California Legislation

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  AB 103 (Committee on Budget)  State funds: State Agency Investment Fund.
  Current Text: Amended: 7/11/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/10/2011
  Last Amend: 7/11/2011
  Status: 8/31/2011-Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Leno.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 8/31/2011-S. INACTIVE FILE
  Summary: Would create the State Agency Investment Fund in the State Treasury, for the receipt of deposits by state agencies of up to $500,000,000 each, from moneys not required by law to be deposited in the Pooled Money Investment Account, for a total of $10,000,000,000 in the fund at any one time. It would authorize the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Treasurer, to set certain terms and conditions for the deposits, and require the Treasurer to invest the moneys held in the fund through the Pooled Money Investment Account, according to specified criteria. It would continuously appropriate moneys in the fund to the Controller for the payment of interest expenditures and the return of deposits to depositors. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 1062 (Dickinson D)  Arbitration: appeals.
  Current Text: Amended: 9/1/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Last Amend: 9/1/2011
  Status: 9/9/2011-Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Evans.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 9/9/2011-S. INACTIVE FILE
  Summary: Current law specifies those types of orders and judgments from which an appeal may be taken, including, an order dismissing or denying a petition to compel arbitration. This bill would limit that basis from which an appeal may be taken to an order dismissing or denying a petition to compel arbitration if the party who opposed the petition to arbitrate is 65 years of age or older or a dependent adult, as defined .
 
  SB 580 (Wolk D)  State parks: acquired land: limits on disposition or use.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/20/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Last Amend: 6/20/2011
  Status: 7/8/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was W.,P. & W. on 6/28/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/8/2011-A. 2 YEAR
  Summary: Would prohibit land acquired for the state park system, through public funds or gifts, from being disposed of or used for other purposes incompatible with park purposes without the substitution of other land. This bill would require the State Park and Recreation Commission, following a duly noticed public hearing, to certify that all requests to dispose of or use the land for other purposes incompatible with park purposes provide for the substitution of other land meeting certain criteria. If lands that fully meet the substitution eligibility criteria cannot be acquired, the commission would be authorized, if certain conditions are met, to approve a combination of substitute park lands and monetary compensation to allow for the disposal or use of lands for other purposes incompatible with park purposes. The bill would require that the commission consider requests only if the commission determines that all practical alternatives that avoid the proposed disposal or use of park lands for other purposes incompatible with park purposes have been considered. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.

  BUDGET


 
  AB 27 (Gorell R)  State budget.
  Current Text: Introduced: 12/6/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 12/6/2010
  Status: 2/1/2012-Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 2/1/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Under current law, no bill other than the Budget Bill may be heard or acted upon by a committee or either house of the Legislature until the 31st day after the bill is introduced, unless the house dispenses with this requirement via a 3/4 vote. This bill would require that the Budget Bill be in print and posted on a publicly accessible Internet Web site for 72 hours before it could be passed and sent to the Governor. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 168 (Gorell R)  Local Safety and Protection Account: appropriation.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/4/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/20/2011
  Last Amend: 5/4/2011
  Status: 1/13/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/28/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/13/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: 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.
 
  AB 192 (Logue R)  Public safety: Local Safety and Protection Account: appropriation.
  Current Text: Amended: 2/22/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/26/2011
  Last Amend: 2/22/2011
  Status: 2/1/2012-Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  Is Urgency: Y
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 2/1/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Beginning July 1, 2011, and each July 1 thereafter, this bill would transfer $500,000,000 from the General Fund to the Local Safety and Protection 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.
 
  AB 430 (Feuer D)  State finance: budget process.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/14/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/14/2011
  Status: 2/1/2012-Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 2/1/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would require the Governor's proposed budget following the succeeding fiscal year also to include estimates of revenues and expenditures for the 3 subsequent fiscal years as well as budget-related plans and proposals for those 3 fiscal years. In addition, the bill would require the Governor, among other things, to submit to the Legislature updated projections of revenues and expenditures for the budget year and the succeeding fiscal year by January 10, as part of the Governor's budget, and on May 15 and October 15 of each year.
 
  ABX1 18 (Blumenfield D)  The Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2011.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/9/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 5/19/2011
  Last Amend: 6/9/2011
  Status: 9/14/2011-Died on third reading file.
  Is Urgency: Y
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 9/14/2011-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would extend the current sales and use tax rate and vehicle license fees until July 1, 2012, and would deposit the revenues derived from that extension into the Local Revenue Fund 2011, established by this bill, to be appropriated by the Legislature to fund the provision of public safety services, as described. This bill would require local county officials to create a County Local Revenue Fund 2011, and would require the money in the County Local Revenue Fund 2011 to be used exclusively to fund the provision of public safety services by local agencies pursuant to the 2011 Realignment Legislation, as defined. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  SB 17 (Blakeslee R)  State budget: Budget Bills.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/7/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 12/6/2010
  Last Amend: 4/7/2011
  Status: 4/27/2011-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 761.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 4/27/2011-S. RLS.
  Summary: Current law permits the Legislature to pass a Budget Bill or bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill with a majority vote of both houses. This bill would require that the final language of the Budget Bill or a bill providing for appropr iations related to the Budget Bill , as specified, be in print for public inspection and posted by the Legislative Counsel on the Internet for not less than 72 hours prior to a legislative vote to pass the bill and to send it to the Governor for approval.
 
  SB 71 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review)  Budget Act of 2011.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/14/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/10/2011
  Last Amend: 6/14/2011
  Status: 6/14/2011-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/14/2011-A. BUDGET
  Summary: SB 69, as proposed by Conference Report No. 1 on March 7, 2011, would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2011-12 fiscal year. This bill would make revisions to those appropriations in SB 69 for the 2011-12 fiscal year. This bill contains other related provisions.

  Business


 
  AB 53 (Solorio D)  Insurers: procurement contracts: minority, women, and disabled veteran business enterprises.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/10/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 12/6/2010
  Last Amend: 1/10/2012
  Status: 1/26/2012-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/26/2012-S. RLS.
  Summary: Current law requires each admitted insurer to provide information to the Insurance Commissioner on all of its community development investments and community development infrastructure investments in California. This bill would require that each admitted insurer with premiums written equal to or in excess of $100,000,000 submit to the commissioner, by July 1, 2012, a report on its minority, women, and disabled veteran-owned business procurement efforts, as specified.The bill would provide that the failure to file the report by July 1, 2012, subjects the admitted insurer to civil penalties to be fixed by the commissioner, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions.
 
  AB 473 (Calderon, Charles D)  Unfair competition.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/15/2011
  Last Amend: 4/25/2011
  Status: 1/13/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/10/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/13/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would make it unlawful for any person to manufacture any article or product that is sold or offered for sale in this state while using stolen or misappropriated information technology, as defined, in its business operations in competition with another article or product manufactured without the use of stolen or misappropriated information technology, except as specified. The bill would require written notice containing specified information under penalty of perjury to be provided to a defendant prior to commencement of an action under these provisions. The bill would make violations of its provisions subject to specified civil remedies, including injunctive relief and recovery of damages, would provide that current criminal penalties would not apply to those violations, and would authorize certain persons and entities, including the Attorney General, to bring actions under these provisions. The bill would authorize claims for damages against certain 3rd parties who sell or offer for sale products made in violation of these provisions, except as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 869 (Davis D)  Vehicles: fleet owners: multiyear registration.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/12/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Last Amend: 1/12/2012
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 1/19/2012)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/20/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would provide that a fleet consisting of at least 25 vehicles qualifies for the fleet registration program. The bill would authorize the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles to register any identified fleet vehicleat such multiyear intervals as determined by the director.
 
  AB 910 (Torres D)  Infrastructure financing districts: facilities and projects.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Last Amend: 4/25/2011
  Status: 7/8/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was G. & F. on 6/8/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 7/8/2011-S. 2 YEAR
  Summary: Would, in addition to public capital facilities, require a district to finance affordable housing facilities and economic development projects. The bill would provide that with respect to a district proposing to implement a specified plan, an election would not be required to form a district, adopt an infrastructure financing plan, or issue bonds pursuant to current law.
 
  AB 1080 (Calderon, Charles D)  Internet transactions: verification: banking and financial services.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/4/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Last Amend: 1/4/2012
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was JUD. on 1/10/2012)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would require a business that provides banking or other financial services and that allows for the movement of specified funds over the Internet to collect , report, and update, on a quarterly basis, information relating to unauthorized transfers of funds over the Internet . This bill would also require these banks or financial institutions to post this report at each of their locations within the state, or on its Internet Web site, as specified.
 
  AB 1259 (Knight R)  Enterprise zones.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/13/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: The Enterprise Zone Act provides for the designation of enterprise zones by the Department of Community Housing and Development, pursuant to which certain entities within a designated enterprise zone may receive regulatory, tax, and other incentives for private investment and employment, and sets forth the findings and declarations of the Legislature in this regard. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
 
  AB 1564 (Lara D)  Child abuse reporting: mandated reporters: tax-exempt organizations.
  Current Text: Introduced: 1/30/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/30/2012
  Status: 1/31/2012-From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
  Is Urgency: Y
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/30/2012-A. PRINT
  Summary: Would include volunteers of public or private organizations, including nonprofit organizations, whose duties require direct contact with and supervision of children in the list of individuals who are mandated reporters. The bill would also require employers to provide training in child abuse and neglect identification and reporting to their employees and volunteers who are mandated reporters. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  SB 982 (Evans D)  Corporations: political activities: shareholder disclosure.
  Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/23/2012
  Status: 2/2/2012-Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 2/2/2012-S. B. & F. I.
  Summary: Would require a corporation, as defined, that has shareholders located in this state and that makes a contribution or expenditure to, or in support of, or in opposition to, a candidate, ballot measure campaign, or a signature-gathering effort on behalf of a ballot measure, political party, or political action committee to issue a report on the planned political expenditures of the corporation in the forthcoming fiscal year as well as expenditures in the previous fiscal year by specified means, including posting the report on the corporation's Internet Web site, if any. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.

  CEQA


 
  AB 880 (V. Manuel Pérez D)  Environmental quality: CEQA: expedited environmental review.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/10/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Last Amend: 5/10/2011
  Status: 7/8/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was E.Q. on 6/8/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/8/2011-S. 2 YEAR
  Summary: Would require that lead agencies, as defined, perform an environmental analysis of the reasonably foreseeable methods of compliance at the time of the adoption of a rule or regulation requiring the installation of pollution control equipment, or compliance with a performance standard or treatment requirement, including a rule or regulation that requires the installation of pollution control equipment or other direct emission reduction, or compliance with a performance standard or treatment requirement adopted pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 890 (Olsen R)  Environment: CEQA exemption: roadway improvement.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/13/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Last Amend: 1/13/2012
  Status: 1/26/2012-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/26/2012-S. RLS.
  Summary:  The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. This bill would , until January 1, 2026, exempt a project or an activity to repair, maintain, or make minor alterations to an current roadway if the project or activity is initiated by a city or county to improve public safety, does not cross a waterway, and involves negligible or no expansion of current use . This bill contains other current laws.

  Governmental Org


 
  AB 77 (Gorell R)  Governmental reorganization: tax functions.
  Current Text: Introduced: 1/3/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/3/2011
  Status: 1/13/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/10/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/13/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would abolish the Franchise Tax Board, and would provide for the transfer of its powers and duties to the State Board of Equalization, effective January 1, 2013. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 744 (John A. Pérez D)  Office of Intellectual Property.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/23/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Last Amend: 1/23/2012
  Status: 1/31/2012-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/31/2012-S. RLS.
  Summary: Would establish the Office of Intellectual Property in the Department of General Services . This bill would authorize the office to carry out various powers and duties relating to assisting a state agency or department in the management and development of intellectual property developed by that agency or department or an employee of that agency or department, including, among other duties, developing a database of state -owned intellectual property using specified data. This bill contains other related provisions.
 
  AB 1504 (Morrell R)  Administrative regulations.
  Current Text: Introduced: 1/10/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/10/2012
  Status: 1/19/2012-Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/19/2012-A. B.,P. & C.P.
  Summary: Would require each state agency that is considering adopting, amending, or repealing a regulation, in addition to those current economic impact analysis requirements, to complete an economic assessment of the proposed action at least 90 days prior to submitting a notice of proposed action to the office. The bill would subject the economic assessment to public comment. The bill would require the economic assessment to include specified analyses. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.

  High Tech Crime/Piracy


 
  AB 473 (Calderon, Charles D)  Unfair competition.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/15/2011
  Last Amend: 4/25/2011
  Status: 1/13/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/10/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/13/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would make it unlawful for any person to manufacture any article or product that is sold or offered for sale in this state while using stolen or misappropriated information technology, as defined, in its business operations in competition with another article or product manufactured without the use of stolen or misappropriated information technology, except as specified. The bill would require written notice containing specified information under penalty of perjury to be provided to a defendant prior to commencement of an action under these provisions. The bill would make violations of its provisions subject to specified civil remedies, including injunctive relief and recovery of damages, would provide that current criminal penalties would not apply to those violations, and would authorize certain persons and entities, including the Attorney General, to bring actions under these provisions. The bill would authorize claims for damages against certain 3rd parties who sell or offer for sale products made in violation of these provisions, except as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.

  Internet


 
  AB 755 (Galgiani D)  Sex offenders: CAL E-STOP.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Last Amend: 4/25/2011
  Status: 1/13/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/10/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/13/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would require that registration under the Sex Offender Registration Act include a list of all Internet identifiers and service providers, as defined, used by the person. The bill would require the registrant to update this information, as specified. By increasing the scope of a crime, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 1080 (Calderon, Charles D)  Internet transactions: verification: banking and financial services.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/4/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Last Amend: 1/4/2012
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was JUD. on 1/10/2012)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would require a business that provides banking or other financial services and that allows for the movement of specified funds over the Internet to collect , report, and update, on a quarterly basis, information relating to unauthorized transfers of funds over the Internet . This bill would also require these banks or financial institutions to post this report at each of their locations within the state, or on its Internet Web site, as specified.
 
  SB 57 (Runner R)  Sex offenders: social networking and online address notification requirement.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/12/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 12/21/2010
  Last Amend: 4/12/2011
  Status: 8/26/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/18/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 8/26/2011-A. 2 YEAR
  Summary: Would, commencing January 1, 2013, require a person who is required to register as a sex offender to provide to the law enforcement agency with which he or she last registered all of his or her online names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and instant messaging user names for all of his or her accounts on social networking Internet Web sites, as defined, at the time of original registration or any subsequent registration and within 30 days of establishing a new online name, address , or account, as specified, and would make it a misdemeanor to fail to do so. This bill would permit information received pursuant to these provisions to be shared with other local law enforcement agencies, upon request. By creating a new crime , this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.

  Labor / Employment


 
  AB 196 (Alejo D)  Minimum wage: annual adjustment.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/4/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/27/2011
  Last Amend: 1/4/2012
  Status: 1/13/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was L. & E. on 1/4/2012)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/13/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Current law requires that, on and after January 1, 2008, the minimum wage for all industries be not less than $8.00 per hour. This bill would increase the minimum wage, as of January 1, 2013, to not less than $8.50 per hour. This bill contains other related provisions.
 
  AB 400 (Ma D)  Employment: paid sick days.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/14/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/14/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/28/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/20/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would provide that an employee who works in California for 7 or more days in a calendar year is entitled to paid sick days, as defined, which shall be accrued at a rate of no less than one hour for every 30 hours worked. An employee would be entitled to use accrued sick days beginning on the 90th calendar day of employment. The bill would require employers to provide paid sick days, upon the request of the employee, for diagnosis, care, or treatment of health conditions of the employee or an employee's family member, or for leave related to domestic violence or sexual assault. An employer would be prohibited from discriminating or retaliating against an employee who requests paid sick days. The bill would require employers to satisfy specified posting and notice and recordkeeping requirements. The bill would also make conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions.
 
  AB 804 (Yamada D)  Unemployment compensation: disability benefits: paid family leave.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/5/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Last Amend: 4/5/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/28/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/20/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would expand the scope of the family temporary disability program to include time off to care for a seriously ill grandparent, grandchild, sibling, or parent-in-law, as defined. The bill would make conforming and clarifying changes in provisions relating to family temporary disability compensation. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 1450 (Allen D)  Employment: discrimination: status as unemployed.
  Current Text: Introduced: 1/5/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/5/2012
  Status: 1/26/2012-Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/26/2012-A. L. & E.
  Summary: Would make it unlawful, unless based on a bona fide occupational qualification or any other provision of law, for an employer to knowingly or intentionally refuse to consider for employment or refuse to offer employment to an individual because of the individual's status as unemployed, publish an advertisement or announcement for any job that includes provisions pertaining to an individual's status as unemployed, as specified, or direct or request that an employment agency take an individual's status as unemployed into account in screening or referring applicants for employment. This bill contains other related provisions.

  Political Reform


 
  AB 1146 (Norby R)  Political Reform Act of 1974: contribution limits.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Last Amend: 4/25/2011
  Status: 9/8/2011-Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Wright.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 9/8/2011-S. INACTIVE FILE
  Summary: Would find that the current limit of $100 was established more than 30 years ago and would raise the limit for anonymous contributions and the threshold for reporting as to contributions and independent expenditures to $200 . The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 2/3 vote of each house and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill contains other related provisions.
 
  AB 1148 (Brownley D)  Political Reform Act of 1974: advertisements: disclosure.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/18/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Last Amend: 1/18/2012
  Status: 1/31/2012-Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 52. Noes 26.).
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/31/2012-A. THIRD READING
  Summary: Would require that a candidate or ballot measure appearing in the slate mailer be designated by an asterisk if the slate mailer organization or committee primarily formed to support or oppose one or more ballot measures that is sending the slate mailer has received payment to include the candidate or ballot measure in the slate mailer. The bill would also recast the language of the prescribed notice to voters that must be included on a slate mailer. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  SB 18 (Blakeslee R)  Political Reform Act of 1974: gifts.
  Current Text: Amended: 3/23/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 12/6/2010
  Last Amend: 3/23/2011
  Status: 1/31/2012-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/31/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: Would prohibit a lobbyist, lobbying firm, or lobbying employer from making to an elected state official, and an elected state official from receiving from a lobbyist, lobbying firm, or lobbying employer, specified gifts, regardless of the value of the gift. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  SB 31 (Correa D)  Postgovernment employment: restrictions.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/10/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 12/6/2010
  Last Amend: 1/10/2012
  Status: 1/26/2012-In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/26/2012-A. DESK
  Summary: The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with decisionmaking authority . This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.

  PRIVACY


 
  AB 452 (Ma D)  Electronic tracking devices: invasion of privacy.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/15/2011
  Last Amend: 5/24/2011
  Status: 7/8/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was PUB. S. on 6/8/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 7/8/2011-S. 2 YEAR
  Summary: Would recast this provision to prohibit a person or entity from using, or knowingly employing or engaging a 3rd party to use, an electronic tracking device to determine the location or movement of a person without the consent of that person. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
  Attachments:
Fact Sheet 4-7-11
 
  AB 543 (Torres D)  Sex offenders: social networking prohibition.
  Current Text: Amended: 3/31/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/16/2011
  Last Amend: 3/31/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/28/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/20/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would, in addition, make it a misdemeanor for any person who is granted probation or placed on parole for the conviction of a crime that requires him or her to register as a sex offender to use any Internet social networking Web site, as defined, during that period of probation or parole if the victim of the offense was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense and the Internet was used in the commission of the crime. The bill would authorize the person to seek an exception to the prohibition for legitimate professional purposes by applying through the appropriate parole or probation supervising agency. Approval would be valid for one year, unless revoked. The bill would authorize an annual application for renewal. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 653 (Galgiani D)  Sex offenders: registration of Internet accounts and identifiers.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/16/2011
  Status: 1/13/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/10/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/13/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would require a person required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act to register his or her Internet accounts and Internet identifiers, defined to include e-mail addresses and designations used for the purposes of chatting, instant messaging, social networking, or other similar Internet communication. The bill would also require the person to update this information within 5 days of establishing an Internet account or creating or using an Internet identifier not previously disclosed, and would require that information to be forwarded by local law enforcement agencies to the Department of Justice. By expanding the scope of a crime and by increasing the duties of local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  SB 102 (Correa D)  Telecommunications: customer privacy.
  Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/11/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/13/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: Would require a commercial seller of mobile telephony service communications devices (commonly known as "cell phones") that incorporate geotagging, as defined, capability to disclose this capability to a potential purchaser prior to completing a sale of the device. The bill would prohibit the commercial seller from selling a mobile telephony service communications device to a purchaser with the geotagging capability activated or operational without first obtaining the purchaser's consent, in writing, acknowledging that the purchaser has been informed of the existence of the geotagging capability and consents to this capability being activated or operational.
 
  SB 242 (Corbett D)  Social networking Internet Web sites: privacy: minors.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/25/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/9/2011
  Last Amend: 5/25/2011
  Status: 1/31/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 6/3/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/31/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: Would prohibit a social networking Internet Web site, as defined, from displaying to the public or other registered users any information about a registered user of that Internet Web site, other than the user's name and city of residence, without the express agreement of the user. The bill would require a social networking Internet Web site to establish a process for new users to set their privacy settings as part of the registration process that explains privacy options in plain language, and to make privacy settings available in an easy-to-use format. The bill would require a social networking Internet Web site to remove the personal identifying information, as defined, of any registered user, and would require removal of that information regarding a user under 18 years of age upon request by the user's parent, within 96 hours upon his or her request. This bill would impose a civil penalty, not to exceed $10,000, for each willful and knowing violation of these provisions.
 
  SB 761 (Lowenthal D)  Computer spyware.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/10/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Last Amend: 5/10/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/28/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/20/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: Would, no later than July 1, 2012, require the Attorney General, in consultation with the Office of Privacy Protection, to adopt regulations that would require a covered entity, defined as a person or entity doing business in California that collects, uses, or stores online data containing covered information from a consumer in this state, to provide a consumer in California with a method to opt out of that collection, use, and storage of such information. The bill would specify that such information, includes, but is not limited to, the online activity of an individual and other personal information. The bill would subject these regulations to certain requirements, including, but not limited to, a requirement that a covered entity disclose to a consumer certain information relating to its collection, use, and storage information practices. The bill would, to the extent consistent with federal law, prohibit a covered entity from selling, sharing, or transferring a consumer's covered information , except as specified . The bill would make a covered entity that willfully fails to comply with the adopted regulations liable to a consumer in a civil action for damages, as specified, and would require such an action to be brought within a certain time period. This bill contains other current laws.
  Attachments:
4-6-11 LA Times Article
Talking Points (Comcast) 4-7-11
Commerce Trade and Consumer Protection 2010
NCTA Issue Brief - Privacy & DO NOT TRACK
SB 761 FACT SHEET
SECURITY & PRIVACY COMMENTS SB 761

  Public Utilities Comm.


 
  AB 725 (Bradford D)  Utility service: undergrounding of electrical and communications facilities.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Status: 1/13/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/10/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/13/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would require the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation with electrical corporations, telephone corporations, and representatives of local government, to open an appropriate proceeding to evaluate whether to amend, revise, or improve its rules for replacing overhead electrical and communications facilities with underground facilities. The bill would require the commission to submit a report relative to its evaluation to the Legislature by June 30, 2012. This bill contains other current laws.
 
  AB 940 (Bradford D)  Public Utilities Commission: report.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/13/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to report annually to specified legislative committees on funding and expenditures related to certain entities and programs. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
 
  AB 1541 (Dickinson D)  Public Utilities Commission: public records.
  Current Text: Introduced: 1/24/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/24/2012
  Status: 2/2/2012-Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and G.O.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 2/2/2012-A. U. & C.
  Summary: Current law, the California Public Records Act, requires any public record of a state or local agency to be open to inspection at all times during office hours of the agency and, upon request, a copy shall be made promptly available to any person upon payment of copying costs. The act makes certain records exempt from disclosure. This bill would subject an order or recommendation made by the commission and any accident report filed with the commission pursuant to these requirements to the California Public Records Act, except as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  SB 418 (Huff R)  Public Utilities Commission.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/16/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/13/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission, with jurisdiction over public utilities, and provides for the membership and tenure of the members of the commission. Current law requires each commissioner, before entering upon the duties of the office, to take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the oath requirement.
 
  SB 981 (Yee D)  Public Utilities Commission: commissioners: executive employees.
  Current Text: Introduced: 1/23/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/23/2012
  Status: 2/2/2012-Referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 2/2/2012-S. E. U., & C.
  Summary: Would prospectively prohibit a commissioner or executive employee of the Public Utilities Commission, as defined, for a period of 2 years after leaving the employment of the commission, from becoming an employee of, or, for compensation, acting as the agent for, a public utility subject to the regulatory authority of the commission pursuant to the Public Utilities Act. The bill would prospectively prohibit the commission from hiring, as an executive employee of the commission, any person who, in the previous 2 years, was an employee or agent, for compensation, of a public utility subject to the regulatory authority of the commission pursuant to the Public Utilities Act. The bill would prospectively prohibit any person from holding the office of commissioner who, in the previous 2 years, was an employee or agent, for compensation, for a public utility subject to the regulatory authority of the commission pursuant to the Public Utilities Act. This bill contains other current laws.

  TAX


 
  AB 153 (Skinner D)  State Board of Equalization: administration: retailer engaged in business in this state.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/27/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/18/2011
  Last Amend: 6/27/2011
  Status: 7/8/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was G. & F. on 6/27/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/8/2011-S. 2 YEAR
  Summary: Would include in the definition of a retailer engaged in business in this state any retailer entering into agreements under which a person or persons in this state, for a commission or other consideration, directly or indirectly refer potential purchasers, whether by an Internet-based link or an Internet Web site, or otherwise, to the retailer, provided the total cumulative sales price from all sales by the retailer to purchasers in this state that are referred pursuant to these agreements is in excess of $10,000, within the preceding 12 months, and provided further that the retailer has cumulative sales of tangible personal property to purchasers in this state of over $500,000, within the preceding 12 months, except as specified . This bill would further provide that a retailer entering specified agreements to purchase advertising is not a retailer engaged in business in this state and would define a retailer to include an entity affiliated with a retailer under federal income tax law, as specified. This bill would further provide that these provisions would not apply if the retailer can demonstrate that the referrals would not satisfy specified United States constitutional requirements, as provided . This bill contains other related provisions.
  Attachments:
BOE Analysis March 2011
 
  AB 166 (Cook R)  Corporation taxes: minimum franchise tax.
  Current Text: Introduced: 1/20/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/20/2011
  Status: 2/1/2012-Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 2/1/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: The Corporation Tax Law generally imposes a franchise tax on corporations doing business within the limits of this state, including a minimum franchise tax on specified corporations, as provided. This bill would eliminate the minimum franchise tax and make related technical amendments. This bill contains other related provisions.
 
  AB 231 (V. Manuel Pérez D)  Economic development: economic development areas.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/7/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/2/2011
  Last Amend: 6/7/2011
  Status: 2/1/2012-Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 2/1/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would rename the Enterprise Zone Act as the California Economic and Community Development Zone Act. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 232 (V. Manuel Pérez D)  Community Development Block Grant Program: funds.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/4/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/2/2011
  Last Amend: 1/4/2012
  Status: 1/26/2012-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/26/2012-S. RLS.
  Summary: Current law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to allocate funds under the federal Community Development Block Grant Program to cities and counties. Current law requires the department to determine, and announce in the applicable Notice of Funding Availability, the maximum amount of grant funds that may be used for economic development projects and programs, housing for persons and families of low or moderate income or for purposes directly related to the provision or improvement of housing opportunities for these persons and families, and for cities and counties that apply on behalf of certain Indian tribes. Current law requires the department to develop and use certain eligibility criteria and requirements for certain economic development fund applications. This bill would make changes to the eligibility criteria and requirements developed and used by the department. The bill would also make conforming changes.
 
  AB 236 (Swanson D)  Income taxes: credits: qualified employees.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/17/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/3/2011
  Last Amend: 1/17/2012
  Status: 2/1/2012-Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 2/1/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2009, in an amount equal to $3,000 for each net increase of full-time employee hired during the taxable year by a qualified employer, as defined. Current law caps the total amount of that credit that may be allocated under those provisions to $400,000,000. This bill would reduce the total amount of credit that may be allocated under those laws to $350,000,000. This bill contains other related provisions.
 
  AB 279 (Garrick R)  Sales and use taxes: wireless communication devices: bundled transactions.
  Current Text: Amended: 3/8/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/8/2011
  Last Amend: 3/8/2011
  Status: 1/17/2012-From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 5/3/2011-A. REV. & TAX SUSPENSE FILE
  Summary: Would limit the gross receipts from a retail sale of a wireless telecommunication device sold in a bundled transaction with wireless telecommunication service to the bundled sales price of the wireless telecommunication device. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
  Attachments:
AB 279 Fact Sheet
 
  AB 318 (Skinner D)  Franchise Tax Board: administration: legal holiday.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/4/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/9/2011
  Last Amend: 1/4/2012
  Status: 1/26/2012-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/26/2012-S. RLS.
  Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law establish specified dates for the filing of tax returns, and provide that if the last day for filing a return falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or other legal holiday, returns may be filed and payments made on the following day without penalty. This bill would conform to federal income tax law regarding the definition of a legal holiday for the purposes of the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law.
 
  AB 448 (Ammiano D)  Property taxation: change in ownership.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/4/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/15/2011
  Last Amend: 1/4/2012
  Status: 2/1/2012-Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 2/1/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would specify that when 100% of the ownership interests in a legal entity, as defined, are sold or transferred in a single transaction, as specified, the real property owned by that legal entity has changed ownership, whether or not any one legal entity or person that is a party to the transaction acquires more than 50% of the ownership interests. The bill would require the State Board of Equalization to notify assessors when a change in ownership as so described occurs. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 577 (Miller R)  Personal income tax: corporation taxes: capital gains: exclusion.
  Current Text: Amended: 3/31/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/16/2011
  Last Amend: 3/31/2011
  Status: 2/1/2012-Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 2/1/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law provide that gain or loss upon the disposition of a capital asset is determined by reference to the adjusted basis of that asset. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, provide that gross income does not include any gain from the sale or exchange of a capital asset, as defined, that is purchased during the 2011 or 2012 calendar year, and is held for more than one year. This bill contains other related provisions.
 
  AB 658 (Calderon, Charles D)  State Board of Equalization: administration.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/4/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/16/2011
  Last Amend: 1/4/2012
  Status: 1/26/2012-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/26/2012-S. RLS.
  Summary: Current law provides for the administration of various taxes, fees, and surcharges by the State Board of Equalization. The Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, Underground Storage Tank Maintenance Fee Law, and Fee Collection Procedures Law authorize the State Board of Equalization to compromise a final tax, fee, or surcharge liability that was generated from a business that has been discontinued or transferred, as specified. The Fee Collection Procedures Law makes any person who takes certain willful actions in connection with an offer or compromise under that law, including receiving, withholding, destroying, mutilating, or falsifying any book, document, or record, or making any false statement relating to the estate fee, guilty of a felony, punishable as specified. This bill would revise these provisions to make a person who receives, withholds, destroys, mutilates, or falsifies any book, document, or record or makes any false statement relating to the estate or financial condition of the feepayer or other person liable with respect to the fee guilty of a felony, as specified. The bill would also make other nonsubstantive changes. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 780 (Calderon, Charles D)  Public contracts: fixed price contracts: sales and use taxes rate changes: transactions and use taxes.
  Current Text: Amended: 7/12/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Last Amend: 7/12/2011
  Status: 8/26/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/15/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 8/26/2011-S. 2 YEAR
  Summary: Would provide, for a fixed price contract, as specified, between a government entity and a contractor, that the contractor is entitled to an increase in payment for a change in the contract price that is attributable to an increase in the taxes imposed by the Sales and Use Tax Law, and the government entity is entitled to a reduction in payment for a change in the contract price that is attributable to a decrease in the taxes imposed by the Sales and Use Tax Law, with the increase or decrease paid in accordance with the contract terms or as agreed to by the parties, as prescribed. The bill would also authorize the government entity to require the contractor to submit invoices for specified items consumed solely for use in the public work pursuant to the contract entered into by the government entity and the contractor. By placing new duties on local officials with respect to their contract practices, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 832 (Ammiano D)  Property taxation: software.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/17/2012   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Last Amend: 1/17/2012
  Status: 1/31/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). (Last location was RLS. on 1/17/2012)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/31/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Current law requires storage media for computer programs to be valued on the 1972 lien date and thereafter as if there were no computer program on the media except basic operational programs, and otherwise prohibits the valuation of computer programs for the purpose of property taxation. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation creating a standard for the fair and reasonable valuation of software embedded in business personal property, as provided .
 
  AB 979 (Silva R)  Sales and use taxes: exemption: manufacturing.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Status: 2/1/2012-Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 2/1/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would exempt from those taxes, on and after January 1, 2012, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person for use primarily in the manufacturing process, as specified, and qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a contractor for specified purposes, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 1259 (Knight R)  Enterprise zones.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/13/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: The Enterprise Zone Act provides for the designation of enterprise zones by the Department of Community Housing and Development, pursuant to which certain entities within a designated enterprise zone may receive regulatory, tax, and other incentives for private investment and employment, and sets forth the findings and declarations of the Legislature in this regard. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
 
  AB 1271 (Donnelly R)  Property tax: exemption.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/13/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Current property tax law specifies that exemptions shall be applied to the amount of the supplemental assessment provided, among other things, that claims for exemption are filed. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
 
  ABX1 11 (V. Manuel Pérez D)  Economic development: enterprise zones: targeted employment areas.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/2/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/2/2011
  Status: 9/12/2011-Died at Desk.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 9/12/2011-A. DEAD
  Summary:  The Enterprise Zone Act provides that its purpose is to stimulate business and industrial growth in the depressed areas of the state by relaxing regulatory controls that impede private investment. The act defines a targeted employment area as an area composed solely of those census tracts in which at least 51% of the residents of those census tracts, determined as specified, are of low- or moderate-income levels. This bill would modify the definition of a targeted employment area, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  ABX1 40 (Fuentes D)  Income taxes: exclusions: deductions: sales: single sales factor: sales and use taxes: manufacturing exemption.
  Current Text: Amended: 9/8/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 8/29/2011
  Last Amend: 9/8/2011
  Status: 9/14/2011-From Senate committee without further action.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 9/9/2011-S. RLS.
  Summary:  The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. That law provides various exemptions from those taxes. This bill would specify that this exemption does not apply to local sales and use taxes and transactions and use taxes. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  SB 116 (De León D)  Income taxes: exclusions: deductions: sales: single sales factor: sales and use taxes: manufacturing exemption.
  Current Text: Amended: 9/9/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/19/2011
  Last Amend: 9/9/2011
  Status: 9/10/2011-Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 22. Noes 15. Page 2487.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 9/8/2011-S. RLS.
  Summary:  The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. That law provides various exemptions from those taxes. This bill would specify that this exemption does not apply to local sales and use taxes and transactions and use taxes. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  SB 156 (Emmerson R)  Professional sports teams and facilities.
  Current Text: Amended: 7/14/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/2/2011
  Last Amend: 7/14/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was RLS. on 8/15/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/20/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: Would require a professional sports team that will benefit from the issuance and sale of bonds by a public agency to post a bond or other undertaking at the time of issuance of the bonds in an amount adequate to ensure that all of the team's obligations under a financial agreement will be satisfied in the event the professional sports team subsequently relocates. This bill contains other related provisions.
 
  SB 229 (Wyland R)  Income Taxes: corporate.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/9/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/13/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: The Corporation Tax Law provides that income derived from or attributable to sources within this state includes income from specified types of property. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
 
  SB 234 (Hancock D)  State Board of Equalization: administration: use tax.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/9/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/9/2011
  Status: 7/8/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was REV. & TAX on 6/16/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/8/2011-A. 2 YEAR
  Summary: The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, measured by sales price. This bill would further define a retailer engaged in business in this state as a retailer that has substantial nexus with this state and a retailer upon whom federal law permits the state to impose a use tax collection duty. The bill would also include specified retailers as retailers engaged in business in this state and would eliminate an exclusion.
  Attachments:
BOE Analysis 3-16-11
 
  SB 342 (Wolk D)  Taxation: administration: litigation: fees.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/4/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/15/2011
  Last Amend: 5/4/2011
  Status: 1/13/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/10/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/13/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: Would make the provision of law governing the administration of franchise and income tax laws the exclusive means to award attorney's fees in any civil proceeding described above, and would prohibit attorney's fees from being awarded pursuant to any other statutory provision or common law doctrine regarding the award of attorney's fees. This bill also would prohibit a person from charging a contingent fee, as defined, for any matter involving a tax imposed under the Revenue and Taxation Code, and would impose a penalty, as provided, for failing to comply with this requirement. This bill would authorize specified state agencies to request a written certification from those persons, filed under penalty of perjury, that a fee charged for those services does not include a contingent fee. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  SB 395 (Dutton R)  Sales and use taxes: exemption: manufacturing and research.
  Current Text: Amended: 3/29/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/16/2011
  Last Amend: 3/29/2011
  Status: 1/31/2012-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/31/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: Would provide an exemption from those taxes for the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property, as defined, purchased for use by a qualified person, as defined, to be used primarily in any stage of manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of property, as specified, or to be used primarily in qualified research, as specified, or to be used to maintain, repair, measure, or test that property. The bill would also exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased for use by a contractor, as specified, for a qualified person. The bill would require the purchaser to furnish the retailer with an exemption certificate, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  SB 421 (Correa D)  Sales and use taxes: underpayment: interest.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/3/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/16/2011
  Last Amend: 5/3/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/28/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/20/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a use tax on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. That law specifies that a "purchase" means and includes, among other things, a transaction whereby the possession of tangible personal property is transferred, but the seller retains the title to the property as security for the payment of the price. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this definition of purchase.
 
  SB 530 (Wright D)  Taxation: direct broadcast satellite television service: tax.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/17/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Last Amend: 5/17/2011
  Status: 1/31/2012-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  Is Urgency: Y
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/31/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: Would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct, and prepare a report on, the impact of the tax on direct broadcast satellite television service providers, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  SB 652 (Steinberg D)  Professional sports teams: relocation agreements.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/3/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Last Amend: 5/3/2011
  Status: 2/1/2012-Died on the inactive file.
  Is Urgency: Y
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 2/1/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: Would prohibit a professional sports team that has previously entered into a financial agreement with a public entity from entering into a relocation agreement, as defined, unless it first provides to the public entity a bond, undertaking, or deposit in an amount adequate to ensure that its obligations under the financial agreement will be satisfied. The bill also would prohibit a professional sports team from entering into a relocation agreement if that team is in breach or default of any financial agreement, or if entry into a relocation agreement would cause a breach or default of any financial agreement, unless and until the breach or default is cured. The bill would provide that any agreement entered into in violation of these prohibitions is contrary to public policy and is unenforceable. The bill would authorize the home public entity and home community, as defined, to seek, and would require the court to grant, an injunction to enjoin performance of any act under a relocation agreement that is made unenforceable by this bill. The bill would provide that performance under a relocation agreement entered into in violation of these prohibitions shall not be enjoined if all of the financial obligations the professional sports team owes to a home public entity and home community under a financial agreement are satisfied in full. The bill would require that any action or proceeding pursuant to these provisions be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in the county in which the home public entity and home community are located. The bill would provide that these provisions apply to any relocation agreement entered on or after January 1, 2011. This bill contains other related provisions.
 
  SB 653 (Steinberg D)  Local taxation: counties: school districts: community college districts: county offices of education: general authorization.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/6/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Last Amend: 6/6/2011
  Status: 1/31/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 8/22/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/31/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: Would authorize the governing board of any county or city and county, any school district, any community college district, and any county office of education subject to specified constitutional and voter approval requirements, to levy, increase, or extend a local personal income tax, transactions and use tax, vehicle license fee, and excise tax, including, but not limited to, an alcoholic beverages tax, a cigarette and tobacco products tax, a sweetened beverage tax, and an oil severance tax, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions.
 
  SB 655 (Steinberg D)  Sales and use taxes: retailer engaged in business in this state.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/18/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Status: 1/13/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was G. & F. on 12/17/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/13/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, measured by sales price. This bill would further define a retailer engaged in business in this state as a retailer that has substantial nexus with this state and a retailer upon whom federal law permits the state to impose a use tax collection duty.
 
  SBX1 23 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review)  Local taxation: counties: school districts: community college districts: county offices of education: general authorization.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/2/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 5/18/2011
  Last Amend: 6/2/2011
  Status: 9/12/2011-From Assembly without further action.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 8/18/2011-A. REV. & TAX
  Summary: Would authorize the governing board of any county or city and county, any school district, any community college district, and any county office of education, subject to specified constitutional and voter approval requirements, to levy, increase, or extend a local personal income tax, transactions and use tax, vehicle license fee, and excise tax, including, but not limited to, an alcoholic beverages tax, a cigarette and tobacco products tax, a sweetened beverage tax, and an oil severance tax, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.

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  AB 722 (Bradford D)  Utility rates: costs and rate increases.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/13/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission to prepare and submit a written report to the Governor and Legislature that contains the commission's recommendations for actions that can be undertaken to limit utility costs and rate increases, as provided. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the Public Utilities Commission to implement these recommendations.
 
  SB 379 (Fuller R)  Telecommunications policies.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/25/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/15/2011
  Last Amend: 4/25/2011
  Status: 7/8/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(10). (Last location was U. & C. on 5/19/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/8/2011-A. 2 YEAR
  Summary: Would declare the policies for telecommunications for California to include : (1) to continue our universal service commitment by ensuring the continued affordability and widespread availability of high-quality telecommunications services to all Californians; and (2) to continue universal service rate support for telephone corporations subject to rate-of-return regulation by the commission for the purpose of providing rural areas of the state with access to telecommunications services.
 
  SB 598 (Fuller R)  Telecommunication services.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/13/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: Under current law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations, as defined. The current Telecommunications Customer Service Act of 1993 requires the commission to require telephone corporations to provide certain customer services to telecommunication customers, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the act.
 
  SB 905 (Wolk D)  Telecommunications: universal service.
  Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Last Amend: 3/24/2011
  Status: 1/13/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/10/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/13/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: Would require that the commission annually report to the Legislature, on or before June 1 of each year, on any investigation commenced by the commission's consumer protection and safety division when the commission receives more than 100 complaints regarding unauthorized telephone charges in any 90-day period as to a person, corporation, or billing agent, as defined. The bill would require the commission to impose a civil penalty and order a billing telephone corporation to cease to provide billing services for a service provider, as defined, or billing agent whenever the incidence of meritorious subscriber complaints of unauthorized billings, as defined, exceeds 5% of the customer accounts that were billed on behalf of a service provider or billing agent. The bill would require a billing telephone corporation to notify its subscribers whenever this 5% meritorious complaint penalty and termination requirement is invoked, identifying the service provider or billing agent with a clear and informative description of the nature of the charges that were unauthorized, and would authorize any subscriber that made or makes a meritorious complaint with respect to that service provider or billing agent, to terminate without financial or other penalty, the remaining term of a service contract with the billing telephone corporation. The bill would require the commission to make certain information relative to cramming available to the public over the Internet and in bill inserts to be included with billings by billing telephone corporations. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
  Attachments:
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  AB 449 (Mitchell D)  Telecommunications: mobile telephony service: emergency contact information.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/15/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/15/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/13/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Under current law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations, as defined. This bill would require a mobile telephony services provider, upon activation of service, to cause an emergency contact information, as defined, number to be programmed into the subscriber's mobile telephone, unless the subscriber expressly declines, in writing, to have this service performed.
 
  AB 701 (Wagner R)  Missing persons: mobile telephone location.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2011
  Status: 1/13/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was PUB. S. on 12/7/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/13/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would authorize a peace officer to require a mobile telephony service carrier to provide the location of a mobile communication device, with a global positioning system, where the subscriber for the mobile telephony service has authorized the carrier to provide the requested information to a peace officer, where a missing person report has been filed for an at risk child or elder. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 1043 (Torres D)  Juveniles: sexting.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/4/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Last Amend: 5/4/2011
  Status: 1/13/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was PUB. S. on 12/7/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 1/13/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would extend the juvenile court's jurisdiction to also include minors who engaged in sexting, as defined, images of themselves or other minors, thereby expanding the duties of the probation officer and imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would, notwithstanding the provision described above, require a court to order a minor who engaged in sexting to perform 24 or 40 hours of community service, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 1050 (Ma D)  Telecommunications: prepaid mobile telephony services: taxes and fees.
  Current Text: Amended: 9/8/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Last Amend: 9/8/2011
  Status: 2/2/2012-Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
  Is Urgency: Y
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 2/2/2012-S. G. & F.
  Summary: Would enact the Prepaid Wireless Surcharge Collection Act. The bill would establish a prepaid communications charge, as defined, based upon a percentage of the sales price of each retail transaction that occurs in this state for prepaid mobile telephony services, as defined. The prepaid communications charge would include a state component, as defined, and if a local government has adopted utility user taxes or other specified charges that are otherwise applicable to prepaid mobile telephony services and the retail transaction occurs within that jurisdiction, a local component. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature to develop a method whereby a seller is required to collect the local component. The bill would require a seller, as defined, to collect the prepaid communications charge from a consumer and remit the amounts collected to the State Board of Equalization pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law. The bill would require the board to remit that portion of the state component collected pursuant to the Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act to the California Technology Agency and remit the balance of the state component, minus certain administrative costs incurred by the board, to the Public Utilities Commission. The bill would require the State Board of Equalization to remit the local component, if applicable, to the local government. The bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to annually compute the commission's reimbursement fee and specified telecommunications universal service program fees, to post notice of those fees on its Internet Web site and to notify the State Board of Equalization of the amounts. This bill contains other related provisions and other current laws.
 
  AB 1131 (Lara D)  Telecommunications: location of mobile telephony service facilities on state-owned real property: reporting requirements.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/26/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Last Amend: 4/26/2011
  Status: 8/26/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(11). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/15/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 8/26/2011-S. 2 YEAR
  Summary: Current law requires the Director of General Services to compile and maintain an inventory of state-owned real property, excluding certain property, that may be available for lease to providers of wireless telecommunications services for location of wireless telecommunications facilities, and to provide a requesting party, upon payment of any applicable fee, with a copy of the inventory. Current law also authorizes the director to negotiate and enter into an agreement to lease department-managed and state-owned real property to a provider of wireless telecommunications services for location of its facilities. This bill would require the director to submit to the Legislature, by January 31, 3012, a report on actions taken by the director regarding the above provisions including the number of wireless facility lease agreements entered into with providers of wireless telecommunications services and all moneys deposited into the Digital Divide Account. This bill contains other current laws.
 
  AB 1268 (Blumenfield D)  Telecommunications: usage notification.
  Current Text: Amended: 3/22/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2011
  Last Amend: 3/22/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 6/3/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-A. DEAD
  Summary: Would , for a subscriber to a service plan that requires payment for a set amount of airtime or text messaging where the subscriber pays additional charges if that amount of airtime or text messages is exceeded, require that the provider of mobile telephony services alert the subscriber when the set allotment of airtime or text messages has been reached. The bill would require that a provider of mobile data services, including a provider of mobile telephony services that includes mobile data service, to provide subscribers with a means by which a subscriber can obtain reasonably current and available information on the subscriber's mobile data service usage and charges. The bill would, for a subscriber to a service plan that requires payment for a set volume of data or amount of connection time for mobile data service, where the subscriber pays additional charges if that volume or amount of connection time is exceeded, require that the provider of mobile data services alert the subscriber when the set volume or amount of connection time has been reached. The bill would prohibit a provider of mobile telephony services from charging a subscriber for providing notice that they have used their allotment of airtime or text messages and would prohibit a provider of mobile data services from charging a subscriber for providing notice that they have used their alloted volume or connection time of mobile data services .
 
  SB 102 (Correa D)  Telecommunications: customer privacy.
  Current Text: Introduced: 1/11/2011   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/11/2011
  Status: 1/20/2012-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/13/2011)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/20/2012-S. DEAD
  Summary: Would require a commercial seller of mobile telephony service communications devices (commonly known as "cell phones") that incorporate geotagging, as defined, capability to disclose this capability to a potential purchaser prior to completing a sale of the device. The bill would prohibit the commercial seller from selling a mobile telephony service communications device to a purchaser with the geotagging capability activated or operational without first obtaining the purchaser's consent, in writing, acknowledging that the purchaser has been informed of the existence of the geotagging capability and consents to this capability being activated or operational.

Total Measures: 86

Total Tracking Forms: 86

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