GA Legislative Recommendations
2015

Bills Supported

SB 576 (Leno)
Topic:  Mobile applications: geolocation information: privacy.
Status: Sen Business, Professions and Economic Development

AB 543 (Quirk)
Topic:  Proposition 65: exposure
Status: Asm Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials

SB 67 (Galgiani)
Topic:  Disability access: statutory damages
Status: Sen Judiciary

AB 52 (Gray)
Topic:  Public accommodations: construction-related accessibility claims.
Status: Asm Judiciary

AB 54 (Evans)
Topic:  Public accommodations: construction-related accessibility standards: tax credit.
Status: Asm Revenue and Taxation

AB 463 (Chiu)
Topic:  Pharmaceutical Cost Transparency Act of 2015
Status: Asm Health

SB 546 (Leno)
Topic:  Health care coverage: rate review
Status: Approved by the Governor.

AB 12 (Cooley)
Topic: administrative regulations
Status: Sen Appropriations (Suspense File)


Bills Opposed

AB 357 (Chiu)
Topic:  Employee scheduling
Status: Inactive file

SB 3 (Leno)
Topic:  Min Wage
Status: Asm Appropriations (Suspense File)

SB 406 (Jackson)
Topic:  Employment: leave.
Status: Vetoed by the Governor

AB 67 (Gonzalez)
Topic:  Double Pay on the Holiday Act of 2015.
Status: Inactive File

SB 350 (De Leon)
Topic:  Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015
Status: Approved by the Governor

SB 32 (Pavley)
Topic: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: emissions limit
Status: Asm Natural Resources

ACA 4 (Frazier)
Topic: Local government transportation projects: special taxes: voter approval.
Status: Asm Appropriations (Suspense File)

SCA 5 (Hancock)
Result: Committee voted to oppose measure 9-0
Topic: Split roll.
Status: Sen Governance and Finance

SB 684 (Hancock)
Topic: Corporation taxes: tax rates: publicly held corporations.
Status: Sen Governance and Finance

AB 1520 (Stone, Alejo, Chau, Chiu, Garcia, Holden)
Topic:  Public Records
Status: Sen Judiciary

AB 1357 (Bloom)
Topic:  taxation, sugar sweetened beverages, health
Status: Asm Health

NOTE: California started its two year legislative cycle in 2015. As you can see above, many bills did not achieve a final yes-or-no status but are caught along the way in a process that typically involves a committee vote, a vote in the house of origin (Assembly or Senate) and consideration in the other house. Many legislators, seeing the writing on the wall, will put their bills in the “inactive file” so they have more time to drum up support. Other bills get put in the “suspense file” by either Appropriations Committees due to their larger fiscal impact.

In 2016, look for many of the bills that did not pass to return or for the ideas underpinning them to resurface in new legislation.