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AB 194 (Campos) Open Meetings: Public Criticism and Comment. AB 194 addresses public comment periods of local legislative bodies under the state’s open meeting laws. Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Watch
AB 896 (Eggman) Wildlife Management Areas: Mosquito Abatement. AB 896 would help protect the public’s health from vector borne diseases such as the West Nile Virus through a multipronged approach that requires collaboration among state agencies and the local vector control districts to control mosquito and vector breeding populations in wildlife management areas. Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Support
AB 1174 (Bocanegra) Dental Professionals. AB 1174 would establish the Virtual Dental Home (VDH) system statewide and extend the scope of practice for registered dental assistants and dental hygienists such that they are able to perform early intervention procedures on patients who traditionally are not able to go to a dental office for treatment. Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Support
AB 1867 (Patterson) Forestry. AB 1867 would allow landowners to sell timber removed during the course of defensible space vegetation management work up to 150 feet on each side of a legally permitted structure. Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Support
AB 2126 (Bonta) Collective Bargaining. AB 2126 would impose mandatory mediation and broaden the scope of fact-finding during the local government collective bargaining process. Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Oppose
AB 2142 (Chesbro) Timber Harvesting Plans. AB 2142 would extend the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption pilot project, as created by AB 744 of 2013, to include additional areas of the state that have significant fire hazard risks. Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Support
AB 2188 (Muratsuchi) Solar Energy: Permits. AB 2188 would require each city and county to create an expedited permitting process for small, residential solar energy systems among other provisions. Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Oppose
AB 2231 (Gordon) Senior Property Tax Postponement Program. AB 2231 would restore the Senior Citizen’s Property Tax Postponement Program. Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Support
AB 2413 (Perez) Office of Farm to Fork. AB 2413 would create the Office of Farm to Fork under the direction of the Department of Food and Agriculture and would require the office to identify communities in both rural and urban areas that lack access to healthy food. Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Support
AB 2415 (Ting) Property Tax Agents. AB 2415 would provide protections for property owners and local governments by requiring a statewide compliance and registration scheme for property tax agents. Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Support
SB 29 (Correa) Vote by Mail Ballots. SB 29 would allow an absentee or mail-in ballot to be counted if it is postmarked by or on Election Day and is received by election officials within three days after Election Day (commonly referred to as ‘postmark + 3’). Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Support
SB 1077 (DeSaulineir) Mileage-Based Fee Pilot Program. SB 1077 would establish a Mileage-Based Fee (MBF) Task Force within the California Transportation Commission and would require the task force to study MBF alternatives to the gas tax and to develop recommendations for MBF criteria to be used to evaluate the pilot program. Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Watch
SB 1219 (Torres) Public Employees' Retirement/Elected Officials. SB 1219 would provide clarification within the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 so that elected officials would not face mandatory reinstatement into the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. Status: Failed passage on the Assembly Floor. RCRC Position: Support
SB 1292 (Hueso) Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. SB 1292 would increase the maximum amount of a construction grant award from $3 million to $5 million for a water system serving severely disadvantaged communities. Status: Gained passage in the Assembly and awaits final consideration in the Senate. RCRC Position: Support
SB 1341 (Mitchell) Medi-Cal/Statewide Automated Welfare System. SB 1341 would require SAWS to be the system of record for Medi-Cal, and contain all Medi-Cal eligibility rules and case management functionality. Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Support
SB 1364 (Fuller) Telecommunications: Universal Service Programs. SB 1364 would expand and extend the funding base for the state’s universal service and telecommunications programs which help support the deployment of communication services in California. Status: Gained final passage in both houses of the Legislature and awaits the Governor’s consideration. RCRC Position: Support