AB 529: Home Owner Protection Bill
The mortgage rate crisis has hit Californians hard.  Too many of our residents have lost their homes because they did not know that huge increases in their payments were imminent.  AB 529 seeks to remedy this problem by requiring mortgage providers to notify home owners at least 90 days in advance of any changes to their mortgage terms.

AB 1112: Teacher Housing: Education Bond
This bill will allow school districts to place before the voters a bond measure requiring a 2/3 vote of the public that would allow them to use the proceeds to construct or acquire rental housing for their employees.  Not only will this project supply housing to its teachers, but it can provide much need revenue for the school maintenance an also allow the district to direct more funding to the classroom.

AB 1195: Re-refined Oil
This bill ensures that all California used oil transported to facilities, either in or out of state, is handled, processed, and recycled under the most preferred environmental standards. It ensures that the current financial incentive for recycling used oil is given only to those generators that send their used oil to facilities that comply with high environmental standards. The bill also requires that used oil is tested to ensure that it is not contaminated and that it meets California's definition of used oil.

AB 1245: Novelty Items
This bill modifies an existing provision of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act to allow beer manufacturers to give adult consumers promotional advertising items valued at three dollars per unit original cost to the beer manufacturer who purchased it.

AB 1389: Special Distribution Fund
This bill (1) enacts several recommendations proposed by the State Auditor relative to the allocation and uses of proceeds from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund, (2) extends the sunset date from January 1, 2009 to January 1, 2010 on the County Tribal Casino Account, and (3) appropriates $30 million from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund to the California Gambling Control Commission to provide grants to local government agencies for the purpose of mitigating the impact of casinos on local jurisdictions.

AB 1914: Take Back the Initiative Process
This bill would invalidate the signatures on a petition if a signature gatherer is found guilty of misleading a voter to sign the petition. Furthermore, this bill would impose the civil penalty on the initiative’s proponents and require them to notify and explain the situation to each voter who signed the petition.

AB 1930:  Emergency Services for the Limited English Proficient
This bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to consider the needs of people with limited English proficiency in creating emergency and disaster response plans.

AB 2262: Child Protection - Safe Surrender
Over the past five years, literally hundreds of unwanted babies have been dropped off at emergency rooms throughout California.  Tragically, many other newborns have been abandoned in trash cans, open fields, motel rooms, or other unsafe places.  AB 2262 will save babies lives by allowing mothers up to 7 days after the birth of the baby to “safely surrender” the baby to an emergency room or fire station with no questions asked.

AB 2288: Fire Sprinkler Certification
This bill would prohibit any person from engaging in the business of installing fire sprinklers or a
fire sprinkler system without a certificate of registration issued by the State Fire Marshal.

AB 2518: Northern California Cancer Center
This bill would allow taxpayers to designate on their tax returns, that a specified amount in excess of their tax liability b transferred to the Northern California Cancer Research Fund, which would be created by this bill. Read more at the Northern California Cancer Center website

AB 2555: California School for the Blind Parental Notification
This bill would require that information provided pursuant to the assessment process to the parent of an individual who is blind or visually impaired specify that the parent may seek to demonstrate that the California School for the Blind is the appropriate placement for his or her child, regardless of whether the local educational agency agrees with that placement.

AB 2586: Renter Foreclosure – 60-day Notice
This bill would mirror legislation authored in 2006 by Assembly Member Torrico that generally requires 60 days’ notice to evict a tenant without fault, by applying the 60-day timeframe to foreclosure situations.

AB 2604:  Fee Deferrals
This bill would create, until January 1, 2014, another exception by prohibiting a local agency that imposes any fee or charge on a residential development for the construction of public facilities, as defined, from requiring the payment of those fees or charges for residential units until the date the certificate of occupancy is issued, or the close of escrow in jurisdictions that already have adopted a policy to defer collection until that time, whichever occurs later.

AB 2633: Precinct Consolidation
This bill applies current prohibitions against consolidating more than six (6) precincts in a special election to all statewide elections. It requires counties to place the polling place within the boundaries of one the precincts voting at that precinct.

AB 2741: Health Impact Analysis
This bill would provide that if the applicant has not met certain statutory requirements regulating the sale, transfer, lease, exchange, option, conveyance, or otherwise disposal of the assets, or control thereof, of a nonprofit corporation that operates or controls a facility that provides health care, the department shall obtain a health impact analysis of the transaction in order to determine whether the transaction may create a significant effect on the availability or accessibility of health care services to the affected community and whether the transaction is in the public interest.

AB 2817:  California Red Flag Warning Assistance Act of 2008
This bill would enact the California Red Flag Warning Assistance Act of 2008 and would make various findings and declarations by the Legislature concerning wild fire disasters in the state.

AB 2917: Emergency Medical Technicians
This bill would require the medical director of a local emergency medical services agency to evaluate information that an EMT-P license holder has committed any act or omission that appears to constitute grounds for disciplinary action in order to determine if there is a reason to believe that disciplinary action may be necessary.

ACA 16: College Access for All
Every year, higher education becomes less and less affordable for California’s working families.  In addition, the State of California is on pace to spend more money on prisons than higher education in two to three years.  ACA 16 would avoid this aberration by requiring that funding for higher education be adjusted, yearly, based on California’s population growth and inflation.