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: April 21, 2017 CA AB 1 Frazier [D] Transportation Funding 12/05/2016 Assembly Transportation 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. 01/19/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committees on TRANSPORTATION and NATURAL RESOURCES. CA AB 5 Gonzalez [D] Employers: Opportunity To Work Act 12/05/2016 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. 04/19/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (5-2) Position: Oppose CA AB 33 Quirk [D] Transportation Electrification 12/05/2016
03/23/2017 Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee 04/26/2017 1:30 pm Requires the Public Utilities Corporation to authorize electrical corporations to offer programs and investments in electric vehicle service equipment installed in residential garages of customers who purchase a used electric vehicle. Requires that the programs and investments be designed to accelerate widespread transportation electrification, achieve ratepayer benefits, reduce dependence on petroleum, meet air quality standards, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. 03/23/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on COMMUNICATIONS AND CONVEYANCE. 03/23/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on COMMUNICATIONS AND CONVEYANCE with author's amendments. 03/23/2017 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committee on COMMUNICATIONS AND CONVEYANCE. CA AB 87 Ting [D] Autonomous Vehicles 01/05/2017 Assembly Transportation Committee 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 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 1990.
04/04/2017 In ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY: Failed passage. 04/04/2017 In ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY: Reconsideration granted. Position: Support CA AB 168 Eggman [D] Employers: Salary Information 01/17/2017 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. 04/19/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (5-2) CA AB 188 Salas [D] Vehicle Retirement 01/19/2017 04/26/2017 9:00 am 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. 03/28/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Coauthors revised. CA AB 193 Cervantes [D] Air Quality Program: Clean Reused Vehicle Rebates 01/19/2017 Assembly Transportation Committee 04/24/2017 2:30 pm 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 FILE: 37 Assembly Third Reading File 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. 04/06/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading. CA AB 399 Grayson [D] Autonomous Vehicles: Contra Costa: Pilot Project 02/09/2017 03/23/2017 Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee Relates to an autonomous vehicles pilot project in Contra Costa County. Extends the authorization for the pilot project to after the operative date of regulations promulgated by the department. 03/23/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committees on TRANSPORTATION and COMMUNICATIONS AND CONVEYANCE. 03/23/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION with author's amendments. 03/23/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION. 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. 04/19/2017 In ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT: Not heard.
CA AB 445 Cunningham [R] Career Technical Education Grant Program 02/13/2017 03/29/2017 04/26/2017 9:00 am Changes the name of the Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program to the California Career Technical Education Grant Program. Increases an appropriation for the program for specified fiscal years. Lowers the amount of local matching funds required of an applicant to the program for specified fiscal years. Provides that an applicant receiving a grant from this program in specified fiscal years is eligible for a renewal grant in the next year with continued compliance with program requirements. 04/07/2017 Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. CA AB 475 Chau [D] Department of Technology 02/13/2017 04/18/2017 Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee 04/25/2017 1:30 pm Requires the Director of Technology to be responsible for periodically reviewing and maintaining procurement procedures related to information technology projects. Recasts the requirements of that report by consolidating therein reports of cost savings and other avoidances that are currently included in another annual report. Requires the Department to maintain an information technology performance management framework that include specified information relating to the states information technology program. 04/20/2017 Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committee on RULES. 04/20/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Assembly Rule 56 suspended. Position: Concerns CA AB 509 Frazier [D] Tire Recycling: Tire Regulatory Fee Program 02/13/2017 04/20/2017
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 an incentive program to make payments to entities that purchase waste tire material for incorporation in a product for sale to end users. 04/20/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. Position: Concerns CA AB 582 Garcia [D] Vehicles: Emissions: Surveillance 02/14/2017 03/22/2017 04/26/2017 9:00 am Requires the State Air Resources 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. 03/27/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (12-1) CA AB 615 Cooper [D] Air Quality Improvement Program: Clean Vehicle Rebate 02/14/2017 03/13/2017 04/26/2017 9:00 am Extends the operation of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project administered by the State Air Resources Board by deleting the repeal date. 03/20/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (13-0) CA AB 623 Rodriguez [D] Autonomous Vehicles: Accident Reporting 02/14/2017 04/17/2017
Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee 04/26/2017 1:30 pm Requires the operator of an autonomous vehicle who is involved in an accident that results in damage to the property of any one person in excess of a specified amount, or in bodily injury, or in the death of a person, to report the accident to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Requires a traffic collision report prepared by a member of the Department of the California Highway Patrol or any other peace officer to specify if an autonomous vehicle was involved in the traffic collision in any manner. 04/17/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION with author's amendments. 04/17/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION. 04/17/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION: Do pass to Committee on COMMUNICATIONS AND CONVEYANCE. (13-0) CA AB 630 Cooper [D] Vehicles: Retirement and Replacement 02/14/2017 04/26/2017 9:00 am 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. 03/20/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (10-4) CA AB 714 Acosta [R] Vehicles: Automatic Registration Renewal 02/15/2017 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.
04/05/2017 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File. CA AB 902 Santiago [D] Career Technical Education and Workforce Development 02/16/2017 03/21/2017 Assembly Labor and Employment Committee Requires the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development to develop a strategic plan, required to contain specified elements, for connecting the delivery of education and workforce development. Authorizes the Secretary to commence the plan only upon a specified determination. 04/06/2017 Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committees on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT and HIGHER EDUCATION. 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. 03/28/2017 In ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY: Failed passage. 03/28/2017 In ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY: Reconsideration granted. CA AB 1008 McCarty [D] Employment Discrimination: Prior Criminal History 02/16/2017 Assembly Labor and Employment Committee 05/03/2017 1:30 pm
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 03/30/2017 FILE: 12 Assembly Second Reading File 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. Specifies that this exclusion does not apply to local sales and use taxes or transactions and use taxes. 04/17/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on REVENUE AND TAXATION: Do pass as amended to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (9-1) CA AB 1099 Gonzalez [D] Compensation: Gratuities 04/05/2017 Requires employers in specific industries that permit 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. 04/19/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (5-2) CA AB 1132 Garcia [D] Nonvehicular Air Pollution: Order of Abatement
FILE: 16 Assembly Second Reading File 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. 04/17/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES: Do pass as amended to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (7-3) CA AB 1141 Berman [D] Autonomous Vehicle: Freight Vehicles 04/17/2017 Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee 04/26/2017 1:30 pm Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to adopt regulations setting forth standards for the testing of autonomous vehicles used to transport freight and consult with the Department of Transportation and the Department of the California Highway Patrol on topics including appropriate routes for autonomous vehicles used to transport freight and compliance with requirements for commercial drivers. Requires an autonomous vehicle used to transport freight to have an operator in the driver's seat at all times. 04/17/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION with author's amendments. 04/17/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION. 04/17/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION: Do pass to Committee on COMMUNICATIONS AND CONVEYANCE. (8-1) CA AB 1160 Bonta [D] Autonomous Vehicles 04/17/2017 Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee
Changes the definition of autonomous vehicle to mean any vehicle equipped with autonomous technology that has been integrated into that vehicle or a vehicle that meets specified levels of driving automation. 04/17/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION with author's amendments. 04/17/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION. 04/17/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION: Do pass to Committee on COMMUNICATIONS AND CONVEYANCE. (13-0) 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. 03/28/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Coauthors revised. CA AB 1179 Kalra [D] Hazardous Waste Facilities: Inspections 04/17/2017 Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee 04/25/2017 1:30 pm Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations establishing inspection frequencies for permitted hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, hazardous waste generators, and hazardous waste transporters. Requires the inspection frequency for a hazardous waste land disposal facility and any other permitted hazardous waste treatment to be no less than a certain frequency. 04/17/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS with author's amendments. 04/17/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS. CA AB 1180 Holden [D]
California Tire Fee: Stormwater Permit Compliance 04/19/2017 Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee 04/25/2017 1:30 pm 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. 04/19/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS. Position: 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 Assembly Business and Professions Committee 04/25/2017 9:00 am 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 1274 O'Donnell [D] Smog Check: Exemption 03/30/2017
Assembly Transportation Committee 04/24/2017 2:30 pm Exempts motor vehicles that are a specified number or less model-years old from being inspected biennially upon renewal of registration. Assesses an annual smog abatement fee on motor vehicles that are a specified number of model-years old. Requires the fee be deposited into the Air Pollution Control Fund and be available for expenditure to fund the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program for projects that reduce emissions. 03/30/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION. 03/30/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION with author's amendments. 03/30/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION. CA AB 1577 Gipson [D] Career Technical Education: Access Plan 03/21/2017 Requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the California Workforce Development Board and the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, to develop a plan to ensure the provision of, and access to, career technical education programs at every K-12 school in the State. 04/19/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on EDUCATION: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (7-0) CA AB 1583 Chau [D] Proposition 65: Enforcement: Certificate of Merit 04/20/2017 Relates to actions for violations of the warning requirement of Proposition 65. Requires, if the Attorney General believes there is not merit to the action after reviewing the factual information sufficient to establish the basis for the certificate of merit, the Attorney General to serve a letter to the noticing party and the alleged violator stating the Attorney General believes there is not merit to the action. 04/20/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
CA AB 1663 Garcia [D] Lead-acid Batteries 04/18/2017 Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee 04/25/2017 1:30 pm Authorizes a person who manufacturers a lead-acid battery and who is not subject to the jurisdiction of the state to agree in writing with the importer, as defined, of that battery to pay the manufacturer battery fee on behalf of the importer. Requires that manufacturer battery fees remitted pursuant to these provisions be credited to the account of the manufacturer remitting those fees. 04/18/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS with author's amendments. 04/18/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS. CA AB 1679 Burke [D] Motor Vehicle Insurance: Auto Body Repair 04/06/2017 Requires an insurer that conducts or uses a survey that establishes a prevailing auto body repair labor rate in a specific geographic area to report the results of the survey to the Department of Insurance at a certain frequency and requires the survey results to contain specified information. Authorizes an insurer to provide a claimant with specific information including a description of the insurer's direct repair program and information about parts for the repair. 04/19/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (13-0) CA SB 1 Beall [D] Transportation Funding 12/05/2016 04/03/2017 To Governor To enrollment
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. 04/06/2017 In SENATE. Read third time, urgency clause adopted. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY. (27-11) 04/06/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Art. IV. Sec. 8(b) of the Constitution dispensed with. 04/06/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Assembly Rule 63 suspended. 04/06/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Read third time, urgency clause adopted. Passed ASSEMBLY. To enrollment. (56-24) CA SB 63 Jackson [D] Unlawful Employment Practice: Parental Leave 12/22/2016 04/17/2017 Senate Appropriations Committee 04/24/2017 10:00 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 hire, or from discharging, fining, suspending, expelling, or discriminating against, an individual for exercising the right to parental leave provided by this bill or giving information or testimony as to his or her own parental leave. 04/17/2017 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. CA SB 145 Hill [D] Autonomous Vehicles: Testing on Public Roads 01/17/2017 Senate Appropriations Committee 05/01/2017 10:00 am 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.
04/18/2017 From SENATE Committee on TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (12-0) CA SB 258 Lara [D] Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2017 02/08/2017 03/20/2017 Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee 04/26/2017 9:30 am Requires a manufacturer of a cleaning product to disclose ingredients or contaminants of concern contained in and health impact information related to the product on the product label, post the cleaning product ingredient information on the manufacturer's Internet Web site, and include specified information on the cleaning product's label concerning ingredients or contaminants of concern contained in the cleaning product, including Internet Web sites where more information may be found. 03/29/2017 From SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: Do pass to Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT. (5-2) CA SB 327 Jackson [D] Information Privacy: Connected Devices 02/13/2017 03/20/2017 Senate Judiciary Committee 05/09/2017 1:30 pm Requires a manufacturer that sells or offers to sell any device, sensor, or other physical object that is capable of connecting to the Internet, directly or indirectly, or to another connected device, to equip the device with certain security features that protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure, and to design the device to indicate when it is collecting information and to obtain consumer consent before it collects or transmits information. 03/29/2017 Re-referred to SENATE Committee on JUDICIARY. 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 Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee 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. Position: 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 2006. 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. Position: Concerns CA SB 552 Fuller [R] Career Technical Education: Areas of Interest Test 02/16/2017 04/05/2017 Senate Appropriations 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 areas of interest for pupils as specified. Requires the department to post the test on its Internet Web site for the public to access. Specifies that a pupil shall not be required to take the test, either as a stand-alone requirement or to enroll in a course. 04/17/2017 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File. CA SB 638 Leyva [D] Heavy Duty Motor Vehicles Senate Transportation and Housing Committee 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. Position: Concerns CA SB 660 Newman [D] Vehicle Exhaust Systems: Exemption 04/17/2017 Senate Appropriations Committee
05/01/2017 10:00 am Creates the Aftermarket Parts Account in the Air Pollution Control Fund, in which moneys may be deposited by public and private entities for the purpose of funding the hiring of additional staff for implementation of the approval of a device, apparatus, or mechanism under provisions concerning motor vehicle pollution control devices. 04/19/2017 From SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (6-0) CA SB 696 Wilk [R] Career Technical Education: Career Pathways Senate Rules Committee 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: Registration 04/20/2017 Senate Environmental Quality Committee Makes a level 4 or level 5 autonomous vehicle eligible for initial registration, or renewal or transfer of registration, only if the vehicle is a zero-emission vehicle that is programmed to optimize fuel efficiency in order to meet goals for zero-emission vehicle deployment and transportation electrification and to improve the stability and reliability of the state's electricity grid. 04/20/2017 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY. Copyright (c) 2017 State Net. All rights reserved