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AB 628 – Meal and Rest Periods for Pool Lifeguards
Pool lifeguards perform physically demanding, often dangerous work which result in savings people’s lives. However, those pool lifeguards working in the public sector have no right to duty-free meal and rest periods. AB 628 gives these pool lifeguards the rights for duty-free meal and rest periods. By ensuring that these employees are well-rested, this bill makes it less likely that accidents will occur and potentially more lives are saved.
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AB 984 – Vote-by-Mail Voters Notification of Cost to Return Ballots
This measure requires elections officials to notify vote-by-mail voters if more than one first-class stamp is required to return a vote-by-mail ballot and, if so, how much postage is required to return the ballot. To ensure that counties can make this notification in the most cost-effective way, AB 984 provides flexibility by allowing counties to including the notification on the vote-by-mail ballot return envelope, or by including an insert with the vote-by-mail ballot.
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AB 1596 – Stabilizing Alcohol Enforcement Officers
Currently, Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) is experiencing difficulty in maintaining enforcement agents in their district offices to help fight underage drinking and at risk of potentially closing many throughout the state. Yet, these district offices are critical especially those located in California’s inner cities where liquor stores drastically outnumber grocery stores and where the potential for underage drinking is rampant. This bill simply requests ABC to provide a report addressing the need to alleviate the department’s staffing difficulties and to keep enforcement agents on our streets.
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AB 1666 – Meal and Rest Periods for Stage Assistants
Stage assistants perform physically demanding and often dangerous work in extremely tight environments. Currently, those stage assistants working in the public sector have no right to duty-free meal and rest periods, like their private sector counterparts. AB 1666 gives these stage assistants the rights for duty-free meal and rest periods. By ensuring that these employees are well-rested, this bill makes it less likely that any errors and accidents will occur and harm people.
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AB 1819 – Pre-Registration for 16 year olds
In California, nearly a third of eligible voters – about 6.7 million Californians – are not registered to vote. Of particular concern is that young people are much less likely to be registered to vote than other demographic groups. This bill simply allows eligible 16-year-olds to pre-register as voters. As each pre-registrant turns 18, the database would automatically activate that voter registration. Once the pre-registrant turns 18, they will be activated in the state database and eligible to vote in the next election. The hope of this measure is to help get young people active in the voting process and increase their voting participation.
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AB 2125 – Job Training Funding for At-Risk Youth
Studies have shown that when at-risk youth are trained in job skills, they develop the necessary tools to find and keep employment as well as maintain a productive life-style. Existing law provides, through the Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Fund, a fund for juvenile justice plans for the purpose of assisting at-risk juveniles. This bill would require that those juvenile justice plans also assess job training services and strategies. This bill also requires that recipients of funding demonstration the effectiveness of their program at reducing delinquency through job training and employment to qualify for funding allocation.
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AB 2206 – Small Business Development Centers Expansion
California Small Business Development Center Programs facilitate the success of small business through the creation and retention of jobs, the increase of sales and profits, securing business financing and the creation of new business. This measure is intended to re-establish the Small Business Development Centers at California’s Community Colleges as a place for small business owners to seek advice and information.
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AB 2208 – L.E.A.P. (Lupus Education and Awareness Program)
This bill establishes the Lupus Education and Awareness Program (L.E.A.P.), a multi-pronged, statewide education and awareness program to be inform the public about lupus. L.E.A.P. authorizes the creation of an “Interagency Council on Lupus” to coordinate efforts among state agencies, and a “Lupus Advisory Panel” to provide input and counsel on activities related to the education and awareness program. AB 2208 also creates a grant program for the purpose of heightening awareness and understanding of the symptoms and consequences of lupus, focusing on populations at highest risk for lupus.
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AB 2210 – Dental Professionals as Emergency Responders
The Dental Practice Act, which governs the scope of practice for dental professionals, is silent on emergency response situations. This lack of clarity has created confusion and in some cases concern that dentists may be liable for the care they provide as part of emergency response efforts if it falls outside of the scope of traditional dental practice. This bill amends the Dental Practice Act to permit dental professionals in a declared state of emergency, made by the Governor, to lawfully provide emergency health care consistent with professional and emergency response training they have received.
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AB 2244 – UC Healthcare Facilities Staff Ratios (Introduced by Assemblymember Soto)
Current short staffing in UC healthcare facilities undermines patient care in many ways, including staff having to simultaneously cover multiple patients in different parts of the hospital, delays in getting test results, inaccurate or misleading films and tests, and back injuries when staff is expected to handle comatose or otherwise immobile patients. AB 2244 seeks to help address these concerns by requesting the Regents of the University of California to require University of California general acute care, acute psychiatric, or special hospitals to adopt, and annually review, a plan or procedure for determining the staffing of professional and technical classifications covered under the above provisions.
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AB 2307 – 3rd Party Verification
Existing law prohibits subscribers of telephone service to change providers without specified verification. This bill would instead require telephone corporations to offer customers the option of verifying the subscriber’s decision to change the residential telephone service provider by independent 3rd-party verification and notification by United States mail.
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AB 2325 – School Heritage Recognition Act
An epidemic of rising racial tension has occurred in California for many years with violence and deaths manifesting itself in high schools, city streets, and prisons. AB 2325 addresses this prevalence of violence stemming from racial tensions and mis-understandings by mandating the inclusion of African and Latin American communities and cultures in the modern world history curriculum in the tenth grade. By educating the involved parties about each other's cultures and thereby humanizing the conflict, some of the existing racial tensions could be mitigated.
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AB 2328 – Nursing Facilities Bankruptcy Notification
Recently, many nursing home facilities throughout California have been going bankrupt thus closing its doors to our needy seniors and other assisted-living individuals resulting in numerous being left homeless or a burden on their families. This bill would require a skilled nursing facility that has declared bankruptcy and that will be offered for sale to provide written notice to all employees of the facility, of the impending sale of the facility, within 30 days after a decision is made by the owner of the facility to offer the facility for sale. AB 2328 ensures that nursing home facilities will remain open by notifying potential investors about the opportunity to purchase the facility.
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AB 2333 – Policy for Racial Epithets
This measure is intended to address the potential lack of departmental policies that concern the use of racial epithets in all state and local law enforcement agencies. By ensuring that each department has such a policy, law enforcement agents will strengthen their perception as leaders in our communities with the values of respect, integrity, wisdom, fairness, and courage to fight against crime.
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AB 2376 – Secure Surety Bonds for Small Contractors
One of the major barriers that prevent small businesses from being able to enter into state procurement contracts is the capacity to secure surety bonds with the federal Small Business Administration. This bill would establish, by June 1, 2009, a Small and Emerging Contractor Technical Assistance Program in the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Office of Small Business Advocate. The purpose of this program is to provide training and technical assistance to small contractors to improve their ability to secure the surety bond guarantees that are necessary to qualify for public works construction projects.
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AB 2400 – Prevent Hospital Closures
In the last 20 years California has experienced a crisis of closing of emergency rooms and hospitals, specifically during 1991 to 2002 42 California general acute care hospitals closed with 11 being located in the Los Angeles area. Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital, just one in a number of hospitals, have closed their emergency room to the public causing the members of the community to search for immediate medical care elsewhere. AB 2400 is intended to help address this problem that hospital closures are occurring in our communities causing a tremendous problem with access to health care.
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AB 2438 – Comprehensive School Accountability Reform Act
This bill streamlines the current exit criteria for state accountability and state mandated programs. Specifically, this legislation would amend the Education Code to require K-12 institutions to exceed the Academic Performance Index growth target for the school averaged over three years or two years for Immediate Intervention/ Underperforming Schools Program to exit the state accountability or state mandated program. AB 2438 ensures that those schools that do make substantial progress, yet not in consecutive years, do not continue to be subjected to test-driven programs which only end up hurting our students in these schools.
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AB 2477 – California Green Jobs Act
California is on the verge of a new, multi-billion dollar “Green Economy”, bringing new opportunities in green construction, clean technology, urban agriculture and energy. This measure enacts the California Green Jobs Act of 2008 to help create opportunities in this new economic sector for both the unemployed and underemployed by providing green job training programs and a statewide database for identifying and tracking new jobs.
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AB 2773 – Increase Threshold for Small Business Procurement
Existing law permits a state agency to award a contract for goods, services, or information technology with a value of between $5,000 and $100,000 to a certified small business, including a micro-business and a disabled veteran business enterprise, without complying with specified competitive bidding requirements. In an attempt to expand small business participation in state procurement contracts, AB 2773 raises the threshold amount of the contract established in current law from $100,000 to $250,000.
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