2006 Bill Status

This is a summary of significant bills that FCL is following in the current legislative session. Bill status is shown as of September 14, 2006.. The text, committee analyses, status and history of each bill may be found on-line or by contacting the author’s staff.

To express your views on legislation, please write to the governor, your state senator, and your assembly member, with a copy to the bill’s author at “State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814.” You may find out who your legislators are by consulting the State Government pages of your local telephone directory.

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Bills are displayed in numeric order by the catagories below:

Budget and Revenue
Capital Punishment
Children and Youth
Criminal Justice and Imprisonment
Equality and Nondiscrimination
Governance
Health Care
Housing
Peace, Nonviolence

Budget and Revenue

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Capital Punishment

AB 1121(Paul Koretz, D., Hollywood and Sally Lieber, D., Mountain View) places a moratorium on executions until reforms are implemented. FCL SUPPORTS. Failed in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AJR 28 (Mark Wyland, R., Vista)urges the Mexican government to extradite criminal suspects facing the death penalty. FCL Opposes. Failed in Assembly Public Safety Committee.

SB 1257 (Bill Morrow, R., Oceanside) requires all attorneys who handle indigent appeals to accept capital appeals before the California Supreme Court. FCL OPPOSES. Failed in Senate Public Safety Committee.

SB 1544 (Carole Migden, D., San Francisco) requires law enforcement agencies to develop procedures to decrease eyewitness misidentifications in police lineups. FCL Supports. Governor’s Desk.

SB 1808 (Sam Aanestad, R., NevadaCity) specifies that a physician who participates in an execution does not violate the Medical Practice Act and not subject to disciplinary action by the board. FCL Opposes. Failed In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee.

Children and Youth

AB 1942 (Pedro Nava, D., Santa Barbara) requires the Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training to develop guidelines and training for law enforcement agencies to address child safety issues when a parent or guardian is arrested. FCL SUPPORTS. Governor’s Desk.

AB 2004 (Leland Yee, D., San Francisco) requires the Department of Health Services to ensure that incarcerated minors who are eligible for Medi-Cal have immediate access to Medi-Cal benefits upon release. FCL SUPPORTS. Governor’s Desk.

SB 609 (Gloria Romero, D., Los Angeles) as amended, prohibits the practice of 23 hour lockdowns for youth incarcerated in Department of Juvenile Justice facilities. FCL SUPPORTS. Failed in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SB 1335 (Nell Soto, D., Pomona) requires annual, unannounced visits of residential care facilities and foster homes for children by county licensing agencies. FCL SUPPORTS. Failed in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SB 1576 (Kevin Murray, D., Culver City) eliminates the requirement that counties pay 60 percent of the costs of transitional housing services for emancipated foster youth. FCL SUPPORTS. Failed in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

Criminal Justice and Imprisonment

AB 2082 (Juan Vargas, D., Chula Vista) prohibits prisoners convicted of sex offenses from working in firefighting camps while incarcerated. FCL OPPOSES. Failed in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 2558 (John Benoit, R., Riverside) provides that a person cited for driving without a license or a suspended license for the fourth time is designated as a habitual traffic offender eligible for felony prosecution. FCL OPPOSES. Failed Assembly Public Safety Committee.

AB 2629 (Mark Ridley Thomas, D., Los Angeles) allows local governments to define “singlefamily dwellings” to exclude sober living facilities in order to prohibit registered sex offenders from residing with other registered sex offenders. FCL OPPOSES. Held in Senate Public Safety Committee.

AB 2635 (Juan Vargas, D., ChulaVista) prohibits a person required to register as a sex offender from knowingly being within 300 feet of a school, childcare center, playground, video arcade or amusement park. FCL OPPOSES. Failed in Assembly Public Safety Committee.

AB 2869 (Mark Leno, D., San Francisco) provides that victims of crime who are eligible for reimbursement for burial expenses cannot be denied benefits due to felon status of the victim. FCL SUPPORTS. Senate Floor. Governor’s Desk.

AB 3064 (Mark Leno, D., San Francisco) requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to create a Re-entry Advisory Committee with the goal of reducing recidivism and to make periodic reports to the Legislature. FCL SUPPORTS. Governor’s Desk.

SB 1521 (Gloria Romero, D., Los Angeles) requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to permit members of the news media to interview prisoners in person and prohibits retaliation against prisoners for participating in interviews. FCL SUPPORTS. Governor's Desk.

SB 1547 (Gloria Romero, D., LosAngeles) requires the Department ofCorrections and Rehabilitation to cre-ate programs to parole older and medically incapacitated prisoners. FCLSUPPORTS. Assembly Floor.

SB 1635 (Charles Poochigian, R.,Fresno) as amended, restores penal code language that prisoners willing to participate in programming who are not assigned to programs will receive early release credits and provides that prisoners who leave programs without good cause or fail to complete programs due to misconduct or lack of effort will lose early release credits. FCL is evaluating amendments. Failed in Assembly Public Safety Committee.

SB 1642 (Gloria Romero, D., Los Angeles) modifies California’s “Three-Strikes” law so that a person with two prior convictions for serious or violent felonies whose current conviction, with certain exceptions, is not for a serious or violent felony, is sentenced as a second strike and creates a procedure for filing a writ for re-sentencing. FCL SUPPORTS. Failed on Senate Floor.

SB 1831 (Bob Margett, R., Glendora) provides the Secretary of Corrections with unlimited discretion to take away up to 180 days of early-release credits for rules violations deemed serious. FCL OPPOSES. Failed Senate Public Safety Committee.

Equality / Non-discrimination

AB 606 (Lloyd Levine, D., Van Nuys) requires the Department of Education to develop a model policy to prohibit discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation and perceived gender. FCL SUPPORTS. Governor’s Desk.

AB 1835 (Sally Lieber, D., Mountain View) as amended, raises California’s minimum wage to $7.50 per hour effective January 1, 2007 and $8.00 effective January 1, 2008. FCL SUPPORTS. Chaptered.

AB 2053 (Audra Strickland, R., Thousand Oaks) prohibits persons without lawful immigration status who have resided in California for three years from being exempted from paying non-resident tuition at community colleges and the California State University. FCL OPPOSES. Failed in Assembly Higher Education Committee.

AJR 37 (Mark Ridley-Thomas, D., Los Angeles) memorializes Congress and the President to extend provisions of the Voting Rights Act set to expire in 2007. FCL SUPPORTS. Chaptered.

AJR 51 (Fabian Núñez, D., Los Angeles) memorializes Congress and the President to reject efforts to criminalize individuals on account of their immigration status. FCL SUPPORTS. Failed on concurrence with Senate Amendments.

Governance

AB 583 (Loni Hancock, D., Berkeley) provides public financing to candidates for public office who agree to limit private campaign contributions. FCL SUPPORTS. Failed in Senate Elections
Committee.

ACA 28 (Joseph Canciamilla, D. Pittsburg and Keith Richman, R., Northridge) creates a Citizens Assembly to recommend reforms to the electoral and campaign process. FCL SUPPORTS.Held at Assembly Desk.

SCA 3 (Alan Lowenthal, D., Long Beach) creates an independent redistricting commission to redraw legislative and congressional districts. FCL SUPPORTS. Held at Assembly Desk.

Health Care

AB 1677 (Paul Koretz, D., W. Hollywood) allows nonprofit and health care agency to distribute condoms to incarcerated persons. FCL SUPPORTS. Governor’s Desk.

AB 2357 (Betty Karnette, D., Long Beach) extends the sunset date for counties to participate in an assisted outpatient mental health treatmen tprogram. FCL SUPPORTS. Governor's Desk.

SB 803 (Denise Moreno Ducheny, D., San Diego) allows a judge to determine if a person convicted of a nonviolent drug offense is amenable to treatment and allows the use of incarceration when a person in treatment tests positive for drug use. FCL OPPOSES. Failed in Assembly Public Safety Committee.

SB 840 (Sheila Kuehl, D., Santa Monica) provides health care for all Californians with comprehensive benefits. FCL SUPPORTS. Governor’s Desk.

Housing

AB 1169 (Alberto Torrico, D., Fremont) extends the sunset on the requirement that the owner of a residential dwelling must give a tenant at least 60 days notice prior to terminating the rental agreement. FCL SUPPORTS. Governor's Desk.

AB 2511 (Dave Jones, D., Sacramento) prohibits local governments from disapproving residential developments for very low income people without making certain findings and streamlines the affordable housing permit process. FCL SUPPORTS. Governor’s Desk.

AB 2763 (Pedro Nava, D., Santa Barbara) provides that certain migrant farmworker housing is not subject to conditional use permits. FCL SUPPORTS. Failed in Assembly Appropriations
Committee.

SB 1177 (Dennis Hollingsworth, R.,Temecula) requires a housing developer who applies for a waiver from affordable housing requirements to demonstrate that the waiver is necessary to physically accommodate the housing development. FCL SUPPORTS. Failed in Assembly Housing Committee.

SB 1802 (Denise Moreno Ducheny,D., Chula Vista) limits the ability of local governments to deny farm worker housing permits. FCL SUPPORTS. Governor's Desk.

Peace, Nonviolence

AB 352 (Paul Koretz, D., W. Holly-wood) expands the definition of unsafe handguns to include semiautomatic pistols that are not designedand equipped with a micro-stamping that allows law enforcement to trace the use of a handgun. FCL SUPPORTS. Failed on Assembly Floor.

AB 944 (Mark Ridley-Thomas, D., Los Angeles) requires gun dealers to post warnings to consumers that guns in the home are more likely to be used to injure or kill a family member than to protect against an attacker. FCL SUPPORTS. Failed in Senate Public Safety Committee.

AB 1778 (Sally Lieber, D., Mountain View) streamlines a procedure for allowing students to withhold contact information from military recruiters. FCL SUPPORTS if amended to include similar requirements for the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude battery test. Governor’s Desk.

AJR 36 (Loni Hancock, D., Berkeley) Requests the governor to ensure that President Bush and Congress with-draw California National Guard Troops from Iraq and requests Congress to limit federal control of the National Guard to cases where there is an insurrection or a Congressional Declaration of War. FCL SUPPORTS. Failed in Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee.

SB 1336 (Gil Cedillo, D., Los Angeles) gives legislative authorization to citizens to own stun guns for self-defense. FCL OPPOSES. Failed in Senate Public Safety Committee.