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COMMUNITY EH

CA AB 105
Lieu (D)
NEUTRAL

Tanning Facilities
Amends the Filante Tanning Facility Act that requires a tanning facility to provide a written warning to customers and to post certain warning signs in areas where a tanning device is used. Requires that the written warning statement include specified additional warnings. Requires the warning signs to be posted conspicuously and in an area where a device is used that is readily visible to a person using the device. Includes in the warning sign a statement of spray on tans. Prohibits use by certain minors.

·  To Enrollment.

CA AB 110
Laird (D)
SUPPORT - letter

Drug Paraphernalia: Clean Needle Exchange Projects
Authorizes a public entity that receives General Fund money from the State Department of Public Health for HIV prevention and education to use that money to support clean needle and syringe exchange projects authorized by the public entity. Authorizes the money to be used for the purchase of sterile hypodermic needles and syringes.

·  On SEN Floor.

CA AB 158
Ma (D)
NEUTRAL              2 YEAR BILL

Public Health
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a hepatitis B and C prevention and management pilot program within its Office of Multicultural Health to provide matching grants to public and not-for-profit organizations in the Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay area for the purposes of providing culturally and language appropriate public awareness and other activities relating to the prevention and management of hepatitis B. Establishes a program related fund.

·  Held in ASM Committee on Appropriations.

CA AB 265
Mendoza (D)
NEUTRAL

Barbering and Cosmetology: Threading
Extends the operative date of the Barbering and Cosmetology Act that regulates barbering, cosmetology, skin care, nail care and electrolysis thereby excluding threading from the practice of barbering and cosmetology indefinitely.

·  Signed by Governor July 12.  Chapter 50.

CA AB 328
Salas (D)
NEUTRAL

Health Care Service Plans: Disease Reports
Amends the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act. Requires a health care service plan to include in its contract with a health care provider, who provides services to an enrollee in Mexico a provision requiring the provider to comply with mandated reporting of specified diseases or conditions to the health officer in the state where the patient resides or is employed. Requires a plan that contracts with those providers to notify the providers of the reporting requirement.

·  To Enrollment.

CA AB 417
Blakeslee (R)
NEUTRAL

Regional Health Authority
Renames the Santa Barbara Regional Health Authority as the Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority. Permits the authority, upon authorization by the Board of Supervisors of the county, to provide a health care system in the county. Revises the membership of the board of directors of the authority. Authorizes the board of supervisors to review and to approve, modify, reflect, or repeal major administrative decisions of the authority.

·  To Enrollment.

CA AB 559
Ruskin (D)
SUPPORT – letter  2 YEAR BILL

Public Water System: Drinking Water Disinfectants
Requests the Regents of the University of California to direct the University Center for Water Resources to investigate the potential adverse effects of the chemicals used to disinfect drinking water, including chloramine, and their byproducts on human health. Requires the investigation include the consumers served by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Requires agencies that have collected data related to the effects of drinking water disinfectants on human health make the information available.

·  Held in ASM Committee on Appropriations.

CA AB 615
Torrico (D)
NEUTRAL              2 YEAR BILL

Emergency Services
Requires the state to prepare for the language needs of persons with limited English proficiency in creating emergency and disaster response plans, representation of persons with limited English proficiency on committees responsible for emergency planning, regional training for ethnic organizations on disaster preparation, and dissemination of translated and community-friendly emergency preparedness materials.

·  Held in ASM Committee on Appropriations.

CA AB 1323
DeSaulnier (D)
NEUTRAL

Tuberculosis Testing
Relates to an intradermal tuberculin test as a part of employment in specified occupations. Authorizes this test to be made by any tuberculin test approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration. Authorizes the reporting of the test results of other tests for tuberculosis infection recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and licensed by the Food and Drug Administration.

·  Signed by Governor July 2.  Chapter 24.

CA AB 1472
Leno (D)
SUPPORT – letter 2 YEAR BILL

Public Health: Healthy Places Act of 2008
Establishes the California Healthy Places Act of 2008. Requires various state agencies and departments to collaboratively support childhood development, prevent injury, illness, and chronic disease, ensure environmental health, and reduce health disparities by providing knowledge, guidance and resources for public health assessments of land use and transportation system planning. Provides funding, technical assistance and training to eligible local entities to prepare health impact assessments. assessments.

·  Held in SEN Appropriations Committee.

CA SB 147
Ashburn (R)
NEUTRAL              2 YEAR BILL

Valley Fever: Vaccine
Appropriates funding from the General Fund for the purposes of valley fever research to develop a vaccine and for related administrative costs.

·  Held in SEN Appropriations Committee.

CA SB 220
Corbett (D)
WATCH

Vended Water
Transfers requirements of existing law that prescribe various quality and labeling standards for bottled water and vended water, including mineral water, and limits of certain contaminants that may be contained in those water products. Increases the water-vending machine license fee. Requires a consumer confidence report by a water-bottling plant. Provides for the time frame for the cleaning and servicing of water-vending machines and the records therefor. Relates to bottled water labeling requirements.

·  On ASM Floor.

CA SB 295
Cogdill (R)
NEUTRAL

Cigarettes and Tobacco Products
Includes as an untaxed tobacco product any tobacco product that was distributed in a manner that resulted in a tax liability, but that was returned to the distributor after the tax was paid and for which the distributor claimed a deduction pursuant to a specified provision of the Families and Children Act of 1998 which imposed a surtax on the distribution of cigarettes in addition to other tobacco related taxes.

·  Enrolled.

CA SB 356
Negrete McLeod (D)
NEUTRAL

List of Reportable Diseases and Conditions
Deletes the requirement of the Department of Health to establish a specified list of required reportable disease and conditions by a local health officer. Requires the department to establish a list or reportable disease and conditions for which clinical laboratories are required to submit a culture or specimen to the local and state public health laboratories. Prohibits the imposition of any penalty or other adverse action based upon failure to report under certain conditions.

·  In ASM Inactive File.

CA SB 424
Denham (R)
NEUTRAL

Disaster Preparedness: Flood Management Projects
Declares legislative intent to give fair and balanced consideration, consistent with the Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006 and the state's budget process, to all proposed flood management projects.

·  Failed Passage In SEN Committee on Appropriations.  Returned to Secretary of Senate.

CA SB 426
Kehoe (D)
NEUTRAL              2 YEAR BILL

Emergency Services: Access and Functional Needs
Requires the Director of Emergency Services to create the position of Deputy Director for Access and Functional Needs Coordination within the Office of Emergency, who shall be responsible for ensuring that access and functional needs are included in all state plans related to emergency preparedness, planning, and response, and with duties regarding the oversight and implementation of emergency preparedness and response activities related to persons with functional limitations or disabilities.

·  Held in SEN Appropriations Committee.

CA SB 470
Ashburn (R)
SUPPORT - letter

Agriculture: Dead Animals
Requires the Integrated Waste Management Board to convene a working group to draft regulations providing procedures for emergency disposal of animal carcasses during a state of emergency that results in the death of livestock in numbers that exceed the daily capacity of local landfills and rendering facilities.

·  To Enrollment.

CA SB 533
Yee (D)
NEUTRAL

Health: Immunizations: Pneumococcus
Relates to vaccinations. Adds pneumococcus to the list of childhood diseases for which the Legislature intends the eventual achievement of total immunization. Requires a list of diseases for which immunization shall be required prior to entry into specified institutions. Requires the state Department of Public Health to adopt regulations to administer the immunization requirements within a specified time period. Relates to the positive impact of immunization on children in child care and senior citizens.

·  On ASM Floor.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IT

CA AB 1668
Leno (D)
SUPPORT – letter 2 YEAR BILL

Information Technology: Open Document Software
Requires the Director of Technology Services o implement a project examining the use of an open file format with no more than 3 state agencies or departments. Requires the State Chief Information Officer to report on the results of the project. Requires the Department of General Services to consider specified modification to the standards used for the state to acquire information technology and to report its findings to the Legislature.

·  Held in ASM Committee on Appropriations.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

CA AB 185
Dymally (D)
NEUTRAL              2 YEAR BILL

Clinical Laboratories: Personnel
Specifies that those individuals desiring to train for a clinical laboratory personnel license other than a clinical laboratory scientist's license or a limited clinical laboratory scientist's license, who enroll in an approved school, are authorized to engage in laboratory practice as trainees. Requires the laboratory director to assure that test or examination results are not reported until them are critically reviewed and verified. Specifies the duties unlicensed personnel are authorized to perform.

·  Held in ASM Committee on Business and Professions.

CA AB 315
Berg (D)
NEUTRAL

Integrated Health and Human Services Programs
Eliminates the repeal date on provisions of existing law that permits the counties of Alameda, Mendocino, Humboldt, and any other county to implement a program for the funding and delivery of services and benefits through an integrated and comprehensive health and human services system.

·  Enrolled.

CA AB 1605
Lieber (D)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL

State Department of Public Health: Public Health Nurse
Requires the director of the State Department of Public Health to appoint one of the chief deputies as the State Public Health Nurse, to act as a liaison to public health nursing agencies in addition to other duties.

·  Held In ASM Committee on Appropriations.

CA AB 1646
DeSaulnier (D)
SUPPORT – letter  2 YEAR BILL

Public Health Districts
Authorizes the formation of public health districts.

·  In ASM Health Committee.

CA SB 291
Simitian (D)
SUPPORT - letter              2 YEAR BILL

Pollution Prevention: Design for the Environment
Authorizes the Director of Toxic Substances Control to establish the Design for the Environment Program. Provides a forum for soliciting comments about green chemistry, green engineering, and design for the environment from a broad range of participants from academia and nongovernmental organizations, with expertise and interest in sustainability and green chemistry. authorize the director to establish linkages with other states' agencies and university-based programs to draw on knowledge of other experts.

·  Held in SEN Committee on Appropriations.

FOOD SAFETY

CA AB 86
Lieu (D)
DROPPED             2 YEAR BILL

School Food Nutrition: Trans Fat
Relates to snack and entree food items sold to pupils. Prohibits such food items from containing partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated vegetable oils, except to the extent that these oils are naturally occurring in the food item.

·  Held in ASM Committee on Education.

CA AB 90
Lieu (D)
SUPPORT - letter              2 YEAR BILL

Pupil Nutrition: Trans Fats
Prohibits a school or school district from serving or selling to pupils, during school hours, any food containing artificial trans fat. Prohibits the use of artificial trans fat in the preparation of a food item served or sold to pupils.

·  Held in ASM Committee on Appropriations.

CA AB 93
Garcia (R)
DROPPED

Food Facilities: Trans Fat: Study
Requires the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency to prepare and provide a study on the benefits to public health from the elimination of saturated and trans fat from food facilities in the state.

·  Failed passage in ASM Committee on HEALTH.  Reconsideration Granted.

CA AB 97
Mendoza (D)
OPPOSE UNLESS AMENDED - letter

Food Facilities: Trans Fat
Requires every food facility, except a school cafeteria, to maintain on the label for any food or food additive that is or includes any fat, oil, or shortening, for as long as this food or food additive is stored, distributed, or served by, or used in the preparation of food within, the food facility. Prohibits, on or after a specified date, oil, shortening, or margarine containing specified trans fats for specified purposes, from being stored, distributed, or served by, or used in the preparation of food.  Note:  CAEHA recently changed its position from Support to Oppose Unless Amended based on a recent amendment that conflicts with CalCode by allowing local jurisdictions to adopt more stringent requirements re: trans fat than in AB 97.

·  On SEN Floor.

CA AB 1024
Caballero (D)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL

Food Safety
Creates the Fresh Produce Food Safety Research Fund to be administered by the Western Institute for Food Safety and Security within the University of California, Davis. Specifies that money in the fund is to be used to finance research to significantly reduce the risk of contamination of fresh produce.

·  Held in ASM Committee on Health.

CA AB 1100
Ruskin (D)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL

Food Labeling: Cloned Animals
Requires every livestock producer who sells or transfers any cloned animal or its progeny, for the purposes of producing food for human consumption, to a manufacturer or producer of food for human consumption to disclose that the animal is a cloned animal or its progeny. Requires such manufacturer or producer that sells any food that contains any product form a cloned animal or its progeny to appropriately label the food. Imposes similar labeling requirements on importers of food products.

·  Held in SEN Appropriations Committee.

CA AB 1667
La Malfa (R)
NEUTRAL              2 YEAR BILL

County Fairs: Carnivals
Defines carnivals and carnival workers in relation to carnivals operating at county fairs.

·  To SEN Committee on Agriculture.

CA SB 63
Migden (D)
NEUTRAL

Food Labeling: Cloned Animals
Requires every livestock producer who sells or transfers any cloned animal or its progeny to disclose to the buyer or transferee that the animal is cloned or is the progeny of a cloned animal. Requires food for human consumption that contains any product from a cloned animal or its progeny to be labeled to indicate that the food includes the product of a cloned animal or its progeny.

·  On ASM Floor.

CA SB 120
Padilla (D)
SUPPORT - letter

Food Facilities: Nutritional Information
Relates to the state Uniform Retail Food Facilities Law. Requires each food facility that meet specified criteria to provide nutritional information that includes, per standard menu item the total number calories, grams of saturated fat, grams of trans fat, and milligrams of sodium on standard menus. Requires the menu boards to include the total number of calories. Provides a facility that violates these provisions is guilty of an infraction and not a misdemeanor. Requires a conspicuous typeface.

·  On ASM Floor.

CA SB 180
Migden (D)
DROPPED

Labor Representatives: Elections
Permits agricultural employees, as an alternative procedure, to select their labor representatives by submitting a petition to the Labor Board accompanied by representation cards signed by a majority of the bargaining unit. Extends the existing prohibitions and penalties to employers who engage in unfair labor practices with regard to a majority sign up election.

·  To Governor.

CA SB 200
Florez (D)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL

Produce Inspector: Leafy Green Vegetable Licensing
Authorizes the Department of Health Services to adopt recall, quarantine, and sanitary regulations necessary to prevent any condition where any produce or food produce may carry an illness, infection, pathogen, contagion, toxin, or condition that could transmit an illness that could seriously affect the health of humans. Requires the establishment of a leafy green vegetable inspection program. Authorizes civil penalties for negligent or intentional violation and thereby causes a food-borne illness.

·  Held in ASM Agriculture Committee.

CA SB 201
Florez (D)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL

Leafy Green Vegetable Crop Safety
Describes practices that shall not be engaged in by growers, handlers, shippers, or processors of leafy green vegetables including using uncomposed, incompletely composed, or nonthermally treated manure as a fertilizer or soil amendment in fields, maintaining toilet facilities or other receptacles for human excreta in fields, using irrigation water that exceeds acceptable contamination levels, or selling, or putting into the distribution chain any such vegetable that exceeds acceptable contamination level.

·  Held in ASM Agriculture Committee.

CA SB 202
Florez (D)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL  

Leafy Green Vegetable Crop Traceback
Requires growers, handlers, and processors of leafy green vegetables to employ a coded lot numbering system that allows produce to be traced to the field in which it was grown. Requires growers, handlers, and processors of leafy green vegetables to employ their coded lot numbering system to respond to a recall and to initiate a recall. Requires growers, handlers, and processors of leafy green vegetables to identify recall coordination teams.

·  Failed passage in ASM Agriculture Committee.

CA SB 220
Corbett (D)
WATCH

Vended Water
Transfers requirements of existing law that prescribe various quality and labeling standards for bottled water and vended water, including mineral water, and limits of certain contaminants that may be contained in those water products. Increases the water-vending machine license fee. Requires a consumer confidence report by a water-bottling plant. Provides for the time frame for the cleaning and servicing of water-vending machines and the records therefor. Relates to bottled water labeling requirements.

·  On ASM Floor.

CA SB 315
Cogdill (R)
SUPPORT - letter

Food Facilities: Permit Fees
Requires a school district that operates a food facility pursuant to a permit to pay the permit fee for that facility. Relates to inspection of facilities. Provides for impoundment of any utensil suspected of releasing lead or cadmium. Provides that a school district permit fee may be paid with federal school lunch and breakfast program funds.

·  Failed passage in ASM Education Committee.  Reconsideration Granted.

CA SB 490
Alquist (D)
SUPPORT - letter

Pupil Nutrition: Trans Fat
Prohibits a school or school district, through a vending machine or school food service establishment during school hours and up to 1/2 hour before and after school hours, from making available to pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, a food containing artificial trans fat. Prohibits the use of artificial trans fat in the preparation of a food item served to those pupils. Excludes food provided as part of a USDA meal program.

·  To Enrollment.

CA SB 744
Runner G (R)
SUPPORT - letter

Food Facilities
Relates to the Uniform Retail Food Facilities Law. Defines a commissary as a food facility that services mobile food facilities, mobile support units, or vending machines. Requires the local enforcement agency to be notified when the person in charge is made aware that a food employee has been diagnosed with an infectious agent. Imposes requirements on retail food facilities regarding identification and certification of molluscan shellfish that are harvested and received for sale.

·  Signed by Governor July 20.  CHAPTER 96

HAZMAT/CUPA

CA AB 274
Coto (D)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL

Taxation: Credit: Brownfield Cleanup
Relates to the Personal Income and Corporation Tax laws. Authorizes a credit against those taxes for a qualified brownfiled property owner for each taxable year beginning on or after a specified date, in an amount equal to the costs paid or incurred to clean up a polluted brownfield property located in the state to a satisfactory level, as evidenced by a written certification of completion.

·  Held in ASM Committee on Revenue and Taxation.

CA AB 319
Nava (D)
NEUTRAL

Emergencies: Tsunami Hazard Preparedness
Enacts the Tsunami Hazard Preparedness and Mitigation Act of 2007, to establish the Tsunami Hazard Preparedness and Mitigation Steering Committee to guide tsunami hazard preparation activities in the state. Requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish a statewide tsunami hazard mitigation program to assist local governments in preparing for, responding to, and mitigating the effects of tsunamis. Requires federal funding for implementation. Provides participation is discretionary.

· On SEN Floor.

CA AB 422
Hancock (D)
WATCH

Underground Storage Tanks: Hazardous Substance
Requires the exposure of any health or ecological risk assessment prepared in conjunction with a response action taken or approved under the State Superfund Act include the development of reasonable maximum estimates of exposure to volatile organic compounds that may enter structures that are on the site or that a proposed to be constructed on the site. Relates to required site assessments.

·  To Enrollment.

CA AB 518
Mendoza (D)
WATCH                   2 YEAR BILL

Hazardous Material: Aboveground Storage Tanks
Requires the schedule for the inspection of aboveground storage tank facilities to provide that an inspection be conducted at least once every two years. States an intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to prohibit the siting of aboveground storage tanks on lands that are subject to liquefaction.

·  To ASM Committees on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials and ASM Water, Parks and Wildlife.

CA AB 558
Feuer (D)  NEUTRAL

Chemical Substances: Testing
Requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to identify the most accurate and effective methods to use to test for and evaluate the potential hazard traits of chemical substances. Requires the office to review and assess new and emerging testing methods and to report to the Legislature. Requires the office to make available to the public an information matrix that compiles information regarding those chemical substance traits. Requires the matrix to be annually reviewed and revised.

· On SEN Floor.

CA AB 656
Plescia (R)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL

Hazardous Waste: Alkaline Batteries
Requires the Integrated Waste Management Board and the State Water Resources Control Board to jointly undertake a study and submit a report to the Legislature regarding whether there are any environmental impacts caused by the random disposal of used alkaline batteries in a permitted solid waste landfill facility.

·  To ASM Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials.

CA AB 800
Lieu (D)
SUPPORT - letter

Discharges of Hazardous Substance: Notification
Provides that notification requirements under the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act do not nullify a person's responsibility under existing law that requires a person who causes or permits any sewage or other waste, or the effluent of treated sewage or other waste, to be discharged in or on any waters of the state, or discharged in or deposited where it is, or probably will be discharged in or on the waters of the state, to immediately notify specified entities. Provides for misdemeanor violations.

·  To Enrollment.

CA AB 1098
Saldana (D)
SUPPORT - letter

Hazardous Materials: Administrative: Penalties
Removes the requirement of the federal accident release prevention program, established pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act that the amount of the administrative penalty be set by the governing board of the administrative agency for a business that violates or knowingly violates any provision with regard to the business plan relating to the handling and release or threatened release of hazardous materials. Relates to the civil liability of a person or stationary source that violates those provisions.

·  Enrolled.

CA AB 1130
Laird (D)
SUPPORT - letter

Aboveground Storage Tanks
Requires the uniform protection agencies to implement the Aboveground Petroleum Storage Act. Requires a storage tank at a tank facility subject to specified federal regulations to prepare a spill prevention control and countermeasure plan. Requires a tank facility located on a farm, nursery, logging site, or construction site that is less than a specified capacity, to be subject to inspections and certain containment requirements. Provides agency responsible for oversite of release cleanup or abatement.

·  On SEN Floor.

CA AB 1183
Hancock (D)
NEUTRAL

Hazardous Materials: Cortese List
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to make available on its public Internet Web site specified information and lists, including a list of all land use restriction instruments and agreements required to be maintained and posted. Requires the Department of Public Health to make available on its public Internet Web site a list of contaminated public drinking water wells. Requires such information to be updated at least annually. Requires the department to provide telephone contact numbers.

·  On SEN Floor.

CA AB 1257
Caballero (D)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL

Rural CUPA Reimbursement
Makes eligible for an allocation, a county if the Certified Unified Program Agency of that county was certified on or before a certain date, and the county has fewer than a certain population. Authorizes the secretary to additionally base the amount of the allocation to a county on whether a CUPA has failed to achieve a satisfactory performance standing and if the secretary determines that a CUPA has been assessed as having an unsatisfactory standing.

·  To ASM Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials.

CA AB 1359
Parra (D)
NEUTRAL

Hazardous Materials: Dielectric Mineral Oil
Provides that a generator of dielectric fluid, derived from highly refined mineral oil, from oil-filled equipment is not required to test the dielectric fluid for purity levels before transporting fluid if the generator certified, based on prior tests, that dielectric fluid from similar equipment subject to similar operation conditions did not exhibit the characteristic of toxicity. Requires a generator to include the certification with each shipment of used oil that the generator claims is exempt.

·  To Enrollment.

CA AB 1371
Ruskin (D)
WATCH

Hazardous Waste: Civil Penalty
Imposes a specified civil penalty or an administrative civil penalty against a person who intentionally or negligently treats or stores, or causes the treatment or storage of, a hazardous waste at an unauthorized site or who treats or stores, or causes that treatment or storage, without regard to the intention of the person. Provides an exemption from civil penalties for illegal disposal, treatment, or storage under specified conditions.

·  To Enrollment.

CA AB 1391
Brownley (D)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL

Water Quality
Provides that a person who fails to notify the local health officer of the Director of Environmental Health of the discharge of any sewage or other waste, or the effluent of treated sewage or other waste in or on any waters of the state, or discharged in or deposited where it is, or probably will be, discharged in or on any water of the state is guilty of a misdemeanor crime subject to specified punishments.

·  In ASM Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials.

CA AB 1437
Aghazarian (R)
WATCH

Petroleum Underground Storage Tanks: Claims
Revises the waiver of the financial responsibility and permit requirements under the Barry Keene Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Trust Fund Act. Authorizes certification by a underground storage tank permitting agency to be based on a site evaluation and tank tests. Authorizes the Water Resources Control Board to pay certain claims to aid eligible owners and operators of petroleum underground storage tanks under specified circumstances.

·  To Enrollment.

CA SB 166
Negrete McLeod (D)
NEUTRAL

Emergency Preparedness: Community Colleges
Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding emergency preparedness plans. Requires the Office of the Chancellor of the Community Colleges, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services and the Office of Homeland Security, to develop emergency preparedness standards and guidelines to assist community college districts and campuses in the event of a natural disaster, hazardous condition, or terrorist activity on or around any campus.

·  To Enrollment.

CA SB 296
Dutton (R)
NEUTRAL

Office of Emergency Services: Disaster Preparedness
Renames the Disaster Resistant Communities Account the Disaster Resistant Communities Fund in the State Treasury. Deletes the requirement that any new activity be contingent upon the receipt of donations to the account and requires these provisions to be implemented only to the extent that in-kind contributions or donations are received from private sector, or grant funds are received from the federal government.

· To Governor.

CA SB 329
Dutton (R)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL

Hazardous Materials: Business Plans
Requires the Office of Emergency Services to adopt regulations to authorize an administering agency to allow a business to submit a Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plan to the administering agency, in lieu of submitting a business plan under certain conditions.

·  Held in SEN Committee on Appropriations.

LAND USE

CA AB 437
Jones (D)
SUPPORT - letter

Employment Discrimination
Specifies that when a cause of action for unlawful discrimination or unlawful employment practice with respect to compensation accrues for determining whether a complaint was filed within statutory guidelines.

·  In SEN Floor.

CA AB 559
Ruskin (D)
SUPPORT – letter  2 YEAR BILL

Public Water System: Drinking Water Disinfectants
Requests the Regents of the University of California to direct the University Center for Water Resources to investigate the potential adverse effects of the chemicals used to disinfect drinking water, including chloramine, and their byproducts on human health. Requires the investigation include the consumers served by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Requires agencies that have collected data related to the effects of drinking water disinfectants on human health make the information available.

·  Held in ASM Committee on Appropriations.

CA AB 739
Laird (D)
WATCH

Stormwater Discharge
Requires the Department of Water Resources to develop project selection and evaluation guidelines to implement a specified stormwater flood management grant program. Provides the design and construction of projects for specified combined municipal sewer and stormwater system are eligible for the program. Requires the state Water Resources Control Board to develop program guidelines. Requires coordination with regard to the development of project selection and evaluation guidelines. Requires a task force.

·  On SEN Floor.

CA AB 783
Arambula (D)
NEUTRAL

Public Water Systems
Requires the Department of Public Health to submit to the Legislature a comprehensive Safe Drinking Water Plan for the state once every 5 years, and to take all reasonable measures necessary to reduce the risk to the public health from waterborne illnesses in drinking water caused by cryptosporidium and giardia.

·  To Enrollment.

CA AB 938
Calderon C (D)
NEUTRAL              2 YEAR BILL

Regional Water Management
Authorizes a county or city to convene one or more watershed quality committees to develop and facilitate cooperation in achieving local water quality solutions. Requires a committee to use reasonable efforts to prepare and submit a watershed management plan that addresses major sources of stormwater, urban runoff, and nonpoint source pollution within the region. Requires a city or county that provides certain utilities to provide facilities for returning captured waters to receiving bodies.

·  In SEN Environmental Quality Committee.

CA AB 992
Brownley (D)
NEUTRAL              2 YEAR BILL

Roads: Stormwater Containment
Relates to transportation and stormwater containment. Provides that state regional water quality control boards are among the principal state agencies with authority over water quality matters. Requires a clean water certificate to a proposal to construct or repair a road. Requires review of plans. Provides for bonds.

·  Held in ASM Committee on Transportation.

CA AB 1391
Brownley (D)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL

Water Quality
Provides that a person who fails to notify the local health officer of the Director of Environmental Health of the discharge of any sewage or other waste, or the effluent of treated sewage or other waste in or on any waters of the state, or discharged in or deposited where it is, or probably will be, discharged in or on any water of the state is guilty of a misdemeanor crime subject to specified punishments.

·  Held in ASM Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials.

CA AB 1703
La Malfa (R)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL

Water: Storm Water Monitoring Requirements
Repeals the provisions of the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Requires the state Water Resources Control Board to develop minimum monitoring requirements for regulated municipalities that were subject to a storm water permit and minimum standard monitoring requirements for regulated industries to be included in all applicable storm water permits.

·  To ASM Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials.

CA SB 589
Correa (D)
NEUTRAL

Mobilehome Parks: Sewage Disposal
Includes a plumbing fixture in a permanent building located within a mobilehome park or special occupancy park within the scope of the prohibition against any wastewater or material from a plumbing fixture in a manufactured home, mobilehome, or recreational vehicle to be deposited upon the surface of the ground. Revises the scope of the prohibition to include sewage or waste material from any mobilehome park sewage or waste disposal system.

·  To Enrollment.

CA SB 616
Margett (R)
WATCH                  2 YEAR BILL

Waste Discharge Requirements: Racing Facilities
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to prescribe general waste discharge requirements for horse racing facilities.

·  Held in SEN Committee on Environmental Quality.

CA SB 790
Torlakson (D)
SUPPORT              2 YEAR BILL

Public Health: County Health Officers
Authorizes a city, county, or city and county to establish a joint powers authority with another public agency that has laboratories in place that can conduct stormwater and urban runoff analyses, if the city, county, or city and county does not have existing statutory authorization for the formation of such an authority.

·  Held in SEN Committee on HEALTH.

CA SCA 12
Torlakson (D)  SUPPORT - letter

Local Government: Property-Related Fees
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to exclude fees and charges for stormwater and urban runoff management from the 2/3 voter approval of the voters residing in the area affected by the fee or charge requirements for the imposition or increase of a property-related fee or charge.

·  On SEN Floor.

SOLID WASTE

CA AB 468
Ruskin (D)
NEUTRAL

Vehicles: Abatement of Abandoned Vehicles
Authorizes a county service authority to use registration fees as well as the moneys received from the Abandoned Vehicle Trust Fund for the costs associated with the enforcement of the ordinance adopted by the authority. Prohibits the authority from offsetting other specified costs and from carrying out an abandoned vehicle abatement unless a specified notice is issued and the notice period has expired. Authorizes the authority to carryout such abatement under certain conditions. Relates to a fiscal report.

·  To Enrollment.

CA AB 501
Swanson (D)
NEUTRAL              2 YEAR BILL