BILL INFORMATION
P1 Bill List 2011 - 2012 Legislation – Updated January 19, 2012
Priority: 1
AB 8 (Huber D) Division of Juvenile Justice: facilities: closures.
Current Text: Introduced: 12/6/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Status: 1/10/2012 -In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 12/7/2011-A. PUB. S.
Summary: Existing law establishes within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, under the Chief Deputy Secretary for Juvenile Justice, the Division of Juvenile Facilities, the Division of Juvenile Programs, and the Division of Juvenile Parole Operations, which operate the statewide system governing wards of the court and other persons committed to the department, and the detention, rehabilitation, probation, and parole thereof. Existing law states that the establishment, organization, jurisdiction, powers, duties, responsibilities, and functions of the former Youth Authority are continued in the Division of Juvenile Facilities. This bill would prohibit the Division of Juvenile Facilities from closing any youth correctional facility for a period of 6 months from the effective date of this bill. The bill would state that it is expected that ongoing activity levels at each division facility shall equal activity levels in place immediately prior to October 20, 2010, and that the number of employees also be maintained at those levels during this period, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Support
Priority: 1
B 66 (Chesbro D) Taxation: vehicle license fees.
Current Text: Introduced: 12/13/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 12/13/2010
Status: 1/27/2011-Referred to Coms. on REV. & TAX. and PUB. S.
Location: 1/27/2011-A. REV. & TAX
Summary: The Vehicle License Fee Law, in lieu of any ad valorem property tax upon vehicles, imposes an annual license fee for any vehicle subject to registration in this state in the amount of 1% of the market value of that vehicle, as provided, for a specified amount of time. Existing law also, until June 30, 2011, imposes an additional tax equal to 0.15% of the market value of specified vehicles, as determined by the Department of Motor Vehicles, to the vehicle license fee, to be deposited in the General Fund and transferred to the Local Safety and Protection Account, a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would repeal the provision relating to the sunset date and repeal of the additional 0.15% tax, thereby depositing additional moneys into a continuously appropriated fund. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Support
Priority: 1
AB 168 (Gorell R) Local Safety and Protection Account: appropriation.
Current Text: Amended: 5/4/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 1/20/2011
Status: 5/28/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(5). (Last location was PUB. S. on 5/5/2011)
Location: 5/28/2011-A. 2 YEAR
Summary: The Vehicle License Fee Law, in lieu of any ad valorem property tax upon vehicles, imposes an annual license fee for any vehicle subject to registration in this state in the amount of 1% of the market value of that vehicle, as provided, for a specified amount of time. Existing law, operative until June 30, 2011, also imposes an additional tax to the vehicle license fee equal to 0.15% of the market value of specified vehicles, as determined by the Department of Motor Vehicles, to be deposited in the General Fund and transferred to the Local Safety and Protection Account, a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would appropriate $506,400,000 from the General Fund to be deposited in the Local Safety and Protection Account, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Support w/ Letter
Priority: 1
AB 192 (Logue R) Public safety: Local Safety and Protection Account: appropriation.
Current Text: Amended: 2/22/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 1/26/2011
Status: 5/16/2011-In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission.
Location: 2/23/2011-A. REV. & TAX SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: The Vehicle License Fee Law, in lieu of any ad valorem property tax upon vehicles, imposes an annual license fee for any vehicle subject to registration in this state in the amount of 1% of the market value of that vehicle, as provided, for a specified amount of time. Existing law also, until July 1, 2011, imposes an additional tax equal to 0.15% of the market value of specified vehicles, as determined by the Department of Motor Vehicles, to the vehicle license fee, to be deposited in the General Fund and transferred to the Local Safety and Protection Account, a continuously appropriated fund. Existing law provides that money in the account shall be allocated for various public safety programs, as provided. This bill would, beginning July 1, 2011, and each July 1 thereafter for a transfer $500,000,000 from the General Fund to the account total of 5 years, as provided. By transferring funds to a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Support w/ Letter
Priority: 1
AB 877 (Skinner D) Vehicles: nonfelony offenses and infractions: removal of records.
Current Text: Amended: 8/29/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2011
Status: 8/29/2011-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: 8/29/2011-S. APPR.
Summary: Existing law requires that a person not be subject to prosecution for any nonfelony offense arising out of the operation of a motor vehicle, or a violation of the Vehicle Code as a pedestrian, that is pending against him or her at the time of his or her commitment to the custody of the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or the Division of Juvenile Facilities. This bill would also apply these provisions and the exemption from prosecution to a person for any pending infraction arising out of the operation of a motor vehicle or for a violation of the Vehicle Co de as a pedestrian, upon serving 90 days or longer in a consecutive 12-month period after the date of the violation in a county jail or other county correctional facility, court or county rehabilitation facility, or involuntary in home detention. This bill contains other existing laws..
Position: Watch
Priority: 1
AB 961 (Mansoor R) Public employee organizations: negotiations: pension benefits.
Current Text: Amended: 3/31/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Status: 5/10/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(2). (Last location was P.E.,R. & S.S. on 4/4/2011)
Location: 5/10/2011-A. 2 YEAR.
Summary: Existing law provides for the representation of state or local public employees by recognized employee organizations, and provides that the scope of this representation includes negotiations concerning wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment between the state or local public employer and representatives of those employee organizations, as specified. This bill would exclude matters relating to pension benefits from the scope of representation of public employees by recognized employee organizations, and would thereby prohibit these employee organizations from negotiating pension benefits with public employers.
Position: Oppose
Priority: 1
AB 1165 (Achadjian R) Domestic violence: probation: terms.
Current Text: Amended: 3/31/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Status: 1/11/2012-Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
Location: 1/11/2012-A. CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: Existing law requires that for a person granted probation for a conviction of domestic violence, the terms of the probation are required to include, among other things, a minimum period of probation of 36 months, notice to the victim of the disposition of the case, and successful completion of a batterer's program, as defined, or, if such a program is not available, another appropriate counseling program designated by the court, for a period not less than one year. This bill would make an act or omission relating to the approval of the batterer's treatment programs a discretionary act, as specified . This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Priority: 1
AB 1179 (Mansoor R) Labor organizations: union dues: political activities.
Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Status: 6/3/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(8). (Last location was L. & E. on 4/25/2011)
Location: 6/3/2011-A. 2 YEAR
Summary:Existing law provides that any collective bargaining agreement between an employer and a labor organization is enforceable at law or in equity, and a breach of the collective bargaining agreement by any party thereto is subject to the same remedies, including injunctive relief, as are available on other contracts in the courts of the state. This bill would enact the California Voluntary Contributions Act and allow a labor organization to make expenditures for political activities only if the labor organization establishes a separate fund from which to make those expenditures and complies with specified provisions, including, among others, a prohibition on using union dues for political activities, transferring union dues to the fund, or intermingling union dues in any way with moneys in the fund. Notwithstanding those limitations, the bill would allow a labor organization to use union dues to lobby or communicate directly with its own members regarding political candidates, ballot measures, and other political issues.
Position: Oppose
Priority: 1
AB 1294 (Furutani D) Juvenile reentry programs.
Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Status: 5/28/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(5). (Last location was APPR. on 5/27/2011)
Location: 5/28/2011-A. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law generally regulates juvenile offenders, including provisions pertaining to juveniles under the jurisdiction of county probation departments. This bill would, to the extent funding is appropriated for its purposes, require that not more than 45 days before a youth is scheduled to be released from a facility or program operated by a county juvenile probation department, that department shall determine whether the youth is eligible for one or more community reentry programs, as specified. The bill would provide that upon a determination of eligibility, the county probation department would, not less than 20 days before release, coordinate an evaluation for enrollment and actual enrollment of the youth into a community reentry program. The bill would establish the minimum level of services to be provided by the community reentry programs. F By imposing additional burdens on local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Priority: 1
ACAX1 2 (Blumenfield D) The Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2011.
Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 3/14/2011
Status: 9/12/2011-From committee without further action.
Location: 3/22/2011-A. BUDGET
Summary: Existing law, until July 1, 2011, imposes a state sales and use tax on retailers and on the storage, use, or other consumption of tangible personal property in this state at the rate of 71/4% of the gross receipts from the retail sale of tangible personal property in this state and of the sales price of tangible personal property purchased from any retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. Existing law reduces the state sales and use tax rate by 1% on July 1, 2011. This measure would extend the existing sales and use tax rate and vehicle license fees until July 1, 2016, and would deposit the revenues derived from the increase in those taxes into the Local Revenue Fund 2011, established by this measure, to be appropriated by the Legislature to fund the provision of public safety services, as described, by local agencies pursuant to the 2011 Realignment Legislation, as defined. This measure would also provide that the assignment of responsibilities to local agencies under the 2011 Realignment Legislation shall not be reimbursable as a new program or higher level of service, but would require reimbursement to local agencies resulting from subsequent state actions under certain circumstances. This measure would further state that local agency costs increased in complying with statutory open meeting requirements shall not be deemed a reimbursable state mandate. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Support
Priority: 1
SB 9 (Yee D) Sentencing.
Current Text: Amended: 8/15/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Status: 9/8/2011-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Location: 9/8/2011-A. THIRD READING
Summary: Existing law provides that the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or the Board of Parole Hearings, or both, may, for specified reasons, recommend to the court that a prisoner's sentence be recalled, and that a court may recall a prisoner's sentence. This bill would authorize a prisoner who was under 18 years of age at the time of committing an offense for which the prisoner was sentenced to life without parole to submit a petition for recall and resentencing to the sentencing court, and to the prosecuting agency, as specified. The bill would prohibit a prisoner who tortured his or her victim or whose victim was a public safety official, as defined, from filing a petition for recall and resentencing. The bill would require the petition to include a statement from the defendant that includes, among other things, his or her remorse and work towards rehabilitation. The bill would establish certain criteria, at least one of which shall be asserted in the petition, to be considered when a court decides whether to conduct a hearing on the petition for recall and resentencing and additional criteria to be considered by the court when deciding whether to grant the petition. The bill would require the court to hold a hearing if the court finds that the statements in the defendant's petition are true, as specified. The bill would apply retroactively, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Priority: 1
SB 27 (Simitian D) Public retirement: final compensation: computation: retirees.
Current Text: Amended: 6/28/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Status: 8/26/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/17/2011)
Location: 8/26/2011-A. 2 YEAR
Summary: The State Teachers' Retirement Law (STRL) establishes the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers' Retirement System, which provides a defined benefit to members of the system based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. STRL also establishes the Defined Benefit Supplement Program, which provides supplemental retirement, disability, and other benefits, payable either in a lump-sum payment, an annuity, or both to members of the State Teachers' Retirement Plan. STRL defines creditable compensation for these purposes as remuneration that is payable in cash to all persons in the same class of employees, as specified, for performing creditable service. This bill would revise the definition of creditable compensation for these purposes and would identify certain payments, reimbursements, and compensation that are creditable compensation to be applied to the Defined Benefit Supplement Program. The bill would prohibit one employee from being considered a class. The bill would revise the definition of compensation with respect to the Defined Benefit Supplement Program to include remuneration earnable within a 5-year period, which includes the last year in which the member's final compensation is determined, when it is in excess of 125% of that member's compensation earnable in the year prior to that 5-year period, as specified. The bill would prohibit a member who retires on or after January 1, 2013, who elects to receive his or her retirement benefit under the Defined Benefit Supplement Program as a lump-sum payment from receiving that sum until 180 days have elapsed following the effective date of the member's retirement. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Oppose
Priority: 1
SB 490 (Hancock D) Death penalty.
Current Text: Amended: 8/15/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2011
Status: 8/26/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2011)
Location: 8/26/2011-A. 2 YEAR
Summary: xisting law, as added and amended by various initiatives, including Proposition 7, approved by the voters at the November 7, 1978, statewide general election, provides for imposition of the death penalty for murder in the first degree if certain special circumstances are proved. Proposition 7 may only be amended by the Legislature by a statute that becomes effective only when approved by the electors. This bill would abolish the death penalty, and provide instead for imprisonment in the state prison for life without the possibility of parole. The bill would provide that , where a defendant or inmate was sentenced to death prior to the date of voter approval of the bill, upon voter approval of the bill, the defendant's or inmate's sentence would automatically be converted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The bill would require persons sentenced pursuant to the provisions of the bill to work in a maximum security prison for the term of their imprisonment, as specified. The bill would state findings and declarations of the Legislature regarding the death penalty. The bill would provide that it would only become effective if certain of its provisions are submitted to and approved by the electors at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election.
Position: Oppose
Priority: 1
SB 520 (Walters R) Public employees' retirement: hybrid plan.
Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2011
Status: 5/10/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(2). (Last location was P.E. & R. on 3/24/2011)
Location: 5/10/2011-S. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law creates the Public Employees' Retirement System which provides a defined benefit to its members based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. This bill would require the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to create a hybrid retirement plan for public employees who become members on or after January 1, 2012, that offers a defined contribution plan and defined benefit plan for retirement for service and a defined benefit plan for retirement for disability or for death. The bill would prohibit those plans from creating a vested property right for the member with respect to any employer contributions before retirement, as specified. The bill would prohibit those members from being eligible to enroll in the defined benefit plan for retirement for service that existed before January 1, 2012.
Position: Oppose
Priority: 1
SB 604 (Berryhill R) Probation.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2011
Status: 5/13/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(3). (Last location was RLS. on 3/3/2011)
Location: 5/13/2011-S. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law authorizes the court to grant probation to certain persons convicted of a crime. Existing law provides that "probation" means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of conditional and revocable release in the community under the supervision of a probation officer. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the provision defining the term "probation."
Position: Watch
Priority: 1
SB 678 (Negrete McLeod D) Probation: community corrections multidisciplinary teams.
Current Text: Amended: 6/29/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Status:7/8/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was PUB. S. on 6/29/2011)
Location: 7/8/2011-A. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law authorizes the members of multidisciplinary teams engaged in the prevention, identification, and control of juvenile crime to share certain information with each other, as specified. This bill would, in addition, authorize counties, for purposes of providing evidence-based practices and supervision , to convene community corrections multidisciplinary teams engaged in providing community corrections supervision and evidenced-based rehabilitation programs, as specified. The bill would require each community corrections multidisciplinary team to maintain an informed consent policy in order to authorize the sharing of confidential, privileged, or protected information among members of the team, as specified. The bill would additionally require the county probation officer in each county utilizing a community corrections multidisciplinary team to develop and implement a memorandum of understanding between the agencies participating in the community corrections multidisciplinary team that includes, among other things, a description of the types of information and writings that may be shared between team members.
Position: Support
Priority: 1
SB 781 (Dutton R) Probation: electronic monitoring.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Status: 5/13/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(3). (Last location was RLS. on 3/10/2011)
Location: 5/13/2011-S. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law authorizes a county probation department to utilize continuous electronic monitoring to electronically monitor the whereabouts of persons on probation. Existing law allows a continuous electronic monitoring system to have the capacity to notify a county probation department of a probation violation. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Priority: 1
SB 827 (Simitian D) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Amended: 9/7/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Status: 10/13/2011-Assembly Members Furutani, Allen, and Silva appointed to Conference Committee.
Location: 10/13/2011-S. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Summary: The State Teachers' Retirement System, the Public Employees' Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement System, and the Judges Retirement System II provide pension benefits based in part upon credited service. Under existing law, counties and districts, as defined, may provide retirement benefits to their employees pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to convene a conference committee to craft responsible, comprehensive legislation to reform state and local pension systems in a manner that reflects both the legitimate needs of public employees and the fiscal circumstances of state and local governments.
Position: Watch
Priority: 1
SB 858 (Gaines R) Probation: Chief Probation Officer of Nevada County.
Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Status: 6/3/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(8). (Last location was PUB. S. on 5/3/2011)
Location: 6/3/2011-S. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law establishes the office of adult probation officer, and provides for the appointment of a probation officer in each county. Existing law provides that the probation officer be appointed by the court, except in charter counties, where the probation officer is appointed by the board of supervisors. Existing law also authorizes the office of a probation officer appointed by the juvenile court, except as otherwise provided in charter counties, and specifies that this probation officer, and his or her appointees, are ex officio adult probation officers, unless the county charter provides for the separate office of adult probation officer. This bill would provide that the Chief Probation Officer of Nevada County over adult and juvenile probation be appointed and removed by the Nevada County Board of Supervisors. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Priority: 1
SBX1 5 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) Criminal Justice Realignment of 2011.
Current Text: Amended: 9/6/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 5/18/2011
Status: 9/12/2011-From Assembly without further action.
Location: 9/8/2011-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Existing law, if Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, provides that, except for persons with a prior or current felony conviction for serious or violent felony, persons required to register as sex offenders, or persons convicted of a crime as part of a sentence enhancement, as specified, a felony punishable pursuant to specified provisions where the term is not specified in the underlying offense shall be punishable by a term of imprisonment is a county in a county jail for 16 months, or two or three years and a felony punishable by a term of imprisonment described in the underlying offense shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail. Those persons excepted from this requirement are subject to imprisonment in the state prison. This bill would additionally require persons with a current or prior felony conviction in another jurisdiction for an offense that has all of the elements of a serious or violent felony, as specified, to serve the term of imprisonment in the state prison. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Priority: 1
SCAX1 1 (Steinberg D) The Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2011.
Current Text: Amended: 3/17/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 3/14/2011
Status: 9/10/2011-From committee without further action.
Location: 3/21/2011-S. RLS.
Summary: Existing law, until July 1, 2011, imposes a state sales and use tax on retailers and on the storage, use, or other consumption of tangible personal property in this state at the rate of 71/4% of the gross receipts from the retail sale of tangible personal property in this state and of the sales price of tangible personal property purchased from any retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. Existing law reduces the state sales and use tax rate by 1% on July 1, 2011. This measure would extend the existing sales and use tax rate and vehicle license fees until July 1, 2016, and would deposit the revenues derived from the increase in those taxes into the Local Revenue Fund 2011, established by this measure, to be appropriated by the Legislature to fund the provision of public safety services, as described, by local agencies pursuant to the 2011 Realignment Legislation, as defined. This measure would also provide that the assignment of responsibilities to local agencies under the 2011 Realignment Legislation shall not be reimbursable as a new program or higher level of service, but would require reimbursement to local agencies resulting from subsequent state actions under certain circumstances. This measure would further state that local agency costs increased in complying with statutory open meeting requirements shall not be deemed a reimbursable state mandate. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Support
Priority: 1
Priority: 2
AB 3 (Miller R) Vehicles: confidential home addresses: citations.
Current Text: Amended: 4/14/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Status: 5/28/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(5). (Last location was APPR. on 5/27/2011)
Location: 5/28/2011-A. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law makes confidential the home addresses of certain state officers and employees that appear in the Department of Motor Vehicles records, if an officer or employee requests that his or her address be kept confidential, with certain exemptions for information available to specified governmental agencies. This bill would require the department, as part of its vehicle registration renewal process, to provide a person, who requests a confidential home address, with any outstanding notices of toll evasion violations that appear in the person's record with the department. The bill would require this notice to be the same level of notification as is required to be given to a person who does not have a confidential home address. The bill would prohibit these outstanding violations to include a fee or charge for failure to pay the violation. The bill would authorize the department to collect a reasonable fee from the person that is necessary to cover the department's costs to administer these provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
AB 43 (Monning D) Medi-Cal: eligibility.
Current Text: Amended: 5/27/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/6/2010
Status: 6/3/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(8). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 5/31/2011)
Location: 6/3/2011-A. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. This bill would require the department to establish, by January 1, 2014, eligibility for Medi-Cal benefits for any person who meets these eligibility requirements. This bill would permit the department, to the extent permitted by federal law, to phase in coverage for those individuals. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
B 60 (Jeffries R) Sentencing.
Current Text: Amended: 4/5/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/7/2010
Status: 12/7/2011-Set for Hearing.
Location: 12/7/2011-A. PUB. S.
Summary: Existing law, as amended by Proposition 21, adopted March 7, 2000, and by Proposition 83, adopted November 7, 2006, provides for a list of crimes called "violent felonies" and "serious felonies." Other existing law provides specified enhancements to the punishments of certain repeat, state-prison bound offenders with prior violent or serious felony convictions. The initiative statutes provide that any amendment of these provisions by the Legislature shall require a 2/3 vote of the membership of each house. This bill would add felony battery against the above-named persons to the list of "serious felonies" and to the list of "violent felonies." This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Support
Priority: 2
AB 175 (Donnelly R) Inmates: transfers.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 1/24/2011
Status: 5/26/2011-From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).
Location: 2/3/2011-A. PUB. S.
Summary: Existing law, operative until July 1, 2011, or until the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has replaced temporary beds, as defined, authorizes any court, agency, or officer having power to commit or transfer an inmate, to any institution for confinement, to commit or transfer that inmate to any institution within or without this state if this state has contracted for the confinement of inmates in that institution pursuant to one of 2 specified compacts. Existing law provides that at any time more than 5 years after the transfer, the inmate shall be entitled to revoke consent and to transfer to an institution in this state. Existing law prohibits the transfer or commitment of an inmate with serious medical or mental health conditions, as determined by the Plata Receiver, or an inmate in the mental health delivery system, as specified, to an institution outside of this state unless he or she has executed a written consent to the transfer. This bill would remove the inmate's right to revoke his or her consent and make other conforming changes. The bill would delete the sunset date on existing law and make the above provision operative indefinitely. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
AB 178 (Gorell R) County jail: release pursuant to federal court order.
Current Text: Amended: 3/22/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 1/24/2011
Status: 7/8/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was PUB. S. on 6/28/2011)
Location: 7/8/2011-S. 2 YEAR
Summary: Under existing law, a defendant in a criminal case shall not be released from custody under his or her own recognizance until he or she files a signed release agreement that includes the defendant's promise to appear at all times and places as ordered by the court where the charge is pending, to obey conditions imposed by the court, to not depart the state without leave of the court, to waive extradition if the defendant fails to appear, and an acknowledgment that the defendant has been informed of the consequences and penalties applicable to a violation of the conditions of release. This bill would require a defendant who is being released prior to sentencing by county jail personnel, pursuant to a court order or policy mandating the release of inmates, to sign a release agreement with the same requirements as those pertaining to a defendant who is released under his or her own recognizance, including the defendant's promise to appear at the time and place he or she is given in writing by the jail personnel at the time of release. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
AB 219 (Portantino D) California Recidivism Goals Development and Achievement Act.
Current Text: Amended: 5/10/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/1/2011
Status: 5/28/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(5). (Last location was APPR. on 5/11/2011)
Location: 5/28/2011-A. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to oversee programs for the purposes of reducing parolee recidivism. This bill would declare the Legislature's intent regarding the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's role in reducing criminal recidivism. The bill would require the department to develop targets approved by the California Rehabilitation Oversight Board and to implement a plan based on those targets to achieve the goal of a reduction in the statewide criminal recidivism rate from 2010 of 20% by 2015 and 40% by 2020. The bill would provide that success towards meeting that goal would be reviewed as part of the annual budget process for the department's budget. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of the statewide recidivism rate, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
AB 257 (Galgiani D) Inmate release: notification.
Current Text: Amended: 3/31/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/3/2011
Status: 5/28/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(5). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/5/2011)
Location: 5/28/2011-A. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law requires the Board of Parole Hearings or the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as specified, to notify certain persons who have requested notification when an inmate who has committed a violent felony is scheduled to be released. This bill would require the department to develop a unified statewide electronic mail victim notification system for notifying victims who request that notification of parole hearings or release dates for their offenders be sent to them by e-mail.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
AB 327 (Davis D) Sentencing: three strikes.
Current Text:
Introduced:
Status: 1/10/2012-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (January 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 1/10/2012-A. APPR.
Summary: Existing law, contained in 2 initiative statutes, commonly known as the Three Strikes law, requires increased penalties for certain recidivist offenders in addition to any other enhancement or penalty provisions that may apply. Existing law requires that if a defendant has 2 or more prior violent or serious felony convictions, the term for the current felony conviction shall be an indeterminate term of imprisonment in the state prison for life with a minimum term to be served, as specified. This bill would provide that a defendant who has 2 or more prior violent or serious felony convictions shall receive the enhanced indeterminate life sentence only if the defendant's current conviction is for a serious or violent felony, as defined. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
AB 340 (Furutani D) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Amended: 9/7/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/10/2011
Status: 10/13/2011-Assembly Members Allen, Furutani, and Silva appointed to Conference Committee.
Location: 10/13/2011-A. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Summary: The State Teachers' Retirement System, the Public Employees' Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement System, and the Judges Retirement System II provide pension benefits based in part upon credited service. Under existing law, counties and districts, as defined, may provide retirement benefits to their employees pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to convene a conference committee to craft responsible, comprehensive legislation to reform state and local pension systems in a manner that reflects both the legitimate needs of public employees and the fiscal circumstances of state and local governments.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
AB 344 (Furutani D) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/10/2011
Status: 9/9/2011-Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Negrete McLeod.
Location: 9/9/2011-S. INACTIVE FILE
Summary: The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) requires contributions to the retirement fund based on compensation earnable by a member , including a school member , which includes the member's payrate and special compensation, as specified. "Payrate" is defined as the normal monthly rate of pay or base pay of the member paid in cash to similarly situated members of the same group or class of employment, as specified. For a member who is not in a group or class, "payrate" means the monthly rate of pay or base pay of the member, as specified. PERL provides that increases in compensation earnable granted to an employee who is not in a group or class shall be limited during the final compensation period applicable to the employees, as well as the 2 years immediately preceding the final compensation period, to the average increase in compensation earnable during the same period reported by the employer for all employees who are in the same membership classification, except as may otherwise be determined pursuant to regulations adopted by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System that establish reasonable standards for granting exceptions. This bill would delete the authorization for the board to adopt regulations to permit those exceptions to the average increase limitation for increases in compensation earnable granted to an employee who is not in a group or class. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
AB 874 (Donnelly R) Prisoners.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2011
Status: 5/13/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(3). (Last location was PRINT on 2/17/2011)
Location: 5/13/2011-A. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and charges it with various duties and responsibilities. Existing law generally regulates the conditions of incarceration and release for prisoners confined in state prisons. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to prisoners.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
AB 1132 (Smyth R) Public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Status: 5/13/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(3). (Last location was PRINT on 2/18/2011)
Location: 5/13/2011-A. 2 YEAR
Summary: The Public Employees' Retirement Law provides a comprehensive set of rights and benefits based upon age, service credit, and final compensation to members of the Public Employees' Retirement System. Any person who has been retired under the system is generally prohibited from being employed in any capacity unless he or she is first reinstated from retirement, except as authorized. Existing law authorizes a retired person to serve without reinstatement from retirement or loss or interruption of benefits provided by the Public Employees' Retirement System as a member of any board, commission, or advisory committee, as specified. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
AB 1135 (Bradford D) Crimes: punishment.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Status: 5/13/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(3). (Last location was PRINT on 2/18/2011)
Location: 5/13/2011-A. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law lists the persons who are liable to punishment under the laws of this state, including all persons who commit any crime within the state, all who commit any specified offense without this state and bring the property stolen or embezzled within the state, as specified, those without the state who cause or aid, advise or encourage, another person to commit a crime within the state, and are afterwards found therein, and perjury when committed outside of California, to the extent provided by law, as specified. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
AB 1248 (Hueso D) Local public employees' retirement.
Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Status: 8/18/2011-Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Vargas.
Location: 8/18/2011-S. INACTIVE FILE
Summary: Existing law authorizes the creation of retirement systems for public employees by counties, cities, and districts. The California Constitutional authorizes charter cities to establish pension plans under their respective independent constitutional authority. This bill would require a local public employer to provide coverage under the federal social security system to all employees who are not covered under a defined benefit plan , except as specified . This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
AB 1320 (Allen D) Public employees' retirement: employer contribution rates.
Current Text: Amended: 9/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2011
Status: 9/9/2011-Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Allen.
Location: 9/9/2011-A. INACTIVE FILE
Summary:The Public Employees' Retirement Law prescribes employer rates for contribution to the retirement fund for the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS). Existing law requires that the state's contribution rate be adjusted in the Budget Act based on rates established by the system's actuary. Existing law provides that the employer contribution rate for an employer other than the state shall be determined on an annual basis by the actuary, as specified. Existing law requires that the rate at which a public employer contributes to the system shall be based upon its experience, and not the experience of public agency employers generally. Existing law requires that all assets of an employer in the system be used to determine the employer's contribution rate. This bill, on and after July 1, 2013, would establish for each employer a Rate Stabilization Account in the Employer Rate Stabilization Fund, which this bill would create and which would be continuously appropriated to the Board of Administration of PERS for the purpose of stabilizing employer retirement contributions. By creating a continuously appropriated fund and authorizing the expenditure of employer payments, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would provide that the board has sole and exclusive control over the administration of the fund and would require that the investment of fund assets be according to strategies established by the board. The bill would authorize the board, in its discretion, to establish administrative terms and conditions governing the Rate Stabilization Fund. The bill would provide that the Rate Stabilization Account is an employer asset, but it would not be counted as an asset for the purpose of determining the employer's contribution rate. The bill would require employers to make payments to the account when the actuarial value of assets exceeds the accrued liability, as specified, which would be calculated based on the employer normal cost of benefits and which would be credited to each employer's Rate Stabilization Account. Payments by the state would be made in the annual Budget Act. The bill would provide that the assets of the account be drawn upon , subject to procedures adopted by the board, to pay a portion of the employer contribution when the employer contribution rate is greater than the employer normal cost of benefits, as specified. The bill would provide that the employer is not required to make that additional contribution when the employer's Rate Stabilization Account exceeds an amount equal to 50% of the employer's assets, exclusive of the assets in the Rate Stabilization Account. The bill would provide that assets in an account would be invested according to investment strategies established by the Board of Administration of PERS. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
SB 46 (Correa D) Public officials: compensation disclosure.
Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/9/2010
Status: 8/22/2011-In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 8/22/2011-A. DESK
Summary: Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 require certain persons employed by agencies to file annually a written statement of the economic interests they possess during specified periods. The act requires that state agencies promulgate a conflict of interest code that must contain, among other topics, provisions that require designated employees to file statements disclosing reportable investments, business positions, interests in real property, and income. The act requires that every report and statement filed pursuant to the act is a public record and is open to public inspection. This bill would, commencing on January 1, 2013, and continuing until January 1, 2019, require every designated employee and other person, except a candidate for public office, who is required to file a statement of economic interests to include, as a part of that filing, a compensation disclosure form that provides compensation information for the preceding calendar year, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
SB 49 (Strickland R) Local government: emergency response: fees.
Current Text: Amended: 4/27/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/15/2010
Status: 6/3/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(8). (Last location was PUB. S. on 4/27/2011)
Location: 6/3/2011-S. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law authorizes public agencies, as defined, to hold liable any person who is under the influence of an alcoholic beverage, any drug, or the combination of an alcoholic beverage and any drug, whose negligent operation of a motor vehicle, a boat or vessel, or a civil aircraft caused by that influence proximately causes any incident resulting in an appropriate emergency response, and any person whose intentionally wrongful conduct proximately causes an incident resulting in an appropriate emergency response, for the expense of that emergency response. This bill would prohibit a city, including a charter city, county, district, municipal corporation, or public authority from charging a fee to any person, regardless of residency, for the expense of an emergency response, as specified, except where a fee is otherwise authorized. This bill would provide that its provisions do not apply to a special district unless that special district receives revenue from transaction and use taxes, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
SB 54 (Runner R) Sex offenders: residency restrictions: petition for relief.
Current Text: Amended: 4/12/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 12/16/2010
Status: 7/8/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was PUB. S. on 4/12/2011)
Location: 7/8/2011-S. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law, as amended by Proposition 83 of the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, prohibits any person who is required to register pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act from residing within 2,000 feet of any public or private school, or park where children regularly gather. This bill would provide that the 2,000 feet shall be measured by the shortest practical pedestrian or vehicle path. The bill would permit a person who is subject to the residency restriction to petition the superior court of the county within which he or she resides for relief from the requirement. The bill would provide that original jurisdiction for the petition would lie with the appellate division of the superior court in which the petition is filed. The bill would require the petitioner to establish by clear and convincing evidence that there is a pervasive lack of compliant housing in the county and that a substantial percentage of sex offenders are unable to comply despite good faith efforts. The bill would require that, if relief is granted, it shall be narrowly crafted in order to substantially comply with the intent of the people in approving the residency requirements. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
SB 115 (Strickland R) Public employees: pensions: forfeiture.
Current Text: Amended: 4/13/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 1/19/2011
Status: 1/4/2012-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R.
Location: 1/4/2012-S. P.E. & R.
Summary: Existing law provides that any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006, who is convicted of any specified felony arising directly out of his or her official duties, forfeits all rights and benefits under, and membership in, any public retirement system in which he or she is a member, effective on the date of final conviction, as specified. This bill would additionally include tampering with a witness, money laundering, and the preparation of false documents among the specified felonies that would result in that forfeiture for any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2013 . This bill would also make clarifying changes to that provision. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
SB 247 (Wyland R) Minors: fitness hearing.
Current Text: Amended: 3/21/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/10/2011
Status: 5/10/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(2). (Last location was PUB. S. on 3/21/2011)
Location: 5/10/2011-S. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law, enacted by initiative statute, enumerates specified crimes for which a minor 14 years of age or older may be prosecuted under the general law in a court of criminal jurisdiction, as specified. The initiative statute provides that any amendment of its provisions requires a 2/3 vote of the membership of each house of the Legislature. Under existing law, when a minor is alleged to have committed any of the enumerated crimes, a probation officer is required to investigate and submit a report for the court to consider in deciding whether to prosecute the minor as an adult. This bill would enact Pamela and Izaiah's Law , which would add both vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and causing great bodily injury while driving intoxicated to those enumerated crimes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
SB 522 (Walters R) Public employees' retirement: additional service credit.
Current Text: Amended: 3/22/2011 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2011
Status:5/10/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(2). (Last location was P.E. & R. on 3/22/2011)
Location: 5/10/2011-S. 2 YEAR
Summary: Existing law authorizes certain members of the Public Employees' Retirement System, the State Teachers' Retirement System, and county, city, and district retirement systems that have adopted specified provisions, to make additional contributions to the retirement system and receive up to 5 years of additional retirement service credit for time that does not qualify for public service, as specified. The bill would repeal the provisions that authorize these additional contributions and service credit, and would make related technical changes.
Position: Watch
Priority: 2
Totals
Measures: 42
Tracking Forms: 42