Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed multiple legislative bills into action last week.
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Over a period of two days, Brown approved 40 bills from Sept. 25-26, ranging from blue light emergency vehicles to police camera operations.
Three notable bills Brown signed include SB 587, AB 1133 signed on Sept. 25 and AB 459 signed on Sept. 26.
SB 587 is a bill that allows probation officers to display blue warning lights on their emergency vehicles. Probation officers at times respond in emergency situations, and without blue lights, are not able to alert other officers and the public when responding that they are peace officers and are there to assist.
AB 1133 is a bill that carries out conservation efforts for endangered or threatened species listed under The Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973 (FESA).
AB 459 is a bill that requires state and local agencies to make their video and audio recordings of crimes available for public inspection, unless an exemption can be determined by authorities. The bill will impose a state-mandated program to facilitate the new operation.
Brown has also signed the following bills into action as of Sept. 26:
- AB 264 by Assemblymember Evan Low (D-Campbell) – Protective orders.
- AB 290 by Assemblymember Rudy Salas Jr. (D-Bakersfield) – Collateral recovery:
repossession agencies.
- AB 525 by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters) – State Board of
Equalization: California Department of Tax and Fee Administration: offer in compromise:
Extension.
- AB 644 by Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) – Civil procedure: pleadings.
- AB 940 by Assemblymember Shirley N. Weber (D-San Diego) – Long-term health care
facilities: notice.
- AB 1102 by Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez (D-Pomona) – Health facilities:
whistleblower protections.
- AB 1133 by Assemblymember Brian Dahle (R-Bieber) – California Endangered Species
Act: experimental populations.
- AB 1243 by Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno) – Public Employees’
Retirement System: replacement benefits plan.
- AB 1412 by Assemblymember Steven Choi (R-Irvine) – Common interest developments:
notices: volunteer officers: liability.
- AB 1590 by Assemblymember Phillip Chen (R-Diamond Bar) – Structural Pest Control
Board: complaints: structural pest control operators.
- SB 220 by Senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) – Medi-Cal Children’s Health Advisory
Panel.
- SB 330 by Senator Tom Berryhill (R-Modesto) – Building permit fees: waiver.
- SB 449 by Senator William W. Monning (D-Carmel) – Skilled nursing and intermediate care
facilities: training programs.
- SB 468 by Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) – School districts: governing boards: pupil
Members.
- SB 549 by Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) – Public utilities: redirection of moneys
authorized for maintenance, safety, or reliability.
- SB 557 by Senator Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina) – Food donations and pupil meals:
schools.
- SB 587 by Senator Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) – Emergency vehicles: blue warning
lights.
- SB 670 by Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) – Sentencing: county of
incarceration and supervision.
- SB 813 by the Committee on Governance and Finance – Franchise Tax Board: voluntary
disclosure agreements.
- AB 56 by Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena) – California Infrastructure and
Economic Development Bank: housing.
- AB 411 by Assemblymember Richard H. Bloom (D-Santa Monica) – Witness testimony:
therapy and facility dogs.
- AB 459 by Assemblymember Ed Chau (D-Monterey Park) – Public records: video or audio
recordings: crime.
- AB 491 by Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance) – California Civil Liberties Public
Education Act.
- AB 492 by Assemblymember Tim Grayson (D-Concord) – Advertising and solicitations:
government documents.
- AB 552 by Assemblymember Jacqui V. Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks) – United Water
Conservation District.
- AB 609 by Assemblymember Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles) – Alcoholic beverages:
licensee promotion events: sunset.
- AB 618 by Assemblymember Evan Low (D-Campbell) – Local Agency Public Construction
Act: job order contracting: school districts: community college districts.
- AB 1222 by Assemblymember Bill Quirk (D-Hayward) – Vehicles: electronic wireless
communications devices.
- AB 1325 by the Committee on Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security – State
teachers’ retirement.
- AB 1418 by Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell (D-Long Beach) – City prosecutor’s’.
- AB 1422 by Assemblymember Tom F. Daly (D-Anaheim) – Workers’ compensation
insurance: fraud. A signing message can be found here.
- AB 1439 by the Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials – Hazardous
materials: reporting.
- AB 1541 by Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) – Examination of prospective jurors.
- AB 1604 by Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian (D-Sherman Oaks) – CalWORKs:
welfare-to-work: education.
- AB 1709 by the Committee on Veterans Affairs – Armories: sales: local agencies.
- SB 144 by Senator Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) – Fish and wildlife: steelhead trout:
fishing report-restoration card.
- SB 214 by Senator Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) – San Diego River Conservancy.
- SB 438 by Senator Richard D. Roth (D-Riverside) – Juveniles: legal guardianship:
successor guardian.
- SB 486 by Senator William W. Monning (D-Carmel) – Contractors’ State License Law: letter
of admonishment.
- SB 580 by Senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) – Water development projects:
Sacramento-San Joaquin watersheds.
The governor also announced that he vetoed the following bill:
- AB 154 by Assemblymember Marc B. Levine (D-Marin County) – Prisoners: mental health
treatment. A veto message can be found here.
For full text of the bills, click here.
Ed. Note: The above information was provided to KHTS by the California Legislative Information website.
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