STATE LEGISLATIVE BILL REPORT

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1 M o l o d a n o f G o v e r n m e n t R e l a t i o n s STATE LEGISLATIVE BILL REPORT Client: Automotive Service Councils of California Report Date: March 13, 2017 CA AB 1 Frazier [D] Transportation Funding 12/05/2016 Creates the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program to address deferred maintenance on the state highway and local street and road systems. Provides for certain funds, creation of the Office of the Transportation Inspector General, certain loan repayments, diesel fuel excise tax revenues, the appropriations to the Low Carbon Transit Operations Program, gasoline excise taxes, a certain CEQA exemption, an Advance Mitigation Program, and a certain surface transportation project delivery program. 01/19/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committees on TRANSPORTATION and NATURAL RESOURCES. CA AB 5 Gonzalez [D] Employers: Opportunity To Work Act 12/05/2016 Assembly Labor and Employment Committee Creates the Opportunity to Work Act. Requires certain employers to offer additional hours of work to an existing nonexempt employee before hiring an additional employee or subcontractor, to post a notice of employee rights, and to maintain certain documentation. Authorizes certain civil actions for remedies. 01/19/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT. Oppose CA AB 33 Quirk [D] Greenhouse Gases From Transportation: Reduction

2 12/05/2016 ASSEMBLY States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reduce net emissions from greenhouse gases from transportation by imposing fees and granting rebates on sales of new automobiles and light trucks. 12/05/2016 INTRODUCED. CA AB 87 Ting [D] Autonomous Vehicles 01/05/ /20/2017 2:30 pm Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to revoke the vehicle registration of any autonomous vehicle operating in violation of their Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program and authorizes law enforcement to impound such vehicles. Gives DMV the discretion to fine companies illegally operating autonomous vehicles up to a specified amount per day of violation and prohibits those companies from applying to receive a permit from DMV to legally test self-driving technology on California road for two years. 01/19/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committees on TRANSPORTATION and COMMUNICATIONS AND CONVEYANCE. CA AB 150 Mathis [R] Disabled Persons: Rights: Liability 01/10/2017 Assembly Judiciary Committee 03/14/2017 9:00 am Establishes notice requirements for a plaintiff to follow before bringing an action against a small business for an alleged violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of /19/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY. Support CA AB 168 Eggman [D] Employers: Salary Information 01/17/2017 ASSEMBLY

3 Prohibits an employer, including state and local government employers, from seeking salary history information about an applicant for employment. Requires an employer to provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant for employment. 01/17/2017 INTRODUCED. CA AB 188 Salas [D] Vehicle Retirement 01/19/2017 Amends existing law which creates the enhanced fleet modernization program. Requires the Air Resources Board to update the guidelines for the program to make applicable to light-duty pickup trucks the same standard for miles per gallon that is applicable to minivans. 01/30/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION. CA AB 193 Cervantes [D] Air Quality Program: Clean Reused Vehicle Rebates 01/19/2017 Requires the Air Resources Board to establish the Clean Reused Vehicle Rebate Project to provide rebates or other incentives for the acquisition of an eligible used vehicle, the replacement or refurbishment of a battery and related components, or an extended service warranty to cover unexpected vehicle repairs not covered by a manufacturer's warranty related to unique problems in eligible used vehicles. 01/30/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION. CA AB 249 Gomez [D] Hazardous Waste: Civil Penalties 01/30/2017 Assembly Appropriations Committee Amends the Hazardous Waste Control Law which regulates the use and disposal of hazardous materials. Increases the administrative and civil penalties for disposing or causing the disposal of a hazardous waste at an unauthorized site, or treating or storing a hazardous waste at an unauthorized site. 03/07/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (7-0)

4 CA AB 399 Grayson [D] Autonomous Vehicles 02/09/2017 ASSEMBLY States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to autonomous vehicles and the balance of innovation with the State of California's safety regulations. 02/09/2017 INTRODUCED. CA AB 442 Frazier [D] Employer Liability: Small Business and Microbusiness 02/13/2017 Assembly Labor and Employment Committee Prohibits the Division of Occupational Safety and Health from commencing any enforcement action for any nonserious violation, against any employer where the employer is a small business or microbusiness, without first giving the employer written notice and providing the employer 30 days to correct the violation and assess a reasonable fee to cover its costs not to exceed a specified amount. 02/27/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT. CA AB 475 Chau [D] Total Loss Salvage Vehicles and Dismantled Vehicles 02/13/ /20/2017 2:30 pm Requires a certification of structural integrity to be submitted to the Department of Motor Vehicles before a vehicle that has been reported as a total loss salvage vehicle or dismantled vehicle may be registered. 02/27/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION. Concerns CA AB 509 Frazier [D] Tire Recycling: Tire Regulatory Fee Program 02/13/2017 Assembly Natural Resources Committee

5 Requires a waste tire generator that is a retail seller of new tires to pay a tire regulatory fee. Requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, prior to establishing the fee, to hold a public hearing. Repeals the Rubberized Pavement Market Development Act and instead enacts the Tire Recycling Incentive Program Act. Requires the department to establish this incentive program to make payments to entities that purchase waste tire material for incorporation in a product for sale to end users. 02/27/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES. Concerns CA AB 582 Garcia [D] Vehicles: Emissions: Surveillance 02/14/2017 Assembly Natural Resources Committee Requires the state board to enhance its surveillance of emissions from new motor vehicles to detect defeat devices or other software used to evade the surveillance of emissions. Authorizes the state board to impose a fee on the manufacturers of new motor vehicles to cover the state board's costs associated with the enhanced surveillance. 02/27/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committees on NATURAL RESOURCES and TRANSPORTATION. CA AB 615 Cooper [D] Air Quality Improvement Program: Clean Vehicle Rebate 02/14/ /20/2017 2:30 pm Extends the operation of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project administered by the State Air Resources Board by deleting the repeal date. 02/27/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION. CA AB 623 Rodriguez [D] Autonomous Vehicle Testing: Accident Reporting 02/14/2017 Requires an accident involving operation of an autonomous vehicle that results in catastrophic bodily injury of the death of a person to be reported to the Department of Motor Vehicles within 24 hours of occurrence.

6 03/02/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committees on TRANSPORTATION and COMMUNICATIONS AND CONVEYANCE. CA AB 630 Cooper [D] Vehicles: Retirement and Replacement 02/14/ /20/2017 2:30 pm Establishes the Plus Up Program to be administered by the 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-polluting motor vehicles. Requires the board to update the guidelines for the enhanced fleet modernization program. 03/02/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION. CA AB 714 Acosta [R] Vehicles: Automatic Registration Renewal 02/15/ /20/2017 2:30 pm Requires Department of Motor Vehicles to develop and implement an opt-in, automatic vehicle registration process. Requires the department to automatically bill a vehicle owner's credit card for the renewal fee by a specified day. Requires the department to provide the vehicle owner with advance notice. Requires the vehicle owner to use an alternative renewal method if he or she does not provide the department with the required additional information. 03/02/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION. CA AB 913 Gray [D] Construction Related Accessibility Claims 02/16/2017 Assembly Judiciary Committee Relates to construction-related accessibility claims. Authorizes a court to enter a prefiling order prohibiting an extremely high-frequency litigant from filing any new litigation without first obtaining leave of the presiding justice or presiding judge of the court where the litigation is supposed to be filed. 03/02/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY. CA AB 1008 McCarty [D]

7 02/16/2017 Employment Discrimination: Prior Criminal History Assembly Labor and Employment Committee Provides that it is an unlawful employment practice for an employer to include on any application for employment any question that seeks the disclosure of an applicant's criminal history, to inquire into or consider the conviction history of an applicant until that applicant has received a conditional offer. Sets forth certain requirements for an employer who intends to deny an application solely or in part because of the applicant's prior conviction of a crime. 03/09/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT. CA AB 1081 Burke [D] Exclusion Low-Emission Motor Vehicle Trade-In 02/16/2017 Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee 03/27/2017 2:30 pm Relates to sales and use taxes. Excludes from the terms gross receipts and sales price the value of a motor vehicle traded in for a qualified low-emission vehicle if the value of the trade-in motor vehicle is separately stated on the invoice. Amends the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax. Provides that no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse cities and counties for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill. 03/06/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on REVENUE AND TAXATION. CA AB 1099 Gonzalez [D] Compensation: Gratuities Assembly Labor and Employment Committee Requires an employer that permits a patron to pay for services performed by an employee by debit or credit card to also accept a debit or credit card for payment of gratuity. Requires payment of a gratuity made by a patron using a credit card to be made to the employee not later than the next regular payday following the date the patron authorized the payment. 03/06/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT. CA AB 1132 Garcia [D]

8 Nonvehicular Air Pollution: Order of Abatement Assembly Natural Resources Committee Relates to the emission of air pollutants by stationary sources. Relates to an order for abatement after notice and a hearing. Authorizes the air pollution control officer to issue an order for abatement pending a hearing before the hearing board of the air district. Requires the air pollution control officer to notify the alleged violator of the order. 03/06/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES. CA AB 1141 Berman [D] Autonomous Vehicle: Freight Vehicles ASSEMBLY States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to autonomous vehicles and freight safety. INTRODUCED. CA AB 1160 Bonta [D] Autonomous Vehicles Changes the definition of autonomous vehicle to mean any vehicle equipped with autonomous technology that has been integrated into that vehicle and is operated without the active physical control or monitoring by a human operator. 03/09/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committees on TRANSPORTATION and COMMUNICATIONS AND CONVEYANCE. CA AB 1173 Harper [R] Employment: Work Hours: Holiday Season: Overtime Assembly Labor and Employment Committee Establishes an overtime exemption for an employee-selected holiday season flexible work schedule which would an employee-selected flexible work schedule providing for workdays up to 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek.

9 03/09/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT. CA AB 1179 Kalra [D] Hazardous Waste Facilities: Inspections Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee 03/21/2017 1:30 pm Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control inspect a permitted hazardous wasteland disposal facility. 03/09/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS. CA AB 1180 Holden [D] California Tire Fee: Stormwater Permit Compliance Assembly Natural Resources Committee Makes conforming changes to The California Tire Recycling Act which would increase the California tire fees. Deposits the additional moneys in the Stormwater Permit Compliance Fund and make the moneys available to the State Water Resources control Board Division of Financial Assistance. 03/09/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committees on NATURAL RESOURCES and ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS. Oppose CA AB 1186 Chau [D] Cybersecurity ASSEMBLY Declares the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to cybersecurity. INTRODUCED. CA AB 1190 Obernolte [R] Department of Consumer Affairs: BreEZe System

10 Assembly Business and Professions Committee Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to submit an annual report to the Legislature that includes the department's plans for implementing the BreEZe system at specified regulatory entities included in the department's 3rd phase of the BreEZe implementation project a timeline for the implementation. 03/09/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS. CA AB 1663 Garcia [D] Air Resources: Emissions Control ASSEMBLY Relates to existing law which gives responsibility for the control of air pollution from vehicular sources to the State Air Resources Board and from all other sources to local and regional authorities. Corrects an obsolete reference. INTRODUCED. CA AB 1682 Burke [D] Instructional Programs: Career Technical Education ASSEMBLY Makes a nonsubstantive change to the existing law which establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program as a state education, economic, and workforce development initiative. INTRODUCED. CA SB 1 Beall [D] Transportation Funding 12/05/2016 LAST AMEND: 01/26/2017 Senate Appropriations Committee Creates the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program to address deferred maintenance on the state highway and local street and road systems. Provides for certain funds, creation of the Office of the Transportation Inspector General, certain loan repayments, diesel fuel excise tax revenues, the appropriations to the Low Carbon Transit Operations Program, gasoline excise taxes, a certain CEQA exemption, an Advance Mitigation Program, and a certain surface transportation project delivery program.

11 03/08/2017 From SENATE Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (5-1) CA SB 63 Jackson [D] Unlawful Employment Practice: Parental Leave 12/22/2016 Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee 03/22/2017 9:30 am Prohibits an employer from refusing to allow certain employees to take up to 12 weeks of parental leave to bond with a new child within one year of the child's birth, adoption, or foster care placement. Prohibits an employer from refusing to maintain and pay for coverage under a group health plan for an employee who takes this leave. 01/12/2017 To SENATE Committees on LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS and JUDICIARY. CA SB 145 Hill [D] Autonomous Vehicles: Testing on Public Roads 01/17/2017 Senate Transportation and Housing Committee Repeals a requirement that the Department of Motor Vehicles notify the Legislature of receipt of an application seeking approval to operate an autonomous vehicle capable of operating without the presence of a driver inside the vehicle on public roads. Repeals the requirement that the approval of such an application not be effective any sooner that a specified number of days after the date of the application. 01/26/2017 To SENATE Committee on TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING. CA SB 150 Allen [D] Regional Transportation Plans 01/18/2017 LAST AMEND: 03/08/2017 Senate Rules Committee Requires the State Air Resources Board to update certain greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for automobiles and light trucks. Requires a sustainable communities or alternative planning strategy to include an appendix that outlines a region's transportation planning and programming activities, with transportation projects to be prioritized based on a project's ability to meet certain criteria and objectives, including vehicle miles traveled reductions and certain cobenefits.

12 03/08/2017 From SENATE Committee on RULES with author's amendments. 03/08/2017 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on RULES. CA SB 182 Bradford [D] Single Business License: Small Businesses 01/24/2017 Senate Rules Committee States the intent of the Legislature that would enact legislation to establish a single business license for industries with small business owners that operate in multiple local jurisdictions. 02/02/2017 To SENATE Committee on RULES. CA SB 258 Lara [D] Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of /08/2017 Senate Environmental Quality Committee 03/29/2017 9:30 am Requires a manufacturer of a cleaning product to disclose ingredients contained in and health impact information related to the product on the product label. 02/16/2017 To SENATE Committees on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY and LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. CA SB 369 Hertzberg [D] Autonomous Vehicles 02/14/2017 Senate Transportation and Housing Committee Relates to the operation of an autonomous vehicle on public roads for testing purposes by a driver who possesses the proper class of license. Specifies that a vehicle equipped with a collision avoidance system that is not capable of driving the vehicle without a human driver remaining fully engaged in the driving task is not an autonomous vehicle. 02/23/2017 To SENATE Committee on TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING. CA SB 391 Vidak [R] Employment: Workers Compensation and Piece-rates 02/15/2017

13 Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee 03/22/2017 9:30 am Relates to statements for employees who are compensated on a piece-rate basis. Requires the Labor Commissioner to post on the commissioner's Internet Web site information regarding payments made to the commissioner, including worker's compensation, the total number of employees for whom the Labor Commissioner has collected payments and the total amount remitted to those employees, and the balance remaining from the amounts after remitting payments to employees. 02/23/2017 To SENATE Committee on LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. SupportConcept CA SB 521 Leyva [D] California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Tires 02/16/2017 Senate Rules Committee Relates to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of Extends certain provisions in existing law which requires a tire pressure gauge used to meet the requirements of the tire pressure regulation to be accurate within a specified range. 03/02/2017 To SENATE Committee on RULES. Concerns CA SB 552 Fuller [R] Career Technical Education: Aptitude Test 02/16/2017 Senate Education Committee Requires the State Department of Education to, on or before a specified date, develop a new or revise an existing, or contract with an appropriate vendor to develop a new or revise an existing, career technical education test that measures aptitudes, or areas of interest, or both, for pupils as specified. Requires the department to post the test on its Internet Web site for the public to access. 03/02/2017 To SENATE Committee on EDUCATION. CA SB 638 Leyva [D] Heavy Duty Motor Vehicles Senate Transportation and Housing Committee

14 Requires the State Air Resource Board to adopt regulations that require owners or operators of heavy duty motor vehicles used for commercial purposes to perform regular inspections of their vehicles for compliance with emission standards of the State board. Requires a fleet of these vehicles to comply with the State boards emission standards in order for any vehicle of the fleet to be registered. 03/02/2017 To SENATE Committees on TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING and ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY. CA SB 640 Hertzberg [D] Taxation Senate Governance and Finance Committee Makes Legislative findings regarding responding to pending proposals for federal tax reform and California's tax climate including broadening the tax base by imposing a modest sales tax on services. Establishes the Retail Sales Tax on Services Fund to provide tax relief to middleand low-income Californians to offset the effect of a sales tax on services. 03/02/2017 To SENATE Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE. Concerns CA SB 660 Newman [D] Vehicle Exhaust Systems: Exemption Senate Transportation and Housing Committee Relates to motor vehicle emission standards and criteria for the evaluation of the effectiveness of motor vehicle pollution control devices. Authorizes the state board to enter into agreements with private entities and receive contributions from private sources in the form of equipment or money in order to expedite the processing of resolutions and executive orders and the associated applications. 03/09/2017 To SENATE Committees on TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING and ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY. CA SB 696 Wilk [R] Career Technical Education: Career Pathways Senate Rules Committee

15 Relates to career pathways for training from high school to the workforce and prison to the workforce. 03/09/2017 To SENATE Committee on RULES. CA SB 802 Skinner [D] Autonomous Vehicles Senate Rules Committee Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to an existing law which establishes regulations for the operation of an autonomous vehicle on public roads for testing purposes by a driver who possesses the proper class of license for the type of vehicle being operated if the manufacturer meets prescribed requirements. 03/09/2017 To SENATE Committee on RULES. Copyright (c) 2017 State Net. All rights reserved.