Support

SCA 12 Local government: property-related fees This bill exempts new or increased storm water and urban runoff management fees or charges from the California Constitutions voter approval requirements for property-related fees and charges.

SB 728 California Disaster Assistance Act: allocations to local agencies: federal Fire Management Assistant Grant Program This bill would provide that a local agency may be reimbursed from the Disaster Assistance Fund for 100 percent of the nonfederal share of local agency costs for fires occurring in local responsibility areas. Reimbursement of local agency costs shall be in accordance with the California Fire Assistance Agreement for costs incurred by the local agency, as specified. By providing a new use for a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation.

SB 710 AFDC-FC: froup homes: Rates This bill requires a foster care group home operator seeking to establish a rate for a new program or a new location would be required to have a letter of support from the host county or regional consortium of counties - a letter from the primary placing county would be insufficient.

SB 709 Residential Care Facilites This bill authorizes cities or counties to submit, and requires the Department of Social Services to review, information regarding the location of community care facilities for six or fewer residents.

SB 708 Group homes This bill requires group homes for six or fewer persons to obtain a conditional use permit as a condition of licensure.

SB 657 Crime This bill would create the Safe Neighborhood Fund and the Comprehensive Safe Neighborhood Plan to assist local law enforcement and communities with a combination of programs that augment local law enforcement and early intervention capacity, create regional and statewide anti-gang networks, and enforce the law, as specified.

SB 657 Crime This bill would create the Safe Neighborhood Fund and the Comprehensive Safe Neighborhood Plan to assist local law enforcement and communities with a combination of programs that augment local law enforcement and early intervention capacity, create regional and statewide anti-gang networks, and enforce the law, as specified.

SB 390 Juveniles: Gang Activity Prevention Grant Program This bill would establish the Gang Activity Prevention Grant Program, to be administered by the Corrections Standards Authority for the awarding of grants to juvenile courts, county probation departments and the Division of Juvenile Justice. Funding for the grant program is subject to appropriation in the Budget Act.

SB 1586 County employees retirement: San Bernardino County Health Benefits This bill authorizes the San Bernardino County Board of Retirement to establish a post-employment health benefits fund for the investment of assets held in trust for the exclusive purpose of providing health benefits to the retirees of that county, and those of any participating local agency.

SB 1458 Local government: the County Service Area Law This bill repeals the existing County Service Area Law and enacts a new County Service Area Law with eight detailed articles: general provisions, including legislative declarations and definitions; formation procedures, with local agency formation commission approval; general powers, covering basic governance topics; services and facilities; finance, covering budgets, audits, and borrowing; revenues, including special taxes, benefit assessments, and fees; capital financing, covering three types of bonds and zones, allowing for localized financing and special services.

SB 1236 Pediatric Trauma Care Funding This bill would extend the sunset to allow counties to continue to collect millions of dollars for local emergency medical services while allocating 15% of the funding to pediatric trauma care services.

SB 1141 Emergency medical services: public aircraft This bill prohibits existing requirements for the emergency medical services system and emergency medical services personnel from being construed to authorize state or local regulation of public aircraft, as specified.

AB 844 Metal Theft This bill will deter metal thefts as well as help to catch those who commit the crime.

AB 63 Parks and Recreation: Glen Helen Regional Park This bill will provide the legislative authorization needed for the County of San Bernardino to transfer in fee 6.21 acres of un-useable and undesirable parkland in exchange for 14.98 acres of prime parkland immediately adjacent to Glen Helen Regional Park from Lytle Development Company. Lytle is currently in the process of developing a future master plan community located adjacent to Glen Helen Regional Park with the County San Bernardino.

AB 411 Residential Care Facilities: Overconcentration This bill would permit a city or county to submit to the Director of Social Services additional documentation and evidence regarding the siting of a proposed residential care facility designed for six or fewer residents to prevent the over concentration of licensed or unlicensed facilities in a neighborhood.

AB 308 Medi-Cal: HIV drug treatment: developmental services: financing This bill requires the Department of Mental Health, in consultation with the Department of Health Care Services, to adopt regulations to provide for the prompt reimbursement to counties of Medi-Cal claims for the provision of services under the early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment Program.

AB 283 Fire Companies: Certificate of Organization This bill proposes to require an annual certificate of organization document to be filed once a year with a single state agency instead of twice a year with 58 county Recorders.

AB 2724 Metal Theft Enforcement This bill would create a new fine, targeting the metal thieves who continue to ravage public and private property throughout Riverside County. The fine revenue will directly support increased local enforcement of metal theft.

AB 2282 Education finance: apportionment of state aid This bill requires, the calculation of base revenue limit funding for San Bernardino County Office of Education to include annual funding from the County of San Bernardino pursuant to a memorandum of understanding between the two parties. This measure also requires the funding received from County of San Bernardino for San Bernardino County Office of Education be subject to any cost-of-living adjustment, COLA, received for revenue limits in subsequent fiscal years.

AB 223 Military Voting This bill would expands voting opportunities to give members of our military every opportunity to participate in the democratic process while they are deployed.

AB 2169 Sex Offender Ice Cream Truck Drivers This bill would ban registered sex offenders from obtaining a business license to operate a retail ice cream truck from a city or county.provide the authority to utilize the aforementioned modern biometrics.

AB 2138 Foster Car Education This bill would require that school districts permit foster children who transition into their district during the 11th or 12th grade, be permitted to meet the State Board of Education graduation requirements, rather than the standards of their new district.

AB 1899 RAN Board Authority This bill would provide that local and regional Remote Access Network (RAN) boards may manage, at their discretion, additional biometric or other automated identification systems, including facial recognition, DNA, and iris scanning, and shall be funded from sources outside of those mandated for mobile and fixed location fingerprint identification.

AB 1248 Courts This bill makes technical changes to numerous statutes impacting court operations including:

1. Authorizes small claims courts to charge additional fees in cases where a party files an amended claim that raises the amount of the demand to the point that would have raised the initial filing fee.

2. Increases the cap on investigative expenses in habeas corpus death sentence cases from $25,000 to $50,000.

3. Permits civil courts to collect additional filing fees when amended complaints or pleadings increase the amounts demanded from $10,000 to $25,000.

4. Clarifies that no fee is to be charged by court clerks in voter qualification challenges.

5. Authorizes courts to impose a fee to cover the cost of premarital counseling provided by either the county or the court.

6. Specifies that certain unclaimed property held by a court for three years that formerly escheated to the counties will now escheated to the Trial Court Trust Fund.

7. Requires Judicial Council to adopt fiscally responsible travel reimbursement policies.

8. Allows the collection of filing fees for both temporary and permanent conservators and guardians at the same time if the applications are filed simultaneously.

9. In cases where specified probate motions are combined in one filing, limits the filing fee collected to one fee.

10. Authorizes a bail forfeiture installment plan for traffic infractions without requiring individual to make an appearance in court.

11. Allows courts to charge the current night court assessment of $1 for court sessions held on weekends.

12. Makes various other statutory changes that are technical in nature.

Opposition

SB 583 Emergency medical technicians: certificates: discipline This bill limits the disciplinary actions local emergency agencies may take against Emergency Medical Technicians employed by public safety agencies and establishes an alternative system. The bill requires the state emergency medical services Authority to develop specified procedures for review of EMT discipline and authorizes local EMS agencies to confirm or impose EMT disciplinary actions.

SB 375 Transportation planning: travel demand models: sustainable communities strategy: environmental review This bill makes numerous changes with respect to regional transportation and land use planning, overall goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions attributable to the transportation sector in California. Key provisions require the larger regional transportation planning agencies to develop more sophisticated transportation planning models, and to use them for the purpose of creating "preferred growth scenarios" in their regional plans that limit greenhouse gas emissions. The bill also provides incentives for local governments to incorporate these preferred growth scenarios into the transportation elements of their general land use plans.

SB 1118 Airports: airport land use commissions This bill repeals several exemptions from the general statewide requirement that each county form an airport land use commission.

AB 553 Public Employment Relations Board This bill clarifies the Public Employment Relations Board's exclusive authority to determine, under the Meyers-Milias-Brown act, whether to seek from a court of competent jurisdiction injunctive relief involving relations between an employee organization and a public agency.

AB 503 Overtime Notice for Public Agencies This bill will help public employees balance their professional and personal lives by providing them with reasonable advance notice before requiring them to work overtime.

AB 2866 Solid waste: solid waste disposal fees: post closure trust fund This bill authorizes a solid waste enterprise that provides services to a local agency to increase its rates to recover the tipping fee and any fee required by a solid waste disposal facility operator pursuant to the provisions of a permit, statute or ordinance.

AB 1985 Sidewalks: repairs This bill repeals current laws regarding sidewalk repairs, and instead holds liable the owner of the property on which the sidewalk is located for all repairs and maintenance of the sidewalk.

AB 1496 Redevelopment: Treasure Island Develoment Authority This bill would amend existing county and city civil service systems to require that employees clearly performing long-term or permanent work must be properly classified as such.