California Legislative Update

as of 8/1/2010

AB 424	Torres D   Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act: public education campaign.
	Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 6/22/2010
	Status: 7/15/2010 - In committee: Placed on APPR suspense file.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered S- APPR.
	Summary: The Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act requires every local public agency to establish and operate, or to be a part of, an emergency telephone system using the digits "911," and creates the State 911 Advisory Board to assist in facilitating the purpose of the act to establish the number 911 as the primary emergency telephone number statewide. This bill would require the office of the State Chief Information Officer to develop and implement a public education campaign to instruct the public on the appropriate and inappropriate uses of the 911 emergency telephone number system.
	Position: No Position
AB 461	Gaines R   Economic Crime Act of 1992: reenactment.
	Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2009   pdf   html
	Status: 6/11/2009 - Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered S- PUB. S.
	Summary: Provisions of law known as the Economic Crime Act of 1992 provided for specified limitations with respect to probation for, the imposition of specified restitution orders on, and a surcharge on a defendant convicted of a felony for theft of an amount exceeding $50,000. The Economic Crime Act of 1992 was repealed by its own terms on January 1, 2008. This bill would reenact those provisions and provide for their repeal on January 1, 2019, unless a later enacted statute, enacted before January 1, 2019, deletes or extends the date. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Position: No Position
AB 978	V. Manuel Perez D   State Chief Information Officer: duties.
	Current Text: Amended: 1/26/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 1/26/2010
	Status: 7/15/2010 - In committee: Placed on APPR suspense file.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered S- APPR.
	Summary: Existing law requires the State Chief Information Officer, until January 1, 2013, to work to improve organizational maturity and capacity in the effective management of information technology, and to establish performance management and improvement processes to ensure state information technology systems and services are efficient and effective. This bill would require the State Chief Information Officer to collaborate with the Department of Consumer Affairs to acquire a new, integrated, enterprise-wide enforcement and licensing system, as described, that will replace the current licensing and monitoring system being used by the department .
AB 1012	V. Manuel Perez D   Broadband communications.
	Current Text: Amended: 9/4/2009   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 9/4/2009
	Status: 9/12/2009 - To inactive file on motion of Senator Romero.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered S- INACTIVE FILE
	Summary: Existing law establishes, until January 1, 2013, the office of the State Chief Information Officer, within the Governor's cabinet, with the State Chief Information Officer having specified duties in creating and managing the technology policy of the state. This bill would require the State Chief Information Officer to establish a strategy to maximize federal funding opportunities pursuant to the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) and the federal Broadband Data Improvement Act that are directed for broadband-related activities, programs, or projects. The bill would require the State Chief Information Officer, no later than 30 days after the effective date of this bill, to develop the strategy and require that the strategy include specific information for purposes of broadband development and deployment in the state and the obtaining of federal funding for those purposes. The State Chief Information Officer would be required to submit the strategy to the relevant policy and fiscal committees in each house of the Legislature within 30 days of the preparation of the strategy. The bill would require the State Chief Information Officer to administer, expend, and distribute broadband-related funding received under the Recovery Act in a manner consistent with federal law and specified policy goals. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 1679	Torres D   Public Safety Telecommunicators Week.
	Current Text: Introduced: 1/25/2010   pdf   html
	Status: 5/20/2010 - Referred to Com. on RLS.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered S- RLS.
	Summary: The Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act requires every local public agency to establish and operate, or to be a part of, an emergency telephone system using the digits "911," and creates the State 911 Advisory Board to assist in facilitating the purpose of the act to establish the number 911 as the primary emergency telephone number statewide. This bill would designate the second full week of April of each year as California Public Safety Telecommunicators Week for the purpose of heightening citizen awareness of the great importance of 911 service and its role in keeping the public safe. The bill would require the Governor and the Legislature to annually issue proclamations and resolutions, as specified, that draw public attention to the week in order to encourage the private sector and state and local agencies to initiate activities recognizing public safety telecommunicators.
	Position: Support
AB 1813	Lieu D   Public officials: personal information.
	Current Text: Amended: 4/15/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 4/15/2010
	Status: 6/22/2010 - From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 22).
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered S- APPR.
	Summary:  Existing law requires a person, business, or association, upon receiving the written demand of an elected or appointed official, to remove the official's home address or telephone number from public display on the Internet within 48 hours of the delivery of the demand, and to continue to ensure that information is not reposted on the same Internet Web site, a subsidiary site, or any other Internet Web site maintained by the recipient of the written demand, with specified exceptions. Existing law includes a public safety official within the definition of an elected or appointed official for these purposes, and defines public safety official to include specified peace officer classifications. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor or a felony under certain circumstances. This bill would specify that the requirement to remove the information described above from public display on the Internet includes information provided to cellular telephone applications. The bill would also expand the definition of public safety officer for these purposes, and include within that definition retired members of specified employee classifications. By expanding the definition of a crime, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1926	Evans D   Court records: preservation guidelines.
	Current Text: Amended: 4/6/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 4/6/2010
	Status: 6/30/2010 - From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 29).
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered S- APPR.
	Summary: Existing law provides that court records may be preserved in any form, including electronic forms, as specified. This bill would additionally authorize courts to create and maintain records in electronic forms, as specified, and would authorize the signing or verification of trial court documents using a computer or other technology. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 2091	Conway R   Public records: information security.
	Current Text: Amended: 6/29/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 6/29/2010
	Status: 6/29/2010 - Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered S- THIRD READING
	Summary: The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection and to make copies available upon request and payment of a fee unless those records are exempt from disclosure. This bill would exempt from disclosure under the act the information security records of a public agency if , on the facts of the particular case, disclosure of those records would reveal vulnerabilities to, or otherwise increase the potential for an attack on, an information technology system of a public agency. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Position: Support
AB 2408	Smyth R   State government information technology.
	Current Text: Amended: 6/29/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 6/29/2010
	Status: 6/29/2010 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered S- APPR.
	Summary:  Existing law, the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2009 (GRP No. 1), transferred all the duties, functions, employees, property, and related funding of the Division of Telecommunications in the Department of General Services to the office of the State Chief Information Officer. The plan also renamed and transferred the Department of Technology Services in the State and Consumer Services Agency to the Office of the Department of Technology Services within the office of the State Chief Information Officer, renamed the Department of Technology Services Revolving Fund the Technology Services Revolving Fund, and made conforming changes. The plan eliminated the Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection, and instead created the Office of Information Security within the office of the State Chief Information Officer, and the Office of Privacy Protection within the State and Consumer Services Agency, with a division of the duties, personnel, property, and funding of the Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection between the 2 offices. The plan also transferred duties relating to the state's procurement of information technology from the Department of Finance, the Department of General Services, and the Department of Information Technology to the office of the State Chief Information Officer. This bill would make the statutory codification changes made necessary by the plan. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 2456	Torrico D   Emergency medical services: regulation.
	Current Text: Amended: 7/15/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 7/15/2010
	Status: 7/15/2010 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered S- APPR.
	Summary: Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, authorizes each county to designate an emergency medical services (EMS) agency, for the establishment and administration of an emergency medical services program in the county. Existing law also establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA), which, among other things, adopts guidelines and regulations governing the provision of emergency medical services. Violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would specify that the regulations of the authority shall include policies and procedures applicable to the functions, certification, and licensure of all emergency medical technician personnel, as defined, and would require the local EMS agencies to adhere to these standards. The bill would authorize the authority to develop and adopt a related fee schedule and fee increases to support the authority's actual costs to promulgate the additional regulations. The bill would provide that any policies and procedures implemented by a local EMS agency that are not in accordance with the standards required under the bill are subject to approval by the Director of the EMSA, as specified, and that an EMS service provider or a local EMS agency may appeal the determination made by the director to the Emergency Medical Services Commission. By requiring that the local entities comply with these requirements, and by changing the definition of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 2545	De La Torre D   Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act: prepaid mobile telecommunications service.
	Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 6/22/2010
	Status: 6/22/2010 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered S- APPR.
	Summary: Existing provisions of the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act establish the number "911" as the primary emergency telephone number of use in the state. The existing Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act generally imposes a surcharge on amounts paid by every person in the state for intrastate telephone service that is imposed at a percentage rate, not less than 0.5% nor more than 0.75% as annually estimated to provide revenues sufficient to fund "911" emergency telephone system costs for the current fiscal year. Surcharge amounts are paid to the State Board of Equalization on a monthly basis by the telephone service supplier and are deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the State Emergency Telephone Number Account in the General Fund. Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations, except to the extent regulation of commercial mobile radio service is preempted by federal regulation. This bill would require the PUC to open proceedings or expand the scope of existing proceedings to determine an equitable manner for collection of the surcharge from users of prepaid mobile telecommunications services, and would require the PUC to advise the board of its determination. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 2616	Hill D   Elections: vote by mail ballots.
	Current Text: Amended: 4/12/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 4/12/2010
	Status: 6/30/2010 - Read second time. To third reading.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered S- THIRD READING
	Summary: Existing law requires an elections official to count only those vote by mail ballots returned by mail that are received by the elections official or delivered to a polling place by the close of the polls on the day of the election that contain specified information. Existing law also requires the elections official to establish procedures to ensure the secrecy of any vote by mail ballot returned to a precinct polling place. This bill would require the Secretary of State, when a specified statewide voter registration database is implemented, in coordination with county elections officials, to establish procedures to permit a voter by mail voter to find out whether his or her vote had been counted, and if not, the reason why, via online access on the Secretary of State's Internet Web site . This bill contains other existing laws.
GRP 1	Governor   State government information technology.
	Current Text: Introduced: 3/10/2009   pdf   html
	Status: 5/10/2009 - Plan takes effect.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered A- B. & P.
	Summary:
SB 38	Alquist D   Emergency services: seniors.
	Current Text: Amended: 5/28/2009   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 5/28/2009
	Status: 8/27/2009 - Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered A- APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
	Summary: Existing law authorizes use of the federally designated Emergency Alert System to inform the public of local, state, and national emergencies. This bill would require , on or before January 1, 2011, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, in consultation with the Department of Justice , the California Emergency Management Agency, the California State Emergency Communications Committee, the California Broadcasters Association, the California Peace Officers' Association, the California Police Chiefs Association, and the California State Sheriffs' Association, to develop policies and procedures providing instruction to law enforcement agencies, other intermediate emergency agencies, participating radio and television broadcasters, and other media outlets on the implementation of a missing senior person alert. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol to incorporate appropriate alert measures in developing t hese policies and procedures . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Position: No Position
SB 270	Alquist D   Health care providers: medical information.
	Current Text: Amended: 6/28/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 6/28/2010
	Status: 7/6/2010 - From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (Heard in committee on June 29.)
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered A- APPR.
	Summary:  Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of clinics, health facilities, home health agencies, and hospices by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires these entities to prevent unlawful or unauthorized access to, and use or disclosure of, a patient's medical information. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law requires these entities to report an instance of unlawful or unauthorized access to, and use or disclosure of, a patient's medical information to the department and to the affected patient or patient's representative, as prescribed, within 5 business days of its detection, except that an entity is required to delay compliance with this reporting requirement beyond this 5 business day period if a law enforcement agency or official provides the entity with a written or oral statement that compliance with the reporting requirement would impede the law enforcement agency's activities that relate to the unlawful or unauthorized access to, and use or disclosure of, a patient's medical information and specifies the date upon which the delay shall end, as prescribed. This bill would, instead, apply the provision requiring a delay in compliance with the reporting requirement only to a statement that compliance with that requirement would impede the law enforcement agency's investigations, rather than activities. By expanding circumstances to which a crime would apply, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Position: No Position
SB 828	Committee on Governmental Organization   Public safety communication.
	Current Text: Amended: 9/4/2009   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 9/4/2009
	Status: 9/4/2009 - Read third time. Amended. (Page 3037.) Re-referred to Com. On G.O. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered A- G.O.
	Summary: Existing law, the Public Safety Communication Act of 2002, provides that the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee shall have primary responsibility in state government to develop and implement a statewide integrated public safety communication system that facilitates interoperability among state public safety departments and other first response agencies and to coordinate other shared uses of the public safety spectrum. It requires the committee to make recommendations for state agency purchase of public safety radio subscriber equipment that will enable those agencies to commence conforming to industry and governmental interoperability standards. The act defines various terms for these purposes. This bill would recast various provisions of the act. The bill would revise and add to the act's definitions and rename the committee the State Emergency Communications Council. The bill would modify the responsibilities of the committee for purposes of the act and require the committee to establish guidelines for the purchase of public safety communications equipment. The bill would require the California Emergency Management Agency to submit specified updates and addenda relating to the California Statewide Communications Interoperability Plan to the Legislature and would require the office of the State Chief Information Officer to produce a Public Safety Communications Strategic Plan on or before June 1, 2010, and every 5 years thereafter, as specified.
SB 1040	Padilla D   Telecommunications universal service programs: California Advanced Services Fund.
	Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 6/23/2010
	Status: 6/30/2010 - Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered A- APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
	Summary: The existing federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 establishes a program for the regulation of telecommunications to attain the goal of local competition, while implementing specific, predictable, and sufficient federal and state mechanisms to preserve and advance universal service, consistent with certain universal service principles. The universal service principles include the principle that consumers in all regions of the nation, including low-income consumers and those in rural, insular, and high-cost areas, should have access to telecommunications and information services, including interexchange services and advanced telecommunications and information services, that are reasonably comparable to those services provided in urban areas and that are available at rates that are reasonably comparable to rates charged for similar services in urban areas. This bill would extend the operation of these provisions indefinitely, and would prohibit the commission from collecting more than $225,000,000 through the CASF surcharge pursuant to a specified schedule. The bill would establish 3 accounts within the fund and allocate a portion of the additional $125,000,000 that the bill authorizes to be collected, to be deposited into each of the accounts, for specified uses. The bill would require the commission to conduct an interim and final financial audit and interim and final performance audit on the implementation and effectiveness of CASF and to report to the Legislature its interim findings by December 31, 2010, and its final findings by April 1, 2017. The bill would require the commission to annually provide a report to the Legislature, until January 1, 2016, relating to the CASF and containing specified information. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
SB 1055	Ashburn R   State Chief Information Officer: fingerprints: criminal history.
	Current Text: Amended: 7/1/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 7/1/2010
	Status: 7/1/2010 - Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered A- APPR.
	Summary: Existing law authorizes certain state agencies to require fingerprint images and associated information from employees and prospective employees, and to furnish those images and that information to the Department of Justice for the purpose of obtaining information relating to criminal convictions. This bill would, in addition, require the State Chief Information Officer to require fingerprint images and associated information from an employee, prospective employee, contractor, subcontractor, volunteer, or vendor whose duties include, or would include, access to confidential or sensitive information , as specified . The bill would require the State Chief Information Officer to furnish those images and that information to the Department of Justice for the purpose of obtaining information relating to certain acts, including criminal convictions or the existence and content of a record of arrest, as specified. The bill would require the State Chief Information Officer to request subsequent arrest notifications, as specified, and would authorize the Department of Justice to assess a fee sufficient to cover the processing costs imposed by these provisions. The bill also would require that an individual who is rejected as a result of information contained in the criminal offender record receive a copy of the response record from the State Chief Information Officer and that the State Chief Information Officer develop a written appeal process for an individual who is rejected for employment because of his or her record. The bill would prohibit an individual from being ineligible for employment pursuant to these provisions until the appeal process is in place.
SB 1166	Simitian D   Personal information: privacy.
	Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 6/22/2010
	Status: 6/22/2010 - Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered A- APPR.
	Summary: Existing law requires any agency, and any person or business conducting business in California, that owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information, as defined, to disclose in specified ways, any breach of the security of the system or data, as defined, following discovery or notification of the security breach, to any California resident whose unencrypted personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person. This bill would require any agency, person, or business that is required to issue a security breach notification pursuant to existing law to fulfill certain additional requirements pertaining to the security breach notification, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.
SB 1375	Price D   Telephone corporations: residential telephone service:
	Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2010   pdf   html
	Last Amended: 6/22/2010
	Status: 7/1/2010 - From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (Heard in committee on June 28.)
	2YR/Dead 1st Desk 1st Policy 1st Fiscal 1st Floor 2nd Desk 2nd Policy 2nd Fiscal 2nd Floor Conf./Conc. Enrolled Vetoed Chaptered A- APPR.
	Summary:  Existing law requires all local telephone corporations, excluding providers of mobile telephony service and mobile satellite telephone service, to the extent permitted by existing technology or facilities, to provide every existing and newly installed residential telephone connection with access to "911" emergency service regardless of whether an account has been established. This bill would instead require local telephone corporations to provide every subscriber of tariffed residential basic exchange service, rather than every existing and newly installed residential telephone connection, with access to "911" emergency service. The bill would require a local telephone corporation to provide "911" emergency services for at least 90 days after disconnection of residential basic exchange service for nonpayment, as provided. The bill would authorize a local telephone corporation to disconnect any line in existence on January 1, 2011, providing access to "911" emergency services with no customer account attached for that line, if notice of not less than 90 days prior to disconnection is provided to the last known address of record associated with that line that is being disconnected. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Total Measures: 20

Total Tracking Forms: 20