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Small
Business California
Legislative
Report
Updated:
July 15, 2019
SB 400 (Umberg D)
Reduction of greenhouse gases emissions: mobility options.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/20/2019
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Current Analysis: 06/28/2019 Assembly
Transportation (text 2/20/2019)
Introduced: 2/20/2019
Status: 7/2/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/1/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Current
law establishes the Clean Cars 4 All Program, which is administered by the
State Air Resources Board to focus on achieving reductions in the emissions of
greenhouse gases, improvements in air quality, and benefits to low-income state
residents through the replacement of high-polluter motor vehicles with cleaner
and more efficient motor vehicles or a mobility option. Current law defines
specified terms, including “mobility option”, which means a voucher for public
transit or car sharing for purposes of the program. This bill would
additionally provide that “mobility option” also includes bike sharing and
electric bicycles.
Position: Support
Business Regulation & Econ. Development
AB 161 (Ting D) Solid
waste: paper waste: proofs of purchase.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/01/2019 Senate
Environmental Quality (text 6/27/2019)
Introduced: 1/7/2019
Last Amended: 6/27/2019
Status: 7/3/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/3/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Current
law prohibits certain stores from providing a single-use carryout bag to a
customer at the point of sale and prohibits full-service restaurants from
providing single-use plastic straws to consumers unless requested by the
consumer. This bill would require a business, as defined, that accepts payment
through cash, credit, or debit transactions, subject to certain exceptions, to
provide a proof of purchase to a consumer only at the consumer’s option and
would prohibit a business from printing a paper proof of purchase if the
consumer opts to not receive a proof of purchase, unless otherwise required by
state or federal law.
Position: Oppose
AB 176 (Cervantes D)
California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority:
sales and use taxes: exclusions.
Current Text: Amended: 6/12/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Governance And Finance (text 6/12/2019)
Introduced: 1/9/2019
Last Amended: 6/12/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes
7. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: The
California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority
Act establishes the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation
Financing Authority. The act authorizes, until January 1, 2021, the authority
to provide financial assistance in the form of a sales and use tax exclusion
for projects, as defined, including those that promote California-based
manufacturing, California-based jobs, advanced manufacturing, the reduction of
greenhouse gases, or the reduction in air and water pollution or energy
consumption. The act prohibits the sales and use tax exclusions from exceeding
$100,000,000 for each calendar year. This bill would require the authority to
evaluate a project application for the extent to which the project will create
new, or result in the loss of, permanent, full-time jobs in the state, as
specified.
AB 230 (Brough R)
Disabled veteran business enterprises.
Current Text: Amended: 4/8/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Veterans Affairs (text 4/8/2019)
Introduced: 1/17/2019
Last Amended: 4/8/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes
6. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Current
law states the intent of the Legislature that every state procurement authority
meet or exceed a DVBE participation goal of a minimum of 3% of total contract
value. Current law requires a department awarding a contract to, upon
completion of that contract, require the prime contractor that entered into a
subcontract with a DVBE to certify specified information to the awarding
department, including, among other things, the amount each DVBE received from
the prime contractor. This bill would require that information to include proof
of payment for work done by the DVBE and the amount and percentage of work the
prime contractor committed to provide to one or more DVBEs under the contract.
AB 931 (Boerner Horvath D)
Local boards and commissions: representation: appointments.
Current Text: Amended: 6/24/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 6/24/2019)
Introduced: 2/20/2019
Last Amended: 6/24/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-VOTE: Do pass as amended,
but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS)
Location: 7/9/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: Would,
on and after January 1, 2030, require, in a city with a population of 50,000 or
more, a board or commission with a certain number of nonelected and nonsalaried
members to have a specified minimum number of members meet the definition of a
woman, and would require no less than 50 percent of all members of the boards
and commissions of the city to meet the definition of a woman, thereby imposing
a state-mandated local program.
AB 1296 (Gonzalez D) Tax
Recovery in the Underground Economy Criminal Enforcement Program.
Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Governance And Finance (text 6/21/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 6/21/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-VOTE: Do pass as
amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
(PASS)
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: Would
establish the Tax Recovery in the Underground Economy Criminal Enforcement
Program in the Department of Justice to combat underground economic activities
through a multiagency collaboration to, among other things, pool resources,
collaborate and share data, prosecute violations, and recover state revenue
lost to the underground economy, as specified. The bill would require Tax
Recovery in the Underground Economy Criminal Enforcement Program investigative
teams to be located in Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, the San Francisco
Bay area, and Fresno.
AB 1696 (Chau D) The
California International Trade and Investment Office Act of 2019.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/07/2019 Senate
Business, Professions And Economic Development (text 2/22/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Status: 7/8/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/8/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
require the Director of GO-Biz to establish a process for specified public and
nonprofit organizations to submit proposals on the establishment or operation
of an international trade and investment office in a foreign country. The bill
would require the director to accept a letter of interest that includes
specified information. The bill would require the office to review a letter of
interest and determine whether it is complete within 30 days of submittal.
AB 1699 (Levine D)
Telecommunications: mobile internet service providers: first response agencies:
emergencies.
Current Text: Amended: 6/24/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/09/2019 Senate
Energy, Utilities And Communications (text 6/24/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 6/24/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-VOTE: Do pass as amended
(PASS)
Location: 5/22/2019-S. E. U., & C.
Summary: Would
prohibit a mobile internet service provider from impairing or degrading, for at
least 48 hours, the lawful internet traffic of first response agencies that the
Director of Emergency Services, or the director’s designee, identifies as those
agencies which would respond to a situation that is likely to lead to an emergency,
as specified. The bill would prohibit a mobile internet service provider from
impairing or degrading that traffic for those agencies during an emergency
until the emergency is terminated, as specified.
AB 1701 (Cervantes D)
California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank: economic development
facilities: redevelopment agencies.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2019
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Introduced: 2/22/2019
Status: 3/18/2019-Referred to Coms. on J.,
E.D., & E. and L. GOV.
Location: 3/18/2019-A. J., E.D. &
E.
Summary: Would
require the I-Bank to establish criteria, priorities, and guidelines for
receiving and reviewing applications to enter into a development agreement with
a redevelopment agency in which the redevelopment agency would agree to commit
a portion of property tax increment to finance a project for economic
development facilities in a low-income census tract, including an Opportunity
Zone designated by the United States Treasury.
AB 1768 (Carrillo D)
Prevailing wage: public works.
Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/03/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 3/21/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 3/21/2019
Status: 7/2/2019-Read second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Location: 7/2/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Would
expand the definition of public works to include work conducted during site
assessment or feasibility studies. This bill would also specify that
preconstruction work, including design, site assessment, feasibility studies,
and land surveying, is deemed to be part of a public work, regardless of
whether any further construction work is conducted.
AB 1809 (Cervantes D)
Disabled veteran business enterprises.
Current Text: Amended: 6/13/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Veterans Affairs (text 6/13/2019)
Introduced: 2/28/2019
Last Amended: 6/13/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would,
commencing March 1, 2020, authorize a state agency to award a contract for
services or information technology that has an estimated value of between
$5,000 and $500,000 to a certified small business, including a microbusiness,
or to a DVBE, as long as the agency obtains price quotations from 2 or more
certified small businesses or 2 or more DVBEs. The bill would specify that a
certified small business or DVBE that utilizes this process as an alternative
to the competitive bidding requirements may not also receive the small business
preference or the DVBE participation incentive, as specified.
SB 21 (Dodd D)
Alcoholic beverages: brewpub-restaurant licenses.
Current Text: Amended: 3/14/2019
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Current Analysis: 06/25/2019 Assembly
Governmental Organization (text 3/14/2019)
Introduced: 12/3/2018
Last Amended: 3/14/2019
Status: 6/27/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 6/26/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: The
Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of
Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension
of alcoholic beverage licenses. Current law establishes specified types of
alcoholic beverage licenses and prescribes the rights and duties of the
respective licensees. Current law authorizes the issuance of a
brewpub-restaurant license to a person that manufactures not less than 200
barrels and not more than 5,000 barrels of beer annually on the licensed
premises, subject to specified conditions. This bill would lower the required
minimum brewing production of a brewpub-restaurant licensee to not less than
100 barrels of beer annually on the premises.
SB 58 (Wiener D)
Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale.
Current Text: Amended: 3/25/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/09/2019 Assembly
Governmental Organization (text 3/25/2019)
Introduced: 12/17/2018
Last Amended: 3/25/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR. (Received at desk July 10 pursuant to JR 61(a)(10)).
Location: 7/10/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: This
bill, beginning January 1, 2022, and before January 2, 2027, would require the
Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to conduct a pilot program that would
authorize the department to issue an additional hours license to an on-sale
licensee located in a qualified city that would authorize, with or without
conditions, the selling, giving, or purchasing of alcoholic beverages at the
licensed premises between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., upon completion of
specified requirements by the qualified city in which the licensee is located.
SB 250 (Nielsen R)
Department of Business Oversight.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/11/2019
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Introduced: 2/11/2019
Status: 2/21/2019-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/11/2019-S. RLS.
Summary: Current
law, the Financial Institutions Law, regulates the activities of various
financial entities, including commercial banks, industrial banks, trust
companies, credit unions, and savings associations. Current law establishes the
Department of Business Oversight, which is under the direction of the
Commissioner of Business Oversight, and is responsible for the administration
and enforcement of the Financial Institutions Law. This bill would make
nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
SB 531 (Glazer D)
Local agencies: retailers.
Current Text: Amended: 4/29/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/10/2019 Assembly
Floor Analysis (text 4/29/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 4/29/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-Read second time.
Ordered to third reading.
Location: 7/10/2019-A. THIRD READING
Summary: Would
prohibit, on or after January 1, 2020, a local agency from entering into any
form of agreement that would result, directly or indirectly, in the payment,
transfer, diversion, or rebate of Bradley-Burns local tax revenues to any
retailer, as defined, in exchange for the retailer locating or continuing to
maintain a place of business that serves as the place of sale, as defined,
within the territorial jurisdiction of the local agency if that place of
business would generate revenue, from the sale of tangible property delivered
to and received by the purchaser in the territorial jurisdiction of another
local agency, for the local agency under the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales
and Use Tax Law.
SB 534 (Bradford D)
Insurers: minority, women, LGBT, veteran, and disabled veteran business
enterprises.
Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Assembly
Insurance (text 7/3/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 7/3/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Current
law requires each admitted insurer with premiums written equal to or in excess
of $100,000,000 to provide information to the Insurance Commissioner on all of
its community development investments and community development infrastructure
investments in California.This bill would require those insurers to also report
to the commissioner on their minority, women, LGBT, veteran, and disabled
veteran-owned business procurement efforts, as specified. Under the bill, a
failure to report the information by the reporting deadline would subject the
admitted insurer to civil penalties to be fixed and enforced by the
commissioner, as provided.
SB 540 (Jones R)
Nonprofit public benefit corporations.
Current Text: Amended: 4/30/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Assembly
Insurance (text 4/30/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 4/30/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read second time.
Ordered to consent calendar.
Location: 7/11/2019-A. CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: Current
law prohibits a nonprofit public benefit corporation from lending money or
property to a director or officer, or guaranteeing the obligation of a director
or officer, without the approval of the Attorney General. However, a nonprofit
public benefit corporation is authorized to pay life insurance premiums for
insurance on the life of a director or officer if repayment is secured by the
proceeds of the policy and its cash surrender value. This bill would revise the
above-described exception to allow the nonprofit public benefit corporation to
pay life insurance premiums if repayment is secured by either the policy’s
death benefit proceeds or its cash surrender value, or both.
AB 25 (Chau D)
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 6/28/2019)
Introduced: 12/3/2018
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/11/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: The
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, beginning January 1, 2020, grants
consumers various rights with regard to their personal information held by
businesses, including the right to request a business to disclose specific
pieces of personal information it has collected and to have information held by
that business deleted, as specified. The act requires a business to disclose
and deliver the required information to a consumer free of charge within 45
days of receiving a verifiable consumer request from the consumer. The act
prohibits a business from requiring a consumer to create an account with the
business in order to make a verifiable consumer request. This bill would
provide an exception to that prohibition by authorizing a business to require
authentication of the consumer that is reasonable in light of the nature of the
personal information requested in order to make a verifiable consumer request.
AB 384 (Chau D)
Information privacy: digital health feedback systems.
Current Text: Amended: 6/25/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 6/25/2019)
Introduced: 2/5/2019
Last Amended: 6/25/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
define “personal health record information” for purposes of the Confidentiality
of Medical Information Act to mean individually identifiable information, in
electronic or physical form, about an individual’s mental or physical condition
that is collected by an FDA-approved commercial internet website, online
service, or product that is used by an individual at the direction of a
provider of health care with the primary purpose of collecting the individual’s
individually identifiable personal health record information through a direct
measurement of an individual’s mental or physical condition or through user
input regarding an individual’s mental or physical condition.
AB 523 (Irwin D)
Telecommunications: customer right of privacy.
Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 7/5/2019)
Introduced: 2/13/2019
Last Amended: 7/5/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: The
Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities
including telephone corporations. Current law prohibits a provider of mobile
telephony services, or any direct or indirect affiliate or agent of a provider,
from including the dialing number or a subscriber in a directory or selling the
contents of a directory database without first obtaining the express content of
the subscriber. This bill would prohibit a provider of mobile telephony
services, or any direct or indirect affiliate or agent of the provider, except
as provided, from disclosing a subscriber's historical, current, or prospective
cell site location without first obtaining the express consent of the
subscriber.
AB 846 (Burke D) Customer
loyalty programs.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 5/20/2019)
Introduced: 2/20/2019
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-From committee: Amend,
and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July
9). Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: Would
prohibit the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 from being construed to
prohibit a business from offering a different price, rate, level, or quality of
goods or services to a consumer if the offering is in connection with a
consumer’s voluntary participation in a loyalty, rewards, premium features,
discount, or club card program, as defined. The bill would prohibit a business
from offering loyalty, rewards, premium features, discounts, or club card
programs that are unjust, unreasonable, coercive, or usurious in nature. The
bill would prohibit a business from selling the personal information of
consumers collected as part of a loyalty, rewards, premium features, discounts,
or club card program.
AB 874 (Irwin D)
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.
Current Text: Amended: 3/25/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 3/25/2019)
Introduced: 2/20/2019
Last Amended: 3/25/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes
8. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO,
Chair
Summary: The
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 excludes “publicly available
information” from the definition of “personal information,” and defines the
term “publicly available” to mean information that is lawfully made available
from federal, state, or local government records, if any conditions associated
with that information. Current law further specifies that information is not
“publicly available” if that data is used for a purpose that is not compatible
with the purpose for which the data is maintained and made available in the
government records or for which it is publicly maintained and specifies that
“publicly available” does not include consumer information that is deidentified
or aggregate consumer information. This bill would redefine “publicly
available” to mean information that is lawfully made available from federal,
state, or local records.
AB 1079 (Santiago D)
Telecommunications: privacy protections.
Current Text: Enrolled: 7/9/2019
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Current Analysis: 06/28/2019 Assembly
Floor Analysis (text 6/11/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 6/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Action rescinded whereby
the Assembly concurred in Senate amendments. Ordered to the Senate. In Senate.
Held at Desk.
Location: 7/11/2019-S. DESK
Summary: Current
law prohibits a provider of mobile telephony services, as defined, or any
affiliate or agent of the provider, when providing the name and dialing number
of a subscriber for inclusion in a directory or directory database, from
including the dialing number of any subscriber without first obtaining the
express consent of that subscriber. However, current law authorizes providing
those telephone numbers without regard to consent to a law enforcement agency,
fire protection agency, public health agency, public environmental health
agency, city or county emergency services planning agency, or private
for-profit agency operating under contract with, and at the direction of, one
or more of these agencies, for the sole purpose of responding to a 911 call or
communicating an imminent threat to life or property. This bill would
additionally authorize providing those telephone numbers to those parties
without consent for the purpose of testing systems that respond to 911 calls or
that communicate threats to life or property.
AB 1130 (Levine D)
Personal information: data breaches.
Current Text: Amended: 5/16/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/02/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 5/16/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 5/16/2019
Status: 7/3/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/3/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Current
law imposes the same duty on a person or business in California that owns or
licenses computerized data that includes personal information and generally
requires that such a business implement and maintain reasonable security
procedures and practices. Current law authorizes a person or business that is
required to issue a security breach notification to include in that
notification specified information. This bill would revise the definition of
personal information for purposes of the provisions described above to add
specified unique biometric data and tax identification numbers, passport
numbers, military identification numbers, and unique identification numbers
issued on a government document in addition to those for driver’s licenses and
California identification cards to these provisions.
AB 1146 (Berman D)
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: exemptions: vehicle information.
Current Text: Amended: 6/28/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 6/28/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 6/28/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: The
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, beginning on January 1, 2020, grants a
consumer various rights with regard to personal information relating to that
consumer that is held by a business, including the right to direct a business
not to sell, as defined, personal information about the consumer to third
parties, as defined. This right is known as the right to opt out. Current law
excepts from the act certain categories of personal information from its
provisions. This bill would except from the right to opt out vehicle
information or ownership information retained or shared between a new motor
vehicle dealer and the vehicle’s manufacturer, if the information is shared for
the purpose of effectuating or in anticipation of effectuating a vehicle repair
covered by a vehicle warranty or a recall, as specified.
AB 1202 (Chau D) Privacy:
data brokers.
Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/01/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 6/21/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 7/5/2019
Status: 7/5/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/5/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
require data brokers to register with, and provide certain information to, the
Attorney General. The bill would define a data broker as a business that
knowingly collects and sells to 3rd parties the personal information of a
consumer with whom the business does not have a direct relationship, subject to
specified exceptions. The bill would require the Attorney General to make the
information provided by data brokers accessible on its internet website. The
bill would make data brokers that fail to register subject to injunction and
liability for civil penalties, fees, and costs in an action brought by the
Attorney General, with any recovery to be deposited in the Consumer Privacy
Fund, as specified.
AB 1355 (Chau D) Personal
information.
Current Text: Amended: 4/12/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 4/12/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 4/12/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes
8. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: The
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, operative January 1, 2020 excludes
publicly available information, as defined, from the definition of personal
information and excludes both consumer information that is deidentified, as
defined, and aggregate consumer information, as defined, from the definition of
publicly available. Thus, the act does not exclude, as publicly available
information, any either consumer information that is either deidentified or
aggregated. This bill would, instead, exclude consumer information that is
deidentified or aggregate consumer information from the definition of personal
information.
AB 1564 (Berman D)
Consumer privacy: consumer request for disclosure methods.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 6/14/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/11/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: The
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 provides that specified businesses are
required, in a form that is reasonably accessible to consumers, to make
available to consumers 2 or more designated methods for submitting requests for
specified information required to be disclosed, including, at a minimum, a
toll-free telephone number, and, if the business maintains an internet website,
a website address. This bill would provide that a business that operates
exclusively online and has a direct relationship with a consumer from whom it
collects personal information is only required to provide an email address for
submitting requests for information required to be disclosed, as specified.
AB 1752 (Petrie-Norris D)
South Coast Water District.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Governance And Finance (text 6/18/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 6/18/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-From committee: Amend,
and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 10).
Location: 6/26/2019-S. GOV. & F.
Summary: Would
specifically authorize the South Coast Water District to contract for the
Doheny Ocean Desalination Project, and would authorize the district to use the
method described above relating to agreements with private entities for this
project. The bill would also require the district to utilize a skilled and
trained workforce in accordance with existing procedures.This bill would make
legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute
for the South Coast Water District.
SB 208 (Hueso D)
Consumer Call Protection Act of 2019.
Current Text: Amended: 7/2/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/10/2019 Assembly
Appropriations (text 7/2/2019)
Introduced: 2/4/2019
Last Amended: 7/2/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read second time.
Ordered to third reading.
Location: 7/11/2019-A. THIRD READING
Summary: Would
require a telecommunications service provider, on or before January 1, 2021, to
implement specified technological protocols or alternative technology that
provides comparable or superior capability to verify and authenticate caller
identification for calls carried over an internet protocol network. The bill
would authorize the commission and the Attorney General to bring an action pursuant
to the above-described federal law and would authorize the commission to work
with the Attorney General for the purpose of enforcing that law.
AB 1080 (Gonzalez D)
California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019 html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/01/2019 Senate
Environmental Quality (text 6/20/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-From committee chair,
with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time,
amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/5/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
enact the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act,
which would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, before
January 1, 2024, to adopt regulations that require covered entities, as
defined, to source reduce, to the maximum extent feasible, single-use packaging
and priority single-use plastic products, as defined, and to ensure that by
2030 all single-use packaging and priority single-use plastic products in the
California market are recyclable or compostable.
SB 1 (Atkins D) California Environmental, Public
Health, and Workers Defense Act of 2019.
Current Text: Amended: 7/1/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Assembly
Judiciary (text 7/1/2019)
Introduced: 12/3/2018
Last Amended: 7/1/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Current
state law regulates the discharge of air pollutants into the atmosphere. The
Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act regulates the discharge of pollutants
into the waters of the state. The California Safe Drinking Water Act
establishes standards for drinking water and regulates drinking water systems.
The California Endangered Species Act requires the Fish and Game Commission to
establish a list of endangered species and a list of threatened species, and
generally prohibits the taking of those species. This bill would require
specified agencies to take prescribed actions regarding certain federal
requirements and standards pertaining to air, water, and protected species, as
specified.
AB 539 (Limón D)
California Financing Law: consumer loans: charges.
Current Text: Amended: 7/1/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 7/1/2019)
Introduced: 2/13/2019
Last Amended: 7/1/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: The
CFL authorizes a licensee, as an alternative to the specified rate charges for consumer
loan amounts, to instead contract for and receive charges at the greater of a
rate not exceeding 1.6% per month on the unpaid principal balance or a rate not
exceeding 5 5/6 of 1% per month, plus a specified percentage per month, as
established by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, on advances to member
banks under federal law, or if there is no single determinable rate, the
closest counterpart of this rate. Under existing law, these provisions do not
apply to a loan of a bona fide principal amount of $2,500 or more, as
specified. The CFL further authorizes a licensee to contract for and receive an
administrative fee of a specified amount that varies with the bona fide
principal amount of the loan. This bill, entitled the Fair Access to Credit
Act, would authorize a finance lender, with respect to a loan of a bona fide
principal amount of $2,500 or more but less than $10,000, to contract for or
receive charges at a rate not exceeding an annual simple interest rate of 36%
plus the Federal Funds Rate.
AB 913 (Limón D)
Broker-dealers: exemptions: finders: filings.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/20/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/26/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 2/20/2019)
Introduced: 2/20/2019
Status: 6/27/2019-From Consent Calendar.
Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Bradford.
Location: 6/27/2019-S. INACTIVE FILE
Summary: Under
the Corporate Securities Law of 1968, the Commissioner of Business Oversight
regulates the activities of a broker-dealer, which is defined as, among other
things, any person engaged in the business of effecting securities transactions
in California for the account of others or his or her own account. The law
specifies persons or entities excluded from the definition. Among the excluded
persons is a finder, as defined, which is a person that meets specified
requirements including filing an initial statement of information and paying a
filing fee. The law requires a finder to annually supplement the initial
information in a renewable statement within 30 days of the anniversary of the
first statement. This bill would change the required timing of the supplemental
filing by requiring the renewal statement to be filed initially on or before
December 31 following the anniversary of the filing of the initial statement
and annually thereafter.
AB 1046 (Ting D) Air
Quality Improvement Program: Clean Vehicle Rebate Project.
Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/03/2019 Senate
Transportation (text 6/20/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 7/5/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-VOTE: Do pass as amended,
but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS)
Location: 7/9/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: Would
require the State Air Resources Board to develop a plan to provide for the
continuous funding of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, as specified. The bill
would authorize the Treasurer, upon request by the state board and following
approval from the Director of Finance, to securitize revenues for which the
state board has existing authority to establish a continuous funding source for
the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, as specified.
SB 270 (Chang R)
California Financing Law.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/13/2019
html pdf
Introduced: 2/13/2019
Status: 2/21/2019-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/13/2019-S. RLS.
Summary: Current
law, the California Financing Law (CFL), provides for the licensure and
regulation of finance lenders and brokers by the Commissioner of Business
Oversight. The CFL defines charges for its purposes to include specified types
of transactions. The CFL also specifies that charges do not include, among
other things, fees paid to a licensee for the privilege of participating in an
open-end-credit program.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that
provision specifying items that are not charges for purposes of the CFL.
SB 455 (Bradford D)
Financial Empowerment Fund: unbanked and underbanked populations.
Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Assembly
Banking And Finance (text 5/17/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 5/17/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes
10. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/8/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: This
bill would, until July 1, 2024, appropriate $1,000,000 annually from specified
enforcement moneys collected by the department, and would require the
department to provide grants from those moneys to specified nonprofits for
financial education and financial empowerment programs and services to unbanked
and underbanked populations in the state. The bill would establish the
Financial Empowerment Fund in the State Treasury and would continuously
appropriate the moneys in the fund to the department for purposes of the
program.
AB 498 (Weber D) Business
licensing: fees: exemptions: veterans.
Current Text: Amended: 6/10/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/28/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 6/10/2019)
Introduced: 2/13/2019
Last Amended: 6/10/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read third time. Passed.
Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate
amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly
Rule 77.
Location: 7/11/2019-A. CONCURRENCE
Summary: Current
law provides that every person who is honorably discharged or honorably
relieved from the military, naval, or air service of the United States and is a
resident of this state is entitled to obtain a license to distribute circulars
and sell any goods, except alcohol, without payment of any business license
fees. This bill would also exempt a veteran who is honorably discharged or
honorably relieved from the Armed Forces of the United States and is a resident
of this state from paying any local business license fees for a business that
sells or provides services if the veteran is the sole proprietor of the
business.
AB 971 (Salas D) Public
contracts: information technology services: contractor evaluations.
Current Text: Amended: 7/2/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Governmental Organization (text 7/2/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 7/2/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Current
law establishes various procedures for the procurement of state goods and
services, including consulting services and personal services. Current law
requires each state agency to conduct a postevaluation, by completing a
postevaluation form, of each consulting services contract totaling $5,000 or
more that it executes. Current law requires the state agency to evaluate the
performance of the contractor in doing the work or delivering the services for
which the contract was awarded, including evaluating any cost overruns or
delayed completions. This bill would require an awarding department, as
specified, to conduct a postevaluation similar to the one described above for
each contract for the acquisition of information technology services, as
defined, totaling $5,000 or more. The bill would require a department to base a
postevaluation on objective facts and support them with program and contract
performance data.
AB 1013 (Obernolte R)
State agencies: grant applications.
Current Text: Amended: 6/12/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/12/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 6/12/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 6/12/2019
Status: 6/12/2019-Read second time and
amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 6/12/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Current
law authorizes various state agencies to award grant money for various
purposes.This bill would prohibit a state agency from selecting as an evaluator
of a grant application a person who, within the five-year period preceding
receipt of that application, was a representative, member, or staff member of
an organization or person, as those terms are defined, that is applying to
receive grant funding from that state agency.
AB 1365 (Committee
on Veterans Affairs) Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program.
Current Text: Amended: 3/19/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Veterans Affairs (text 3/19/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 3/19/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes
6. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Current
law requires an awarding department, upon completion of an awarded contract for
which a commitment to achieve a DVBE goal was made, to require the prime
contractor that entered into a subcontract with a DVBE to certify to the
awarding department specified information relating to amounts paid under the
contract. This bill would require an awarding department to directly inform a
DVBE of its inclusion in an awarded contract when the DVBE has been identified
as a subcontractor within the awarded contract. The bill would require an
awarding department to maintain all records of the information provided by the
prime contractor pursuant to these provisions and to retain the records for a
minimum of 6 years after collection.
AB 1533 (Eggman D) Public
contracts: local agencies: preferences.
Current Text: Chaptered: 7/1/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/07/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 2/22/2019)
Chapter No.: 49
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Status: 7/1/2019-Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 49, Statutes of 2019.
Location: 7/1/2019-A. CHAPTERED
Summary: Current
law authorizes local agencies, in facilitating contract awards, to establish
preferences, in specified counties, for small businesses, disabled veteran
businesses, and social enterprises, as defined. This bill would extend that
authorization to the County of San Joaquin.
AB 1577 (Burke D)
Microenterprise development: local partnerships.
Current Text: Amended: 4/29/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/06/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 4/29/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 4/29/2019
Status: 6/6/2019-From Consent Calendar.
Ordered to third reading.
Location: 6/6/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Current
aw encourages every city, county, and city and county to access microenterprise
development in order to create new jobs and income opportunities for
individuals of low and moderate income and to include microenterprise
development as a part of their development strategy. Current aw encourages
California communities and the public agencies that serve them to promote local
partnerships that invest in microenterprise development. Current law defines
the term “microenterprise” for these purposes to mean a sole proprietorship,
partnership, limited liability company, or corporation that meets specified
requirements, including a requirement that the entity generally lacks
sufficient access to loans, equity, or other financial capital .This bill would
move the provisions described above from the Business and Professions Code to
the Government Code and would modify the definition of microenterprise by
removing the requirement that the entity generally lacks sufficient access to
loans, equity, or other financial capital.
AB 1613 (O'Donnell D)
Public works: prevailing wages.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/17/2019 Senate
Committee On Labor, Public Employment And Retirement (text 2/22/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Status: 6/19/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 6/19/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
expand the definition of “public works,” for the purposes of provisions
relating to the prevailing rate of per diem wages, to also include any
construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under
private contract on a project for a charter school, as defined, when the
project is paid for, in whole or in part, with the proceeds of conduit revenue
bonds, as defined, that were issued on or after January 1, 2020.
SB 255 (Bradford D)
Women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise
procurement: electric service providers: energy storage system companies:
community choice aggregators.
Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/24/2019 Assembly
Utilities And Energy (text 5/17/2019)
Introduced: 2/12/2019
Last Amended: 7/5/2019
Status: 7/5/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/5/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Current
law directs the Public Utilities Commission to require every electrical
corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications
service provider, and telephone corporation with annual gross revenues
exceeding $25,000,000, and their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to annually
submit a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women,
minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories,
including renewable energy, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid,
and rail projects. This bill would change the $25,000,000 annual gross revenue
threshold above which these requirements become applicable to $15,000,000 in
gross annual California revenues, and would extend these requirements to
electric service providers, as specified.
SB 396 (Morrell R)
Public works: prevailing wage.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/20/2019
html pdf
Introduced: 2/20/2019
Status: 2/28/2019-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/20/2019-S. RLS.
Summary: Current
law generally requires that workers employed on public works be paid not less
than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar
character in the locality in which the public work is performed, and not less
than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday and overtime
work, as prescribed. Current law requires the Director of Industrial Relations
to determine the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a
similar character in the locality in which the public work is to be performed,
and the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday and overtime
work, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to
the provisions relating to the prevailing rate of per diem wages.
AB 414 (Bonta D) Health
care coverage: minimum essential coverage.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/09/2019 Senate
Governance And Finance (text 6/26/2019)
Introduced: 2/7/2019
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/11/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: Current
state law creates the Minimum Essential Coverage Individual Mandate to ensure
an individual and the individual’s spouse and dependents maintain minimum
essential coverage, and imposes the Individual Shared Responsibility Penalty
for the failure to maintain minimum essential coverage. This bill, on or before
March 1, 2022, and annually on or before March 1 thereafter, would require the
Franchise Tax Board to report to the Legislature on specified information
regarding the Minimum Essential Coverage Individual Mandate, the Individual
Shared Responsibility Penalty, and state financial subsidies paid for health
care coverage.
AB 528 (Low D) Controlled
substances: CURES database.
Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/29/2019 Senate
Business, Professions And Economic Development (text 6/19/2019)
Introduced: 2/13/2019
Last Amended: 7/3/2019
Status: 7/5/2019-Withdrawn from committee.
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/5/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
require a dispensing pharmacy, clinic, or other dispenser to report the
information required by the CURES database no more than one working day after a
controlled substance is dispensed. The bill would similarly require the
dispensing of a controlled substance included on Schedule V to be reported to
the Department of Justice using the CURES database.
AB 651 (Grayson D) Air
ambulance services.
Current Text: Amended: 7/1/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Health (text 7/1/2019)
Introduced: 2/15/2019
Last Amended: 7/1/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
require a health care service plan contract or a health insurance policy
issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2020, to provide that if an
enrollee, insured, or subscriber (individual) receives covered services from a
noncontracting air ambulance provider, the individual shall pay no more than
the same cost sharing that the individual would pay for the same covered
services received from a contracting air ambulance provider, referred to as the
in-network cost-sharing amount. The bill would provide that an individual would
not owe the noncontracting provider more than the in-network cost-sharing
amount for services.
AB 744 (Aguiar-Curry D)
Health care coverage: telehealth.
Current Text: Amended: 7/9/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/01/2019 Senate
Health (text 6/25/2019)
Introduced: 2/19/2019
Last Amended: 7/9/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Under
current law, face-to-face contact between a health care provider and a patient
is not required under the Medi-Cal program for teleophthalmology,
teledermatology, and teledentistry by store and forward. Current law requires a
Medi-Cal patient receiving teleophthalmology, teledermatology, or teledentistry
by store and forward to be notified of the right to receive interactive
communication with a distant specialist physician, optometrist, or dentist, and
authorizes a patient to request that interactive communication. This bill would
delete those interactive communication provisions, and would instead specify
that face-to-face contact between a health care provider and a patient is not
required under the Medi-Cal program for any health care services provided by
store and forward.
AB 993 (Nazarian D)
Health care coverage: HIV specialists.
Current Text: Amended: 4/11/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/26/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 4/11/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 4/11/2019
Status: 6/25/2019-Read second time.
Ordered to third reading.
Location: 6/25/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Would
require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy that is
issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2020, to permit an HIV
specialist, as defined, to be an eligible primary care provider, as defined, if
the provider requests primary care provider status and meets the plan’s or the
health insurer’s eligibility criteria for all specialists seeking primary care
provider status. The bill would provide that these provisions do not apply to a
health insurance policy that does not require an insured to obtain a referral
from the primary care physician prior to seeking covered health care services
from a specialist.
AB 1063 (Petrie-Norris D)
Healthcare coverage: waivers.
Current Text: Amended: 6/10/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/12/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 6/10/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 6/10/2019
Status: 6/10/2019-Read second time and
amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 6/10/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) authorizes a state to apply
to the United States Department of Health and Human Services for a state
innovation waiver of any or all PPACA requirements, if certain criteria are
met, including that the state has enacted a law that provides for state actions
under a waiver. Current state law creates the California Health Benefit Exchange,
also known as Covered California, to facilitate the enrollment of qualified
individuals and qualified small employers in qualified health plans as required
under PPACA.This bill would require express statutory authority to request a
state innovation waiver from the United States Department of Health and Human
Services.
AB 1088 (Wood D) Medi-Cal:
eligibility.
Current Text: Amended: 4/9/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Health (text 4/9/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 4/9/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes
8. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
provide that an individual who would otherwise be eligible for Medi-Cal
benefits, but for the state’s contribution to their Medicare premium, would be
eligible for Medi-Cal without a share of cost if they otherwise meet
eligibility requirements. The bill would authorize the State Department of
Health Care Services to implement this provision by provider bulletins or
similar instructions until regulations are adopted. The bill would require the
department to adopt regulations by July 1, 2021, and to provide a status report
to the Legislature on a semiannual basis until regulations have been adopted.
AB 1246 (Limón D) Health
care coverage: basic health care services.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Health (text 5/16/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read second time and
amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 7/11/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Would
require large group health insurance policies, except certain specialized
health insurance policies, issued, amended, or renewed on or after July 1,
2020, to include coverage for medically necessary basic health care services,
as defined, and would prohibit those large group health insurance policies from
imposing annual or lifetime dollar limits on basic health care services or
medically necessary prescription drugs.
AB 1309 (Bauer-Kahan D)
Health care coverage: enrollment periods.
Current Text: Amended: 7/9/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/01/2019 Senate
Health (text 5/20/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 7/9/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO,
Chair
Summary: Would
require a health care service plan and a health insurer, for policy years
beginning on or after January 1, 2020, to provide a special enrollment period
to allow individuals to enroll in individual health benefit plans through the
Exchange from December 16 of the preceding calendar year, to January 31 of the
benefit year, inclusive.
AB 1404 (Santiago D)
Nonprofit sponsors: reporting obligations.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 6/27/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/11/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: The
Nonprofit Corporation Law regulates the organization and operation of nonprofit
public benefit corporations, nonprofit mutual benefit corporations, and
nonprofit religious corporations, including, but not limited to, health care
service plans. That law requires a nonprofit public benefit corporation to
furnish annually to its members a report that includes the assets and
liabilities of the corporation, revenue or receipts of the corporation, and the
expenses or disbursements of the corporation. This bill would require a
nonprofit sponsor to make annual disclosures to the Secretary of State at the
conclusion of each taxable year for which the nonprofit sponsor files an
Internal Revenue Service Form 990.
AB 1494 (Aguiar-Curry D)
Medi-Cal: telehealth: state of emergency.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Health (text 6/13/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-From committee: Amend,
and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July
10). Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: Would
provide, only to the extent that federal financial participation is available
and federal approval is obtained, that neither face-to-face contact nor a
patient’s physical presence on the premises of an enrolled community clinic is
required for services provided by the clinic to a Medi-Cal beneficiary during
or immediately following a proclamation declaring a state of emergency.
AB 1642 (Wood D) Medi-Cal:
managed care plans.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Health (text 7/1/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-From committee: Amend,
and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July
10). Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: Would
require a Medi-Cal managed care plan to provide to the State Department of
Health Care Services additional information in its request for the alternative
access standards, including a description of the reasons justifying the
alternative access standards, and to report to the department on how the Medi-Cal
managed care plan arranged for the delivery of Medi-Cal covered services to
Medi-Cal enrollees, such as through the use of Medi-Cal covered transportation.
AB 1803 (Committee
on Health) Pharmacy: health care coverage: claims for prescription drugs
sold for retail price.
Current Text: Chaptered: 7/12/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/26/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 2/28/2019)
Introduced: 2/28/2019
Status: 7/12/2019-Signed by the Governor
Location: 7/12/2019-A. CHAPTERED
Summary: The
Pharmacy Law requires a pharmacy to inform a customer at the point of sale for
a covered prescription drug whether the retail price is lower than the
applicable cost-sharing amount for the prescription drug, except as specified,
and, if the customer pays the retail price, requires the pharmacy to submit the
claim to the customer’s health care service plan or health insurer. This bill
would instead make the provision requiring the pharmacy to submit the claim to
the health care service plan or health insurer operative on January 1, 2020.
The bill would also repeal a provision that is similar to the provision being
amended by the bill.
SB 29 (Durazo D)
Medi-Cal: eligibility.
Current Text: Amended: 7/2/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Assembly
Health (text 7/2/2019)
Introduced: 12/3/2018
Last Amended: 7/2/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would,
subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, extend eligibility for
full-scope Medi-Cal benefits to individuals who are 65 years of age or older,
and who are otherwise eligible for those benefits but for their immigration
status. The bill would delete provisions delaying implementation until the
director makes the determination described above. The bill would expand the
requirements of the eligibility and enrollment plan, such as ensuring that an
individual maintains their primary care provider without disruption, would
require the department to collaborate with the counties and designated public
hospitals to maximize federal financial participation, and would require the
department to work with designated public hospitals to mitigate any financial
losses related to the implementation of these requirements.
SB 165 (Atkins D)
Medical interpretation services.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/28/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/28/2019 Assembly
Health (text 1/28/2019)
Introduced: 1/28/2019
Status: 7/3/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes
15. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/3/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Current
law, until July 1, 2020, requires the State Department of Health Care Services
to work with stakeholders to conduct a study to identify current requirements
for medical interpretation services and make recommendations on strategies that
may be employed regarding the provision of medical interpretation services for
Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are limited English proficient. Existing law
requires that the department work with stakeholders to establish a pilot
project based on the recommendations of the study, as specified. This bill
would instead require the department to establish a pilot project concurrent
with the study, as specified. The bill would extend the operation of these
provisions to July 1, 2022
SB 260 (Hurtado D)
Automatic health care coverage enrollment.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/21/2019 Assembly
Health (text 6/18/2019)
Introduced: 2/12/2019
Last Amended: 6/18/2019
Status: 6/26/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 6/25/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
require the Exchange, beginning no later than July 1, 2021, to enroll an
individual in the lowest cost silver plan or another plan, as specified, upon
receiving the individual’s electronic account from another insurance
affordability program. The bill would require enrollment to occur before
coverage through the insurance affordability program is terminated, and would
prohibit the premium due date from being sooner than the last day of the first
month of enrollment. The bill would require the Exchange to provide an
individual who is automatically enrolled in the lowest cost silver plan with a
notice that includes specified information, including the individual’s right to
select another available plan or to not enroll in the plan.
SB 343 (Pan D) Health
care data disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Assembly
Appropriations (text 6/18/2019)
Introduced: 2/19/2019
Last Amended: 6/18/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-July 10 set for first
hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 6/25/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
eliminate alternative reporting requirements for a plan or insurer that
exclusively contracts with no more than 2 medical groups or a health facility
that receives a preponderance of its revenue from associated comprehensive
group practice prepayment health care service plans and would instead require
those entities to report information consistent with any other health care service
plan, health insurer, or health facility, as appropriate. The bill would also
eliminate the authorization for hospitals to report specified financial and
utilization data to OSHPD, and file cost data reports with OSHPD, on a group
basis, but would authorize a health facility that receives a preponderance of
its revenue from associated comprehensive group practice prepayment health care
service plans and that is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health
facilities under common management to report specified information for the
group and not for each separately licensed health facility.
SB 382 (Nielsen R)
Medi-Cal: managed care health plan.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Assembly
Health (text 6/27/2019)
Introduced: 2/20/2019
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/11/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
require a Medi-Cal managed care health plan to ensure that an enrollee who
remains in a general acute care hospital continues to receive medically
necessary postacute care services at the general acute care hospital if
specified requirements are met, including that the Medi-Cal managed care health
plan is unable to locate a postacute care facility within the plan’s network,
as a result of a state of emergency, for purposes of transferring the enrollee
to the postacute care facility.
SB 407 (Monning D)
Medicare supplement benefit coverage.
Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Assembly
Health (text 7/5/2019)
Introduced: 2/20/2019
Last Amended: 7/5/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-From committee: Do pass
as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 9).
Location: 7/9/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Current
law provides for an annual open enrollment period of a minimum of 30 days to
purchase a Medicare supplement contract or policy, and requires a health plan
or health insurer to notify an enrollee or policyholder of specified rights
prior to the open enrollment period. This bill would exclude outpatient
prescription drugs as a new or innovative benefit. The bill would require the
Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance to
collaborate with specified individuals and entities, including consumer group
representatives, to develop and implement various policies and procedures
related to the new requirements, such as standardizing the new or innovative
benefits approved for sale
SB 425 (Hill D)
Health care practitioners: licensee’s file: probationary physician’s and
surgeon’s certificate: unprofessional conduct.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/07/2019 Assembly
Judiciary (text 6/27/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 6/27/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Current
law requires the Medical Board of California and specified other boards
responsible for the licensure, regulation, and discipline of health care
practitioners to separately create and maintain a central file of the names of
all persons who hold a license, certificate, or similar authority from that
board, including prescribed historical information for each licensee. Current
law makes the contents of any central file that are not public records
confidential, except that the licensee or their counsel or a representative are
authorized to inspect and have copies made of the licensee’s complete file
other than the disclosure of the identity of an information source. Current law
authorizes a board to protect an information source by providing a copy of the
material with only those deletions necessary to protect the identity of the
source or by providing a comprehensive summary of the substance of the material.
This bill would delete the specification that the summary be comprehensive.
SB 503 (Pan D)
Medi-Cal: managed care plan: subcontracts.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/21/2019 Assembly
Health (text 6/18/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 6/18/2019
Status: 6/26/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 6/25/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Current
law authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to enter into
various types of contracts for the provision of services to beneficiaries,
including contracts with prepaid health plans. Current law requires the
Director of Health Care Services, in accordance with specified procedures, to
either terminate a contract with or impose one or more specified sanctions,
including civil penalties pursuant to federal law, on a prepaid health plan or
Medi-Cal managed care plan if the department makes a finding of noncompliance
or for other good cause. Current law defines “good cause” to include 3 repeated
and uncorrected findings of serious deficiencies, which potentially endanger
patient care and are identified in medical audits conducted by the department.
This bill would instead authorize “good cause” to be based on findings of
serious deficiencies that have the potential to endanger patient care and are
identified in the specified medical audits, and would conform the civil
penalties to federal law.
SB 600 (Portantino D)
Health care coverage: fertility preservation.
Current Text: Amended: 4/30/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Assembly
Health (text 4/30/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 4/30/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
clarify that an individual or group health care service plan contract or health
insurance policy that covers hospital, medical, or surgical expenses includes
coverage for standard fertility preservation services when a medically
necessary treatment may cause iatrogenic infertility to an enrollee or insured.
The bill would state that these provisions are declaratory of existing law.
SB 740 (Mitchell D)
Insurance: unclaimed life insurance.
Current Text: Amended: 7/2/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Assembly
Insurance (text 7/2/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 7/2/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes
14. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Current
law provides for the escheat to the state of unclaimed personal property,
including funds owed under a life insurance policy or annuity contract if the
funds are unclaimed and unpaid for more than 3 years after the funds became
payable. This bill, the Unclaimed Life Insurance and Annuities Act, would
provide standards for identifying a deceased individual whose death may require
an insurer to pay benefits or proceeds to beneficiaries in accordance with the
terms of a life insurance policy, annuity contract, or retained asset account,
for locating those beneficiaries, and for providing those beneficiaries with
appropriate claims forms or instructions to make a claim. The bill would
require an insurer to match its insureds with deceased individuals in the
United States Social Security Administration’s Death Master File by complying
with specified requirements.
AB 1249 (Maienschein D)
Health care service plans: regulations: exemptions.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Health (text 6/28/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-From committee: Amend,
and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July
10). Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: Would
authorize the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care,, no later than
May 1, 2020, to authorize 2 pilot programs, one in northern California and one
in southern California, under which providers approved by the department may
undertake risk-bearing arrangements with a voluntary employees’ beneficiary
association with enrollment of more than 100,000 lives, notwithstanding the
fee-for-service requirement as specified, or a trust fund that is a welfare
plan and a multiemployer plan with enrollment of more than 25,000 lives, if
certain criteria are met, including that each risk-bearing provider is
registered with the department as a risk-based organization and holds or will
obtain a limited or restricted license, as applicable.
AB 1802 (Committee
on Health) Health care service plans.
Current Text: Chaptered: 7/12/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/26/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 4/11/2019)
Introduced: 2/28/2019
Last Amended: 4/11/2019
Status: 7/12/2019-Signed by the Governor
Location: 7/12/2019-A. CHAPTERED
Summary: urrent
law requires a health care service plan, including a specialized health care
service plan, to reimburse a claim or portion of a claim no later than 30 working
days after receipt of the claim, unless the plan contests or denies the claim,
in which case the plan is required to notify the claimant within 30 working
days that the claim is contested or denied. Current law extends these timelines
to 45 working days for a health maintenance organization. Current law specifies
that the obligation of a specialized health care service plan to comply with
these provisions is not waived if the plan requires its medical groups,
independent practice associations, or other contracting entities to pay claims
for covered services. This bill would instead provide that the obligation of a
plan to comply with those provisions is not deemed to be waived if the plan
requires its medical groups, independent practice associations, or other
contracting entities to pay claims for covered services.
AB 5 (Gonzalez D) Worker status: employees and
independent contractors.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Committee On Labor, Public Employment And Retirement (text 5/24/2019)
Introduced: 12/3/2018
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: Would
state the intent of the Legislature to codify the decision in the Dynamex case
and clarify its application. The bill would provide that the factors of the
“ABC” test be applied in order to determine the status of a worker as an
employee or independent contractor for all provisions of the Labor Code and the
Unemployment Insurance Code, except if a statutory exemption from employment
status or from a particular obligation related to employment or where a
statutory grant of employment status or a particular right related to
employment applies. The bill would exempt specified professions from these
provisions and instead provide that the employment relationship test for those
professions shall be governed by the test adopted in S. G. Borello & Sons,
Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations (1989) 48 Cal.3d 341 if certain
requirements are met.
AB 9 (Reyes D) Employment discrimination: limitation
of actions.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 3/21/2019)
Introduced: 12/3/2018
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: The
California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes specified employment and
housing practices unlawful, including discrimination against or harassment of
employees and tenants, among others. Existing law authorizes a person claiming
to be aggrieved by an alleged unlawful practice to file a verified complaint
with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing within one year from the
date upon which the unlawful practice occurred, unless otherwise specified.
This bill would extend the above-described period to 3 years for complaints
alleging employment discrimination, as specified. The bill would specify that
the operative date of the verified complaint is the date that the intake form
was filed with the Labor Commissioner.
AB 35 (Kalra D) Worker
safety: blood lead levels: reporting.
Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Committee On Labor, Public Employment And Retirement (text 3/21/2019)
Introduced: 12/3/2018
Last Amended: 3/21/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
require the State Department of Public Health to consider a report from a
laboratory of an employee’s blood lead level at or above 20 micrograms per
deciliter to be injurious to the health of the employee and to report that case
within 5 business days of receiving the report to the Division of Occupational
Safety and Health. The bill would further provide that the above-described
report would constitute a serious violation and subject the employer or place
of employment to an investigation, as provided, by the division, and would
require the division to make any citations or fines imposed as a result of the
investigation publicly available on an annual basis.
AB 51 (Gonzalez D)
Employment discrimination: enforcement.
Current Text: Amended: 3/26/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 3/26/2019)
Introduced: 12/3/2018
Last Amended: 3/26/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
prohibit a person from requiring any applicant for employment or any employee
to waive any right, forum, or procedure for a violation of any provision of the
California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) or other specific statutes
governing employment as a condition of employment, continued employment, or the
receipt of any employment-related benefit. The bill would also prohibit an
employer from threatening, retaliating or discriminating against, or
terminating any applicant for employment or any employee because of the refusal
to consent to the waiver of any right, forum, or procedure for a violation of
specific statutes governing employment.
AB 170 (Gonzalez D)
Employment: sexual harassment: liability.
Current Text: Amended: 6/13/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 6/13/2019)
Introduced: 1/8/2019
Last Amended: 6/13/2019
Status: 7/5/2019-Read second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Location: 7/5/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Would
require a client employer to share with a labor contractor all civil legal
responsibility and civil liability for harassment for all workers supplied by
that labor contractor. The bill would define the terms “client employer,”
“labor contractor,” “motion picture payroll services,” and “employee leasing
arrangement” for purposes of these provisions.
AB 171 (Gonzalez D)
Employment: sexual harassment.
Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Committee On Labor, Public Employment And Retirement (text 7/3/2019)
Introduced: 1/8/2019
Last Amended: 7/3/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Current
law prohibits an employer from discharging or in any manner discriminating or
retaliating against an employee who is a victim of domestic violence, sexual
assault, or stalking for taking time off work to obtain specified relief or
because of the employee’s status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual
assault, or stalking, if the victim provides notice to the employer of the
status or the employer has actual knowledge of the status. Current law
authorizes an employee to file a complaint with the Division of Labor Standards
Enforcement for a violation of these prohibitions within one year from the date
of occurrence of the violation. Current law makes it a misdemeanor for an
employer to refuse to rehire, promote, or restore an employee who has been
determined to be so eligible by a grievance procedure or legal hearing. This
bill would expand the scope of these provisions by defining “employer” for
purposes of these provisions to mean any person employing another under any
appointment or contract of hire and to include the state, political
subdivisions of the state, and municipalities.
AB 333 (Eggman D)
Whistleblower protection: county patients’ rights advocates.
Current Text: Amended: 6/26/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 6/26/2019)
Introduced: 1/31/2019
Last Amended: 6/26/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Current
law relating to whistleblower protectio prohibits an employer, as defined, or
any person acting on behalf of the employer, as defined, from, among other
things, preventing an employee from, or retaliating against an employee for,
providing information to, or testifying before, any public body conducting an
investigation, hearing, or inquiry, if the employee has reasonable cause to
believe that the information discloses a violation of a law, regardless of
whether disclosing the information is part of the employee’s job duties. A
violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would extend the
whistleblower protections afforded to employees to county patients’ rights
advocates under contract, as independent contractors or employees of a
contracted organization, to provide services relating to mental health
advocacy.
AB 403 (Kalra D) Division
of Labor Standards Enforcement: complaint.
Current Text: Amended: 5/16/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 5/16/2019)
Introduced: 2/6/2019
Last Amended: 5/16/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Current
law authorizes a person who believes they have been discharged or otherwise
discriminated against in violation of any law under the jurisdiction of the Labor
Commissioner to file a complaint with the Division of Labor Standards
Enforcement within 6 months after the occurrence of the violation.This bill
would extend the period to file a complaint to within 2 years after the
occurrence of the violation, except that violations of certain provisions may
be filed within one year. This bill contains other related provisions and other
current laws.
AB 418 (Kalra D)
Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege.
Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 6/21/2019)
Introduced: 2/7/2019
Last Amended: 6/21/2019
Status: 7/5/2019-Read second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Location: 7/5/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Would
establish a privilege between a union agent, as defined, and a represented
employee or represented former employee to refuse to disclose any confidential
communication between the employee or former employee and the union agent made
while the union agent was acting in the union agent’s representative capacity,
except as specified. The bill would permit a represented employee or
represented former employee to prevent another person from disclosing a privileged
communication, except as specified.
AB 547 (Gonzalez D)
Janitorial workers: sexual violence and harassment prevention training.
Current Text: Amended: 4/29/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/26/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 4/29/2019)
Introduced: 2/13/2019
Last Amended: 4/29/2019
Status: 6/25/2019-Read second time.
Ordered to third reading.
Location: 6/25/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Current
law requires employers of at least one employee and one or more covered
workers, as defined, who provide janitorial services, as specified, to register
with the Labor Commissioner annually and prohibits them from conducting
business without a registration. Current law requires an application for
registration to be in a form prescribed by the commissioner and subscribed and
sworn to by the employer, as specified. This bill would prohibit the division
from approving a registration, as described above, if the employer does not
include in their written application the name of any subcontractor or franchise
servicing contracts affiliated with a branch location and the number of
subcontracted or franchise covered workers servicing each of those contracts,
the total number of covered workers working out of a listed branch office, and
the address of each work location serviced by a branch office.
AB 589 (Gonzalez D)
Employment: unfair immigration-related practices.
Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/01/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 4/25/2019)
Introduced: 2/14/2019
Last Amended: 4/25/2019
Status: 7/3/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/2/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
make it unlawful for an employer to knowingly destroy, conceal, remove,
confiscate, or possess any actual or purported passport or other immigration
document, or any other actual or purported government identification document
of another person in the course of committing, or with the intent to commit,
trafficking, peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or a coercive labor
practice. The bill would impose specified civil and criminal penalties for a
violation.
AB 628 (Bonta D)
Employment: victims of sexual harassment: protections.
Current Text: Amended: 5/16/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 05/21/2019 Assembly
Floor Analysis (text 5/16/2019)
Introduced: 2/15/2019
Last Amended: 5/16/2019
Status: 5/29/2019-Read third time. Refused
passage. (Ayes 36. Noes 15. Page 2130.). Motion to reconsider made by Assembly
Member Bonta.
Location: 5/29/2019-A. THIRD READING
Summary: Current
law prohibits an employer from discharging or discriminating or retaliating
against, an employee who is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or
stalking because of the employee’s status as a victim, if the employer has
notice or knowledge of that status. Current law additionally prohibits an
employer with 25 or more employees from discharging, or discriminating or retaliating
against, an employee who is a victim, in this regard, who takes time off to
obtain specified services or counseling. This bill would extend these
employment protections to victims of sexual harassment, as defined. The bill
would also extend these employment protections to specified family members, as
defined, of the victims for taking time off from work to provide assistance to
the victims when seeking relief or obtaining those services and counseling, as
specified.
AB 673 (Carrillo D)
Failure to pay wages: penalties.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 6/20/2019)
Introduced: 2/15/2019
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/11/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: Current
law provides for a civil penalty, in addition to, and entirely independent and
apart from other penalties, on every person who fails to pay the wages of each
employee, as specified, including a provision prohibiting wage differential on
the basis of sex, as provided in specified provisions of the Labor Code. Current
law requires the Labor Commissioner to recover that penalty as part of a
hearing held to recover unpaid wages and penalties or in an independent civil
action. Current law requires that a specified percentage of the penalty
recovered under that provision be paid into a fund within the Labor and
Workforce Development Agency dedicated to educating employers about state labor
laws and that the remainder be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of
the General Fund. This bill would also authorize the affected employee to bring
an action to recover specified statutory penalties against the employer as part
of a hearing held to recover unpaid wages.
AB 749 (Stone, Mark D)
Settlement agreements: restraints in trade.
Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/28/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 6/27/2019)
Introduced: 2/19/2019
Last Amended: 6/27/2019
Status: 6/27/2019-Read second time and
amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 6/27/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Would
prohibit an agreement to settle an employment dispute from containing a
provision that prohibits, prevents, or otherwise restricts a settling party
that is an aggrieved person, as defined, from working for the employer against
which the aggrieved person has filed a claim or any parent company, subsidiary,
division, affiliate, or contractor of the employer. The bill would provide that
a provision in an agreement entered into on or after January 1, 2020, that
violates this prohibition is void as a matter of law and against public policy.
AB 1124 (Maienschein D)
Employment safety: outdoor workers: wildfire smoke.
Current Text: Amended: 7/1/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/03/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 7/1/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 7/1/2019
Status: 7/2/2019-Read second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Location: 7/2/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Would
require, by July 18, 2019, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board
to adopt emergency regulations that require employers to make respirators
available to outdoor workers on any day the outdoor worker could reasonably be
expected to be exposed to harmful levels of smoke from wildfires, or burning
structures due to a wildfire, while working. By expanding the scope of an
existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 1454 (Jones-Sawyer D)
Trauma-informed diversion programs for minors.
Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Public Safety (text 7/3/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 7/3/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
revise and recast the Youth Reinvestment Grant Program to instead require the
Board of State and Community Corrections, commencing with the 2019–20 fiscal
year and thereafter, to allocate 97% of funds for the program, upon
appropriation of funds. The awards would be made through a competitive grant
process to local governmental entity or nonprofit organization applicants to
administer the diversion programs, as specified. The bill would increase the
maximum grant award to $2,000,000 and would require an applicant to provide a
cash or in-kind match, as specified. The bill would require the board, among
other duties, to hold public informational forums in the central valley and
northern regions of the state.
AB 1478 (Carrillo D)
Employment discrimination.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 3/27/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/11/2019-S. APPR.
Summary: Current
law authorizes an aggrieved employee to file a complaint with the Division of
Labor Standards Enforcement of the Department of Industrial Relations. Current
law, the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004, authorizes an
aggrieved employee on behalf of that employee and other current or former
employees to bring a civil action to recover specified civil penalties, which
would otherwise be assessed and collected by the Labor and Workforce
Development Agency, for the violation of certain provisions affecting
employees. The act prescribes specified civil penalties for violations brought
under these provisions.This bill, as an alternative to filing a complaint with
the division, would authorize an employee aggrieved under the provisions prohibiting
specified types of discrimination described above to bring a private civil
action against the employee’s employer and would not require that employee to
pursue any other remedy prior to bringing that action.
AB 1554 (Gonzalez D)
Employers: dependent care assistance program: notice to employees.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/03/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 6/18/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 6/18/2019
Status: 7/2/2019-Read second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Location: 7/2/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Current
law relating to the obligations of an employer requires an employer to notify
employees of prescribed information relating to employment and benefits.This
bill would require an employer to notify, in a prescribed manner, an employee
who participates in a flexible spending account of any deadline to withdraw
funds before the end of the plan year.
AB 1677 (Weber D) Call
centers: protections.
Current Text: Amended: 6/19/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/01/2019 Senate
Judiciary (text 6/19/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 6/19/2019
Status: 7/3/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/3/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
establish the Protect Call Center Jobs Act of 2019 to require an employer of
customer service employees in a call center, as specified, that intends to
relocate from this state to a foreign country to notify the commissioner at
least 120 days before the relocation. The bill would require the Labor
Commissioner to impose, in the commissioner’s discretion, one of two specified
penalties, including a civil penalty of up to $10,000, upon an employer that
fails to provide this notice.
AB 1804 (Committee
on Labor and Employment) Occupational injuries and illnesses:
reporting.
Current Text: Amended: 6/13/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/03/2019 Assembly
Floor Analysis (text 6/13/2019)
Introduced: 2/28/2019
Last Amended: 6/13/2019
Status: 7/1/2019-Read third time. Passed.
Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
May be considered on or after July 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Location: 7/1/2019-A. CONCURRENCE
Summary: Current
law requires an employer to immediately report a serious occupational injury,
illness, or death to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health by telephone
or email, as specified. This bill, instead, would require the report of serious
occupational injury, illness, or death to the division to be made immediately
by telephone or through an online mechanism established by the division for
that purpose. The bill, until the division has made the online mechanism
available, would require that the employer be permitted to make the report by
telephone or email.
AB 1805 (Committee
on Labor and Employment) Occupational safety and health.
Current Text: Amended: 4/29/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Assembly
Labor And Employment (text 2/28/2019)
Introduced: 2/28/2019
Last Amended: 4/29/2019
Status: 7/2/2019-Read second time. Ordered
to third reading.
Location: 7/2/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Current
law defines “serious injury or illness” and “serious exposure” for purposes of
reporting serious occupational injury or illness to the Division of
Occupational Safety and Health and for purposes of establishing the division’s
duty to investigate employment accidents and exposures. This bill would recast
the definition of “serious injury or illness” by removing the 24-hour minimum
time requirement for qualifying hospitalizations, excluding those for medical
observation or diagnostic testing, and explicitly including the loss of an eye
as a qualifying injury. The bill would delete loss of a body member from the
definition of serious injury and would, instead, include amputation.
SB 142 (Wiener D)
Employees: lactation accommodation.
Current Text: Amended: 7/3/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/28/2019 Assembly
Business And Professions (text 6/20/2019)
Introduced: 1/18/2019
Last Amended: 7/3/2019
Status: 7/3/2019-Read second time and amended.
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/3/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
require the California Building Standards Commission to develop and propose for
adoption building standards for the installation of lactation space for
employees using the Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance adopted in the San
Francisco Police Code as the starting point and amending those standards as
necessary.
SB 171 (Jackson D)
Employers: annual report: pay data.
Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/29/2019 Assembly
Judiciary (text 4/9/2019)
Introduced: 1/28/2019
Last Amended: 7/5/2019
Status: 7/5/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/5/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
require, on or before March 31, 2021, and on or before March 31 each year
thereafter, a private employer that has 100 or more employees and who is
required to file an annual Employer Information Report under federal law, to
submit a pay data report to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing that
contains specified wage information. The bill would require the Department of Fair
Employment and Housing to make the reports available to the Division of Labor
Standards Enforcement upon request.
SB 179 (Nielsen R)
Excluded employees: arbitration.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/28/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Assembly
Judiciary (text 1/28/2019)
Introduced: 1/28/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
enact the Excluded Employee Arbitration Act to permit an employee organization
that represents an excluded employee who has filed certain grievances with the
Department of Human Resources to request arbitration of the grievance if
specified conditions are met. The bill would require the designation of a
standing panel of arbitrators and, under specified circumstances, the provision
of arbitrators from the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service
within the Public Employment Relations Board.
SB 188 (Mitchell D)
Discrimination: hairstyles.
Current Text: Chaptered: 7/3/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/21/2019 Assembly
Floor Analysis (text 4/2/2019)
Chapter No.: 58
Introduced: 1/30/2019
Last Amended: 4/2/2019
Status: 7/3/2019-Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 58, Statutes of 2019.
Location: 7/3/2019-S. CHAPTERED
Summary: The
California Fair Employment and Housing Act prohibits housing discrimination
based on specified personal characteristics, including race. The act also
prohibits discrimination because of a perception that a person has one of those
protected characteristics or is associated with a person who has, or is
perceived to have, any of those characteristics. Current law defines terms such
as race, religious beliefs, and sex, among others, for purposes of the act.
This bill would provide that the definition of race for these purposes also
include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited
to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, and would define protective
hairstyles for purposes of these provisions.
SB 218 (Bradford D)
Employment: discrimination enforcement: local government.
Current Text: Amended: 7/10/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/07/2019 Assembly
Judiciary (text 4/25/2019)
Introduced: 2/6/2019
Last Amended: 7/10/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: The
California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) prohibits discrimination in
housing and employment on specified bases and provides procedures for
enforcement by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, including
authorizing the department to accept complaints alleging violations of FEHA.
Under FEHA, it is the intention of the Legislature that FEHA occupy the field
of regulation of discrimination in employment, but that FEHA not limit or
restrict the application of the Unruh Civil Rights Act. The Unruh Civil Rights
Act generally prohibits business establishments from discriminating on
specified bases.This bill, among other things, would revise that preemption and
authorize the legislative body of a local government to enact a local
antidiscrimination ordinance relating to employment, including establishing
remedies and penalties for violations.
SB 229 (Hertzberg D)
Discrimination: complaints: administrative review.
Current Text: Amended: 3/18/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/22/2019 Assembly
Judiciary (text 3/18/2019)
Introduced: 2/7/2019
Last Amended: 3/18/2019
Status: 6/25/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 6/25/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Current
law prohibits a person from discharging or otherwise discriminating,
retaliating, or taking any adverse action against any employee or applicant for
employment because the employee or applicant engaged in specified protected
conduct. Current law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to issue citations to
persons determined to be responsible for violations. Current law requires a
petitioner seeking a writ of mandate to first post a bond equal to the total
amount of any minimum wages, liquidated damages, and overtime compensation.
Current law requires an employer who willfully refuses to comply with a final
order pursuant to these provisions to pay prescribed civil penalties directly
to the affected employee. This bill, among other things, would authorize the
commissioner to file a certified copy of a citation, or a petition for
injunctive or other monetary relief, with the superior court for judicial
enforcement in any county in which the person assessed the penalty has or had
property or a place of business, unless the person cited requests an informal
hearing to challenge the citation, as specified.
SB 363 (Pan D)
Workplace safety.
Current Text: Amended: 4/8/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Assembly
Health (text 4/8/2019)
Introduced: 2/20/2019
Last Amended: 4/8/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes
15. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
require the State Department of State Hospitals, the State Department of
Developmental Services, or the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to
report the total number of assaults against employees at each facility operated
by the respective department monthly to the bargaining unit of an employee
affected by an assault. The bill would require that each department also report
this information to the Legislature and the chairs of certain committees
annually, as specified. The bill would prescribe the information to be reported
and would require that the information protect the confidentiality of certain
parties.
SB 530 (Galgiani D)
Construction industry: discrimination and harassment prevention policy.
Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/24/2019 Assembly
Labor And Employment (text 6/18/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 6/18/2019
Status: 6/27/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 6/27/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
require the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to develop recommendations
for an industry-specific harassment and discrimination prevention policy and
training standard for use by employers in the construction industry, as
defined. The bill would require the Director of Industrial Relations to convene
an advisory committee by March 1, 2020, consisting of specified representatives
from the construction industry and state agencies to assist the Division of
Labor Standards Enforcement in developing the policy.
SB 649 (Galgiani D)
Division of Labor Standards Enforcement: employee records.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2019
html pdf
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Status: 3/14/2019-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/22/2019-S. RLS.
Summary: The
Division of Labor Standards Enforcement is a department of state government
within the Department of Industrial Relations and is responsible for
administering and enforcing the provisions of the Labor Code governing wages,
hours, and working conditions. In 1977, this division succeeded to and became
vested with all the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and
jurisdiction of the former Divisions of Labor Law Enforcement and Industrial
Welfare, which were abolished. The employees of those agencies were transferred
to the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, while the personnel records of
those employees remained in the parent Department of Industrial Relations. This
bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
SB 671 (Hertzberg D)
Employment: payment of wages: print shoot employees.
Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Assembly
Floor Analysis (text 7/5/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 7/5/2019
Status: 7/5/2019-Read third time and
amended. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 7/5/2019-A. THIRD READING
Summary: Current
law generally requires that if an employer discharges an employee, the wages
earned and unpaid at the time of discharge are due and payable immediately.
Current law establishes specific provisions that entitle an employee engaged in
the production or broadcasting of motion pictures, as defined, whose employment
terminates, to receive payment of the wages earned and unpaid at the time of the
termination by the next regular payday, as defined. Current law establishes
penalties for certain violations relating to payment in accordance with these
specific provisions. This bill would establish similar specific provisions for
a print shoot employee, as defined.
SB 672 (Hill D) Planning
and zoning: regional housing need allocation: City of Brisbane.
Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/09/2019 Assembly
Local Government (text 4/25/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 4/25/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR. (Received at desk July 10 pursuant to JR 61(a)(10)).
Location: 7/10/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would,
for the 5th and 6th cycle of the housing element planning period for the City
of Brisbane, prohibit the Association of Bay Area Governments from allocating
to the City of Brisbane a share of the regional housing need that exceeds the
share allocated to the city for the current planning period if specified
conditions apply. Among these conditions, the bill would require that the City
of Brisbane has taken action during the current planning period to zone or
rezone sites sufficient to accommodate 615% or more of its regional housing
need allocation for the current planning period.
SB 698 (Leyva D)
Employee wages: payment.
Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/24/2019 Assembly
Labor And Employment (text 5/17/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 5/17/2019
Status: 6/27/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes
7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 6/27/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
require that employees of the Regents of the University of California be paid
on a regular payday. The bill would require those university employees who are
paid on a monthly basis to be paid no later than 5 days after the close of the
monthly payroll period and would also provide that those employees who are paid
on a more frequent basis be paid in accordance with the pay policies announced
in advance by the university.
SB 707 (Wieckowski D)
Arbitration agreements: enforcement.
Current Text: Amended: 5/20/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 06/19/2019 Assembly
Floor Analysis (text 5/20/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 5/20/2019
Status: 6/19/2019-Read second time.
Ordered to third reading.
Location: 6/19/2019-A. THIRD READING
Summary: Current
law regulates arbitrations conducted pursuant to an agreement, as specified.
(1)In an employment or consumer arbitration in which the drafting party, as
defined, is required to pay certain fees and costs before the arbitration can
proceed, this bill would provide that if the fees or costs to initiate an
arbitration proceeding are not paid within 30 days after the due date, the
drafting party is in material breach of the arbitration agreement, is in default
of the arbitration, and waives its right to compel arbitration. If the drafting
party materially breaches the arbitration agreement and is in default of the
arbitration, the bill would authorize the employee or consumer to either
withdraw the claim from arbitration and proceed in a court of appropriate
jurisdiction, or to compel arbitration in which the drafting party is required
to pay reasonable attorney’s fees and costs related to the arbitration.
SB 734 (Borgeas R)
Working hours.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2019
html pdf
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Status: 3/14/2019-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/22/2019-S. RLS.
Summary: Current
law provides that 8 hours of labor is a day’s work. Current law prescribes
general rules for compensation for work in excess of 8 hours in a day or work
in excess of 40 hours in a workweek. Current law provides that these
requirements, among others, do not require an employer to combine more than one
rate of overtime compensation in order to calculate the amount to be paid to an
employee for any hour of overtime work.This bill would make nonsubstantive
changes to these provisions.
SB 755 (Rubio D)
Employment agencies.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2019
html pdf
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Status: 3/14/2019-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/22/2019-S. RLS.
Summary: Current
law, the Employment Agency, Employment Counseling, and Job Listing Services
Act, provides for the regulation of employment agencies and job listing
services. Current law defines terms for purposes of these provisions.This bill
would make nonsubstantive changes to these definitions.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2019
html pdf
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Status: 3/14/2019-Referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 2/22/2019-S. RLS.
Summary: Current
law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations within the Labor and
Workforce Development Agency and provides that one of the functions of the
department is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of wage earners of
this state.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation relating to employment.
SB 778 (Committee
on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement) Employers: sexual harassment
training: requirements.
Current Text: Amended: 4/22/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Assembly
Floor Analysis (text 4/22/2019)
Introduced: 2/26/2019
Last Amended: 4/22/2019
Status: 7/5/2019-From consent calendar on
motion of Assembly Member Bonta. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 7/5/2019-A. THIRD READING
Summary: Current
law, by January 1, 2020, requires an employer with 5 or more employees to
provide at least 2 hours of classroom or other effective interactive training
and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at
least 1 hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education
regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California
within 6 months of their assumption of a position. Current law also specifies
that an employer who has provided this training to an employee after January 1,
2019, is not required to provide sexual harassment training and education by
the January 1, 2020, deadline. This bill would require an employer with 5 or
more employees to provide the above-described training and education by January
1, 2021, and thereafter once every 2 years.
AB 147 (Burke D) Use
taxes: collection: retailer engaged in business in this state: marketplace
facilitators.
Current Text: Chaptered: 4/25/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 04/05/2019 Assembly
Floor Analysis (text 3/21/2019)
Chapter No.: 5
Introduced: 12/14/2018
Last Amended: 3/21/2019
Status: 4/25/2019-Approved by the
Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 5, Statutes of 2019.
Location: 4/25/2019-A. CHAPTERED
Summary: Would
specify that, on and after April 1, 2019, a retailer engaged in business in
this state includes any retailer that, in the preceding calendar year or the
current calendar year, has total combined sales of tangible personal property
for delivery in this state by the retailer and all persons related to the
retailer that exceed $500,000. The bill would allow the California Department
of Tax and Fee Administration to grant relief to certain retailers engaged in
business in this state for specified interest or penalties imposed on use tax
liabilities due and payable for tax reporting periods beginning April 1, 2019
and ending December 31, 2022.
AB 1027 (Burke D) Income
taxes: California Competes tax credit: private ownership share agreement.
Current Text: Amended: 5/7/2019
html pdf
Current Analysis: 05/21/2019 Assembly
Floor Analysis (text 5/7/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 5/7/2019
Status: 6/6/2019-Referred to Com. on GOV.
& F.
Location: 6/6/2019-S. GOV. & F.
Summary: Current
law requires GO-Biz, when determining whether to enter into a written agreement
with a taxpayer, to consider specified factors, and also authorizes GO-Biz to
consider, among other factors, the financial solvency of the taxpayer and its
ability to finance its proposed expansion. Current law provides for the
allocation of credit amounts through the 2022–23 fiscal year and limits the
aggregate amount of credit that may be allocated in a fiscal year to
$180,000,000, and subjects the amount to specified reduction adjustments. This
bill would authorize a taxpayer to offer the state a percentage of the
taxpayer’s business when applying for a California Competes Tax Credit, and
would allow GO-Biz to consider the amount of equity being offered in
determining the amount of credit allocated to the taxpayer.
SB 37 (Skinner D)
Corporation taxes: tax rates.
Current Text: Amended: 4/3/2019
html pdf
Introduced: 12/3/2018
Last Amended: 4/3/2019
Status: 4/3/2019-From committee with
author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
Location: 12/3/2018-S. RLS.
Summary: The
Corporation Tax Law imposes taxes according to or measured by net income at a
rate of 8.84%, or for financial institutions, at a rate of 10.84%, as
specified. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1,
2020, revise that rate for corporations with net income subject to taxes under
that law of $10,000,000 or more to instead impose a tax rate from 10.84% to
14.84%, or for financial institutions, from 12.84% to 16.84%, based on the
compensation ratio, as defined, of the corporation. The bill would increase the
applicable tax rate by 50% for those taxpayers that have a specified decrease
in full-time employees employed in the United States as compared to an increase
in contracted and foreign full-time employees, as described.
Position: Watch
SB 468 (Jackson D)
Taxation: tax expenditures: California Tax Expenditure Review Board.
Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Assembly
Revenue And Taxation (text 5/7/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 7/11/2019
Status: 7/11/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/11/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
establish in state government the California Tax Expenditure Review Board as an
independent advisory body to comprehensively assess major tax expenditures, as
defined, and make recommendations to the Legislature. The bill would require
the board to be composed of 5 members, as specified, who would serve without
compensation.
SB 626 (Stern D)
Taxation: minimum franchise tax and annual tax exemption: Armed Forces.
Current Text: Amended: 7/2/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/05/2019 Assembly
Revenue And Taxation (text 7/2/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 7/2/2019
Status: 7/9/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/9/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Current
law, generally, imposes a minimum franchise tax of $800, except as provided, on
every corporation incorporated in this state, qualified to transact intrastate
business in this state, or doing business in this state, and an annual tax in
an amount equal to the minimum franchise tax on every limited partnership,
limited liability partnership, and limited liability company registered,
qualified to transact business, or doing business in this state, as specified.
Current law, until taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, exempts
a corporation and a limited liability corporation that are small businesses
solely owned by a deployed member of the United States Armed Forces, as
specified, from paying the minimum franchise tax, or the annual tax, for the
privilege of doing business in this state if the corporation or limited
liability corporation ceases operation or operates at a loss, as defined. This
bill would additionally allow the exemption for taxable years beginning on or
after January 1, 2020, and before January 1, 2029.
AB 593 (Carrillo D) Unemployment
insurance: use of information: public workforce development programs.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/14/2019
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Current Analysis: 06/26/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 2/14/2019)
Introduced: 2/14/2019
Status: 6/25/2019-Read second time.
Ordered to third reading.
Location: 6/25/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Would
add city and county departments or agencies that administer public workforce
development programs and local workforce development boards to the list of
entities permitted to use information obtained in the administration of the
Unemployment Insurance Code, for the purpose of evaluating, researching, or
forecasting the effectiveness of public workforce development programs when the
evaluation, research, or forecast is directly connected with those programs.
AB 1066 (Gonzalez D)
Unemployment insurance: trade disputes: eligibility for benefits.
Current Text: Amended: 4/30/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Committee On Labor, Public Employment And Retirement (text 4/30/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 4/30/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com.
on APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
restore eligibility for unemployment benefits after the first 4 weeks of a
trade dispute for an employee who left work because of the trade dispute. The
bill would specify that the one-week waiting period otherwise required for unemployment
benefits is not additionally required under these circumstances. The bill would
also codify specified case law that holds that employees who left work due to a
lockout by the employer, even if it was in anticipation of a trade dispute, are
eligible for benefits. The bill would specify that the bill’s provisions do not
diminish eligibility for benefits of individuals deprived of work due to an
employer lockout or similar action, as specified.
AB 1812 (Committee
on Insurance) Unemployment insurance: penalties.
Current Text: Introduced: 3/5/2019
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Current Analysis: 04/29/2019 Assembly
Appropriations (text 3/5/2019)
Introduced: 3/5/2019
Status: 5/22/2019-Referred to Com. on INS.
Location: 5/22/2019-S. INS.
Summary: Current
law provides that any person who fails to file any return or report required by
the Unemployment Insurance Code, or who makes, renders, signs, or verifies any
false or fraudulent return, report, or statement, or supplies any false or
fraudulent information, is liable for a civil penalty of a specified amount,
and a violation of that provision is a misdemeanor that is punishable by a
fine, imprisonment for a specified period, or both the fine and imprisonment.
Current law also provides that all penalties collected under specified
provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Code are deposited into the Employment
Development Department Contingent Fund, which is a continuously appropriated
fund. This bill would increase the civil penalty described above by a specified
amount.
AB 755 (Holden D)
California tire fee: Stormwater Permit Compliance Fund.
Current Text: Amended: 5/16/2019
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Current Analysis: 05/21/2019 Assembly
Floor Analysis (text 5/16/2019)
Introduced: 2/19/2019
Last Amended: 5/16/2019
Status: 5/29/2019-Ordered to inactive file
at the request of Assembly Member Holden.
Location: 5/29/2019-A. INACTIVE FILE
Summary: Would
require the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to collect the
California tire fee and would repeal the provision authorizing the Department
of Resources Recycling and Recovery to solicit and use the expertise of, and
contract or cooperate with, other state agencies. The bill would increase the
California tire fee by $1.50. The bill would require the California Department
of Tax and Fee Administration to transfer the additional moneys to the
Stormwater Permit Compliance Fund, which would be established by the bill, and
would make the moneys available to the State Water Resources Control Board. The
bill would continuously appropriate moneys in the fund for competitive grants
for projects and programs for municipal storm sewer system permit compliance
requirements that would prevent or remediate pollutants, including zinc, caused
by tires in the state and for an annual audit of the fund. Money in the fund
would be available upon appropriation for the administrative expenses of the
fund, not to exceed 5% of the overall revenue annually deposited in the fund, except
as specified. The bill would also make conforming changes. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 499 (Mayes R)
Personal information: social security numbers: state agencies.
Current Text: Amended: 4/11/2019
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Introduced: 2/13/2019
Last Amended: 4/11/2019
Status: 4/22/2019-Re-referred to Com. on
INS. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96(a).
Location: 4/22/2019-A. RLS.
Summary: Would
prohibit a state agency from sending any outgoing mail that contains an
individual’s full social security number unless, under the particular
circumstances, federal law requires inclusion of the full social security
number. The bill would require each state agency, on or before September 1,
2020, to report to the Legislature when and why it mails documents that contain
individuals’ full social security numbers. The bill would require a state
agency that, in its own estimation, is unable to comply with the prohibition to
submit an annual corrective action plan to the Legislature until it is in
compliance.
AB 1107 (Chu D) Workers’
compensation.
Current Text: Amended: 4/22/2019
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Current Analysis: 04/26/2019 Assembly
Floor Analysis (text 4/22/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 4/22/2019
Status: 5/16/2019-Referred to Com. on L.,
P.E. & R.
Location: 5/16/2019-S. L., P.E. &
R.
Summary: Current
law requires, when payment of compensation has been unreasonably delayed or
refused, either prior to or subsequent to the issuance of an award, the amount
of the payment unreasonably delayed or refused to be increased up to 25% or up
to $10,000, whichever is less, except for unreasonable delay in the provision
of medical treatment for periods of time necessary to complete the utilization
review process. Current law provides that a determination by the appeals board
or a final determination of the administrative director pursuant to independent
medical review that medical treatment is appropriate is not conclusive evidence
that medical treatment was unreasonably delayed or denied for purposes of
imposing those penalties. This bill would exclude a final determination of the
administrative director pursuant to independent medical review from the latter
provision regarding conclusive evidence that medical treatment was unreasonably
delayed or denied.
AB 1400 (Kamlager-Dove D)
Employment safety: firefighting equipment: mechanics.
Current Text: Amended: 7/2/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Senate
Committee On Labor, Public Employment And Retirement (text 7/2/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 7/2/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-From committee: Do pass and
re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on
APPR.
Location: 7/10/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Would
require the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation, in
partnership with the County of Los Angeles and relevant labor organizations, on
or before May 31, 2020, to submit a study to the Legislature and the Los
Angeles County Board of Supervisors on the risk of exposure to carcinogenic
materials and incidence of occupational cancer in mechanics who repair and
clean firefighting vehicles in the County of Los Angeles.
AB 1814 (Committee
on Insurance) Long-term care insurance.
Current Text: Introduced: 3/5/2019
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Current Analysis: 06/18/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 3/5/2019)
Introduced: 3/5/2019
Status: 6/17/2019-From Consent Calendar. Ordered
to third reading.
Location: 6/17/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Current
law regulates and defines long-term care insurance as, among other things, any
insurance policy, certificate, or rider advertised, marketed, offered,
solicited, or designed to provide coverage for diagnostic, preventive,
therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services that are
provided in a setting other than an acute care unit of a hospital.This bill
would make technical, nonsubstantive changes and would delete obsolete
provisions regarding this type of insurance.
SB 416 (Hueso D)
Employment: workers’ compensation.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/20/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/09/2019 Assembly
Insurance (text 2/20/2019)
Introduced: 2/20/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-VOTE: Do pass as amended
and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS)
Location: 7/10/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Current
law designates illnesses and conditions that constitute a compensable injury
for various employees, such as California Highway Patrol members, firefighters,
and certain peace officers. These injuries include, but are not limited to,
hernia, pneumonia, heart trouble, cancer, meningitis, and exposure to
biochemical substances, when the illness or condition develops or manifests itself
during a period when the officer or employee is in service of the employer, as
specified. This bill would expand the coverage of the above provisions relating
to compensable injuries, to include all persons defined as peace officers under
certain provisions of law, except as specified.
SB 537 (Hill D)
Workers’ compensation: treatment and disability.
Current Text: Amended: 7/2/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/08/2019 Assembly
Insurance (text 7/2/2019)
Introduced: 2/21/2019
Last Amended: 7/2/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-VOTE: Do pass as amended
and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS)
Location: 7/10/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
require the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation to
issue a report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2023, comparing
potential payment alternatives for providers to the official medical fee
schedule. The bill would also require, on or before January 1, 2023, and
annually thereafter, the administrative director to publish on the division’s
internet website provider utilization data for physicians, as defined above,
who treated 10 or more injured workers during the 12 months before July 1 of
the previous year, including the number of injured workers treated by the
physician and the number of utilization review decisions that resulted in a
modification or denial of a request for authorization of medical treatment.
SB 542 (Stern D)
Workers’ compensation.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/09/2019 Assembly
Insurance (text 2/22/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Status: 7/10/2019-VOTE: Do pass as amended
and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS)
Location: 7/10/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
provide that in the case of certain state and local firefighting personnel and
peace officers, the term “injury” also includes a mental health condition or
mental disability that results in a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress or
mental health disorder that develops or manifests itself during a period in
which the firefighting member or peace officer is in the service of the
department or unit. These provisions would apply to claims for benefits filed
or pending on or after January 1, 2017.
SB 731 (Bradford D)
Workers’ compensation: risk factors.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/22/2019
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Current Analysis: 05/18/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 2/22/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Status: 5/30/2019-Referred to Com. on INS.
Location: 5/30/2019-A. INS.
Summary: Current
law requires a physician who prepares a report addressing the issue of
permanent disability due to an industrial injury to address the cause of the
permanent disability in the report, including what approximate percentage of
the permanent disability was caused by other factors before and after the
industrial injury, if the physician is able to make an apportionment
determination. This bill would prohibit consideration of race, religious creed,
color, national origin, age, gender, marital status, sex, sexual identity,
sexual orientation, or genetic characteristics to determine the approximate
percentage of the permanent disability caused by other factors.
AB 709 (Bonta D) School
districts: governing boards: pupil members.
Current Text: Amended: 6/19/2019
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Current Analysis: 06/28/2019 Senate
Governance And Finance (text 6/19/2019)
Introduced: 2/19/2019
Last Amended: 6/19/2019
Status: 7/3/2019-From committee: Do pass
and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes
7. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/3/2019-S. APPR.
Calendar: 8/12/2019
10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, PORTANTINO, Chair
Summary: Current
law requires the governing board of a school district maintaining one or more
high schools to appoint to its membership one or more pupil members if pupils
submit a petition to the governing board to make those appointments, as provided.
Current law gives each pupil member, among other things, the right to attend
each and all meetings of the governing board of the school district, except
executive sessions, and requires a pupil member to be seated with the members
of the governing board of the school district and recognized as a full member
of the governing board at the meetings, including receiving all open meeting
materials presented to the board members at the same time the materials are
presented to the board members. This bill would require a pupil member
additionally to be appointed to subcommittees of the governing board in the
same manner as other board members, require a pupil member to be made aware of
the time commitment required to participate in subcommittee meetings and work,
and authorize a pupil member to decline an appointment to a subcommittee.
AB 1558 (Ramos D)
Apprenticeship programs: career fairs.
Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2019
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Current Analysis: 07/09/2019 Senate
Floor Analyses (text 5/17/2019)
Introduced: 2/22/2019
Last Amended: 5/17/2019
Status: 7/8/2019-From Consent Calendar.
Ordered to third reading.
Location: 7/8/2019-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Current
law provides for the establishment of apprenticeship programs in various
trades, to be approved by the Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards
within the Department of Industrial Relations in any trade in the state or in a
city or trade area whenever the apprentice training needs justify the
establishment.This bill would require a school district or school to notify
each apprenticeship program in the same county as the school district or school
of a career or college fair it is planning to hold, as specified.
SB 156 (Nielsen R)
Health facilities: emergency medical services.
Current Text: Amended: 7/5/2019
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Current Analysis: 06/28/2019 Assembly
Health (text 4/30/2019)
Introduced: 1/23/2019
Last Amended: 7/5/2019
Status: 7/5/2019-Read second time and
amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 7/5/2019-A. APPR.
Summary: Would
make legislative findings relating to the impact of the Camp Fire in 2018 on
the County of Butte, including the destruction of Feather River Hospital in
that county. Pursuant to those provisions, the bill would require the
department to issue a special permit to allow a general acute care hospital to
offer emergency stabilization services at a location outside of the hospital if
the hospital provides satisfactory evidence to the department that, among other
things, the hospital has a written transfer agreement with the hospital closest
to the location where emergency stabilization services will be provided, and
satisfactory evidence to the department that this location meets certain
requirements, including that the location is in the County of Butte and serves
the same area previously served by Feather River Hospital.
Total Measures: 129
Total Tracking Forms: 129