (BIGs) tax. |
| Abandoned newborns: safe surrender: liability. | SB 1413 (2003-2004) | Brulte | Support | Yes |
| This bill immunizes from civil damages a person who assists another in the voluntary surrender of a newborn child under the safe surrender law. |
| Absentee voting. | AB 188 (2003-2004) | Maze | Support | Yes |
| This bill makes special and absentee voters permanent absentee voters and provides that they will be mailed a ballot on or after 60 days before each election. |
| Acute care hospitals: patient needs. | SB 143 (2003-2004) | Cedillo | Support | No |
| This bill requires the Department of Health Services to adopt detailed patient classifications for acute care hospitals. |
| Administration of taxes: tax shelters: penalties. | AB 1601 (2003-2004) | Frommer | Support | Yes |
| This bill enacts a comprehensive set of changes that increase the penalties for investors, promoters, and organizers of abusive tax shelters, and allows those who voluntarily come forward to avoid the increased penalties. |
| Adult day health care centers. | AB 464 (2003-2004) | Levine | Support | Yes |
| This bill establishes that adult day health care centers may not discriminate. In addition, the centers may not require a patron's family members to visit the center or assist with activities. |
| Adult education: funding. | SB 1309 (2003-2004) | Karnette | Support | No |
| Modifies growth caps on adult education programs operated by K-12 districts so that unused units of attendance may be reallocated to districts that are fully utilizing their allowances. |
| Advisory boards: nursery stock. | AB 248 (2003-2004) | Nunez | Support | Yes |
| This bill indefinitely extends the term of the Fruit Tree, Nut Tree, and Grapevine Improvement Advisory Board, which was due to sunset. |
| Agricultural inspectors. | AB 1896 (2003-2004) | Jerome Horton | Support | Yes |
| Prohibits the Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture from entering into a cooperative agreement with a county of the first class unless certain requirements are met relating to agricultural inspectors. |
| Air pollution: importation of electrical energy: mitigation fee. | AB 151 (2003-2004) | Vargas | Support | No |
| This bill imposes an Air Pollution Mitigation Fee for importing electrical energy from a specified plant in Mexico. |
| Alcohol: fee: youth alcohol recovery and prevention. | AB 216 (2003-2004) | Chan | Support | No |
| This bill collects a fee from alcohol manufacturers and importers and establishes youth alcohol treatment centers in every county. |
| Alzheimer's Day Care-Resource Center Program. | AB 2127 (2003-2004) | Levine | Support | Yes |
| Requires Alzheimer's Day Care Resource Centers (ADCRCs) to be licensed as either an adult day program, or as an adult day health care (ADHC) center. |
| Alzheimer's disease: dementia: residential care facilities for the elderly. | AB 528 (2003-2004) | Mullin | Support | Yes |
| This bill provides that Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly serving residents with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia train direct care staff on "sundown syndrome" and describe activities available for residents to decrease the effects of the syndrome. |
| Ammunition: Firearm Victims' Reimbursement Fund. | AB 992 (2003-2004) | Ridley-Thomas | Support | No |
| This bill imposes a $0.10 fee on every munition sold at a retail facility for the Firearm Victims' Reimbursement Fund. |
| Asthma treatment care. | AB 2185 (2003-2004) | Frommer | Support | Yes |
| Requires health care service plans to provide coverage for equipment used in the treatment of pediatric asthma. |
| Auto insurance: cost estimates. | AB 2677 (2003-2004) | Ridley-Thomas | Support | Yes |
| This bill requires automobile insurers to
provide either a cost estimate or a referral to an
insurance agent through a toll-free number or web site. |
| Average daily attendance. | AB 2382 (2003-2004) | Mullin | Support | No |
| Allows school districts to calculate their average daily attendance (ADA). |
| Bank and corporation taxes: water's-edge election: foreign affiliated corporations. | SB 1571 (2003-2004) | Alpert | Support | No |
| This bill clarifies existing law with respect to inclusion of income earned by foreign affiliates. |
| Banks: paycheck cashing charges. | SB 1917 (2003-2004) | Nation | Support | No |
| This bill prohibits a bank from charging an employee, who does not have an account at the bank, to cash a paycheck drawn on the bank. |
| Battery: code enforcement officers. | SB 919 (2003-2004) | Ortiz | Support | Yes |
| This bill increases the maximum county jail term for any misdemeanor assault or misdemeanor battery without
injury on a code enforcement officer from six months to one year. |
| Bilingual services. | AB 2408 (2003-2004) | Yee | Support | No |
| Requires state agencies to complete specified actions regarding vacant bilingual services positions. |
| California Children and Families Commission: funding review. | AB 380 (2003-2004) | Steinberg | Support | No |
| This bill requires that all counties participating in the children's system of care program collect data and report to the Department of Mental Health the costs, types of care, patients, and other information relating to the program. |
| California Conservation Corps. | AB 1461 (2003-2004) | Negrete McLeod | Support | No |
| This bill replaces the director of the California Conservation Corps (Corps) with a three-person Corps Commission. |
| California Mental Health Planning Council: composition. | AB 376 (2003-2004) | Chu | Support | Yes |
| This bill requires that the California Mental Health Planning Council include representatives who are direct service providers from both the public and private sectors. |
| California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry. | SB 112 (2003-2004) | Speier | Support | Yes |
| This bill repeals the requirement for the Health and Human
Services Agency to maintain the California
Organ and Tissue Donor Registry and instead
authorizes California organ procurement organizations to
establish a not-for-profit organization known as the California
Organ and Tissue Donation Registrar. |
| California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2004. | SB 40 (2003-2004) | Alpert | Support | No |
| This bill establishes the California Public Library Construction and Renovation Board of 2004 to provide grants for the acquisition, construction, or remodeling of library facilities. |
| California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2006. | SB 1161 (2003-2004) | Alpert | Support | Yes |
| Establishes the California Reading and
Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and
Renovation Bond Act of 2006, authorizing the issuance of
$600 million in bonds for the purpose of financing library
construction and renovation, subject to voter approval.
|
| California State Lottery: revenues. | AB 2938 (2003-2004) | Plescia | Support | No |
| Enlarges the percentage of lottery revenue that goes to the winner and decreases the amount that goes towards education. |
| California State University: disability benefits. | AB 978 (2003-2004) | Negrete McLeod | Support | Yes |
| This bill makes California State University employees eligible for disability benefits. |
| California State University: Employee relations. | AB 1973 (2003-2004) | Nation | Support | No |
| Specifically authorizes the California State University to agree to wage and benefit issues in a memorandum of understanding. |
| California State University: employees. | AB 1144 (2003-2004) | Pavley | Support | Yes |
| Requires the California State University (CSU) Trustees to provide CSU employees who are appealing notices of adverse actions with procedural rights similar to those granted to some civil service employees. |
| California State University: police. | SB 1445 (2003-2004) | Dunn | Support | No |
| This bill requires the California State University headquarters and each CSU campus to establish a police department and to maintain a minimum number of police on each campus. |
| California State University: whistleblower protection. | AB 2637 (2003-2004) | Diaz | Support | No |
| This bill requires the California State
University to employ an independent investigation on all
complaints relative to whether or not an employee has
suffered a reprisal, retaliation, threat, coercion, or
similar improper act by another employee after filing a
written complaint. |
| California Tax Court. | SB 1424 (2003-2004) | Burton | Support | No |
| This bill creates a new California Tax Court that would absorb a part of the Board of Equalization current appeal process. |
| California Tax Court. | AB 2472 (2003-2004) | Wolk | Support | No |
| Establishes the California Tax Court (CTC) to replace the Board of Equalization (BOE) as the forum to hear and determine taxpayer appeals. |
| California Urban Water Conservation Council: stakeholders. | AB 2717 (2003-2004) | Laird | Support | Yes |
| This bill declares the Legislatures intent that
a report be prepared a reportthat includes recommendations for improving urban
water use efficiency. |
| CalWORKs recipients: education and training. | SB 1639 (2003-2004) | Alarcon | Support | Yes |
| This bill promotes education and training, including English language proficiency, for CalWORKs participants and foster youth. |
| Charter schools. | AB 1137 (2003-2004) | Reyes | Support | Yes |
| Repeals the sunset on the charter school general purpose block grant, specifies several oversight duties of each chartering authority and establishes criteria for renewal. |
| Charter schools: operation. | SB 1531 (2003-2004) | Knight | Oppose | No |
| This bill deletes the restriction on the number of charter schools that are authorized to operate in California each year and makes technical non-substantive changes. |
| Child abuse prevention: citizen review panels. | AB 2873 (2003-2004) | Garcia | Support | Yes |
| This bill specifies the purpose, composition, and duty of confidentiality of child abuse citizen review panels. |
| Child care reform. | SB 1897 (2003-2004) | Burton | Support | No |
| This bill enacts child care reform in four areas: assessment of supply and demand for subsidized care; workforce development; reimbursement rate pilot projects; and organization of family day care providers for specified purposes. |
| Child development: postpartum disorders awareness. | AB 1437 (2003-2004) | Koretz | Support | No |
| This bill prohibits the inappropriate marketing of any drug or device to medical providers. Requires manufacturers to disclose to the Department of Health Services during contract negotiations the aggregate marketing costs for the drugs or devices that are the subject of that negotiation. |
| Child welfare services: wards of the juvenile court: case plans: family maintenance services. | AB 2795 (2003-2004) | Wolk | Support | Yes |
| This bill extends the time allotted counties
both to develop child welfare services case plans and to
provide family maintenance services. |
| Civil rights: disabled persons: full and equal access. | AB 1707 (2003-2004) | | Support | No |
| This bill revises the minimum penalty for violation of the Disabled Persons Act from $1,000 to $4,000 to bring these remedies into harmony with the Unruh Act. |
| Classified employees. | AB 918 (2003-2004) | Chan | Support | Yes |
| This bill specifies that classified school employees, who are working outside of their regular assignments, are to receive compensation and benefits for the additional assignment at the regular classified pay rate for the position. |
| Classified employees: notice of layoff. | AB 290 (2003-2004) | Firebaugh | Support | Yes |
| This bill requires school and community college districts to provide classified school employees and administrators with 45 days notice of layoff, instead of 30, and to require short-term employees to be given layoff notices first. |
| Classified school employees. | AB 1038 (2003-2004) | Negrete McLeod | Support | Yes |
| Extends labor rights to certain school employees. |
| Classified school employees. | AB 424 (2003-2004) | Richman | Oppose | Yes |
| This bill changes the requirements for public school position appointments. |
| Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation: members. | AB 2495 (2003-2004) | Dutton | Oppose | No |
| Expands the membership on the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers Compensation. |
| Community colleges: classified service. | AB 2239 (2003-2004) | Runner | Oppose | No |
| Allows part-time community college students who are not in work-study or work experience programs to work on campus. |
| Community colleges: nursing programs. | AB 2177 (2003-2004) | Jackson | Oppose | No |
| Creates merit-based admissions criteria for community colleges with nursing education. |
| Confidentiality of medical records: offshore transcribing. | AB 2163 (2003-2004) | Leslie | Oppose | No |
| Requires anyone hired to transcribe medical records to disclose all contractors or subcontractors used and whether any of the records will be sent to another country. |
| Continuing care contracts. | AB 2550 (2003-2004) | Steinberg | Support | Yes |
| This bill implements recommendations of the Actuarial Study
Review Panel regarding requirements for actuarial studies,
operating expense reserves, and annual financial reports
for continuing care providers. |
| Continuity of care. | AB 1286 (2003-2004) | Frommer | Support | Yes |
| This bill revises and expands existing "continuity of care" laws under which a health plan is required, under certain circumstances, to allow an enrollee to continue to see a health care provider who is no longer contracting with the plan. |
| Contracting for noninstructional services. | SB 790 (2003-2004) | Johnson | Oppose | No |
| This bill repeals existing provisions of the Education Code that govern the conditions under which California school districts and community college districts may enter into personal service contracts for services currently or customarily performed by classified school employees. |
| Controlled substances. | AB 2274 (2003-2004) | Dymally | Support | No |
| Provides identical punishments for violations of laws related to cocaine powder and crack cocaine. |
| Corporation Tax Law: net income: apportionment. | SB 270 (2003-2004) | Soto | Support | Yes |
| This bill requires that retirees be provided with advance notice of the proposed changes or use of excess funds by a 1937 Act Retirement System. |
| Corporation tax: "S" corporation. | SB 259 (2003-2004) | Romero | Support | Yes |
| This bill authorizes school and community college districts to pay lost salary and benefits to all employees who have been called to active military duty. |
| Corporation taxes: C and S corporations. | SB 227 (2003-2004) | Hollingsworth | Oppose | No |
| This bill provides a tax exemption for certain corporations that the government has recategorized. |
| Corporation taxes: deduction: insurance company dividends. | AB 263 (2003-2004) | Oropeza | Oppose | Yes |
| This bill allows a corporation to deduct from income a portion of the dividends received from an insurance subsidiary, regardless of whether the insurance company conducted business in California and limits a tax incentive for overcapitalization of insurance subsidiaries. |
| Corporations: director duties. | SB 917 (2003-2004) | Alarcon | Support | No |
| This bill creates a new private right of action against California corporations and corporate directors for causing material damage to the environment, human rights, public health and safety, the welfare of the communities in which the corporation operates, or the rights of the corporation's
employees. This bill would also allow any person damaged by the action to sue. |
| Corporations: elections. | AB 2752 (2003-2004) | Chu | Support | No |
| This bill requires a publicly
traded domestic corporation or foreign corporation to file a copy of its corporate election
procedures with the Secretary of State, and to make them
available to a shareholder upon his or her request
to the corporation. |
| Corporations: tax disclosure statement. | SB 1496 (2003-2004) | Romero | Support | No |
| This bill expands the types of corporations required to file disclosure statements with the Secretary of State to include insurance companies and financial institutions. |
| Corrections: Internal Affairs. | SB 1400 (2003-2004) | Romero | Support | Yes |
| This bill creates the Bureau of Independent Review within the Office of Inspector General. |
| Cosmetics: cancer and reproductive toxicity. | AB 2012 (2003-2004) | Chu | Support | No |
| Requires cosmetics and personal care products that contain chemicals known to cause birth defects (phthalates) to carry notification that these chemicals are contained in the product on its labeling. |
| Cosmetics: prohibited substances. | AB 2025 (2003-2004) | Chu | Support | No |
| Restricts the sale of cosmetics and personal care products, as defined, that contain known carcinogens or reproductive toxins. |
| County design-build contracts. | AB 2438 (2003-2004) | Leslie | Oppose | No |
| Authorizes Placer County to use the design-build project delivery method for the construction of a single project. |
| County employees' retirement systems. | AB 1585 (2003-2004) | Yee | Support | Yes |
| This bill makes various changes in the administration of the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937. |
| County employees' retirement systems: capital expenditures. | AB 374 (2003-2004) | Chan | Support | Yes |
| This bill would change a provision of the board of directors of the 22nd District Agricultural Association. |
| County employees' retirement. | AB 2234 (2003-2004) | Yee | Support | Yes |
| Makes various substantive policy changes to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 ('37 Act). |
| County employees' retirement: additional retirement credit. | AB 55 (2003-2004) | Correa | Support | Yes |
| This bill authorizes a county board of supervisors, in certain counties, to allow active members of the retirement system to purchase up to five years of service credit for additional retirement credit. |
| County employees' retirement: additional service credit. | AB 1281 (2003-2004) | Pavley | Support | No |
| This bill allows peace officer and firefighter members within the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 to purchase unlimited service credit for prior service upon the election of the governing board or district. |
| County employees' retirement: death benefits. | SB 85 (2003-2004) | Torlakson | Support | Yes |
| This bill makes domestic partners of
county employees eligible for death and survivor
benefits. |
| County employees' retirement: purchasing power protection. | AB 2894 (2003-2004) | Wiggins | Support | Yes |
| This bill authorizes the Sonoma County board of
retirement, which administers a retirement system under the
County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 ('37 Act), to
increase the monthly allowances of Sonoma County retirees
to a maximum of 80 percent of the purchasing power of the
initial monthly allowances, if approved by the Sonoma
County board of supervisors. |
| County employees' retirement: reciprocity: actuarial valuation. | AB 2956 (2003-2004) | Wiggins | Support | No |
| This bill requires the board of retirement in
some counties to make
recommendations regarding the mandated actuarial valuation
(made at least every three years) at least 60 days prior to
the beginning of the next fiscal year, rather then
the current 45 days. |
| County employees' retirement: safety membership. | AB 144 (2003-2004) | Correa | Support | Yes |
| This bill allows Orange County welfare fraud investigators and administrators to be eligible for safety membership benefits. |
| County employees' retirement: San Mateo County. | AB 266 (2003-2004) | Mullin | Support | Yes |
| This bill authorizes the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors to negotiate a phased-in implementation of survivor benefits for domestic partners. |
| County employees' retirement: San Mateo County. | AB 398 (2003-2004) | Mullin | Support | Yes |
| This bill allows the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County to provide retirement benefits to some of its members. |
| County employees' retirement: survivor allowance. | SB 1260 (2003-2004) | Murray | Support | Yes |
| Modifies LA County retirement law to fix payment loopholes. |
| County veteran service officers: funding. | AB 2269 (2003-2004) | | Support | Yes |
| County funds must be allocated to county veteran service officers in an amount not less than that allocated in the 1988-89 fiscal year. |
| Credit card processing fees. | SB 1801 (2003-2004) | Bowen | Support | No |
| This bill prohibits state agencies from imposing a special fee for credit card or debit card payments. |
| Credit cards. | AB 3013 (2003-2004) | Pavley | Support | No |
| Restricts credit card companies' use of account
numbers in various circumstances. |
| Crime. | AB 1153 (2003-2004) | Bermudez | Support | Yes |
| Provides that any person who makes or sells any badge which falsely purports to be that of an officer or member of a fire department, or any person who exhibits, uses, or sells an identification card of a city, county, or state employee, is guilty of a misdemeanor. |
| Crime. | AB 854 (2003-2004) | Koretz | Support | Yes |
| This bill makes statutory findings and declarations regarding the availability of programs designed to prepare inmates for successful reentry into the community. |
| Crimes. | AB 2383 (2003-2004) | Cox | Oppose | No |
| Judicial requests for persons who are interfering with or obstructing any lawful business to leave are effective for 30 day periods. |
| Curriculum: labor relations. | AB 581 (2003-2004) | Chu | Support | No |
| This bill requires a labor relations curriculum to be included in history-social sciences courses for grades 7-12. |
| Department of Motor Vehicles: employee qualifications. | AB 2075 (2003-2004) | Benoit | Oppose | Yes |
| Authorizes DMV to require fingerprinting of certain employees or applicants for employment. |
| Department of Motor Vehicles: records. | AB 184 (2003-2004) | Lowenthal | Support | Yes |
| This bill allows certain domestic violence and stalking victims to request that the Department of Motor Vehicles suppress their records. |
| Dependency proceedings: public access. | AB 2627 (2003-2004) | Steinberg | Oppose | No |
| This bill would require the Judicial Council to establish a
pilot project in each of three counties (rural, midsized,
large) to gather statistical data on open hearings and
measure specified effects of the opening of juvenile
dependency court proceedings. |
| Development projects: superstore retailers. | SB 1056 (2003-2004) | | Support | No |
| Requires a city, county, or city and
county to prepare an economic impact report prior to
formally considering a proposed development project
that would permit the construction of a superstore
retailer.
|
| Developmental centers. | AB 2774 (2003-2004) | Richman | Oppose | No |
| This bill sets a timetable for the closure of
developmental centers and specifies the manner in which that is
to be done. |
| Developmental disabilities. | SB 1364 (2003-2004) | Chesbro | Support | Yes |
| This bill makes technical changes to bring state law relating to the establishment of the State Council on Developmental Disabilities into conformity with federal law. |
| Developmental services. | AB 2100 (2003-2004) | | Support | Yes |
| Establishes community care facilities in anticipation of the closure of Agnews Developmental Center and authorizes the State Department of Developmental Services to approve proposals to purchase such facilities. |
| Disability compensation: family temporary disability insurance. | SB 1829 (2003-2004) | Knight | Oppose | No |
| This bill repeals the paid family leave statute of the state disability insurance program. |
| Discrimination. | AB 196 (2003-2004) | Leno | Support | Yes |
| This bill imports the definition of gender from anti-hate crime law into the Fair Employment and Housing Act, thus making it illegal to discriminate based on a person’s gender identification. |
| Discrimination: athletic programs. | AB 2404 (2003-2004) | Steinberg | Support | Yes |
| Extends existing law requiring equal access in state school sports to all local government sports programs. |
| Discrimination: state programs and activities. | SB 302 (2003-2004) | Kuehl | Support | Yes |
| This bill declares the intent of the Legislature to apply provisions requiring compliance with the accessibility requirements of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to the California State University laws prohibiting discrimination against the disabled. |
| Displaced Janitor Opportunity Act. | SB 1521 (2003-2004) | Alarcon | Support | No |
| This bill increases from 60 to 90 days the transition employment period for janitors, and expands responsibilities of building owners. |
| Displaced public transit employees. | SB 158 (2003-2004) | Alarcon | Support | Yes |
| This bill establishes a bidding preference for public transit service contractors and subcontractors who
agree to retain, for a period of at least 90 days, employees of the previous contractor or subcontractor. |
| Domestic violence: probation conditions. | AB 352 (2003-2004) | Berg | Support | Yes |
| This bill increases the fees a person convicted of a domestic violence offense must pay. These fees are used to support specified domestic violence programs. |
| Early Childhood Education Center and After School Facilities Bond Act of 2003. | SB 14 (2003-2004) | Escutia | Support | No |
| This bill enacts the Early Childhood Education Center and
After School Facilities Bond Act of 2003, authorizes the issuance of state general obligation bonds in an amount not to exceed a total of $5,000,000,000 to provide grant and loan funding for developing and expanding safe and educationally appropriate facilities for early childhood education and after school care. |
| Education in state prisons. | AB 1914 (2003-2004) | Montanez | Support | No |
| Creates a statewide system, governing board and standards for inmate education.
|
| Education technology. | AB 2706 (2003-2004) | Berg | Support | Yes |
| This bill makes makes assists small school districts in applying for and receiving funding through the federal frants for education technology. |
| Education: certified school employees. | SB 124 (2003-2004) | Knight | Oppose | No |
| This bill establishes a four-year probationary period for
certificated school employees who begin their probationary
employment during or after fiscal year 2004-05. |
| Educators. | AB 956 (2003-2004) | Nation | Support | Yes |
| This bill defines "educator" to mean a certificated person holding a valid California teaching credential or a valid California services credential who is employed by a local education agency or a special education local planning area and who is not employed as an independent contractor or consultant. |
| Elder abuse actions: confidentiality. | AB 634 (2003-2004) | Steinberg | Support | Yes |
| This bill creates a statewide policy against confidential settlement agreements in cases brought under the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act, but provides that information acquired through discovery in these cases that is protected from disclosure by a stipulated protective order shall generally remain subject to the protective order. |
| Elder death review teams: access to vital record information. | SB 1644 (2003-2004) | Romero | Support | No |
| This bill requires a local registrar of deaths, upon the request of a member of a county elder death review team (EDRT), to make available and assist the electronic transfer of information from a certificate of death to the county EDRT in any county that has access to the statewide system. |
| Elections. | AB 2181 (2003-2004) | Campbell | Oppose | No |
| Repeal the right of an employee to bring actions against an employer for violating the Labor Code. |
| Elections: local government seals. | AB 255 (2003-2004) | Jerome Horton | Support | Yes |
| This bill prohibits the use of local government seals on campaign literature. |
| Elections: municipal elections. | AB 1521 (2003-2004) | Parra | Support | Yes |
| This bill requires a general municipal election to be held on any established election date or on the 2nd Tuesday of April in each odd-numbered year. Also, this bill would provide that an election held wholly by mail must be held on an established mailed ballot election date as established by this bill. |
| Elections: voting identification. | SB 1282 (2003-2004) | Morrow | Oppose | No |
| Requires a voter to present proof of his or her identity and residency to a member of the precinct board before receiving a provisional ballot. |
| Electronic monitoring of employees. | SB 1841 (2003-2004) | Bowen | Support | No |
| This bill requires employers to give their employees clear and conspicuous notice of the fact that they engage in electronic monitoring of their employees. |
| Emergency medical services: alcohol: fee. | SB 108 (2003-2004) | Romero | Support | No |
| This bill enacts the Alcohol-Related Emergency
Services Reimbursement Act of 2003, which would require the
Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to collect a $0.05
per drink fee from specified wholesalers. |
| Employee bargaining units: salary deductions. | AB 310 (2003-2004) | Kehoe | Support | Yes |
| This bill requires a school employer to transmit money collected or deducted from an employee's salary for employee organization dues or fair share fees to transmit the money to the employee’s organization within specified periods. |
| Employee compensation. | SB 1618 (2003-2004) | Battin | Support | Yes |
| This bill requires employers, by January 1, 2008, to only provide the last four digits or less of an employees social security number (SSN) along with the employees name and other required information on the itemized statement furnished at the time of each payment of wages to an employee. This bill allows an employee identification number to be used in lieu of a SSN on the itemized statement. |
| Employee wages and working hours: violators. | SB 573 (2003-2004) | Alarcon | Support | No |
| This bill requires the Labor Commissioner (LC) to establish a trigger for LC recommendation of an employer tax audit to state tax authorities, and to impose specified notification, recommendation and record keeping requirements on the LC regarding that trigger once established. |
| Employment arbitration agreements. | AB 1715 (2003-2004) | | Support | No |
| This bill makes it illegal for an employer to require an employee to waive any rights under the Fair Employment and Housing Act as a condition for employment. |
| Employment discrimination. | AB 2889 (2003-2004) | Laird | Support | No |
| This bill would make the employer liable for sexual harassment of employees by non-employees if the employer knew or should have known of the harassment. |
| Employment law. | SB 1010 (2003-2004) | Poochigian | Oppose | No |
| Repeals specific employment laws relating to wages and
mandated benefits, including daily overtime pay and recent worker's compensation benefit increases. |
| Employment of offenders. | AB 2861 (2003-2004) | Koretz | Support | Yes |
| This bill makes exceptions to the regulations on accessing personal
information by prison inmates. |
| Employment relations: state. | AB 2575 (2003-2004) | Haynes | Oppose | No |
| Repeals a requirement of state collective bargaining
law that allows the provisions of a Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) to remain in effect once it expires under specified
circumstances. |
| Employment. | SB 796 (2003-2004) | Dunn | Support | Yes |
| This bill allows employees to sue their employers for civil penalties for employment law violations and expands the abilities of the Labor Commissioner by creating an alternative "private attorney general" system for labor law enforcement. |
| Employment. | AB 2052 (2003-2004) | Haynes | Oppose | No |
| A multi-faceted worker’s bill, requiring employers to notify paycheck reductions for political contributions and eliminates specified rights to collective bargaining. |
| Employment. | AB 274 (2003-2004) | Koretz | Support | No |
| This bill establishes a rebuttable presumption that if an employee was fired soon after the exercise of protected rights, then that firing was retaliatory. |
| Employment. | AB 3020 (2003-2004) | | Support | Yes |
| Eliminates the January 1, 2006 repeal of the Joint
Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy (JESF), and
extends the repeal and operational dates of Labor Code sections
related to the review of a civil wage and penalty assessments
against affected contractors and subcontractors. |
| Employment. | AB 1133 (2003-2004) | Koretz | Support | No |
| Imposes an automatic penalty equal to 100% of the original judgment for every six months that employers do not pay wage and hour judgments rendered against them. |
| Employment: access to exits. | AB 2545 (2003-2004) | Koretz | Support | No |
| This bill substantially amends an existing Cal-OSHA regulation,
requiring employers to provide employees access to a mode
of egress from the place of employment without any
impediments, including verbal ones, and increasing
penalties for non-compliance. |
| Employment: day laborers. | AB 2402 (2003-2004) | Lieber | Support | No |
| Declares that legislation is necessary to ensure that day laborers or temporary workers are protected under labor laws that ensure workplace dignity and reduce the unfair competitive advantages. |
| Employment: discrimination. | AB 2900 (2003-2004) | Laird | Support | Yes |
| This bill changes employment antidiscrimination provisions to match the Fair Employment and Housing Act and to prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. |
| Employment: displaced private security officers. | AB 2850 (2003-2004) | Ridley-Thomas | Support | No |
| This bill establishes continued employment of
private security officers for 90 days at a job site
following the termination of a contract for private
security services. |
| Employment: homeland security. | SB 888 (2003-2004) | Dunn | Support | No |
| Prohibits the performance of any work involving information that is essential to homeland security at a work site outside of the United States. |
| Employment: Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004. | SB 1861 (2003-2004) | Ashburn | Oppose | No |
| This bill provides the Labor and Workforce Development Agency 60 days within which to enforce or investigate alleged violations of the Labor Code reported by an aggrieved employee, before the employee is allowed to bring the civil action. |
| Employment: mass layoffs, relocations, and terminations. | AB 1223 (2003-2004) | McCarthy | Oppose | No |
| Repeals existing law requiring employers to give workers and specified government agencies notice of a mass layoff, relocation or termination. |
| Environmental justice and community-based transportation planning grants. | AB 392 (2003-2004) | Montanez | Support | No |
| This bill establishes accounts into which the legislature can appropriate money for the purposes of Environmental Justice and Community Based Transportation Planning. |
| Equal opportunity programs. | AB 2275 (2003-2004) | Dymally | Support | No |
| Repeals employment goals and timetables based on race or gender and renames the government article from "Affirmative Action Program" to "State Equal Employment Opportunity Program." |
| Equity in Athletics Bill of Rights. | AB 2240 (2003-2004) | Oropeza | Support | No |
| Establishes the Athletic Bill of Rights (ABR) to make students and parents aware of their rights in athletic programs at public high schools and specifies that posters be printed and posted in school athletic facilities. |
| Federal tax credits: housing: teachers. | SB 162 (2003-2004) | Alarcon | Support | Yes |
| This bill expands the Extra Credit Teacher Home
Purchase Program to include classified school employees who
work at low-performing schools. |
| Fees: inspections: deficiencies: corrections. | SB 1005 (2003-2004) | Dunn | Support | No |
| Requires the Department of Health Services to
conduct unannounced inspections of hospitals which include inspecting for compliance with nurse-to-patient ratios. |
| Fire insurance: indemnity. | AB 2199 (2003-2004) | Kehoe | Support | Yes |
| Defines specified conditions on insurers in circumstances related to fire insurance. |
| Flood damage reduction: American River watershed. | SB 1280 (2003-2004) | Ortiz | Support | Yes |
| Authorizes a project for flood control damage reduction and environmental restoration in the American River watershed in Sacramento County. |
| Food and agriculture: cooperative agreements: inspector aides. | AB 185 (2003-2004) | Jerome Horton | Support | Yes |
| This bill prohibits the Secretary of Food and Agriculture from entering into cooperative agreements with Los Angeles County unless those employees are protected with permanent employee status. |
| Foster care. | AB 458 (2003-2004) | Chu | Support | Yes |
| This bill seeks to ensure that foster children and others in the foster care community are not subjected to discrimination or harassment. |
| Gender discrimination. | AB 2662 (2003-2004) | Jackson | Support | No |
| Seeks to ensure that the state does not discriminate
against women. |
| Gender discrimination. | AB 358 (2003-2004) | Jackson | Support | No |
| This bill requires various state departments to research and report to the legislature about the role of women, to ensure that women are not being discriminated against. |
| Gender equity: athletics. | AB 2323 (2003-2004) | Jackson | Support | No |
| Requires the State Department of Education (SDE) to develop a Gender Equity Compliance Survey for high schools. |
| Gender pay equity. | AB 2317 (2003-2004) | Oropeza | Support | No |
| Increases the amount of damages due to employees who are paid unfairly in violation of laws against gender discrimination. |
| Governmental reorganization. | AB 2000 (2003-2004) | Dutton | Oppose | No |
| Abolishes the Franchise Tax Board and transfers its powers and duties to the Board of Equalization. |
| Health and care facilities: use of seclusion and behavioral restraints. | SB 130 (2003-2004) | Chesbro | Support | Yes |
| This bill places a number of restrictions on the use of seclusion and restraints in a variety
of psychiatric hospitals, developmental centers, skilled nursing facilities and
foster care group homes. |
| Health and dependent care facilities. | AB 1629 (2003-2004) | Frommer | Support | Yes |
| This bill provides for the imposition of a quality assurance fee on each skilled nursing facility (SNF), to be administered by the Department of Health Services, and provides that the funds assessed be made available to draw down a federal match in the Medi-Cal program or to provide additional reimbursement to, and support facility quality improvement efforts in, SNFs. |
| Health and managed care plans: culturally and linguistically appropriate services. | AB 154 (2003-2004) | Chan | Support | No |
| This bill requires health plans participating in the Healthy Families Program or Medi-Cal to submit annual reports on the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate services. |
| Health care applications. | SB 1196 (2003-2004) | Cedillo | Support | Yes |
| This bill authorizes the sharing of the National School Lunch Program application for purposes of determining eligibility for the Healthy Families Program and any other county- or local-sponsored health insurance program when the child does not meet eligibility requirements for Medi-Cal. |
| Health care benefits: large grocery stores. | AB 2494 (2003-2004) | Lieber | Support | No |
| Conditions the receipt or renewal of a valid permit to operate a large grocery store, on providing a written commitment to indemnify affected state and local agencies for any significant expenses incurred in providing health care to grocery store employees. |
| Health care coverage. | AB 2759 (2003-2004) | Levine | Support | Yes |
| This bill preserves individual health care
coverage to subscribers of health plans and policyholders
of insurance plans that withdraw from a California service
area. |
| Health care coverage: substance related disorders. | SB 101 (2003-2004) | Chesbro | Support | No |
| This bill requires that certain policies issued by
health care service plans include coverage for the medically
necessary treatment of substance-related disorders. |
| Health care language assistance. | SB 853 (2003-2004) | Escutia | Support | Yes |
| Requires the State Department of Managed Health Care to ensure that enrollees have access to language assistance in obtaining health care services. |
| Health care service plans. | AB 1213 (2003-2004) | Vargas | Support | No |
| Modifies a limitation on the disclosure of information by health care provider risk-bearing organizations. |
| Health care. | AB 1628 (2003-2004) | Frommer | Support | Yes |
| This bill requires a hospital to contact an enrollee's health plan to obtain the enrollee's medical record information before admitting the enrollee for post-stabilization care as an inpatient following emergency services in a non-contracting hospital, under certain circumstances, and prohibits a hospital from billing the enrollee if it fails to do so. |
| Health care: accelerated enrollment. | SB 24 (2003-2004) | Figueroa | Support | Yes |
| This bill creates the Prenatal Gateway and the Newborn Hospital Gateway to simplify enrollment of prenatal
women and certain newborn infants into the Medi-Cal program. |
| Health care: Medicare and Medi-Cal. | SB 1671 (2003-2004) | Vasconcellos | Oppose | No |
| This bill establishes the Cal Care Options program. |
| Health data reporting: underrepresented ethnic and racial groups. | AB 2324 (2003-2004) | Chan | Support | No |
| Requires state agencies that collect demographic information to also collect data on race, ethnicity, and primary language. |
| Health facilities: access to emergency care. | AB 2874 (2003-2004) | Diaz | Support | No |
| This bill sets forth various requirements that
must be met for hospitals planning reduction or elimination
of the level of emergency medical services or hospital
services, or for closure of a general acute care
hospital. |
| Health facilities: boutique hospitals. | SB 828 (2003-2004) | Figueroa | Support | No |
| This bill prohibits the Department of Health Services (DHS) from issuing a license to operate a boutique hospital unless the hospital agrees to continuously maintain and operate at least a basic emergency department.. |
| Health facilities: information: disclosure. | AB 2876 (2003-2004) | Calderon | Support | Yes |
| This bill requires the Office of Statewide
Health Planning and Development, upon request, to
disclose specified patient encounter and discharge data |
| Health facilities: nurse-to-patient ratios. | SB 847 (2003-2004) | Aanestad | Oppose | No |
| This bill requires the Department of Health Services to evaluate proposed hospital nurse staffing regulations issued by the Department pursuant to AB 394 (1999). |
| Health facilities: nurse-to-patient ratios. | AB 253 (2003-2004) | Steinberg | Support | No |
| This bill requires the Department of Health to inspect hospitals for violations of minimum nurse to patient ratios, and to assess fines for infractions thereof. |
| Health facilities: staffing: professional, technical, and support services. | AB 1927 (2003-2004) | Cohn | Support | No |
| Requires general acute care, acute psychiatric, and special hospitals to at least annually review the use of, and consult with, professional, technical, and support staff. |
| Health facilities: staff-to-patient ratios. | AB 2300 (2003-2004) | Dymally | Support | No |
| Requires specified hospitals to develop a staffing plan for professional, technical and support staff. |
| Health services. | SB 494 (2003-2004) | Escutia | Support | No |
| This bill revises third-party claim procedures regarding Medi-Cal. |
| Healthy Californians Biomonitoring Program. | SB 1168 (2003-2004) | Ortiz | Support | No |
| Establishes the Healthy Californians Biomonitoring
Program to expand the possibilities for biomedical,
epidemiological, and behavioral public health research related to chronic disease and the prevalence of chemicals in the
environment.
|
| Hearing aids. | SB 174 (2003-2004) | Scott | Support | No |
| This bill mandates that every group health care service plan
contract and every health insurance policy provide coverage
for hearing aids |
| Higher education labor relations: University of California: service contractors. | SB 160 (2003-2004) | Alarcon | Support | No |
| This bill prohibits the University of
California from using non-represented service
contractors at any new facility to perform
services traditionally performed by represented UC
employees. |
| Highways: Safe Routes to School construction program. | SB 1087 (2003-2004) | Soto | Support | Yes |
| Extends the sunset
date on the Safe Routes to School Program until January 1,
2008, and also extends the grant program until January 1,
2008.
|
| Home-to-school transportation. | AB 2462 (2003-2004) | Parra | Support | No |
| Requires that state funding for home-to-school transportation be increased annually by the percentage cost-of-living adjustment provided to school district revenue limits and the percentage change in K-12 enrollment. |
| Home-to-school transportation: East Whittier City School District. | AB 1795 (2003-2004) | Bermudez | Support | No |
| Requires home-to-school transportation funding for the East Whittier City School District to be calculated as if it will receive $174,790 in the 2004-05 school year. |
| Hospital facilities: seismic safety requirements. | SB 1014 (2003-2004) | Aanestad | Oppose | No |
| Repeals provisions of existing law requiring the
development and enforcement of standards for hospital
seismic safety. |
| Hospitals: lift teams. | AB 2532 (2003-2004) | Hancock | Support | No |
| Requires specified hospitals to provide "lift teams"
to assist health care workers in lifting patients. |
| Hospitals: reduction or elimination of emergency medical services: notice. | SB 1540 (2003-2004) | Margett | Support | No |
| This bill requires a hospital that intends to downgrade or eliminate emergency medical services to notify all local emergency medical services agencies within the region served by the hospital. |
| Hospitals: service changes: ownership. | AB 910 (2003-2004) | Diaz | Support | No |
| This bill establishes a review process for closures of private hospitals, and prohibits anyone from owning more than one private hospital in a county without signing an agreement with the Attorney General. |
| Housing. | SB 253 (2003-2004) | Cedillo | Support | Yes |
| This bill repeals the existing authority of a public school employer to request a representative election. |
| Housing: downpayment assistance and mortgages. | AB 672 (2003-2004) | Montanez | Support | Yes |
| This bill provides additional down payment assistance to qualifying borrowers who purchase a new home within an "infill opportunity zone," "transit village development districts," and "transit-oriented specific plan." |
| Identity theft. | SB 1279 (2003-2004) | Bowen | Support | No |
| Expands existing requirements regarding consumer notification of data security breaches to include non-electronic data, so that all data containing personal information are covered. |
| IHSS providers: criminal background checks. | AB 2534 (2003-2004) | Bates | Support | No |
| This bill clarifies existing law regarding an In-Home
Supportive Services (IHSS) Public Authority's requirement to
investigate the qualifications and background of potential IHSS
employees. |
| IHSS: modes of benefits delivery. | AB 3056 (2003-2004) | Salinas | Support | No |
| Establishes a procedure to be followed prior to a
county discontinuing a mode of In-Home Supportive Services
service delivery. |
| Imitation firearms. | SB 1858 (2003-2004) | Dunn | Support | Yes |
| This bill establishes a new definition for imitation firearms, generally prohibits the open display or exposure of imitation firearms in public places, and makes numerous other changes related to imitation firearms. |
| In-Home Supportive Services program. | AB 1319 (2003-2004) | Bates | Support | No |
| This bill authorizes In-Home Supportive Services non-profit consortia and Public Authorities to include criminal background checks, conducted by the Department of Justice in processing potential IHSS caregivers. |
| In-home supportive services providers: employment benefits. | AB 632 (2003-2004) | Kehoe | Support | Yes |
| This bill provides for the extension of workers' compensation benefits to specified in-home support services workers. |
| In-home supportive services: direct deposit wage payments. | AB 811 (2003-2004) | Dymally | Support | No |
| This bill requires the State Controller's Office, in conjunction with the Department of Social Services, to create a direct deposit payment system for In-Home Supportive Services workers. |
| In-home supportive services: hospital stays. | SB 936 (2003-2004) | Escutia | Support | No |
| This bill provides that a recipient, who is eligible for personal care services under the In-Home Supportive Services program, shall be entitled to continue to
receive those services after being admitted as a patient in a hospital or skilled nursing facility. |
| In-home supportive services: public authority: Los Angeles County. | AB 2082 (2003-2004) | Ridley-Thomas | Support | No |
| Specifies requirements for selection of the governing board of the public authority for in-home supportive services (IHSS) in Los Angeles County. |
| In-home supportive services: wage and benefit increases. | AB 824 (2003-2004) | Matthews | Support | No |
| This bill extends the same wage and benefit sharing ratios and schedules for wage and benefit increases, which apply to counties with Public Authorities serving as employer of record for the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Program to those counties which, themselves, serve as the employer of record for individual providers of IHSS services. |
| Income and corporation taxes: net operating losses. | AB 234 (2003-2004) | Corbett | Oppose | No |
| This bill eases tax laws for pharmaceutical and biotech businesses. |
| Income and corporation tax credits: carryovers. | SB 1354 (2003-2004) | Escutia | Support | No |
| This bill allows certain credits to be used to reduce income or corporation tax liability by no more than 50 percent of the taxpayer's total liability. |
| Income and corporation taxes: employee credits: water's-edge: apportionment. | SB 1876 (2003-2004) | Alpert | Support | No |
| This bill establishes a refundable earned income credit, restricts corporations which locate their headquarters outside the US from sheltering income from California tax, and repeals the "double-weighted" sales factor used in calculating income subject to California tax. |
| Income and corporation taxes: environmental credit: deduction: ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel. | AB 2794 (2003-2004) | McCarthy | Oppose | No |
| Allows a credit against the net personal income or
corporation tax for certain producers of ultra-low sulfur diesel
fuel. |
| Income and corporation taxes: exclusion: capital gains. | SB 935 (2003-2004) | Knight | Oppose | No |
| This bill provides a tax exclusion of 100% of the gain on sale of stock of a "small business corporation." |
| Income tax exclusion: social security: retirement annuities. | SB 417 (2003-2004) | Hollingsworth | Oppose | No |
| This bill excludes an increasing percentage of federal civil service retirement income from income tax beginning in 2006. |
| Income taxes: designations: California Military Family Relief Fund. | SB 1162 (2003-2004) | Machado | Support | Yes |
| Establishes the California Military
Family Relief Fund for taxpayer contribution designation on
the income tax form to provide financial aid grants to
members of the California National Guard who have been
called to duty.
|
| Instructional materials: labor history. | AB 1872 (2003-2004) | Nakano | Support | No |
| Requires instructional materials for social science, history, or civics education to contain information related to California's labor history. |
| Insurance: licensing. | AB 2557 (2003-2004) | Koretz | Support | Yes |
| This bill increases the misdemeanor penalty for
individuals who transact insurance without a license to up
to one year in jail or a maximum of $50,000 (or both). |
| Insurance: misrepresentations. | SB 1273 (2003-2004) | Scott | Support | Yes |
| Makes it a felony for an insurance agency or agent to misrepresent its policy. |
| Insurance: depository institutions: disclosures. | SB 1286 (2003-2004) | Scott | Support | No |
| Requires insurance agents who work inside banks to disclose to customers whether they are employed by the bank. |
| Interagency Task Force on Excellence in Economic Development. | AB 2245 (2003-2004) | Parra | Support | No |
| Establishes an Interagency Task Force on Excellence in Economic Development (Task Force) to make recommendations to identify, coordinate, and evaluate the state's immense investments in economic development. |
| International relations. | SB 1261 (2003-2004) | Vasconcellos | Support | No |
| Requires the Governor to designate a Director of External Affairs to deal with international trade. |
| Internet tax. | AB 1791 (2003-2004) | Chavez | Oppose | No |
| Prohibits cities and counties from imposing or collecting, with specified exceptions, taxes on internet access or online computer services. |
| Interpreters: prohibition on use of children. | AB 292 (2003-2004) | Yee | Support | No |
| This bill prohibits state agencies from using children as interpreters. |
| Jobs-housing opportunity zones. | AB 723 (2003-2004) | Matthews | Support | No |
| This bill allows cities and counties to create infrastructure financing districts within "jobs-housing opportunity zones." |
| Judicial Council: trial court meetings. | SB 144 (2003-2004) | Escutia | Support | Yes |
| This bill requires the Judicial Council of
California to adopt rules providing for public notice and
input into decisions concerning the administrative and
financial functions of a trial court. |
| Juries: peace officers. | AB 513 (2003-2004) | Matthews | Support | Yes |
| This bill establishes that criminal courts must give scheduling accommodations for jury duty to parole officers, probation officers, and correctional officers who are peace officers. |
| Juvenile law: mentally and developmentally disabled minors. | AB 2019 (2003-2004) | Steinberg | Support | No |
| Establishes procedures for evaluating the mental competency of minors in juvenile court cases. |
| Licensed health care professionals: blood-borne infectious disease. | SB 629 (2003-2004) | Soto | Support | No |
| This bill extends the rebuttable presumption regarding blood-borne infectious disease to licensed health care professionals for purposes of receiving both disability retirement and workers' compensation benefits. |
| Life insurance: consumer protection. | AB 2316 (2003-2004) | Chan | Support | Yes |
| Creates a Life and Annuity Consumer Protection Program, including a fund dedicated to protecting consumers of life insurance and annuity products. |
| Life science companies: tax credits. | AB 2230 (2003-2004) | Corbett | Oppose | No |
| Authorizes a tax credit for life science companies that invest in California. |
| Living wage. | AB 1093 (2003-2004) | Lieber | Support | No |
| Expands legal protections of the living wage, including requiring firms that contract with the state to meet living wage standards. |
| Local educational agencies: officers. | AB 745 (2003-2004) | Berg | Support | No |
| This bill requires a county superintendent of schools, the governing board of a school district, and the governing board of a community college district to annually report all compensation received for certain administrative, certificated, and classified personnel. |
| Local government investment. | SB 268 (2003-2004) | Soto | Support | Yes |
| This bill makes changes to service credit payments and benefits for public employees. |
| Local Government Omnibus Act of 2003. | SB 66 (2003-2004) | | Support | Yes |
| This bill, the Local Government Omnibus Act of
2003, makes 26 relatively minor, noncontroversial changes
to laws affecting local agencies' powers and duties. |
| Local Revenue Fund: allocations. | AB 1716 (2003-2004) | | Support | Yes |
| This bill reinstates the law allocating sales tax growth revenues to the realignment Local Revenue Fund and restores the base level following a period of shortfall in the base account. |
| Local Revenue Fund: Sales Tax Growth Account: Caseload Subaccount. | AB 2747 (2003-2004) | Garcia | Support | Yes |
| This bill requires the State Department of
Finance to recommend to the Legislature a way of speeding up payments to county social services
realignment accounts. |
| Long-term care facilities: insurance: Medi-Cal reimburseme |
