A four-page report from Senator Scott Wilk’s office detailed various bills that are expected to be heard in the Senate policy committees the week of June 5.

Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, released his weekly “A Look Ahead” — a report from the senator’s office that lists selected significant bills from the June 5th Daily File that are scheduled to be heard next week — on Friday.

The report detailed various bills that address concerns in agriculture, business, elections, energy, environment, governance & finance, health, insurance & banking, judiciary, natural resources, public safety, transportation and housing.

Included in this list is Assemblyman Dante Acosta’s driver and motorcycle license bill, AB 1027. This policy would allow experienced riders applying for a motorcycle license to complete an abbreviated, intermediate training course instead of the novice course, for purposes of waiving the driving test.

Below are all the “significant” bills that are scheduled to be heard next week in various Senate policy committees, according to Wilk’s “A Look Ahead”.

Agriculture

113 AB 564 (Agriculture)–Makes minor changes in the Food and Agriculture Code to conform it to the federal Food Safety Modernization Act. Clarifies that the California Department of Food and Agriculture can inspect for food safety and limits the inspection authority to raw fruits, nuts and vegetables.

AB 768 (Aguiar-Curry)–Eliminates the January 1, 2018 sunset date on the authority of the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s to enforce violations of the Direct Marketing Program through civil penalties in lieu of prosecution.

AB 1126 (Agriculture)–Extends indefinitely the use of carbon monoxide for the control of vertebrate pests, subject to specified provisions governing pest control operations.

AB 1486 (Caballero)–Deletes the limited manufacturing permit for frozen desserts and replaces it with a limited frozen manufacturing permit, under the authority of the Milk and Dairy Food Safety Branch of the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Business, Professions Professions& Economic Development Development Monday, June 5 1:00 p.m. and upon adjournment of Session, Room 3191

AB 89 (Levine)–Requires, beginning January 1, 2020, an applicant for licensure as a psychologist to complete six hours of coursework or applied experience in suicide risk assessment and intervention. Requires a licensed psychologist to complete a one-time requirement of six hours of course work or applied experience in suicide risk assessment and intervention for license renewal.

AB 657 (Cunningham)–Requires a state agency that significantly regulates or impacts small business to prominently display the name and contact information of the agency’s small business liaison on the agency’s website. Requires these state agencies to provide the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) and the Department of General Services (DGS) with the name and contact information of the small business liaison by March 1, 2018, to notify GOBiz and DGS of a liaison position vacancy, and to fill that vacancy within three months of providing notice.

AB 845 (Wood)–Authorizes a physician to prescribe and a pharmacist to dispense a product composed of cannabidiol (CBD) if it is no longer classified as a Schedule I controlled substance at the federal level, or if a product composed of CBD is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration and either reclassified or exempted from the federal Controlled Substances Act.  

Education

AB 591 (O’Donnell)–Imposes upon county offices of education the same requirements imposed upon school districts with regard to leaseleaseback facility agreements, including restrictive “skilled workforce” mandates, unless the contractor enters into a project labor agreement.

AB 618 (Low)–Authorizes community college districts to utilize job order contracting, but only if the district has entered into a project labor agreement for all projects awarded through job order contracting and all other public works of the district that exceed a monetary threshold set by the district.

AB 830 (Karla)–Repeals the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) statutes and removes the requirement to pass the CAHSEE (which tests very basic proficiency in English language arts and mathematics) as a condition of graduating from high school.

ACR 21 (Kiley)–Urges all private and public universities in California, to the extent that they have not adopted free speech statements consistent with the principles articulated by the Chancellor of the University of California at Irvine, or the Free Speech Statement formally adopted by the University of Chicago, to consider such statements as a model for developing and adopting free speech statements. Elections and Elections and Constitutional Amendmen Amendments Tuesday, June 6 1:30 p.m., Room 3191

AB 84 (Mullin)–Moves California’s statewide primary election from June to March during Presidential election years.

AB 187 (Gloria)–Requires committees that make contributions or independent expenditures of $5,000 or more to support or oppose the qualification or passage of a local initiative or referendum ballot measure to report information concerning the expenditure to the Secretary of State within 10 days.

AB 195 (Obernolte)–Provides that if a local government entity places a measure on the ballot to impose a tax or raise the rate of an existing tax, the ballot statement must include the amount of money to be raised annually, and the rate and duration of the tax to be levied. Provides that all proposed local measures to impose a tax or raise the rate of an existing tax must include a synopsis of the measure that is true, impartial, and non-argumentative.

AB 855 (Low)–Requires the Secretary of State (SOS) to prescribe requirements for county voter registration programs, and requires counties to implement and periodically update those programs. Authorizes the SOS to design a voter registration program for any county that the SOS finds to be in violation of the SOS’s regulations, and requires the SOS to report the county’s violation to the Attorney General.

AB 1367 (Berman)–Makes it a crime for anyone in charge of petition circulators (petition circulating firms and/or campaign managers) to knowingly direct a petition circulator to make a false affidavit concerning an initiative, recall, or referendum petition. Makes it a crime for anyone in charge of petition circulators to know (or to be in a position to have reasonably known) that a petition circulator has made such a false affidavit.

AJR 1 (Low)–Urges the U.S. Congress to propose and send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College, and provide for the direct election of the U.S. President and Vice President by the popular vote of all the voters in the United States. Energy, Energy,Utilities tilities tilities& Communications Communications Tuesday, June 6 9:00 a.m., Room 3191

AB 797 (Irwin)–Extends and modifies a solar thermal subsidy program until July 31, 2020 and requires 50% of the program’s total budget of $250 million to be reserved for systems in lowincome residential housing or in buildings in disadvantaged communities.

ACR 62 (Quirk)–Urges policymakers to establish technology neutral policies and modernize and streamline the processes to enable the rapid deployment of the small cell infrastructure that supports 5G wireless networks. Environmental Quality Quality Wednesday, June 7 9:30 a.m., Room 3191

AB 619 (Dahle)–Authorizes the Sierra Lakes County Water District to regulate, prohibit, and control the discharge of pollutants in groundwater and surface waters.

AB 1438 (ESTM)–Updates the statutes governing the Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Act program (ELAP) to reflect its transfer to the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) and emergence of a new accrediting standard. Aligns program appeals processes with the state board’s existing processes

AB 1480 (Quirk)–Expands the list of prohibited activities relating to pesticide licensing applications to include cheating, subverting, and making any false or fraudulent statements in connection with licensing requirement. Governance & Finance Finance Wednesday, June 7 9:30 a.m., Room 112

SR 39 (Morrell)–Recognizes Friday, June 6, 2017 as the 39th anniversary of the passage of Proposition 13.

AB 454 (Ridley-Thomas)–Excludes from state income taxes certain payments received by wrongfully incarcerated individuals, in conformity with federal law.

AB 549 (Quirk)–Requires counties and cities that approve a building permit for the construction of an electrified security fence to notify the local fire department and fire marshal and provide them with a copy of the approved permit.

AB 733 (Berman)–Adds climate change projects to the list of projects that may be financed by an Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District.

AB 1226 (McCarthy)–Authorizes the City of West Sacramento and the County of Yolo to replace an appointed member to the Sacramento-Yolo Port District Commission prior to the end of their four-year term of office, as specified.

Health

SCA 7 (Moorlach)–Repeals the constitutional provisions of the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act (Prop. 71 of 2004).

AB 275 (Wood)–Expands the notice and planning requirements that a long-term health care facility provides before any change in the status of the license or in the operation of the facility that results in its inability to care for its residents.

AB 395 (Bocanegra)–Modifies: 1) the specific controlled substances authorized for use in narcotic replacement therapy to include medication-assisted treatment and refer to medications, rather than controlled substances; and 2) the conditions for the state Department of Health Care Services to authorize an office-based narcotic treatment program in a remote site to authorize a physician to treat a number of patients specified under the United States Drug Enforcement Administration registration and modify the types of authorized pharmacological treatments.

AB 727 (Nazarian)–Clarifies that counties may spend Mental Health Services Act (Prop. 63 of 2004) moneys on housing assistance, as defined, for people in the target population.

AB 1368 (Calderon)–Authorizes a physician to designate a physician assistant or nurse practitioner to sign any prior authorization form required by the state Department of Health Care Services for benefits and services under the Medi-Cal program, provided that the physician and the designated physician assistant or nurse practitioner are each enrolled as a Medi-Cal provider.

AB 1726 (Health)–Authorizes access to the confidential portion of any certificate of live birth or fetal death, the electronic file of birth information, and the birth mother linkage information to a state government entity that agrees to maintain confidentiality and requests the information for official government business purposes as deemed appropriate by the State Registrar and to the birth hospital responsible for preparing and submitting a record of the birth or fetal death for purposes of correcting birth or fetal death records or for quality assurance purposes.

Insurance, Insurance, Banking and Financial Institutions,

AB 1460 (Dababneh)–Authorizes licensed insurers to deposit specified insurance premiums and other funds that the licensee holds as a fiduciary with an FDIC-insured bank or savings and loan that is licensed by another state or by the federal government. Provides that all suits and administrative proceedings involving fiduciary trust accounts with fiduciary funds that originate from California shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of California, and the jurisdiction of federal courts located within the State of California.

Judiciary

AB 712 (Bloom)–Requires the court transferring jurisdiction of a family law action or proceeding to retain jurisdiction to make orders to prevent an immediate danger or irreparable harm to a party or to the children involved in the matter, or to help prevent immediate loss or damage to property subject to disposition in the case. Ensures parties have a venue to seek an emergency order in such cases.

AB 1139 (Reyes)–Adds an advisory for residential real estate transaction to the current “Payment of Private of Transfer Fee Required” notice informing potential buyers of the Federal Housing Finance Administration and Federal Housing Administration prohibitions ,and that, as a result, they or others may have difficulty obtaining financing.

AB 1148 (Steinorth)–Defines “commercial property” for purposes of the section of the Civil Code that requires a commercial property owner whose property has undergone inspection by a Certified Access Specialist to share the results of the inspection report with prospective tenants. Clarifies that this requirement only applies to property that is offered for sale or lease to persons operating, or intending to operate, a public accommodation or facility to which the general public is invited.

Natural Resources & Water

AJR 15 (Aguiar-Curry)–Urges the President of the United States, the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, and the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture to protect federal public lands and the economic, historical, cultural, and ecological values that they provide for Americans; to support the enactment and use of the Antiquities Act of 1906 as a critical tool for protecting the public good by authorizing the designation of national monuments under the Antiquities Act; and to honor and protect the integrity of all national monuments as they have been designated by Presidents since 1906.

Public Safety Public Safety

AB 41 (Chiu)–Provides that each law enforcement agency that has investigated a case involving the collection of sexual assault kit evidence is required to report to the Department of Justice (DOJ), through the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Tracking (SAFE-T) database, within 120 days, as specified. Requires the DOJ to send annual summary reports to the Legislature on the status of DNA kit testing as tracked by the SAFE-T database.

AB 413 (Eggman)–Authorizes a party to a confidential communication to lawfully record the communication without the permission of the other party if the person is attempting to obtaining evidence regarding domestic violence.

AB 493 (Jones-Sawyer)–Provides that whenever “an individual who is a victim of or witness to a crime, or who otherwise can give evidence in a criminal investigation, is not charged with or convicted of committing any crime under state law, a peace officer may not detain the individual exclusively for any actual or suspected immigration violation or report or turn the individual over to federal immigration authorities.”

AB 785 (Jones-Sawyer)–Adds persons convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes to the list of offenses for which a conviction results in a loss of the right to own or possess a firearm for 10 years. Corrects a technical chaptering problem between the passage of Proposition 63 of 2014 and

AB 1695 (Bonta, 2016), which provided that a person who falsely reports that his firearm was lost or stolen loses his or her rights to own or possess a firearm for 10 years.

Transportation & Housing

AB 790 (Stone)–Allows inmates at state, federal, or county correctional facilities, and patients at state hospitals, to apply for reduced-fee California identification cards to be issued upon the individual’s release.

AB 1027 (Acosta)–Allows experienced riders applying for a motorcycle license to complete an abbreviated, intermediate training course instead of the novice course, for purposes of waiving the driving test.

AB 1113 (Bloom)–Makes numerous changes to the State Transit Assistance (STA) Program to eliminate ambiguities regarding which transit providers are eligible to receive direct funding allocations from the STA, ambiguities that only came to light when the State Controller’s Office reinterpreted STA statutes in 2015- 2016

AB 1137 (Maienschein)–Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to require each housing development that is financed on or after January 1, 2018, to authorize a resident of the housing development to own or otherwise maintain one or more common household pets within the resident’s dwelling unit.

AB 1303 (McCarty)–Allows a patient with UV sensitivity to apply window tinting to the windshield of a vehicle in order to filter ultra-violet light.

AB 1505 (Bloom)–Authorizes the legislative body of any city or county to adopt ordinances to require, as a condition of development of residential rental units, that the development include a certain percentage of residential rental units affordable to, moderate-income, lower income, very low income, or extremely low income households (inclusionary zoning

Ed Note: This article is a press release provided by the office of Senator Scott Wilk.