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1 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS & PROFESSIONS HONORABLE MIKE ENG, CHAIR HONORABLE BILL EMMERSON, VICE CHAIR The jurisdiction of the Assembly Business and Professions Committee includes: scope of practice, licensing and enforcement issues for all boards and bureaus at the Department of Consumer Affairs (medical and non-medical); state government organization and reorganization; creation and elimination (sunsetting) of regulatory agencies, boards and commissions; governmental efficiency and cost control; consumer protection; the Department of General Services; state procurement and public contracts; state and local government property acquisition law; the Administrative Procedure Act and Office of Administrative Law; charitable solicitations; product labeling; and weights and measures, including accuracy of product pricing. More than 300 bills were referred to the Assembly Business and Professions Committee during the 2007-2008 session of the California State Legislature. A substantial portion of these bills related to the Committee’s primary jurisdiction – consumer protection. The protection of consumers involves diverse subjects ranging from information privacy to the oversight of dozens of businesses and professions throughout California, including: accountancy; acupuncture; arbitration certification; architects; automotive repair; barbering and cosmetology; behavioral sciences; contractors; court reporters; dentists and dental auxiliaries; dispensing opticians; electronic and appliance repair; funeral, cemetery, and crematory establishments; geologists and geophysicists; guide dogs for the blind; hearing aid dispensers; home furnishings and thermal insulation; land surveyors; landscape architects; midwives; nurse assistants; optometrists; pharmacists; physical therapists; physicians and surgeons; physician assistants; podiatrists; private postsecondary and vocational education; professional engineers; professional fiduciaries; psychiatric technicians; psychologists; registered nurses; respiratory care; security and investigative services; speech-language pathology and audiology; structural pest control; telephone medical advice; veterinarians and veterinary technicians; and vocational nurses. The second major subject area within the jurisdiction of the Assembly Business and Professions Committee is public contracting and the business practices of the state, which involves billions of dollars. Examples of relevant legislation considered by the Committee include authorizing government entities to use private sector investment capital to develop fee-producing infrastructure facilities; resolving disputes between local governments and school districts and their contractors; establishing "best value" contracting procedures as a cost savings alternative to traditional low-bid methods; selling "surplus" state-owned property worth hundreds of millions of dollars; fuel-efficiency and air pollution emission standards for state-owned vehicles; purchasing and deploying information

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ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS & PROFESSIONS HONORABLE MIKE ENG, CHAIR

HONORABLE BILL EMMERSON, VICE CHAIR The jurisdiction of the Assembly Business and Professions Committee includes: scope of practice, licensing and enforcement issues for all boards and bureaus at the Department of Consumer Affairs (medical and non-medical); state government organization and reorganization; creation and elimination (sunsetting) of regulatory agencies, boards and commissions; governmental efficiency and cost control; consumer protection; the Department of General Services; state procurement and public contracts; state and local government property acquisition law; the Administrative Procedure Act and Office of Administrative Law; charitable solicitations; product labeling; and weights and measures, including accuracy of product pricing. More than 300 bills were referred to the Assembly Business and Professions Committee during the 2007-2008 session of the California State Legislature. A substantial portion of these bills related to the Committee’s primary jurisdiction – consumer protection. The protection of consumers involves diverse subjects ranging from information privacy to the oversight of dozens of businesses and professions throughout California, including: accountancy; acupuncture; arbitration certification; architects; automotive repair; barbering and cosmetology; behavioral sciences; contractors; court reporters; dentists and dental auxiliaries; dispensing opticians; electronic and appliance repair; funeral, cemetery, and crematory establishments; geologists and geophysicists; guide dogs for the blind; hearing aid dispensers; home furnishings and thermal insulation; land surveyors; landscape architects; midwives; nurse assistants; optometrists; pharmacists; physical therapists; physicians and surgeons; physician assistants; podiatrists; private postsecondary and vocational education; professional engineers; professional fiduciaries; psychiatric technicians; psychologists; registered nurses; respiratory care; security and investigative services; speech-language pathology and audiology; structural pest control; telephone medical advice; veterinarians and veterinary technicians; and vocational nurses. The second major subject area within the jurisdiction of the Assembly Business and Professions Committee is public contracting and the business practices of the state, which involves billions of dollars. Examples of relevant legislation considered by the Committee include authorizing government entities to use private sector investment capital to develop fee-producing infrastructure facilities; resolving disputes between local governments and school districts and their contractors; establishing "best value" contracting procedures as a cost savings alternative to traditional low-bid methods; selling "surplus" state-owned property worth hundreds of millions of dollars; fuel-efficiency and air pollution emission standards for state-owned vehicles; purchasing and deploying information

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technology systems; using the "design-build" approach to contracting as a cost-savings alternative to traditional contracting methods; and constructing and retrofitting public and private buildings seismic safety, energy efficiency, and "green building" standards.

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10 SELECTED ASSEMBLY AND SENATE BILLS REFERRED TO T HE ASSEMBLY BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS COMMITTEE DURING THE

2007-2008 LEGISLATIVE SESSION. Following is a summary of 10 selected Assembly and Senate bills referred to the Assembly Business and Professions Committee during the 2007-2008 legislative session. These 10 legislative proposals are a small sample of the many significant bills considered by the Committee. AB 3 (Bass) Physician assistants. Creates the California Team Practice Improvement Act which would delete the prohibition on a physician assistant to issue a drug order for specified classes of controlled substances, but only if the physician assistant has completed a specified education course, requires a physician assistant and his or her supervising physician and surgeon to establish written supervisory guidelines and protocols, increases to four the number of physician assistants a physician and surgeon may supervise, and specifies that services provided by a physician assistant are included as covered benefits under the Medi-Cal program. Last Action: Chapter 376, Statutes of 2007. AB 253 (Eng) Medical Board of California. Reduces the membership of the Medical Board of California from 21 to 15 members, consisting of eight physicians and seven public members, and eliminates the Medical Board of California's Division of Licensing and Division of Medical Quality while instead requiring the Medical Board of California as a whole to handle the responsibilities of its two divisions. Last Action: Chapter 678, Statutes of 2007. AB 609 (Eng) State building construction: energy c onservation. Allows energy conservation measures and energy service contracts for existing state buildings to be approved by the State Public Works Board if cost savings will be realized through a life-cycle cost analysis over the life of the equipment installed or the term of the contract. Last Action: Chapter 600, Statutes of 2007. AB 1951 (Hayashi) Mental health: capital facilitie s. Clarifies that the acquisition or construction of privately owned facilities that provide mental health services primarily funded through public funds is a proper use of funds made available to counties. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2348 (Maze) Property acquisition. Deletes the Department of Water Resources' exemption from the Property Acquisition Law, and its ability to use the power of eminent domain. Last Action: Held in Business and Professions Committee.

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AB 2423 (Bass) Professions and vocations: licensur e. Permits specified Department of Consumer Affairs boards to issue initial licenses on probation and makes other changes related to licensing and discipline to encourage the employment of ex-offenders. Last Action: Chapter 675, Statutes of 2008. AB 2600 (Niello) State government: infrastructure. Authorizes state agencies to enter into "public-private partnership" contracts for purposes of constructing and operating state infrastructure projects. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. SB 1307 (Ridley-Thomas) Pharmacy: pedigree. Establishes a graduated implementation schedule for compliance with the electronic drug pedigree (e-pedigree) law beginning on January 1, 2015, and ending on July 1, 2017, as specified. Last Action: Chapter 713, Statutes of 2008. SB 1406 (Correa) Optometry. Specifies permissible procedures for certified optometrists, creates the Glaucoma Diagnosis and Treatment Advisory Committee to establish glaucoma certification requirements. Last Action: Chapter 352, Statutes of 2008. SB 1737 (Machado) Real estate: brokers and salespe rsons. Allows the Department of Real Estate to prohibit an unlicensed person or real estate salesperson or broker from participating in any business activity relating to real estate for up to 36 months; prohibits an individual who provides an opinion on the value of a residential property to a lien holder of the property from selling, buying, renting, or offers to sell, buy, or rent the property for 12 months following the opinion; requires prompt disclosure to all parties to the sale of a property when an agent acts as a mortgage broker, or when a mortgage broker acts as an agent. Last Action: Chapter 286, Statutes of 2008.

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ALL ASSEMBLY BILLS

REFERRED TO THE ASSEMBLY BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS COMMITTEE DURING THE 2007-2008 SESSION OF THE CALIFORNIA

STATE LEGISLATURE AB 3 (Bass) Physician assistants. Creates the California Team Practice Improvement Act which would delete the prohibition on a physician assistant to issue a drug order for specified classes of controlled substances, but only if the physician assistant has completed a specified education course, requires a physician assistant and his or her supervising physician and surgeon to establish written supervisory guidelines and protocols, increases to four the number of physician assistants a physician and surgeon may supervise, and specifies that services provided by a physician assistant are included as covered benefits under the Medi-Cal program. Last Action: Chapter 376, Statutes of 2007. AB 17 (Emmerson) California Dental Corps Loan Repa yment Program of 2002. Provides a voluntary contribution option for dentists upon initial issuance or renewal of a dentistry license to make a $50 donation to the California Dental Corps Loan Repayment Program of 2002. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee to address an unrelated issue: radiologic technologists. AB 35 (Ruskin) Environment: state buildings: susta inable building standards. Enacts the Sustainable Building Act of 2007 which requires all state agencies that begin construction or renovation to a state building, on and after July 1, 2010, to design, construct, and operate that state building to meet minimum standards as described in the United States Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for a gold rating. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 64 (Berg) Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Pr actitioners Act. Enacts the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act and establishes procedures to facilitate out-of-state health and veterinary professionals to assist Californians in an emergency. Last Action: Held in Senate Appropriations Committee. AB 107 (Smyth) Public contracts: prospective bidde rs: unauthorized aliens. Requires a prospective bidder for a state contract for public works, goods, or services to certify, under penalty of perjury, that it does not employ "unauthorized aliens," as defined under federal law.

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Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 126 (Beall) Structural Fumigation Enforcement P rogram. Adds Santa Clara County to the existing Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program, specifies that fees shall not be used to supplant other funds, and repeals the Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program on January 1, 2010. Last Action: Chapter 379, Statutes of 2007. AB 139 (Bass) Vehicles: schoolbus drivers: medical examinations. Allows a licensed advanced practice registered nurse qualified to perform a medical examination, or a licensed physician assistant, to conduct medical examinations on applicants seeking licensure to drive a schoolbus, youth activity bus, farm labor vehicle or paratransit bus. Last Action: Chapter 158, Statutes of 2007. AB 163 (Mendoza) State buildings: bicycle faciliti es. Requires the Department of General Services to adopt regulations for the construction and renovation of state buildings that require the inclusion of bicycle facilities, showers, and clothing lockers. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Senate Governmental Organization Committee to address an unrelated issue: Gambling: local ordinances. AB 165 (Jeffries) State government: Office of Comm unity Initiatives. Establishes the Office of Community Initiatives to serve as a clearinghouse for information on federal, state, and local funding for charitable services. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 185 (Dymally) Clinical laboratories: personnel. Expands the duties that unlicensed personnel are authorized to perform in a clinical laboratory and revises the levels of supervision required when unlicensed personnel perform them. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 214 (Fuentes) Public Protection and Physician H ealth Program Act of 2008. Creates the Physician and Surgeon Diversion Program under the Department of Public Health, which will permit physicians and surgeons to obtain treatment and monitoring for alcohol or substance abuse or mental disorders. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 234 (Eng) Professions and vocations: Marriage a nd family therapists and licensed educational psychologists. Makes clarifying changes and updates to the Marriage and Family Therapy Licensing Law, specifies the experience providing psychotherapy services via

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telemedicine that may count toward licensure, prohibits trainees and interns from renting space or from paying for the obligations of their employer, and clarifies that out-of-state education that may be applied toward licensure shall be gained while residing outside of California. Last Action: Chapter 586, Statutes of 2007. AB 236 (Lieu) Public resources: state and local mo tor vehicle fleets. Revises current policies regarding the purchase of vehicles for state and local government fleets in order to increase fuel efficiency and the use of alternative fuels. Last Action: Chapter 593, Statutes of 2007. AB 239 (DeSaulnier) Alcoholism and drug abuse coun selors. Enacts the Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors Licensing Law and provides for the licensing of these counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 240 (Eng) State surplus personal property: cent ralized sale. Requires the Department of General Services to establish a program centralizing the sale of state surplus personal property using the best available technology, including, but not limited to, the Internet. Last Action: Held in Senate Governmental Organization Committee. AB 241 (Price) Barbering and cosmetology: threadin g. Extends the sunset date of the provision that allows the practice of hair threading to be exempted from regulation by the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee to address an unrelated issue: horse racing. AB 243 (Nakanishi) Contractors: filing complaints and disciplinary actions. Requires the Contractors State License Board to file a disciplinary action against a licensee convicted of crimes related to the qualifications, functions, and duties of a contractor within two years after discovery of the conviction, and authorizes a disciplinary action regarding an alleged breach of an express, written warranty by a licensee to be filed within 18 months from the expiration of the warranty. Last Action: Chapter 85, Statutes of 2007. AB 244 (Nakanishi) Contractors: home improvement c ontracts: service and repair contracts. Provides that if a licensed or unlicensed person performs home improvement or service and repair work, without a written contract, that an indictment or information be brought, or a criminal complaint filed, within a specified amount of time from the date the buyer makes the first payment. Last Action: Chapter 230, Statutes of 2007.

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AB 249 (Eng) Licensees: healing arts: settlement a greements. Prohibits a healing arts professional licensed by the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) from including in a civil settlement agreement any "gag clause" provision that prohibits the other party from contacting or filing a complaint with DCA or the appropriate licensing board. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 253 (Eng) Medical Board of California. Reduces the membership of the Medical Board of California from 21 to 15 members, consisting of eight physicians and seven public members, and eliminates the Medical Board of California's Division of Licensing and Division of Medical Quality while instead requiring the Medical Board of California as a whole to handle the responsibilities of its two divisions. Last Action: Chapter 678, Statutes of 2007. AB 264 (Mendoza) Secondhand dealers and coin deale rs. Allows pawnbrokers and coin dealers to accept valid government identification cards or documents, such as a military identification card or a United States visa, if the identification document is designed to not include a signature. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 265 (Mendoza) Barbering and cosmetology: thread ing. Extends the sunset date of the provision that allows the practice of hair threading to be exempted from regulation by the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology and deletes an obsolete provision relating to the practice of threading. Last Action: Chapter 50, Statutes of 2007. AB 269 (Eng) Dentists: dental auxiliaries: licensu re renewal. Creates new reporting requirements for dentists and dental auxiliaries upon their application for initial licensure and renewal, including reporting their completion of any advanced educational program and their current employment status. Additionally, this bill requires the Dental Board of California and the Committee on Dental Auxiliaries to collect and aggregate information received from dentists and dental auxiliaries pursuant to this bill relating to cultural background and foreign language proficiency. Last Action: Chapter 262, Statutes of 2007. AB 295 (Lieu) State agencies: collection of demogr aphic data. Requires various state entities to report collected demographic data according to each major Asian Pacific Islander (API) group and make that data available to the public to the extent that disclosure does not violate confidentiality. This bill additionally requires seven state agencies to collect, tabulate, and report data for additional major API groups. Those agencies will be required to make that data available to the public, as specified. Last Action: Vetoed.

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AB 309 (Tran) State boards and commissions: salari es: suspension. Suspends the salaries of members of 10 specified state boards and commissions for the 2007-08 through 2009-10 fiscal years. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 311 (Dymally) Colon Hydrotherapy Act. Establishes the Board of Colon Hydrotherapy within the Department of Consumer Affairs for the purpose of licensing and regulating colon hydrotherapists and colon hydrotherapy establishments. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 329 (Nakanishi) Chronic diseases: telemedicine. Requires the Medical Board of California (MBC) to establish a pilot program expanding the practice of telemedicine in California, and authorizes the MBC to implement this pilot program by convening a working group. Last Action: Chapter 386, Statutes of 2007. AB 354 (Hernandez) Cremation: pacemakers. Permits a pacemaker to be removed from human remains by a funeral director or crematory manager and returned to the manufacturer, for disposal or other disposition. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 358 (Blakeslee) State property: Santa Maria. Authorizes the Department of General Services to exchange, lease, or lease with purchase option, state property owned by the Department of Motor Vehicles for land or facilities owned by the City of Santa Maria. Last Action: Chapter 448, Statutes of 2007. AB 387 (Duvall) Design-build: transit contracts. Provides that transit-related contracts for the acquisition and installation of technology applications or surveillance equipment designed to enhance safety, disaster preparedness, and homeland security efforts may be awarded based on best value method. Last Action: Chapter 185, Statutes of 2008. AB 432 (Garcia) Real estate: time-share plans. Allows a time-share developer, upon approval of the Department of Real Estate, to consolidate within a single disclosure document for potential time-share purchasers, the non-redundant information required in a public report in this state with information required by other states in which the time-share developer markets its properties. Last Action: Chapter 53, Statutes of 2007.

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AB 434 (Silva) Notaries public. Requires a notary public to supply a member of the public with a photostatic copy of any line item contained in his or her journal within 15 business days of receiving the request, or acknowledge that the requested line item does not exist. Last Action: Chapter 496, Statutes of 2007. AB 450 (Emmerson) State Board of Chiropractic Exami ners. Appropriates $1,542,000 from the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners Fund to augment the appropriation to the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners in the Budget Act of 2007, which may be expended if specified conditions are met. Last Action: Chapter 12, Statutes of 2008. AB 455 (Cook) Contractors State License Board. Requires an affirmative vote of a majority of the members currently serving on the Contractors State License Board in order to take an action or make a decision. Last Action: Held on Senate Floor. AB 456 (Cook) Construction Management Education Ac count. Provides for the continuous appropriation of funds in the Construction Management Education Account for purposes of the Construction Management Education Sponsorship Act of 1991. Last Action: Held in Senate Appropriations Committee. AB 461 (Cook) Recovery audits. Requires the State Controller to contract out for private consulting services to conduct semiannual recovery audits of state agencies to detect and recover state overpayments to its vendors and to make recommendations to improve state agency accounting operations. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 498 (Hernandez) Public contracts: state contrac t eligibility: business activities in Sudan. Prohibits companies with business operations in Sudan from bidding on state contracts for goods and services. Last Action: Chapter 272, Statutes of 2008. AB 512 (Lieber) Personal information: security bre aches. Adds private medical and health care records and medical and health insurance numbers, codes, and records to the definition of “personal information,” thereby requiring a state agency, or a person or business that conducts business in California, as specified, to disclose a breach of the security of a person’s unencrypted medical or health care records or medical or health insurance numbers, codes, or records. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Assembly Banking and Finance Committee to address an unrelated issue: contracts.

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AB 518 (Mendoza) Barbering and cosmetology: thread ing. Exempts permanently the practice of hair threading from regulation by the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology. Last Action: Chapter 187, Statutes of 2008. AB 523 (De La Torre) Contracts: University of Cali fornia. Revises change order processes for University of California (UC) construction projects, including those constructed as part of UC's "best value" pilot project at its San Francisco campus, and allows for binding arbitration between the UC Regents and contractors to settle change order disputes. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Senate Governmental Organization Committee to address an unrelated issue: Alcoholic beverage licenses: self-service checkouts. AB 532 (Wolk) State property: solar energy. Extends from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2009, the requirement that the Department of General Services, in consultation with the California Energy Commission, ensure that solar energy equipment is installed on all state buildings, state parking facilities, and state owned swimming pools, where feasible. Last Action: Chapter 598, Statutes of 2007. AB 547 (Ma) Medical Board of California: licensure fees. Authorizes the Medical Board of California (MBC) to reduce its licensing fees below the statutory amount of $790, and requires the Bureau of State Audits to conduct a review of the MBC's financial status by January 1, 2012. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 609 (Eng) State building construction: energy c onservation. Allows energy conservation measures and energy service contracts for existing state buildings to be approved by the State Public Works Board if cost savings will be realized through a life-cycle cost analysis over the life of the equipment installed or the term of the contract. Last Action: Chapter 600, Statutes of 2007. AB 611 (Nakanishi) California Physician Assistant Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program. Creates the California Physician Assistant Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program to provide scholarships and repay educational loans for physician assistants who agree to practice in areas of the state where there is a shortage of primary care physicians, or in free or community clinics. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Senate Rules Committee to address an unrelated issue: flood control.

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AB 617 (Torrico) State contracts: information tech nology goods and services. Repeals a provision of the Public Contract Code requiring a contractor to provide a performance bond of not less than 50% of the value of a state contract for information technology (IT) goods or services when progress payments are to be made to the contractor, and instead requires the Department of General Services, in consultation with the Department of Finance, to develop and maintain criteria for the evaluation of risk to the state that results from acquisition of IT, and determine the need for financial protections in the event an IT contractor does not fulfill the requirements of an IT contract. Last Action: Chapter 736, Statutes of 2007. AB 623 (Lieu) Radiologic technology: radiologist a ssistants. Requires the Department of Public Health to develop a certification process for radiologist assistants (RAs). Additionally, this bill outlines the requirements for certification for RAs. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 636 (Levine) Acupuncture. Authorizes the use of light by a licensed acupuncturist to promote, maintain, and restore health. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 638 (Bass) California Physician Assistant Schol arship and Loan Repayment Program. Establishes the California Physician Assistant Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program within the California Health Professions Education Foundation to provide scholarships to pay for the educational expenses of students enrolled in physician assistant schools and to repay qualifying educational loans of physician assistants who agree to practice in designated medically underserved areas. Last Action: Chapter 628, Statutes of 2008. AB 675 (Eng) Department of General Services: public contracts: report. Requires the Department of General Services to include information on specific contract types within an existing reporting requirement to the Legislature. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 687 (La Malfa) State property: Crystal Creek Re gional Boys' Camp. Authorizes the Department of General Services to lease state property owned by the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to the Shasta County Probation Department. Last Action: Chapter 608, Statutes of 2007.

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AB 691 (Silva) Certified common interest developme nt managers. Makes technical and clarifying changes to provisions of law regulating requirements for "common interest development managers" who are certified, and extends the sunset date for these requirements to January 1, 2012. Last Action: Chapter 236, Statutes of 2007. AB 706 (Leno) Fire retardants: toxic effects. Bans the use of brominated fire retardants and chlorinated fire retardants in all seating furniture, mattresses, box springs, mattress sets, futons, other bedding products, and reupholstered furniture to which filling materials are added. Last Action: Held on Senate Floor. AB 709 (Keene) Real estate appraisers. Allows public agencies to accept bids on a public contract for appraisal services from an appraiser who may be a member of any appraisal organization affiliated with the (national) Appraisal Foundation, as specified, and allows the appraiser to bring civil action against the public agency if they are not allowed to submit a proposal. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 711 (Emmerson) Contractors: landscape contracto rs. Allows a landscape contractor to enter into a prime contract to construct an outdoor cooking center or outdoor fireplace, provided the cooking center or fireplace is included within the residential landscape project that the contractor is supervising. Last Action: Chapter 107, Statutes of 2007. AB 727 (Maze) Property acquisition. Removes the Department of Water Resources' (DWR) and the Wildlife Conservation Board's ability to acquire real property on their own and removes DWR's ability to use the power of eminent domain. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 730 (De Leon) Public contracts: information tech nology goods and services: protections against default. Requires bidders on a state or local government information technology contract to disclose ongoing litigation in which it has been named, and requires such bidders to post specified forms of security to protect the interests of the public entity if the bidder has been found liable for a breach of contract on an information technology contract, as specified. Last Action: Held on Senate Floor. AB 779 (Jones) Personal information: state agencie s and businesses. Modifies the security breach notification law so the owner or licensor of a consumer's personal information can recover its costs of notifying a consumer of a security breach, requires that consumers receive more detailed information

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about the security breach, and prohibits retail sellers from retaining a consumer's personal information, as defined, for longer than 90 days. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 785 (Hancock) Energy efficiency measures. Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the urban heat island effect; directs the Contractors State License Board, the State Air Resources Board, and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to submit specified reports to the Legislature relating to the urban heat island effect, and changes the definition of energy efficient vehicles to include highly reflective colored vehicles that meet the current Department of General Services requirements for the California energy-efficient vehicle group purchase program. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 814 (Hayashi) Consumer Sales Security Act. Requires the Office of Privacy Protection to develop an identity theft prevention program for businesses and retailers that will educate them on security methods and procedures to better protect the personal information and financial data of their customers. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 839 (Emmerson) Real estate: military licensee. Adds National Guard members to the list of military services who would be exempt from having to renew their real estate license while serving on active duty. Last Action: Chapter 194, Statutes of 2007. AB 840 (Emmerson) Real estate: licenses. Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Real Estate to suspend or revoke the license of a real estate licensee, a mineral, oil and gas licensee, or deny issuance of the license to an applicant, if the applicant or licensee has been found guilty of a felony or a crime substantially related to the qualification, functions, or duties of the real estate license or the mineral, oil and gas license. Last Action: Chapter 140, Statutes of 2007. AB 844 (Berryhill) Junk dealers and recyclers: non ferrous material. Requires every junk dealer and recycler to report specified information to the chief of police or sheriff on a monthly basis, increases fines and punishments for non-compliance in record keeping and disclosure requirements, prohibits a junk dealer or recycler from providing payment for nonferrous material unless certain requirements are met, and prohibits any unauthorized disclosure of personal identification information collected from sellers by junk dealers or recyclers. Last Action: Chapter 731, Statutes of 2008.

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AB 851 (Brownley) Prescription drugs: informationa l insert. Requires a pharmacist to include a large print informational insert with any dispensed prescription that poses substantial risk when taken in combination with alcohol or other medications. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to Assembly Health Committee to address an unrelated issue: Medi-Cal Eligibility AB 865 (Davis) State agencies: live customer servi ce agents. Requires the headquarters of each state agency to answer phone calls on any public line with a live customer service agent or automated telephone answering equipment with an automated prompt that allows a caller to select the option to speak with a live customer service agent, as specified. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 868 (Davis) Gasoline dispensing: weights and me asures. Requires the California Energy Commission, in partnership with the Department of Food and Agriculture and the Air Resources Board, to conduct a survey on the effect of temperatures on fuel deliveries and to report the survey findings, including recommended legislation and regulations, to the Legislature. Last Action: Chapter 398, Statutes of 2007. AB 887 (De La Torre) State surplus property: Lynwoo d Armory. Authorizes the Department of General Services, with approval of the Adjutant General, to lease state-owned property known as the Lynwood Armory (located at 11398 Bullis Road, Lynwood, Los Angeles County), to the City of Lynwood at fair market value for a period not to exceed five years with an option to execute an additional five consecutive five-year lease. Last Action: Chapter 651, Statutes of 2008. AB 888 (Lieu) Green building standards. Requires new commercial buildings for which a public agency deems the application for a development project complete on or after July 1, 2013, and that are 50,000 feet or greater be designed, constructed, and operated to meet the applicable standards described in the United States Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold rating or its equivalent, unless the state adopts specified minimum green building standards, in which case those commercial buildings will be required to meet the adopted standards. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 922 (Levine) Local government: statistical dist ricts. Requires state agencies and departments that develop and maintain data at the municipal level to make a separate breakdown of the Wilshire Corridor Traffic Relief Planning District. Last Action: Vetoed.

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AB 935 (Business and Professions) County clerks: p reservation of records. Creates a records retention period for application, registration and licensure documents filed with county clerks by process servers, professional photocopiers, unlawful detainer assistants, legal document assistants, bail agents, bail permittees, and admitted surety insurers. Last Action: Chapter 402, Statutes of 2007. AB 936 (Business and Professions) Contractors. Requires a licensee of the Contractors State License Board whose license has expired or been suspended and is renewable, or whose license is canceled, to maintain with the Board a current address of record during the five-year period immediately following the expiration or cancellation of the license. Last Action: Chapter 240, Statutes of 2007. AB 937 (Business and Professions) Architects: land scape architects. Clarifies the role of an architect when working and collaborating with other professionals, revises landscape architect contract requirements, and prohibits an unlicensed person from advertising as, or using the stamp of, a licensed landscape architect. Last Action: Chapter 275, Statutes of 2007. AB 956 (Nakanishi) Public contracts: school distri cts: relocatable buildings. Permits a school district, without advertising for bids, to authorize another public agency to purchase relocatable buildings for the district. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 969 (Eng) Acupuncture: continuing education. Deletes the restriction that no more than five of the mandatory continuing education hours for acupuncturists may be spent on issues unrelated to clinical matters or the actual provision of health care to patients. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Assembly Rules Committee to address an unrelated issue: Qualified use tax payment. AB 983 (Ma) Governor's Budget: services contracts. Requires the Governor to submit a report on current and proposed contracts for services in the amount of $5,000 or more along with the annual Governor's Budget. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee to address an unrelated issue: Public contracts: plans and specifications. AB 986 (Eng) Optometrists: regulation. Establishes a retention period for optometrists to maintain patient records, allows the practice of optometry at temporary locations under certain conditions,

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increases the amount of fees charged for optometry licensing, and creates new fees to be paid by licensed optometrists for services provided to them by the Board of Optometry. Last Action: Chapter 276, Statutes of 2007. AB 994 (Parra) Public contracts: preferences: fore st products. Requires a state agency to give preference to the purchase of lumber and other solid wood products that are harvested from forests within California if price, fitness, and quality are equal. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Senate Health Committee to address an unrelated issue: Health care: nurse training scholarship pilot program. AB 1006 (Maze) Pawnbrokers and dealers. Prohibits a pawnbroker, secondhand dealer or coin dealer from charging an individual who files a lost or stolen property report with a law enforcement agency, and is entitled to regain that lost or stolen property, as defined, for returning the stolen item if the individual filed the report with law enforcement within a specified time period. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 1025 (Bass) Professions and vocations: licensur e. Provides that an applicant for a license with a board of the Department of Consumer Affairs may not be denied licensure, or may not have their license suspended or revoked, solely on the basis that he or she has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor if they have obtained a certificate of rehabilitation, and if the felony or misdemeanor conviction has been dismissed, it shall be presumed that the applicant or licensee has been rehabilitated unless the board proves otherwise. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 1044 (Strickland) Optometrists: regulation. Exempts an optometrist from notifying the State Board of Optometry the address of his or her temporary practice and would require the optometrist to carry evidence of licensure while practicing in those settings and to include the address of his or her primary practice and the temporary practice setting on a receipt provided to the patient. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 1047 (Houston) Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act: notification. Requires the State Controller to send a notice to all public agencies detailing the existence of, and the benefits available to, public agencies under the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act. Last Action: Chapter 144, Statutes of 2007.

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AB 1070 (Cook) Approval of contracts. Requires all contracts executed by the Legislature to be approved by the Department of General Services, and establishes a "low-bid" contracting process for public works contracts let by the Legislature. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 1089 (Hernandez) Public contracts: Sudan. Requires the Department of General Services (DGS) to prepare a list of scrutinized companies that have ties to the government of Sudan, with which the state has or could have a contract and present that list to the Legislature and prohibits a state agency from entering into a contract of $100,000 or more with a company on the DGS list. Additionally, this bill would require each prospective bidder for any state contract to provide a statement under penalty of perjury disclosing all business operations between the bidder and government of Sudan. Last Action: Held in Senate Appropriations Committee. AB 1123 (Berg) State surplus property: Healdsburg Armory. Authorizes the Department of General Services, with the approval of the Adjutant General of the Department of the Military, to lease state-owned surplus property, known as the Healdsburg Armory, to the City of Healdsburg at fair market value for a term of up to 30 years. Last Action: Chapter 625, Statutes of 2007. AB 1135 (Strickland) State government: reports: de clarations. Requires written reports submitted to the Legislature or executive body to include a signed statement by the head of the agency or department that the contents of the report are true, accurate, and complete, to the best of his/her knowledge. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 1137 (Eng) Chiropractors. Places an initiative statute on the June 3, 2008, primary ballot to amend the Chiropractic Initiative Act (Act) to allow the Legislature to further amend or modify the Act, and proposes to amend and codify the Act into the Business and Professions Code, if the initiative statute is approved by the voters. Last Action: Held in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee. AB 1159 (Richardson) State funds: fiscal review. Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct a study on fees assessed by state agencies to determine whether or not the fees being charged are commensurate with the cost of providing the service or program for which the fee is charged. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee to address an unrelated issue: Insurance: California Earthquake Authority.

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AB 1175 (Niello) Clinical laboratories: personnel. Allows, rather than requires, a clinical laboratory director to appoint a licensed designee to perform validation and documentation of the accuracy and reliability of the results of the autoverified laboratory tests or examinations. Last Action: Chapter 61, Statutes of 2007. AB 1185 (Hayashi) Accountants: peer review program . Accelerates the date by which the California Board of Accountancy is required to review and evaluate whether to implement a "peer review" program for the evaluation of accounting firms that provide "attest services" (audits and financial reviews), from September 1, 2011, to September 1, 2008. Last Action: Held in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee. AB 1219 (Jones) State property. Authorizes the sale, lease, or exchange of state-owned property, and property owned by the City of Sacramento, located in the Old Sacramento State Historic Park; authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter into an operating agreement with a nonprofit organization for the construction and operation of a children's museum in the Old Sacramento State Historic Park; and revises the terms for the disposition of two previously authorized state surplus property transactions with Saint Francis High School. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 1224 (Hernandez) Optometrists: telemedicine. Adds optometrists to the list of health care professionals authorized to practice telemedicine. Last Action: Chapter 507, Statutes of 2007. AB 1225 (DeSaulnier) Vehicles: state and local gov ernment motor vehicles fleet. Requires the California Energy Commission, in conjunction with the State Air Resources Board and the Department of General Services, on or before July 1, 2008, to develop a method and procedures to evaluate the environmental and energy benefits, and costs of motor vehicles for potential procurement by state and local governments based on specific criteria. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Assembly Natural Resources Committee to address an unrelated issue: Ocean resources: California Ocean Protection Trust Fund. AB 1253 (Caballero) Water: Salinas Valley State Pr ison wastewater treatment plant. Authorizes the Director of the Department of General Services to sell, lease, or convey at fair market value a portion of the Salinas Valley State Prison's facility (i.e., the prison's wastewater treatment site) to the City of Soledad. Last Action: Chapter 695, Statutes of 2007.

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AB 1276 (Karnette) Pharmacies: prescription contai ners: labels. Requires prescribers of medications to ask the patient whether or not to indicate the intended purpose of the prescription on the prescription container's label. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 1282 (Salas) Advertising: business location rep resentatives: floral or ornamental products or services. Prohibits a business offering floral or ornamental products or services from misrepresenting its business location. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 1284 (Eng) Geologists and geophysicists. Increases the cap on the Board for Geologists and Geophysicists' examination fee for licensure as a geologist and deletes the written examination exemption for persons with out-of-state certification. Last Action: Chapter 488, Statutes of 2008. AB 1347 (Caballero) Pet Store Animal Care Act. Enacts the Pet Store Animal Care Act that would establish procedures for the care and maintenance of animals in the custody of a pet store, and places limitations on the sale or transfer of those animals, to go into effect January 1, 2009. Last Action: Chapter 703, Statutes of 2007. AB 1367 (DeSaulnier) Alcoholism and drug abuse cou nselors. Enacts the Substance Abuse Professionals Licensing Law and provides for the licensing and regulation of alcoholism and drug abuse counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 1419 (Anderson) Bureau of State Audits: transfe r to the Controller. Transfers the Bureau of State Audits from under the direction of the Little Hoover Commission to the Controller. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 1436 (Hernandez) Nurse practitioners: scope of practice. Defines the scope of practice of nurse practitioners, authorizes a physician assistant to administer, provide, or issue a drug order for a controlled substance without advance patient-specific approval by a supervising physician and surgeon, and deletes the limitation on the number of physician assistants that may be supervised by a physician and surgeon. Last Action: Held in Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee. AB 1438 (Laird) Conveyances: DeLaveaga Park.

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Revises the terms of a previously authorized exchange of state-owned surplus real property located in the City of Santa Cruz. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 1442 (Feuer) Clinical laboratories. Requires clinical laboratories that perform tests to screen for human immunodeficiency virus, that are classified as waived under the federal Clinical Laboratory and Improvement Amendments of 1988, to enroll in a proficiency testing program and to obtain the appropriate license or registration from the State Department of Public Health, as specified. Last Action: Held on Assembly Floor. AB 1444 (Emmerson) Physical therapists: scope of p ractice. Permits patients direct access to a physical therapist without first obtaining a physician referral. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 1456 (Mullin) Office of Intellectual Property. Creates the Office of Intellectual Property, in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and makes it responsible for tracking the intellectual property developed by state employees and state-funded research. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Senate Rules Committee to address an unrelated issue: Medi-Cal. AB 1479 (Mendoza) State bodies: governance. Authorizes the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee to adopt regulations pursuant to emergency procedures specified in the Administrative Procedures Act, and authorizes specified entities to delegate functions to their executive officers. Last Action: Chapter 211, Statutes of 2008. AB 1483 (Carter) Automotive repair: crash parts. Requires an automotive repair dealer, when performing auto body or collision repairs, once repairs are completed, to provide a written affirmation to the customer that the crash parts identified on the written estimate are the crash parts that were installed on the vehicle during repair. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 1486 (Calderon) Licensed professional counselors . Provides for the licensing and regulation of professional counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Last Action: Held in Senate Appropriations Committee. AB 1498 (DeVore) State-funded programs. Provides that provisions of law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, ethnic group identification, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation,

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color, or disability by organizations receiving state funding shall not apply to any activities that do not directly pertain to the conduct, operation, and administration of the state funded program or activity. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 1517 (Jones) Surplus state property: 58th Street Armory. Authorizes the Department of General Services, with the consent of the California National Guard (CNG), to lease approximately six acres of CNG-owned property in the City of Sacramento to the Sacramento Diocese/Saint Francis High School for a period of up to 50 years. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 1538 (Lieu) Housing Trust Fund: home loan refin ance assistance. Establishes a home loan refinance assistance program, administered by the California Housing Finance Agency, to assist first time homeowners in refinancing variable interest loans into fixed rate loans. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 1545 (Eng) Professions and vocations. Abolishes the Committee on Dental Auxiliaries, creates the Dental Hygiene Committee of California, and extends the sunset date of the Dental Board of California and several other specified boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Last Action: Chapter 35, Statutes of 2008. AB 1574 (Plescia) Surgical clinics: licensure. Permits the Board of Pharmacy to grant a limited license to clinics, as specified, to allow them to purchase drugs at wholesale for administration or dispensing to clinic patients for pain and nausea. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 1579 (Lieber) Information technology goods and services: requests for proposals. Requires the Department of General Services to consult with the state Chief Information Officer for the purpose of determining the appropriate provisions of information technology procurement requests for proposals. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 1615 (Runner) State contracts: unauthorized ali ens. Prohibits a state agency from awarding a state contract to a bidder or contractor that knowingly hires, for employment in the United States, an "unauthorized alien," as defined in federal law. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee.

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AB 1634 (Levine) California Healthy Pets Act. Enacts the California Healthy Pets Act, which prohibits a person from owning a cat or dog that is over six months old unless the animal has been spayed or neutered, or unless the person has an "intact permit." Last Action: Held on Senate floor. AB 1643 (Niello) Nurse practitioners. Repeals the prohibition against a physician and surgeon supervising more than four nurse practitioners at one time. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 1670 (Mendoza) Fictitious business name stateme nts. Revises and clarifies provisions of law governing the filing of fictitious business name statements. Last Action: Chapter 716, Statutes of 2007. AB 1756 (Caballero) Local infrastructure developme nt: public-private partnerships. Requires the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to create an Office of Local Public-Private Partnerships to inform local agencies and other stakeholders of the role that public-private partnerships can play in financing, constructing, operating, maintaining, or managing fee-producing local infrastructure projects. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 1760 (Galgiani) Veterinarians and registered ve terinary technicians. Requires the California Veterinary Medical Board to offer the veterinary licensing exam at least twice a year and makes other changes related to the licensure and regulation of veterinary professionals. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 1778 (Ma) Junk dealers and recyclers: newspaper and California Redemption Value (CRV) containers. Prohibits a junk dealer or recycler from providing payment for newspaper or CRV containers unless the payment is made by check and the dealer or recycler obtains certain identifying information, and exempts these provisions from payments for newspaper having a value of $50 or less in a single transaction or CRV containers having a value of $100 or less in a single transaction. Last Action: Chapter 733, Statutes of 2008. AB 1816 (Galgiani) Cemeteries: temporary manager. Authorizes a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint a temporary manager to manage the property and service the prepaid interments of a private cemetery if the court finds that a cemetery manager has ceased to perform his or her duties, as specified, and permits the court to authorize reasonable compensation to the temporary manger to be made from the cemetery's endowment care fund.

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Last Action: Vetoed. AB 1829 (Ma) Public contracts: purchasing authorit y delegation: audits. Deletes the requirement that the Department of General Services (DGS) audit each state agency to which purchasing authority has been delegated once every three years, and instead requires DGS to conduct audits by professional audit staff based on priorities established by a risk-based planning process as specified, and at least once every 10 years. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Senate Health Committee to address an unrelated issue: Nurse-Family Partnership program. AB 1849 (DeVore) State Surplus Property: Los Angele s Memorial Coliseum. Requires the sale of the state owned real property under the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena to the City of Los Angeles and the County Los Angeles. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 1850 (DeVore) Office of Public-Private Partners hips. Creates the Office of Public-Private Partnerships within the Office of the Governor. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 1860 (Huffman) Unsafe products: recall or warni ng. Enacts the Product Recall Safety and Protection Act, which requires immediate product removal and notice to consumers for products subject to recall or warnings, as specified. Last Action: Chapter 569, Statutes of 2008. AB 1861 (Emmerson) State Board of Chiropractic Exam iners. Appropriates $1,542,000 from the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners Fund (Fund) to augment the appropriation to the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners in the Budget Act of 2007, which may be expended if specified conditions are met. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 1866 (Mendoza) Service contracts: retailers. Requires a retailer that sells a service contract to maintain the service contract information and make the contract available to the purchaser upon request, as specified. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 1867 (Keene) Real estate appraisers. Allows public agencies to accept bids on public contracts for appraisal services from an appraiser that is a member of any appraisal organization affiliated with the Appraisal Foundation, as specified.

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Last Action: Vetoed. AB 1869 (Anderson) State boards and commissions: r eorganization. Abolishes or consolidates state boards and commissions, as specified. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 1897 (Emmerson) Marriage and family therapists: licensure. Authorizes the Board of Behavioral Sciences to recognize degrees from an educational institution accredited by an essentially equivalent accrediting agency to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges when licensing a marriage and family therapist. Last Action: Chapter 489, Statutes of 2008. AB 1907 (Ruskin) Point-of-sale systems: price accu racy verification. Changes the criteria for an initial standard inspection of a point-of-sale (POS) system and extends the sunset date on provisions of law governing inspections of POS system accuracy from January 1, 2009 to January 1, 2014. Last Action: Chapter 434, Statutes of 2008. AB 1911 (Galgiani) Funeral establishments. Requires a managing funeral director, cemetery manager, crematory manager, or cemetery broker to notify the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau (Bureau) if an employee or prospective employee has had a license or registration from the Bureau revoked or suspended, as specified. Last Action: Chapter 490, Statutes of 2008. AB 1922 (Hernandez) Healing arts practitioners: pe er review. Adds marriage and family therapists and clinical social workers to the list of healing arts practitioners defined as "licentiates" under peer review statutes. Last Action: Chapter 25, Statutes of 2008. AB 1925 (Eng) Franchise Tax Board: professional or occupational licenses. Authorizes the Franchise Tax Board to suspend state occupational and professional licenses because of unpaid tax liabilities of a licensee after providing specified due process notice and hearing procedures. Last Action: Held in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee. AB 1927 (Galgiani) Vocational nursing and psychiat ric technicians. Requires the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians to prescribe by regulation the education for which credit is to be given for a vocational nursing applicant and psychiatric technician applicant for successful completion of equivalent courses offered by a secondary school that is accredited by the Department of Education, in any state or by a nationally recognized regional accrediting body. Last Action: Chapter 299, Statutes of 2008.

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AB 1932 (Smyth) Simi Valley: public cemeteries. Authorizes the City of Simi Valley to acquire five acres or more of public lands to be used as a public cemetery, as specified. Last Action: Chapter 126, Statutes of 2008. AB 1941 (Carter) State surplus land. Authorizes a local agency, housing authority, or redevelopment agency that purchases land from the state for development of low- and moderate-income housing to reconvey the land to a for-profit developer. Last Action: Held in Assembly Local Government Committee. AB 1942 (Ruskin) Public contracts: small businesse s and disabled veteran business enterprises. Prohibits state departments and agencies from utilizing bundled procurement contracts, as defined, or strategic sourced procurement contracts, as defined, for the acquisition of goods and services. Last Action: This bill was amended out of the Business and Professions jurisdiction and re-referred to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 1944 (Swanson) Physicians and surgeons: health care districts. Authorizes all California Health Care Districts to directly hire and employ physicians and surgeons. Last Action: Held in Senate Health Committee. AB 1947 (Emmerson) Pharmacy technicians. Increases examination requirements for initial licensure, and adds new continuing education requirements for license renewals, for pharmacy technicians. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 1951 (Hayashi) Mental health professionals: suic ide prevention training. Requires applicants seeking initial licensure, or renewing licensure, as a psychiatrist, psychologist, marriage and family therapist, educational psychologist, or clinical social worker to complete six hours of training in suicide prevention, assessment, intervention, and postintervention strategies, as specified. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Senate Health Committee to address an unrelated issue: Mental health: capital facilities. AB 1952 (Berg) Business licensing: exemptions: vet erans. Exempts honorably discharged veterans who are California residents from paying city, county and state license fees for distributing circulars or vending certain goods. Last Action: Chapter 435, Statutes of 2008.

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AB 1974 (Nava) State property: sale or exchange. Allows the Department of Parks and Recreation and the City of Ventura to modify a previously authorized state surplus property transaction to allow an exchange of property in a public park for private property that is more suitable for park purposes. Last Action: Chapter 662, Statutes of 2008. AB 1981 (Huff) Surplus property: Chino Valley Unifi ed School District. Authorizes the Chino Valley Unified School District to transfer specified surplus property to the City of Chino Hills for development of a park. Last Action: Chapter 663, Statutes of 2008. AB 2013 (Krekorian) New construction: water-permeab le pavement. Authorizes the use of water-permeable pavement for the construction of exterior paved surfaces if the pavement is designed and engineered to each specific application so that its use results in cost savings compared to use of impermeable pavement and required storm water control systems. Last Action: Held in Senate Appropriations Committee. AB 2037 (Portantino) State budget. Makes technical, non-substantive changes to existing law requiring the Governor to submit a state budget for the ensuing fiscal year within the first 10 days of each calendar year, as specified. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee to address an unrelated issue: California State University: prevailing wage law study. AB 2049 (Saldana) Public schools: children of mil itary families. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene and support a task force to review and make recommendations regarding the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Last Action: Chapter 589, Statutes of 2008. AB 2059 (Nunez) Mailed solicitations: disclosures. Requires clear and conspicuous disclosures on "lead cards" or other forms of marketing devices used to obtain a consumer's express written permission to be solicited by telephone. Last Action: Chapter 738, Statutes of 2008. AB 2089 (DeVore) State contracts: unauthorized ali ens. Prohibits state agencies from awarding any contract for the construction of a public works project, acquisition of goods and services, or information technology goods and services to a bidder or contractor that hires an unauthorized alien, as specified. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee.

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AB 2102 (Walters) State employment: eligibility ve rification. Requires every state agency and persons who contract with state agencies to verify the employment eligibility of every employee using the E-Verify system operated by the United States Department of Homeland Security, as specified. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 2111 (Smyth) Physical therapy: regulation. Makes various changes to the examination provisions for licensure as a physical therapist (PT) and PT assistant, expands the disciplinary actions available to the Physical Therapy Board, and increases the amount for licensure fees. Last Action: Chapter 301, Statutes of 2008. AB 2118 (Villines) State agencies: administrative r egulations. Prohibits state agencies from adopting regulations requiring the use of a specific technology unless it has been operational and proven effective for more than two years, or would place an undue burden on business on an annual basis and result in a significant loss of jobs. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 2128 (Emmerson) Health facilities: dietitians. Expands and places in statute existing regulatory standards which establish multiple educational options for an individual to qualify as a dietetic services supervisor in a health facility and authorizes the Department of Public Health to waive the requirements in specified circumstances. Last Action: Chapter 225, Statutes of 2008. AB 2133 (Hancock) State contracts: agency projects: habitat and wetlands. Allows the Department of General Services to waive the $500,000 project cost limit and authorize the State Coastal Conservancy to directly implement public works projects related to habitat or wetlands restoration and related pedestrian and cycling access improvement at specified locations. Last Action: Chapter 444, Statutes of 2008. AB 2136 (Mendoza) Prepaid calling cards. Enacts additional standards and disclosure requirements relating to the advertising and sale of prepaid calling cards and prepaid calling services. Last Action: Chapter 739, Statutes of 2008. AB 2169 (Cook) Business licenses: ice cream truck operation. Prohibits a city or county from issuing a license to operate an ice cream truck to any person who is required to register as a sex offender because of a conviction for a crime against a person under 16 years of age. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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AB 2179 (Furutani) Air quality: diesel fuel. Requires diesel fuel vehicles owned or leased by the state to use renewable diesel fuel by specified dates. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2189 (Karnette) Shorthand reporters: continuing education requirements. Requires the Court Reporters Board of California to establish continuing education requirements for the renewal of a shorthand reporter's certificate and makes other changes related to the certification and regulation of shorthand reporters. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2201 (Plescia) Unauthorized aliens: public cont racts: hiring. Requires a public entity, or a person that contracts with a public entity, after hiring an employee, to verify the employment eligibility of that employee by using the E-Verify system, or any successor to that system. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 2210 (Price) Dentistry: emergency services. Provides a dentist with immunity from civil liability for the provision of emergency medical care consistent with his or her dental education and emergency training during a declared state of emergency. Last Action: Chapter 449, Statutes of 2008. AB 2223 (Horton) Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program. Applies the provisions of the existing Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program to San Diego County, thereby allowing the County Agricultural Commissioner to contract with the Department of Pesticide Regulation to perform increased structural fumigation, inspection, and enforcement activities. Last Action: Chapter 450, Statutes of 2008. AB 2265 (Jones) State property: Old Sacramento Stat e Historic Park. Authorizes the sale, lease, or exchange of state owned property, and property owned by the City of Sacramento, that are located in the Old Sacramento State Historic Park; and authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter into an operating agreement with a nonprofit organization for the construction and operation of a children's museum in the Old Sacramento State Historic Park. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2276 (Fuentes) State Board of Guide Dogs for th e Blind. Extends the sunset provisions on the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind in the Department of Consumer Affairs from January 1, 2012 to January 1, 2017. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee.

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AB 2336 (Nakanishi) Contractors: arbitration proce dures. Authorizes the registrar of contractors to investigate complaints of violations and refer alleged violations to arbitration if damages are greater than the amount of the licensing bond required, but less than $100,000. Allows a licensee to have the project that is the subject of an arbitration proceeding inspected by an expert, would require the complainant to allow for that inspection prior to the hearing date, and excludes attorney fees from awardable costs or expenses. Last Action: Held in Assembly Judiciary Committee. AB 2346 (Swanson) Child care: state employees. Authorizes the Department of General Services to provide a full cost subsidy to a child care facility that has received a rent deferral for two or more years. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2348 (Maze) Property acquisition. Deletes the Department of Water Resources' exemption from the Property Acquisition Law, and the ability to use its power of eminent domain. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 2360 (Levine) Public contracts: state contracts : healthy lifestyle benefits. Requires prospective bidders on state contracts to certify that they provide fitness and wellness benefits to their employees. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 2374 (Spitzer) Radiologic and nuclear medicine technology: scans. Allows a nuclear medicine technologist and diagnostic radiologic technologist to operate a dual mode machine on which both a positron emission tomography scan and a computerized tomography scan may be performed if the person participates in on-the-job training and registers with the Department of Public Health, as specified. Last Action: Chapter 238, Statutes of 2008. AB 2383 (Ruskin) Social security numbers. Prohibits a retail business or landlord from soliciting, requiring, or using an individual’s social security number for any purpose unless that number is necessary for that business’s normal course of business and there is a specific use for that number for which no other number may be used. Last Action: Held in Assembly Judiciary Committee. AB 2393 (Emmerson) Dental Board of California: sea l. Authorizes the Dental Board of California to replace the seal that bears the name "Board of Dental Examiners of California" with "The Dental Board of California." Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee.

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AB 2398 (Nakanishi) Practice of medicine: cosmetic surgery: employment of physicians and surgeons. Authorizes the Medical Board of California to revoke the license of a physician who provides elective cosmetic procedures in violation of the prohibition against the corporate practice of medicine. Last Action: Held on Senate Floor. AB 2412 (Eng) Unlicensed contractors. Increases the maximum criminal fines for unlicensed contractors and provides restitution to the victims of unlicensed contractors. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2413 (Hayashi) Excess real property sales. Provides for the sale of a specific Department of Transportation parcel to the City of Hayward. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2423 (Bass) Professions and vocations: licensur e. Permits specified Department of Consumer Affairs boards to issue initial licenses on probation and makes other changes related to licensing and discipline to encourage the employment of ex-offenders. Last Action: Chapter 675, Statutes of 2008. AB 2427 (Eng) Professions and vocations. Restricts local government's ability to prohibit a healing arts licensee from engaging in any act or performing any procedure that falls within the professionally recognized scope of practice of that licensee, and would prohibit construing this provision to prohibit the enforcement of a local ordinance effective prior to January 1, 2009. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2439 (De La Torre) Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program: fees. Requires the Medical Board of California to assess an additional $25 fee for the initial license and license renewal of a physician or surgeon to support the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program. Requires up to 15% of the funds collected from the additional $25 fee to be dedicated to loan assistance for physicians who agree to practice in geriatric care settings or settings that primarily serve adults over the age of 65 or adults with disabilities, and gives priority consideration to those who are trained in and practice geriatric health care and who can meet the cultural and linguistic needs and demands of diverse populations of older Californians. Last Action: Chapter 640, Statutes of 2008.

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AB 2442 (Nakanishi) Medicine. Requires a one-time transfer of $500,000 from the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California to the Steven M. Thompson Physician Loan Repayment Program. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2443 (Nakanishi) Medical Board of California: p hysician and surgeon well-being. Requires the Medical Board of California to establish a program to promote the well-being of physicians and surgeons within their existing resources, unless otherwise authorized in the Annual Budget Act. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2444 (Nakanishi) Medical Board of California: d isciplinary actions. Allows the Medical Board of California to require in a public letter of reprimand that a physician and surgeon complete specified training or education. Last Action: Chapter 242, Statutes of 2008. AB 2445 (Nakanishi) Medical Board of California: d isciplinary procedures: applicants. Permits the Medical Board of California to issue a public letter of reprimand concurrently with a physicians and surgeon's certificate for minor violations and to disclose the public letter of reprimand to the public and post it on its Web site. The public letter of reprimand shall be purged three years from the date of issuance. Last Action: Chapter 247, Statutes of 2008. AB 2452 (Davis) Notaries public. Expands the list of "satisfying documents" that notaries public may rely upon as evidence of a person's identity. Last Action: Chapter 67, Statutes of 2008. AB 2472 (Laird) Conveyances: DeLaveaga Park. Revises the terms of a previously authorized exchange of state-owned surplus real property located in the City of Santa Cruz. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2473 (Niello) Accountancy: licensure. Eliminates the experience-based pathway for qualification to take the certified public accountant (CPA) examination, and the requirement that out-of-state and foreign CPAs hold a practice privilege from the California Board of Accountancy prior to practicing public accountancy in California. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee.

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AB 2479 (Hancock) Contractors: energy efficiency m easures. Establishes civil penalties for unlicensed contractors who fail to comply with energy efficiency standards, makes specified changes to the regulation of licensed contractors, and directs the Contractors State License Board to submit specified reports to the Legislature relating to the regulation of contractors. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee to address an unrelated issue: Civil actions: property boundaries: earth movements. AB 2482 (Maze) Physician assistants: continuing ed ucation. Permits the Physician Assistant Committee to condition license renewal of a physician assistant on the completion of no more than 50 hours of continuing education every two years. Last Action: Chapter 76, Statutes of 2008. AB 2490 (Jeffries) Governmental reorganization. Establishes the California Public Safety Agency on January 1, 2012, as specified. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 2516 (Mendoza) Prescriptions: electronic transmi ssion. Requires a prescriber to ensure that any prescription issued be typewritten and electronically transmitted to the patient's pharmacy of choice as of January 1, 2010. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 2529 (Wolk) Buildings: access. Requires the State Architect to publish a fee schedule on its Internet Web site for individuals seeking certification as a certified access specialist. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2539 (Strickland) State boards and commissions: suspension of salaries. Eliminates the salary of any member of a state board or commission that received a salary in excess of $100,000 in 2007 if a state law or regulation requires the board to meet two or less times per month. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 2543 (Berg) Geriatric and Gerontology Workforce Expansion Act. Establishes the Geriatric and Gerontology Workforce Expansion Act which allows specified geriatric service providers to apply for grants, on or after January 1, 2010, under the existing Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program for educational loan reimbursements related to careers as licensed marriage and family therapists (MFTs), MFT interns, or licensed clinical social workers (LCSWs). Requires the Board of Behavioral Sciences to charge MFT and LCSW applicants or licensees $10 for initial licensure or biennial renewal for the purposes of this bill.

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Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2592 (Ma) Locksmiths. Makes various changes to the statutes governing the licensure and regulation of locksmiths, and revises and recasts the provisions relating to unlicensed activity. Last Action: Chapter 679, Statutes of 2008. AB 2600 (Niello) State government infrastructure. Authorizes state agencies to procure a private sector partner and award contracts for the construction, operation, and maintenance of public infrastructure projects, through solicitations for project or information proposals or unsolicited proposals, if the state agency provides an opportunity for competitive bidding on the unsolicited proposal. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 2603 (Eng) Public contracts: information techno logy: reports. Requires each state agency to prepare an annual report regarding information technology personal services and consulting services contracts entered into by the agency and to transmit that report to the State Chief Information Officer, who shall provide those reports to the Department of Finance for submission to the Legislature. Last Action: Held in Senate Appropriations Committee. AB 2637 (Eng) Dental auxiliaries. Replaces three additional specialty licenses for dental assistants with two permits which may be added to the existing three dental assisting categories. Last Action: Chapter 499, Statutes of 2008. AB 2649 (Ma) Medical assistants: authorized servic es. Specifies that a medical assistant is not authorized to trim the nails of, or debride in any manner using a scalpel, parting instrument, or other object, the corns, bunions, or callus of any patient who is diabetic or suffers from any form of circulatory disorder affecting the extremities. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2652 (Anderson) Prisoners: professional mental health providers: marriage and family therapists. Adds marriage and family therapists to the list of mental health professionals who may gain qualifying experience for licensure for work performed under the auspices of the state correctional system. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 2661 (Dymally) Telemedicine. Adds telephone communication to the definition of telemedicine, requires the practitioner practicing telemedicine by telephone to use an electronic medical record and provides that a practitioner may be designated by the patient.

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Last Action: Held in Assembly Health Committee. AB 2709 (Walters) Department of Finance: state bud get: Internet database. Requires the Department of Finance, no later than 90 days after the Budget Act for each fiscal year is enacted, to make available on the department's Internet Website a searchable database containing fiscal year budget information for each state agency. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 2733 (Brownley) Real property disclosures. Requires a seller of real property that is located within one quarter mile of an environmental hazard site to disclose that information to potential buyers, and requires a similar disclosure be made by a person filing a public report with the Department of Real Estate for the purpose of offering subdivided land for sale or lease. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2734 (Krekorian) Health care practitioners: bus iness cards and advertisements. Requires that medical advertisements include a name and a valid license number from the appropriate licensing agency. Last Action: Held on Assembly Floor. AB 2746 (Niello) Private postsecondary education: California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2008. Recasts and revises the provisions of the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989 into the Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2008. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. AB 2756 (Duvall) Pharmacists: furnishing drugs duri ng emergency. Specifies the emergency conditions under which pharmacists may furnish dangerous drugs and devices without prescription. Last Action: Held on Senate Floor. AB 2769 (Levine) Digital television. Requires retailers who sell televisions to disclose specified information regarding the transition from analog to digital television broadcasts. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Senate Rules Committee to address an unrelated issue: Single-use carryout bags. AB 2793 (Blakeslee) Professional engineers: disclo sures. Authorizes an engineer to disclose to any governmental official information regarding a building or structure that he or she believes may pose a danger to the public health or safety, as specified.

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Last Action: Held in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee. AB 2794 (Blakeslee) Diagnostic imaging services. Prohibits a healing arts practitioner from charging for the technical component of various diagnostic imaging services unless such services were rendered by the licensee or by someone under the licensee's personal supervision. Last Action: Chapter 469, Statutes of 2008. AB 2825 (Carter) Automotive repair: crash parts. Requires an automotive repair dealer to provide written certification that the crash parts identified on the written estimate, prior to the completion of the repairs and on the attached invoices, are the same crash parts installed on the vehicle. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2841 (Ma) Medical procedures: reusable adipose cannula. Requires patient disclosures for reusable adipose cannulas. Last Action: Held on Assembly Floor. AB 2848 (Hernandez) Optometrists: retired license s. Allows optometrists to apply for a retired license. Last Action: Held on Senate Floor. AB 2871 (Tran) Abraham Lincoln Commission. Establishes the California Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial and American Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission with duties related to the observance of the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2888 (La Malfa) Businesses: services for minors . Requires any person, entity, group, or organization, operating as a nonprofit or for-profit business, to require any employee, independent contractor, or volunteer working directly and in an unaccompanied setting with minor children to undergo a criminal background check. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 2908 (Furutani) State contracts: bids. Requires all bids for a public works contract to be in an amount equal to at least $100,000, rather than an amount equal to at least 10% of the amount bid. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 2916 (Nuñez) State buildings: energy efficiency measures. Requires the Department of General Services to develop guidelines that ensure buildings owned by the state are operated and maintained in the most energy

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efficient manner. Last Action: Held in Senate Appropriations Committee. AB 2919 (Garcia) Advertising. Requires specified disclosures in advertising that offers to assist individuals in dealing with a governmental agency, as specified. Last Action: Chapter 256, Statutes of 2008. AB 2939 (Hancock) Building standards: green buildi ngs: local variances. Authorizes a city, county, or city and county to implement stricter green building guidelines than those otherwise permitted under existing law, as specified. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2946 (Hayashi) Cemeteries. Deletes the December 31, 2007, sunset date of, thereby extending indefinitely, the $8.50 quarterly fee the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau charges cemeteries for each burial, entombment, inurnment, or cremation made during the preceding quarter. Last Action: Chapter 504, Statutes of 2008. AB 2948 (Leno) Firearms: sales at the Cow Palace. Prohibits firearms or ammunition sales on the state property known as the "Cow Palace." Last Action: Held on Senate Floor. AB 2950 (Huffman) Commercial e-mail messages: fals ity and deception. Modifies existing prohibitions against unsolicited commercial electronic mail as follows: defines header information, allows a district attorney or a city attorney to bring an action under California's spam law and to recover reasonable attorney's fees and costs, specifies a three-year statute of limitations, and codifies Legislature intent. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2968 (Carter) Cosmetic surgery. Enacts the Donda West Law, which would prohibit elective cosmetic surgery on a patient unless, prior to surgery, the patient has received a physical examination and clearance, as specified. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 2992 (La Malfa) Resource conservation districts: California Prompt Payment Act. Includes resource conservation districts within provisions of law that require the state to pay penalties for late payments to state contractors. Last Action: Vetoed.

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AB 2995 (Davis) Education facilities: inspections. Requires school districts and community college districts to use Field Act inspectors that are under the Department of General Services' Division of the State Architect authority, except as specified. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 3002 (Villines). Department of Transportation: property management. Provides that the Department of General Services shall be responsible for property management functions for all real property and rights in real property acquired by the Department of Transportation for highway purposes that are not immediately needed for those purposes. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. AB 3020 (Salas) State Contract Act: definition: dep artment. Authorizes the Military Department to enter into public works contracts under the State Contract Act, and makes other technical and clarifying changes. Last Action: Chapter 106, Statutes of 2008. AB 3024 (Duvall) Payment bonds: public works. Eliminates the bonding requirement the state requires from its contractors to secure payment of claims by laborers, mechanics, or material providers under a public works contract of less than $25,000. Last Action: Chapter 79, Statutes of 2008.

AB 3033 (Laird) University of California: contract s. Requests the University of California (UC) Regents and requires the Department of General Services, acting for the state, to establish a model contract standard provisions for research, training, and service contracts undertaken by UC for the state. Last Action: Vetoed. AB 3037 (Eng) Boards and commissions. Requires the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection to consider whether the functions of a board or commission under its jurisdiction would be accomplished more effectively if the board or commission were replaced by a single executive officer. Last Action: Held on Assembly Floor.

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ALL SENATE BILLS REFERRED TO THE ASSEMBLY BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS

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SB 1 (Cedillo) Office of Immigrant Affairs. Establishes the Office of Immigrant Affairs within the Department of Community Services and Development with the purpose of ensuring the integration and civic participation of new citizens in the state. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Assembly Higher Education Committee to address an unrelated issue: student financial aid. SB 26 (Simitian) State agencies: collection of dat a: ancestry or ethnic origin. Enacts the "Ethnic Heritage Respect and Recognition Act" that requires state agencies, boards and commissions that collect demographic data to allow respondents, by January 1, 2017, the option of selecting more than one racial designation. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. SB 102 (Migden) Blood transfusions. Allows a nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife, or a physician assistant who is authorized to order a blood transfusion, to provide patients with written documentation of the positive and negative aspects of receiving a blood transfusion and to note on the patient's medical record that a standardized written summary was given to the patient. Last Action: Chapter 88, Statutes of 2007. SB 140 (Kehoe) State property: City of San Diego. Authorizes the Department of General Services to sell, lease, exchange all or any portion of specified state property in the City of San Diego (bound by Ash, Front, A, and State streets) for the purpose of consolidating various state departments in the downtown area of San Diego. Last Action: Chapter 513, Statutes of 2008. SB 161 (Margett) Public works contracts: Internet submissions. Requires public entities to provide a contractor with an electronic receipt, either by immediate transmission or by providing access to the contractor to an electronic file that contains the receipt, when documents are submitted electronically by the contractor. Last Action: Chapter 427, Statutes of 2007. SB 223 (Machado) Real estate appraisals. Prohibits any person with an interest in a real estate transaction involving an appraisal from improperly influencing or attempting to improperly influence a real

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estate appraisal sought in connection with a mortgage loan, as specified and provides that a violation by an individual licensed by the state is deemed to be a violation of state licensing law. In addition, this bill also expands the prohibition for licensed appraisers from engaging in any appraisal activity where their compensation is affected by that appraisal. Last Action: Chapter 291, Statutes of 2007. SB 226 (Negrete McLeod) Real estate licensees. Repeals and recasts existing law that provides for the licensure of real estate brokers, allows the Real Estate Commissioner (Commissioner) to require a licensee to display his or license number on consumer first contact materials, and provides that the Commissioner may grant an original real estate broker's license to an applicant who (1) has passed the real estate broker license examination, (2) satisfied other specified requirements, (3) either held a real estate salesperson's license and satisfied other requirements as specified, or (4) holds an active membership in the State Bar of California. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 234 (Corbett) Consumer warranties: members of t he Armed Forces. Provides that California's Lemon Law cover a motor vehicle purchased by a member of the Armed Forces in the United States with a manufacturer's express warranty regardless of the state of purchase or registration, if the member purchased the motor vehicle from a manufacturer who sells vehicles in California, and the member was stationed in or a resident of California at the time he or she purchased the vehicle or at the time he or she filed an action pursuant to California's Lemon Law. Last Action: Chapter 151, Statutes of 2007. SB 250 (Corbett) Gift certificates. Allows any gift card with a cash value of less than $10 to be redeemed in cash for its cash value. This bill deletes from current law governing gift cards the exemption for food product gift cards or certificates. Last Action: Chapter 640, Statutes of 2007. SB 252 (Aanestad) Dentistry: registered sex offend ers. Requires the Dental Board of California to deny an application for licensure or renewal, or revoke the license of an individual who is required to register as a sex offender. Last Action: Chapter 13, Statutes of 2007. SB 281 (Maldonado) District agricultural associati ons: goods and property. Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to develop criteria, subject to the approval of the Department of General Services, for the disposal of property by district agricultural associations and the California Exposition and State Fair. Last Action: Chapter 346, Statutes of 2007.

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SB 354 (Margett) Contractors: aiding unlicensed pe rsons. Authorizes the Contractors State License Board to issue to a licensee, who has aided and abetted an unlicensed person, a citation which includes an order for payment for the financial injury caused by the acts of the unlicensed person. Last Action: Chapter 299, Statutes of 2007. SB 355 (Margett) Contractors: consultants. Includes within the definition of contractor, a person who schedules subcontractors, or who provides a service to complete a project for a work of improvement that is covered by a licensed contractor classification. Last Action: Held in Assembly Business and Professions Committee. SB 366 (Aanestad) Clinical laboratories: personnel . Continues the provisions of current law, due to sunset on January 1, 2008, that provide that specified federal workload requirements apply when a cytotechnologist in a clinical laboratory is examining gynecological slides using automated or semi-automated screening devices approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration. Last Action: Chapter 198, Statutes of 2007. SB 385 (Machado) Real estate: mortgages: real esta te brokers. Extends federal guidance on nontraditional mortgage product risks to state-regulated mortgage lenders and brokers. Last Action: Chapter 301, Statutes of 2007. SB 387 (Alquist) Dentists: death or incapacity. Allows specified individuals (legal representative, executor or administrator of the estate, trustee of a special trust) to take control of the dental practice of a dentist who has been incapacitated or who has died, for the purpose of an orderly disposition of the dental practice. This bill, under specified conditions, allows these individuals to hire or contract with a licensed dentist to continue providing care to patients of the dental practice for a period of no longer than 12 months. Last Action: Chapter 433, Statutes of 2007. SB 441 (Torlakson) State property: vending machine s. Requires a vendor that operates or maintains a vending machine on state property to offer food and beverages that meet accepted nutritional guidelines, as specified. Last Action: Chapter 597, Statutes of 2008. SB 447 (Maldonado) Junk dealers. Requires junk dealers or recyclers to report specified information daily to the chief of police or to the sheriff on the first working day after receipt or purchases of property, all tangible personal property which he or she has purchased, taken

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in trade, taken in pawn, accepted for sale on consignment, or accepted for auctioning, Last Action: Chapter 732, Statutes of 2008. SB 455 (Denham) Water: Salinas Valley State Prison wastewater treatment plant. Authorizes the Department of General Services to sell, lease, convey, or exchange to the City of Soledad, at current market value, 33.5 acres (two parcels) of state property at the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Correctional Training Center. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 472 (Corbett) Prescription drugs: labeling requ irements. Requires the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations that require a standardized, patient-centered, prescription drug label on all prescription medication dispensed to patients in California. Last Action: Chapter 470, Statutes of 2007. SB 473 (Cox) State agencies: fingerprinting vendor s. Adds a new provision to the Government Code that prohibits state entities that require fingerprinting services for non-law-enforcement purposes from requiring the use of any specified "live scan" fingerprinting service providers certified by the Department of Justice to roll fingerprint impressions. Last Action: Chapter 248, Statutes of 2007. SB 509 (Simitian) Hazardous materials: toxic subst ances. Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) to establish a Toxics Information Clearinghouse, as specified. Defines terms relating to a Green Chemistry program to be administered by DTSC. Last Action: Chapter 560, Statutes of 2008. SB 534 (Perata) Dentistry: dental assistants and h ygienists. Creates a Dental Hygiene Committee of California and extends the sunset date for the Dental Board of California from July 1, 2008 to July 1, 2011. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 553 (Aanestad) State surplus property: Departme nt of Forestry and Fire Protection. Authorizes the Department of General Services to sell or exchange a specific state-owned property in the City of Redding that is currently used by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, as specified. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 567 (Aanestad) State property. Authorizes the Director of the Department of General Services to sell, exchange, or lease for fair market value, six specified parcels of State surplus property.

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Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Assembly Local Government Committee to address an unrelated issue: Counties: consolidation of offices: watermaster districts. SB 593 (Margett) Department of Transportation: ret ention proceeds. Prohibits the Department of Transportation from withholding retention proceeds from its contractors when making progress payments for work performed on a public works project. Last Action: Chapter 341, Statutes of 2008. SB 614 (Simitian) Public works: design-build contr acts. Authorizes school districts and community colleges to utilize design-build construction contracts for projects exceeding $2.5 million, rather than $10 million and extends the use of the design-build process to all community college districts, rather than just those that are currently specified in law. Last Action: Chapter 471, Statutes of 2007. SB 615 (Oropeza) Pharmacy technicians: scholarship and loan repayment program. Establishes the California Pharmacy Technician Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program to provide scholarships to pharmacy technician students, and educational loan repayments for pharmacy technicians, who provide services in medically underserved areas. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 619 (Migden) Public contracts: retention procee ds. Requires that contract retention proceeds not exceed five percent of the payment of all contracts entered into after January 2008, between a public entity and an original contractor, between an original contractor and a subcontractor, and between all subcontractors. This bill requires the Department of General Services to withhold not more than five percent of the contract price until final completion and acceptance of a project. Last Action: Held on Assembly Floor. SB 620 (Correa) Dentistry: general anesthesia. Repeals the January 1, 2008 sunset date, thereby extending indefinitely, the current law authorizing a physician and surgeon to administer general anesthesia to a dental patient in the office of a dentist who does not possess a general anesthesia permit if the physician and surgeon holds a valid general anesthesia permit issued by the Dental Board of California. Last Action: Chapter 210, Statutes of 2007. SB 623 (Wiggins) Gasoline: price disclosure. Requires each retail dispenser used to dispense motor fuel to provide adequate notice on price differentials or discounts in accordance with regulations adopted

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by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Division of Measurement Standards. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 630 (Aanestad) Public works. Authorizes $30 million in lease revenue bonds to be used for the acquisition, design, construction, establishment, equipping, renovation, or expansion of new veterans' homes in Shasta and Fresno Counties. Last Action: Chapter 154, Statutes of 2007. SB 659 (Calderon) Repossessors. Specifies that the legal owner of collateral registered under the Vehicle Code includes the seller or lessee named on a valid conditional sales contract or lease agreement and requires a licensed repossessor who is subject to certain violent acts or threatened acts during a repossession to provide details about the incident to the person who made the assignment. Last Action: Chapter 192, Statutes of 2007. SB 661 (Maldonado) Healing arts: anatomic patholog y services. Requires direct billing of patients or third-party payers by clinical laboratories providing anatomic pathology services, and expressly prohibits a healing arts practitioner from charging, billing, or otherwise soliciting payment for anatomic pathology services, if those services were not actually rendered by the practitioner or under his/her direct supervision. Last Action: Chapter 656, Statutes of 2007. SB 666 (Maldonado) Proprietary security services. Requires proprietary private security officers to receive specified training equivalent to security guards/officers. Last Action: Chapter 721, Statutes of 2007. SB 678 (Wiggins) Surplus state property: County of Napa. Grants the Director of the Department of General Services the authority to sell or exchange at current fair market value, to the County of Napa, certain property located in the county upon terms and conditions the Director deems are in the best interests of the state. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 691 (Calderon) Junk dealers and recyclers: nonf errous material. Requires every junk dealer and recycler to report specified information to the chief of police or sheriff on a monthly basis, increases fines and punishments for non-compliance in record keeping and disclosure requirements, prohibits a junk dealer or recycler from providing payment for nonferrous material unless certain requirements are met, and prohibits any unauthorized disclosure of personal identification information collected from sellers by junk dealers or recyclers. Last Action: Chapter 730, Statutes of 2008.

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SB 721 (Ashburn and Perata) State agencies: succes sion plans. Requires every state agency, by January 1, 2010, to establish and implement a succession plan and requires every state agency to report to the Legislature on the success or failure of the implemented succession plan. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. SB 731 (Oropeza) Massage therapy. Provides for the certification of massage practitioners and massage therapists by the Massage Therapy Organization. Last Action: Chapter 384, Statutes of 2008. SB 754 (Kehoe) State property: leases. Authorizes the Director of the Department of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), to lease or exchange, for a term of years as determined by the Director, three existing state-owned parcels, on which DMV field offices are situated so that new DMV offices and other commercial, retail, and residential construction can occur. Last Action: Chapter 681, Statutes of 2007. SB 761 (Ridley-Thomas) Healing arts: diversion: in vestigations. Extends the sunset date of July 1, 2008 to July 1, 2010, for the diversion program for physicians and surgeons with certain impairments (i.e. substance abuse) that may affect their performance. In addition, the bill requires the Division of Medical Quality of the Medical Board of California that oversees the program, to transition investigators who are peace officers into a higher special agent classification. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. SB 784 (Torlakson) State General Obligation Bond L aw: reports. Adds additional reporting provisions to existing law for the Treasurer's Office, the Controller's Office, and other state agencies and departments that have General Obligation Bond funded programs and projects. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. SB 789 (Margett) Surplus property: Chino Valley Un ified School District. Authorizes the Chino Valley Unified School District to transfer certain surplus property to the City of Chino Hills for development of a joint-use park. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 797 (Ridley-Thomas) Professions and vocations. Authorizes the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) to create advisory committees to the Dental Board of California, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Board, Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians, and Barbering and Cosmetology Board, and allows the Board of Behavioral Sciences to take disciplinary action against licensees after the current statute of

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limitation has expired in specified circumstances, and makes other changes to boards and programs under DCA. Last Action: Chapter 33, Statutes of 2008. SB 801 (Ridley-Thomas) Chiropractors. Places a legislative proposition on the statewide ballot for approval by the voters to amend the Chiropractic Initiative Act of California to bring the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners under the Department of Consumer Affairs. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 853 (Perata) Dentistry: dental assistants and h ygienists. Abolishes the Committee on Dental Auxiliaries and creates the Dental Hygiene Committee of California within the Dental Board (Board), which is responsible for the regulation of dental hygienists, and transfers the regulation of Registered Dental Assistants to the Board. Last Action: Chapter 31, Statutes of 2008. SB 963 (Ridley-Thomas) Department of Consumer Affa irs: regulatory boards. Extends the sunset date on seven boards until January 1, 2011, and establishes a sunset date of January 1, 2013 for the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education. Last Action: Chapter 385, Statutes of 2008. SB 969 (Aanestad) Veterinary medicine. Allows a registered veterinarian technician or an unregistered assistant to administer a drug, including controlled substances, under the direct or indirect supervision, as defined, of a licensed veterinarian. Last Action: Chapter 83, Statutes of 2007. SB 970 (Ridley-Thomas) Rental vehicles. Allows a rental vehicle fuel gauge installed by the vehicle manufacturer to be used in a rental transaction by a rental company to calculate an optional charge for fueling if specified conditions are met. Last Action: Chapter 667, Statutes of 2007. SB 986 (Ridley-Thomas) Pet stores. Revises the guidelines by which a pet store operator or employee may euthanize rodents and rabbits intended as food for another animal, as specified. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 1047 (Business, Professions and Economic Develop ment) Professions and vocations. Makes several non-substantive or technical changes to various miscellaneous provisions pertaining to regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs.

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Last Action: Chapter 354, Statutes of 2007. SB 1048 (Business, Professions and Economic Develop ment) Healing arts. Makes several non-substantive or technical changes to various miscellaneous provisions pertaining to the health-related regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs. Last Action: Chapter 588, Statutes of 2007. SB 1049 (Business, Professions and Economic Develop ment) Healing arts. Extends the sunset date for the authorization of the Physical Therapy Board of California to appoint a person exempt from civil service to serve as Executive Officer, from July 1, 2007 to July 1, 2013, and extends the operative date provision of law governing the educational and examination requirements for licensing registered dental assistants. Last Action: Chapter 587, Statutes of 2007. SB 1053 (Machado) Real estate: brokers and salespe rsons. Requires real estate brokers that make, arrange, or service residential mortgage loans on property containing one to four residential units to notify the Department of Real Estate (DRE) within 30 days of entering or exiting the mortgage field, and would require these brokers to file specified reports with DRE on an annual basis, documenting their level of compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Last Action: Held in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee. SB 1054 (Machado) Real estate: brokers and salespe rsons. Allows the Department of Real Estate to prohibit an unlicensed person or real estate salesperson or broker from participating in any business activity relating to real estate for up to 36 months; prohibits an individual who provides an opinion on the value of a residential property to a lienholder of the property from selling, buying, renting, or offering to sell, buy, or rent the property for 12 months following the opinion; requires prompt disclosure to all parties to the sale of a property when an agent acts as a mortgage broker, or when a mortgage broker acts as an agent. Last Action: Held in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee. SB 1060 (Ridley-Thomas) California Science Center: Exposition Park Authority: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission . Abolishes the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission and reorganizes the administrative and management structure for Exposition Park in Los Angeles by creating an Exposition Park Authority Board (Board) that will be responsible for managing and operating all state-owned properties located in Exposition Park. Also, requires the Board to sell the parcel that the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena occupies. Last Action: Held in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, & Internet Media Committee.

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SB 1135 (Ducheny) Cemeteries: endowment trust fund s. Increases the minimum amounts an endowment care cemetery is required to have deposited in its endowment care fund from $2.25 to $4.50 per square foot for each grave, from $35 to $70 for each niche, from $110 to $220 for each crypt, and from $110 to $220 for the first crypt and from $55 to $110 for each additional crypt for companion crypts. Last Action: Chapter 545, Statutes of 2008. SB 1178 (Aanestad) Dentistry: registered sex offen ders. Requires the Dental Board of California to deny licensure to individuals who are required to register as sex offenders under federal law and closes loopholes that allow the reinstatement of licenses for sex offenders. Last Action: Chapter 517, Statutes of 2008. SB 1206 (Calderon) Pest control. Authorizes a pest control company registered in certain categories to advertise fumigation and other services, as specified. Last Action: Chapter 46, Statutes of 2008. SB 1209 (Maldonado) Private security services. Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA), in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services to study the impact of specified declared emergencies on the supply and demand for security guards in this state. Additionally, this bill provides that if a shortage is found, DCA shall recommend legislation ensuring that adequate numbers of security guards, as specified, are available to protect life and property during these emergencies. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. SB 1218 (Correa) Marriage and family therapy: lice nsure and registration. Updates and recasts the educational curriculum requirements for marriage and family therapists, as specified. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 1240 (Machado) Real estate: brokers and salespe rsons. Requires real estate brokers that make, arrange, or service residential mortgage loans on property containing one to four residential units to notify the Department of Real Estate (DRE) within 30 days of entering or exiting the mortgage field, and would require these brokers to file specified reports with DRE on an annual basis, documenting their level of compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 1257 (Machado) Consumer rebates. Limits the information a company or retailer may require as a condition of redeeming a consumer rebate, requires companies to provide consumers a toll-

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free telephone number or website in order to check the status of a rebate, requires a company that offers a rebate to allow a minimum of 45 days from the date a consumer purchases a product for the consumer to submit a rebate request, and exempts specified utilities and rebates for $10 or less from the bill. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 1270 (Cedillo) Pharmacy: Electronic Pedigree Ta sk Force. Requires the Board of Pharmacy (Board) to create the Electronic Pedigree Task Force, consisting of specified representatives from the pharmaceutical industry drug supply chain, to provide the Board updates on the implementation of the pedigree requirement. The bill also requires the Electronic Pedigree Task Force to submit an annual report to the Board and the Senate and Assembly policy committees with jurisdiction over the issue. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. SB 1282 (Margett) Private investigators: continuin g education. Requires private investigators, as a condition of license renewal, to complete 12 hours of continuing education in privacy rights, professional ethics, recent legal developments, and other subjects related to the profession, and makes other regulatory changes, as specified. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 1294 (Ducheny) Healing arts. Revises and extends a pilot project administered by the Medical Board of California that allows specified hospitals owned and operated by local health care districts to employ physicians and surgeons and charge for professional services rendered by those medical professionals. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. SB 1307 (Ridley-Thomas) Pharmacy: pedigree. Establishes a graduated implementation schedule for drug manufacturers that requires compliance with the e-pedigree requirement for 50% of drugs by January 1, 2015, and the remaining 50% of drugs by January 2016, and requires manufacturers to inform the Board of Pharmacy of the drugs it designates for each implementation cycle. Last Action: Chapter 713, Statutes of 2008. SB 1362 (Margett) Electrician Certification. Authorizes civil penalties and disciplinary actions for failure to comply with existing law related to the certification of electricians, as specified. Last Action: Chapter 716, Statutes of 2008. SB 1400 (Simitian) Sweepstakes. Recasts California's sweepstakes law by prohibiting solicitation materials containing sweepstakes entry materials or solicitation materials selling information regarding sweepstakes from representing that a person has been

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specially selected in connection with a sweepstakes unless it is true, prohibiting a sweepstakes sponsor from charging a fee as a condition of receiving a monetary distribution, or obtaining information about a prize or sweepstakes, and specifying that a person or entity that merely furnishes a prize in connection with a sweepstakes that is operated or administrated by another person or entity shall not be deemed a sweepstakes sponsor. Last Action: Chapter 749, Statutes of 2008. SB 1402 (Corbett) Reporting requirements. Expands the list of boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs required to provide information on licensees via the Internet, requires insurers to report to the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners a settlement or arbitration award over $2,000, and adds chiropractors to the list of licensees required to self-report certain crimes. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 1406 (Correa) Optometry. Specifies permissible procedures for certified optometrists, and creates the Glaucoma Diagnosis and Treatment Advisory Committee to establish glaucoma certification requirements. Last Action: Chapter 352, Statutes of 2008. SB 1426 (Calderon) Recycled material. Requires the Department of General Services to post on its Internet Web site guidance to assist businesses in determining if their products, materials, goods, or supplies offered or sold to the state meet specified recycled content requirements. Last Action: Held on Assembly Floor. SB 1432 (Margett) Contractors. Expands and clarifies the time period for consumers to file a claim against a bond when the license of a contractor was inactivated, cancelled, or revoked, makes changes to the portion of the bond that is available in a small claims action for a person against the contractor's bond from $4,000 to $6,500, and clarifies that a home or property owner no longer has to provide that a license law violation by a contractor was willful and deliberate when filing for a claim on their bond. Last Action: Chapter 157, Statutes of 2008. SB 1441 (Ridley-Thomas) Healing arts practitioners : substance abuse. Establishes a Substance Abuse Coordination Committee in the Department of Consumer Affairs tasked with developing uniform standards and controls for programs dealing with substance-abusing healing arts licensees, and makes changes to the existing diversion program structure, as specified. Last Action: Chapter 548, Statutes of 2008.

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SB 1448 (Scott) Real estate brokers and salesperso ns: fines. Increases the maximum fines for an unlicensed person or corporation acting or advertising as a real estate broker or a real estate salesperson and requires any fine collected in excess of $10,000 from an individual, or in excess of $50,000 from a corporation, be deposited into the Real Estate Fraud Prosecution Trust Fund, as specified. Last Action: Chapter 156, Statutes of 2008. SB 1454 (Ridley-Thomas) Healing arts: outpatient s ettings. Revises requirements related to health care provider advertising and disclosures, requires the Medical Board of California to adopt regulations regarding supervision levels for settings providing elective cosmetic procedures, as specified, and makes various changes relating to accreditation and reporting procedures of outpatient settings. Last Action: Held on Assembly Floor. SB 1461 (Negrete McLeod) Real estate licensees. Requires a real estate licensee to disclose his or her license identification number on all solicitation materials intended to be the first point of contact with consumers and on real property purchase agreements when acting as an agent in those transactions. Last Action: Chapter 284, Statutes of 2008. SB 1469 (Calderon) Collateral recovery: tow vehicl es. Allows the impoundment of tangible property used to violate the Collateral Recovery Act (Act), requires law enforcement agencies that impound vehicles to remain open, without the necessity of making an appointment, and to issue a release to the registered owner or legal owner of a vehicle whenever the agency is open to serve the public, requires specified facilities where impounded vehicles are stored to accept valid credit cards, and makes various revisions to the Act concerning tow vehicles. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 1473 (Calderon) Building standards. Requires cities and counties to collect a fee on building permit applicants to fund the development of building standards and educational efforts for "green buildings" by the Building Standards Commission and other state agencies, and building code enforcement education by local governments. Last Action: Chapter 719, Statutes of 2008. SB 1499 (Scott) Metallic balloons. Adds new warning requirements to the sale of balloons constructed of electrically conductive material, and filled with a gas lighter than air. Last Action: Vetoed.

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SB 1505 (Yee) Board of Behavioral Sciences: fees. Increases the Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program fee collected by the Board of Behavioral Sciences at the time of license renewal from $10 to $30. Last Action: This bill was substantially amended and re-referred to the Assembly Judiciary Committee to address an unrelated issue: Whistleblower protection. SB 1526 (Perata) Polysomnographic technologists: s leep and wake disorders. Requires the Medical Board of California to develop regulations for the employment and designation of certified polysomnographic technologists, technicians, and trainees. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 1527 (Yee) State property sale: Cow Palace. Requires the Department of General Services, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, prior to January 1, 2009, to enter into negotiations to sell at fair market value, as specified, without any conditions relating to entitlement, to any interested third party, with the Daly City Redevelopment Agency afforded the right of first refusal, a specified parcel of property located within the City and County of San Francisco and the County of San Mateo known as the Cow Palace. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 1550 (Florez) Corporations: climate change disc losure. Requires the State Controller, by December 1, 2009 and in consultation with the Air Resources Board, to develop an investor-based climate change disclosure standard for voluntary use by listed corporations doing business in California that provides investors with more information about the potential impacts of climate change on an individual corporation's competitiveness and investment returns. Last Action: Held on Senate Floor. SB 1581 (Aanestad) Contractors. Exempts a contractor furnishing a performance and payment bond, lien and completion bond, bond equivalent, or joint control approved by the registrar of contractors covering full performance and payment from certain home improvement contract requirements, as specified. Last Action: Held in Assembly Judiciary Committee. SB 1584 (Padilla) Veterinary medicine. Increases various fees for veterinarians and registered veterinary technicians (RVTs), establishes a committee to assist the Veterinary Medical Board with rules and regulations, specifies the membership of the RVT committee, sets investigatory and enforcement priorities, and makes other changes to the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act, as specified. Last Action: Chapter 529, Statutes of 2008.

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SB 1608 (Corbett) Disabled persons: equal access r ights: civil actions. Enacts reforms intended to increase voluntary compliance with longstanding state and federal laws requiring access to persons with disabilities in any place of public accommodation. Last Action: Chapter 549, Statutes of 2008. SB 1670 (Kehoe) Energy efficiency and carbon reduc tion. Authorizes the issuance of $2 billion in general obligation bonds for specified energy efficiency projects at state buildings and public universities. Last Action: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee. SB 1681 (Battin) State surplus property. Repeals an extensive body of law governing the disposition of surplus land by the Department of General Services to local agencies and private entities, including timelines for execution of sales and preferences for sales of property to be used for low and moderate income housing, parks, open spaces, and schools. Last Action: Chapter 532, Statutes of 2008. SB 1698 (Romero) Contractors: public works. Requires licensed contractors and subcontractors, in order to perform work on state public works projects after January 1, 2011, to obtain a public works certification from the Contractors' State License Board prior to performing public works projects. Last Action: Vetoed. SB 1737 (Machado) Real estate: brokers and salespe rsons. Allows the Department of Real Estate to prohibit an unlicensed person or real estate salesperson or broker from participating in any business activity relating to real estate for up to 36 months; prohibits an individual who provides an opinion on the value of a residential property to a lienholder of the property from selling, buying, renting, or offers to sell, buy, or rent the property for 12 months following the opinion; requires prompt disclosure to all parties to the sale of a property when an agent acts as a mortgage broker, or when a mortgage broker acts as an agent. Last Action: Chapter 286, Statutes of 2008. SB 1779 (Business, Professions, and Economic Develo pment Committee) Professions and vocations. Makes numerous non-controversial, minor, nonsubstantive, and technical changes to various miscellaneous provisions pertaining to the health-related regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs. Last Action: Vetoed.

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SB 1780 (Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development) Professions and vocations. Makes various non-controversial, minor, non-substantive and technical changes to provisions of law pertaining to regulatory boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs and professions regulated under the Business and Professions Code. Last Action: Held on Assembly Floor. SCR 60 (Aanestad) Leo J. Trombatore State Office B uilding. Designates the Department of Transportation District 3 Office building in Marysville as the Leo J. Trombatore State Office Building. Last Action: Chapter 16, Statutes of 2008. SJR 19 (Ridley-Thomas) Health professionals: tortu re. States that the United States (U.S.) Department of Defense (DOD) guidelines authorizing participation of psychologists and other military health personnel in the interrogation of detainees in Guantanamo Bay and other foreign military prisons operated by the U.S. violates professional ethics. Urges all relevant California licensing boards to notify health professionals licensed in California of their professional obligations under national and international law relating to torture, coercive, or "enhanced" interrogation methods, and to notify those professionals who participate in such activities that they may be subject to prosecution. Requests the DOD and the Central Intelligence Agency to remove all California-licensed health professionals from participation in prisoner and detainee interrogations. Last Action: Chapter 114, Statutes of 2008.

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APPENDIX A-1: ASSEMBLY BILLS BY BILL NUMBER

AB 3 Bass Physician assistants. Chapter 376, 2007 AB 17 Emmerson California Dental Corps Loan

Repayment Program of 2002. Referred to another committee

AB 35 Ruskin Environment: state buildings:

sustainable building standards. Vetoed

AB 64 Berg Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health

Practitioners Act. Held in committee

AB 107 Smyth Public contracts: prospective bidders:

unauthorized aliens. Held in committee

AB 126 Beall Structural Fumigation Enforcement

Program. Chapter 379, 2007

AB 139 Bass Vehicles: schoolbus drivers: medical

examinations. Chapter 158, 2007

AB 163 Mendoza State buildings: bicycle facilities. Referred to another

committee AB 165 Jeffries State government: Office of Community

Initiatives. Held in committee

AB 185 Dymally Clinical laboratories: personnel. Held in committee AB 214 Fuentes Public Protection and Physician Health

Program Act of 2008. Vetoed

AB 234 Eng Professions and vocations: Marriage and

family therapists and licensed educational psychologists.

Chapter 586, 2007

AB 236 Lieu Public resources: state and local motor

vehicle fleets. Chapter 593, 2007

AB 239 DeSaulnier Alcoholism and drug abuse counselors. Vetoed AB 240 Eng State surplus personal property:

centralized sale. Held in committee

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AB 241 Price Barbering and cosmetology: threading. Referred to another

committee AB 243 Nakanishi Contractors: filing complaints and

disciplinary actions. Chapter 85, 2007

AB 244 Nakanishi Contractors: home improvement

contracts: service and repair contracts. Chapter 230, 2007

AB 249 Eng Licensees: healing arts: settlement

agreements. Vetoed

AB 253 Eng Medical Board of California. Chapter 678, 2007 AB 264 Mendoza Secondhand dealers and coin dealers. Vetoed AB 265 Mendoza Barbering and cosmetology: threading. Chapter 50, 2007 AB 269 Eng Dentists: dental auxiliaries: licensure

renewal. Chapter 262, 2007

AB 295 Lieu State agencies: collection of demographic

data. Vetoed

AB 309 Tran State boards and commissions: salaries:

suspension. Held in committee

AB 311 Dymally Colon Hydrotherapy Act. Held in committee AB 329 Nakanishi Chronic diseases: telemedicine. Chapter 386, 2007 AB 354 Hernandez Cremation: pacemakers. Vetoed AB 358 Blakeslee State property: Santa Maria. Chapter 448, 2007 AB 387 Duvall Design-build: transit contracts. Chapter 185, 2008 AB 432 Garcia Real estate: time-share plans. Chapter 53, 2007 AB 434 Silva Notaries public. Chapter 496, 2007 AB 450 Emmerson State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Chapter 12, 2008 AB 455 Cook Contractors State License Board. Held on Senate

Floor

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AB 456 Cook Construction Management Education

Account. Held in committee

AB 461 Cook Recovery audits. Held in committee AB 498 Hernandez Public contracts: state contract

eligibility: business activities in Sudan. Chapter 272, 2008

AB 512 Lieber Personal information: security breaches. Referred to another

committee AB 518 Mendoza Barbering and cosmetology: threading. Chapter 187, 2008 AB 523 De La Torre Contracts: University of California. Referred to another

committee AB 532 Wolk State property: solar energy. Chapter 598, 2007 AB 547 Ma Medical Board of California: licensure

fees. Vetoed

AB 609 Eng State building construction: energy

conservation. Chapter 600, 2007

AB 611 Nakanishi California Physician Assistant

Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program.

Referred to another committee

AB 617 Torrico State contracts: information technology

goods and services. Chapter 736, 2007

AB 623 Lieu Radiologic technology: radiologist

assistants. Held in committee

AB 636 Levine Acupuncture. Held in committee AB 638 Bass California Physician Assistant

Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program.

Chapter 628, 2008

AB 675 Eng Department of General Services: public

contracts: report. Held in committee

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AB 687 La Malfa State property: Crystal Creek Regional

Boys' Camp. Chapter 608, 2007

AB 691 Silva Certified common interest development

managers. Chapter 236, 2007

AB 706 Leno Fire retardants: toxic effects. Held on Senate

Floor AB 709 Keene Real estate appraisers. Vetoed AB 711 Emmerson Contractors: landscape contractors. Chapter 107, 2007 AB 727 Maze Property acquisition. Held in committee AB 730 De Leon Public contracts: information technology

goods and services: protections against default.

Held on Senate Floor

AB 779 Jones Personal information: state agencies and

businesses. Vetoed

AB 785 Hancock Energy efficiency measures. Vetoed AB 814 Hayashi Consumer Sales Security Act. Held in committee AB 839 Emmerson Real estate: military licensee. Chapter 194, 2007 AB 840 Emmerson Real estate: licenses. Chapter 140, 2007 AB 844 Berryhill Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous

material. Chapter 731, 2008

AB 851 Brownley Prescription drugs: informational insert. Referred to another committee

AB 865 Davis State agencies: live customer service

agents. Vetoed

AB 868 Davis Gasoline dispensing: weights and

measures. Chapter 398, 2007

AB 887 De La Torre State surplus property: Lynwood

Armory. Chapter 651, 2008

AB 888 Lieu Green building standards. Vetoed

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AB 922 Levine Local government: statistical districts. Vetoed AB 935 Business

and Professions

County clerks: preservation of records. Chapter 402, 2007

AB 936 Business

and Professions

Contractors. Chapter 240, 2007

AB 937 Business

and Professions

Architects: landscape architects. Chapter 275, 2007

AB 956 Nakanishi Public contracts: school districts:

relocatable buildings. Held in committee

AB 969 Eng Acupuncture: continuing education. Referred to another

committee AB 983 Ma Governor's Budget: services contracts. Referred to another

committee AB 986 Eng Optometrists: regulation. Chapter 276, 2007 AB 994 Parra Public contracts: preferences: forest

products. Referred to another committee

AB 1006 Maze Pawnbrokers and dealers. Held in commitee AB 1025 Bass Professions and vocations: licensure. Vetoed AB 1044 Strickland Optometrists: regulation. Held in committee AB 1047 Houston Uniform Public Construction Cost

Accounting Act: notification. Chapter 144, 2007

AB 1070 Cook Approval of contracts. Held in committee AB 1089 Hernandez Public contracts: Sudan. Held in committee AB 1123 Berg State surplus property: Healdsburg

Armory. Chapter 625, 2007

AB 1135 Strickland State government: reports: declarations. Vetoed

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AB 1137 Eng Chiropractors. Held in committee AB 1159 Richardson State funds: fiscal review. Referred to another

committee AB 1175 Niello Clinical laboratories: personnel. Chapter 61, 2007 AB 1185 Hayashi Accountants: peer review program. Held in committee AB 1219 Jones State property. Vetoed AB 1224 Hernandez Optometrists: telemedicine. Chapter 507, 2007 AB 1225 DeSaulnier Vehicles: state and local government

motor vehicles fleet. Referred to another committee

AB 1253 Caballero Water: Salinas Valley State Prison

wastewater treatment plant. Chapter 695, 2007

AB 1276 Karnette Pharmacies: prescription containers:

labels. Held in committee

AB 1282 Salas Advertising: business location

representatives: floral or ornamental products or services.

Vetoed

AB 1284 Eng Geologists and geophysicists. Chapter 488, 2008 AB 1347 Caballero Pet Store Animal Care Act. Chapter 703, 2007 AB 1367 DeSaulnier Alcoholism and drug abuse counselors. Held in committee AB 1419 Anderson Bureau of State Audits: transfer to the

Controller. Held in committee

AB 1436 Hernandez Nurse practitioners: scope of practice. Held in committee AB 1438 Laird Conveyances: DeLaveaga Park. Vetoed AB 1442 Feuer Clinical laboratories. Held on Assembly

Floor AB 1444 Emmerson Physical therapists: scope of practice. Held in committee

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AB 1456 Mullin Office of Intellectual Property. Referred to another

committee AB 1479 Mendoza State bodies: governance. Chapter 211, 2008 AB 1483 Carter Automotive repair: crash parts. Vetoed AB 1486 Calderon Licensed professional counselors. Held in committee AB 1498 DeVore State-funded programs. Held in committee AB 1517 Jones Surplus state property: 58th Street

Armory. Vetoed

AB 1538 Lieu Housing Trust Fund: home loan

refinance assistance. Held in committee

AB 1545 Eng Professions and vocations. Chapter 35, 2008 AB 1574 Plescia Surgical clinics: licensure. Vetoed AB 1579 Lieber Information technology goods and

services: requests for proposals. Held in committee

AB 1615 Runner State contracts: unauthorized aliens. Held in committee AB 1634 Levine California Healthy Pets Act. Held on Senate

floor AB 1643 Niello Nurse practitioners. Held in committee AB 1670 Mendoza Fictitious business name statements. Chapter 716, 2007 AB 1756 Caballero Local infrastructure development:

public-private partnerships. Held in committee

AB 1760 Galgiani Veterinarians and registered veterinary

technicians. Vetoed

AB 1778 Ma Junk dealers and recyclers: newspaper

and California Redemption Value CRV containers.

Chapter 733, 2008

AB 1816 Galgiani Cemeteries: temporary manager. Vetoed

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AB 1829 Ma Public contracts: purchasing authority delegation: audits.

Referred to another committee

AB 1849 DeVore State Surplus Property: Los Angeles

Memorial Coliseum. Held on committee

AB 1850 DeVore Office of Public-Private Partnerships. Held in committee AB 1860 Huffman Unsafe products: recall or warning. Chapter 569, 2008 AB 1861 Emmerson State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Held on committee AB 1866 Mendoza Service contracts: retailers. Vetoed AB 1867 Keene Real estate appraisers. Vetoed AB 1869 Anderson State boards and commissions:

reorganization. Held in committee

AB 1897 Emmerson Marriage and family therapists:

licensure. Chapter 489, 2008

AB 1907 Ruskin Point-of-sale systems: price accuracy

verification. Chapter 434, 2008

AB 1911 Galgiani Funeral establishments. Chapter 490, 2008 AB 1922 Hernandez Healing arts practitioners: peer review. Chapter 25, 2008 AB 1925 Eng Franchise Tax Board: professional or

occupational licenses. Held in committee

AB 1927 Galgiani Vocational nursing and psychiatric

technicians. Chapter 299, 2008

AB 1932 Smyth Simi Valley: public cemeteries. Chapter 126, 2008 AB 1941 Carter State surplus land. Held in committee AB 1942 Ruskin Public contracts: small businesses and

disabled veteran business enterprises. Referred to another committee

AB 1944 Swanson Physicians and surgeons: health care

districts. Held in committee

AB 1947 Emmerson Pharmacy technicians. Held on committee

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AB 1951 Hayashi Mental health professionals: suicide

prevention training. Referred to another committee

AB 1952 Berg Business licensing: exemptions: veterans. Chapter 435, 2008 AB 1974 Nava State property: sale or exchange. Chapter 662, 2008 AB 1981 Huff Surplus property: Chino Valley Unified

School District. Chapter 663, 2008

AB 2013 Krekorian New construction: water-permeable

pavement. Held in committee

AB 2037 Portantino State budget. Referred to another

committee AB 2049 Saldana Public schools: children of military

families. Chapter 589, 2008

AB 2059 Nunez Mailed solicitations: disclosures. Chapter 738, 2008 AB 2089 DeVore State contracts: unauthorized aliens. Held on committee AB 2102 Walters State employment: eligibility

verification. Held on committee

AB 2111 Smyth Physical therapy: regulation. Chapter 301, 2008 AB 2118 Villines State agencies: administrative

regulations. Held on committee

AB 2128 Emmerson Health facilities: dietitians. Chapter 225, 2008 AB 2133 Hancock State contracts: agency projects: habitat

and wetlands. Chapter 444, 2008

AB 2136 Mendoza Prepaid calling cards. Chapter 739, 2008 AB 2169 Cook Business licenses: ice cream truck

operation. Held in committee

AB 2179 Furutani Air quality: diesel fuel. Vetoed AB 2189 Karnette Shorthand reporters: continuing

education requirements. Vetoed

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AB 2201 Plescia Unauthorized aliens: public contracts:

hiring. Held in committee

AB 2210 Price Dentistry: emergency services. Chapter 449, 2008 AB 2223 Horton Structural Fumigation Enforcement

Program. Chapter 450, 2008

AB 2265 Jones State property: Old Sacramento State

Historic Park. Vetoed

AB 2276 Fuentes State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind. Held in committee AB 2336 Nakanishi Contractors: arbitration procedures. Held in committee AB 2346 Swanson Child care: state employees. Vetoed AB 2348 Maze Property acquisition. Held in committee AB 2360 Levine Public contracts: state contracts: healthy

lifestyle benefits. Held in committee

AB 2374 Spitzer Radiologic and nuclear medicine

technology: scans. Chapter 238, 2008

AB 2383 Ruskin Social security numbers. Held in committee AB 2393 Emmerson Dental Board of California: seal. Held in committee AB 2398 Nakanishi Practice of medicine: cosmetic surgery:

employment of physicians and surgeons. Held on Senate Floor

AB 2412 Eng Unlicensed contractors. Vetoed AB 2413 Hayashi Excess real property sales. Vetoed AB 2423 Bass Professions and vocations: licensure. Chapter 675, 2008 AB 2427 Eng Professions and vocations. Vetoed AB 2439 De La Torre Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps

Loan Repayment Program: fees. Chapter 640, 2008

AB 2442 Nakanishi Medicine. Vetoed

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AB 2443 Nakanishi Medical Board of California: physician and surgeon well-being.

Vetoed

AB 2444 Nakanishi Medical Board of California:

disciplinary actions. Chapter 242, 2008

AB 2445 Nakanishi Medical Board of California:

disciplinary procedures: applicants. Chapter 247, 2008

AB 2452 Davis Notaries public. Chapter 67, 2008 AB 2472 Laird Conveyances: DeLaveaga Park. Vetoed AB 2473 Niello Accountancy: licensure. Held in committee AB 2479 Hancock Contractors: energy efficiency measures. Referred to another

committee AB 2482 Maze Physician assistants: continuing

education. Chapter 76, 2008

AB 2490 Jeffries Governmental reorganization. Held in committee AB 2516 Mendoza Prescriptions: electronic transmission. Held in committee AB 2529 Wolk Buildings: access. Vetoed AB 2539 Strickland State boards and commissions:

suspension of salaries. Held in committee

AB 2543 Berg Geriatric and Gerontology Workforce

Expansion Act. Vetoed

AB 2592 Ma Locksmiths. Chapter 679, 2008 AB 2600 Niello State government infrastructure. Held in committee AB 2603 Eng Public contracts: information

technology: reports. Held in committee

AB 2637 Eng Dental auxiliaries. Chapter 499, 2008 AB 2649 Ma Medical assistants: authorized services. Vetoed

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AB 2652 Anderson Prisoners: professional mental health

providers: marriage and family therapists.

Held in committee

AB 2661 Dymally Telemedicine. Held in committee AB 2709 Walters Department of Finance: state budget:

Internet database. Held in committee

AB 2733 Brownley Real property disclosures. Vetoed AB 2734 Krekorian Health care practitioners: business cards

and advertisements. Held on Assembly Floor

AB 2746 Niello Private postsecondary education:

California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2008.

Held in committee

AB 2756 Duvall Pharmacists: furnishing drugs during

emergency. Held on Senate Floor

AB 2769 Levine Digital television. Referred to another

committee AB 2793 Blakeslee Professional engineers: disclosures. Held in committee AB 2794 Blakeslee Diagnostic imaging services. Chapter 469, 2008 AB 2825 Carter Automotive repair: crash parts. Vetoed AB 2841 Ma Medical procedures: reusable adipose

cannula. Held on Assembly Floor

AB 2848 Hernandez Optometrists: retired licenses. Held on Senate

Floor AB 2871 Tran Abraham Lincoln Commission. Vetoed AB 2888 La Malfa Businesses: services for minors. Held in committee AB 2908 Furutani State contracts: bids. Held in committee AB 2916 Nuñez State buildings: energy efficiency

measures. Held in committee

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AB 2919 Garcia Advertising. Chapter 256, 2008 AB 2939 Hancock Building standards: green buildings:

local variances. Vetoed

AB 2946 Hayashi Cemeteries. Chapter 504, 2008 AB 2948 Leno Firearms: sales at the Cow Palace. Held on Senate

Floor AB 2950 Huffman Commercial e-mail messages: falsity and

deception. Vetoed

AB 2968 Carter Cosmetic surgery. Vetoed AB 2992 La Malfa Resource conservation districts:

California Prompt Payment Act. Vetoed

AB 2995 Davis Education facilities: inspections. Held in committee AB 3002 Villines Department of Transportation: property

management. Held in committee

AB 3020 Salas State Contract Act: definition:

department. Chapter 106, 2008

AB 3024 Duvall Payment bonds: public works. Chapter 79, 2008 AB 3033 Laird University of California: contracts. Vetoed AB 3037 Eng Boards and commissions. Held on Assembly

Floor

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APPENDIX A-2: SENATE BILLS BY BILL NUMBER

SB 1 Cedillo Office of Immigrant Affairs. Referred to another committee

SB 26 Simitian State agencies: collection of data:

ancestry or ethnic origin. Held in committee

SB 102 Migden Blood transfusions. Chapter 88, 2007 SB 140 Kehoe State property: City of San Diego. Chapter 513, 2008 SB 161 Margett Public works contracts: Internet

submissions. Chapter 427, 2007

SB 223 Machado Real estate appraisals. Chapter 291, 2007 SB 226 Negrete

McLeod Real estate licensees. Vetoed

SB 234 Corbett Consumer warranties: members of the

Armed Forces. Chapter 151, 2007

SB 250 Corbett Gift certificates. Chapter 640, 2007 SB 252 Aanestad Dentistry: registered sex offenders. Chapter 13, 2007 SB 281 Maldonado District agricultural associations: goods

and property. Chapter 346, 2007

SB 354 Margett Contractors: aiding unlicensed persons. Chapter 299, 2007 SB 355 Margett Contractors: consultants. Held in committee SB 366 Aanestad Clinical laboratories: personnel. Chapter 198, 2007 SB 385 Machado Real estate: mortgages: real estate

brokers. Chapter 301, 2007

SB 387 Alquist Dentists: death or incapacity. Chapter 433, 2007 SB 441 Torlakson State property: vending machines. Chapter 597, 2008 SB 447 Maldonado Junk dealers. Chapter 732, 2008

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SB 455 Denham Water: Salinas Valley State Prison wastewater treatment plant.

Vetoed

SB 472 Corbett Prescription drugs: labeling

requirements. Chapter 470, 2007

SB 473 Cox State agencies: fingerprinting vendors. Chapter 248, 2007 SB 509 Simitian Hazardous materials: toxic substances. Chapter 560, 2008 SB 534 Perata Dentistry: dental assistants and

hygenists. Vetoed

SB 553 Aanestad State surplus property: Department of

Forestry and Fire Protection. Vetoed

SB 567 Aanestad State property. Referred to

another committee

SB 593 Margett Department of Transportation:

retention proceeds. Chapter 471, 2008

SB 614 Simitian Public works: design-build contracts. Chapter 471, 2007 SB 615 Oropeza Pharmacy technicians: scholarship and

loan repayment program. Vetoed

SB 619 Migden Public contracts: retention proceeds. Held on Assembly

Floor SB 620 Correa Dentistry: general anesthesia. Chapter 210, 2007 SB 623 Wiggins Gasoline: price disclosure. Vetoed SB 630 Aanestad Public works. Chapter 154, 2007 SB 659 Calderon Repossessors. Chapter 192, 2007 SB 661 Maldonado Healing arts: anatomic pathology

services. Chapter 656, 2007

SB 666 Maldonado Proprietary security services. Chapter 721, 2007 SB 678 Wiggins Surplus state property: County of Napa. Vetoed

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SB 691 Calderon Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous material.

Chapter 730, 2008

SB 721 Ashburn State agencies: succession plans. Held in committee SB 731 Oropeza Massage therapy. Chapter 384, 2008 SB 754 Kehoe State property: leases. Chapter 681, 2007 SB 761 Ridley-Thomas Healing arts: diversion: investigations. Held in committee SB 784 Torlakson State General Obligation Bond Law:

reports. Held in committee

SB 789 Margett Surplus property: Chino Valley Unified

School District. Vetoed

SB 797 Ridley-Thomas Professions and vocations. Chapter 33, 2008 SB 801 Ridley-Thomas Chiropractors. Vetoed SB 853 Perata Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous

material. Chapter 31, 2008

SB 963 Ridley-Thomas Regulatory boards: operations. Chapter 385, 2008 SB 969 Aanestad Veterinary medicine. Chapter 83, 2007 SB 970 Ridley-Thomas Rental vehicles. Chapter 667, 2007 SB 986 Ridley-Thomas Pet stores. Vetoed SB 1047 Business,

Professions and Economic Development

Professions and vocations. Chapter 354, 2007

SB 1048 Business,

Professions and Economic Development

Healing arts. Chapter 588, 2007

SB 1049 Business,

Professions and Economic Development

Healing arts. Chapter 587, 2007

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SB 1053 Machado Real estate: brokers and salespersons. Held in committee SB 1054 Machado Real estate: brokers and salespersons. Held in committee SB 1060 Ridley-Thomas California Science Center: Exposition

Park Authority: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission.

Held in committee

SB 1135 Ducheny Cemeteries: endowment trust funds. Chapter 545, 2008 SB 1178 Aanestad Dentistry: registered sex offenders. Chapter 517, 2008 SB 1206 Calderon Pest control. Chapter 46, 2008 SB 1209 Maldonado Private security services. Held in committee SB 1218 Correa Marriage and family therapy: licensure

and registration. Vetoed

SB 1240 Machado Real estate: brokers and salespersons. Vetoed SB 1257 Machado Consumers rebates. Vetoed SB 1270 Cedillo Pharmacy: Electronic Pedigree Task

Force. Held in committee

SB 1282 Margett Private investigators: continuing

education. Vetoed

SB 1294 Ducheny Healing arts. Held in committee SB 1307 Ridley-Thomas Pharmacy: pedigree. Chapter 713, 2008 SB 1362 Margett Electrician Certification. Chapter 716, 2008 SB 1400 Simitian Sweepstakes. Chapter 749, 2008 SB 1402 Corbett Reporting requirements. Vetoed SB 1406 Correa Optometry. Chapter 352, 2008 SB 1426 Calderon Recycled Material. Held on Assembly

Floor SB 1432 Margett Contractors. Chapter 157, 2008

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SB 1441 Ridley-Thomas Healing arts practitioners: substance

abuse. Chapter 548, 2008

SB 1448 Scott Real estate brokers and salespersons:

fines. Chapter 156, 2008

SB 1454 Ridley-Thomas Healing arts: outpatient settings. Held on Assembly

Floor SB 1461 Negrete

McLeod Real estate licensees. Chapter 284, 2008

SB 1469 Calderon Collateral recovery: tow vehicles. Vetoed SB 1473 Calderon Building standards. Chapter 719, 2008 SB 1499 Scott Metallic balloons. Vetoed SB 1505 Yee Board of Behavioral Sciences: fees. Referred to

another committee

SB 1526 Perata Polysomnographic technologists: sleep

and wake disorders. Vetoed

SB 1527 Yee State property sale: Cow Palace. Vetoed SB 1550 Florez State property sale: Cow Palace. Held on Senate

Floor SB 1581 Aanestad Contractors. Held in committee SB 1584 Padilla Veterinary medicine. Chapter 529, 2008 SB 1608 Corbett State property sale: Cow Palace. Chapter 549, 2008 SB 1670 Kehoe Energy efficiency and carbon reduction. Held in committee SB 1681 Battin State surplus property. Chapter 532, 2008 SB 1698 Romero Contractors: public works. Vetoed SB 1737 Machado Real estate: brokers and salespersons. Chapter 286, 2008

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SB 1779 Business,

Professions, and Economic Development Committee

Professions and vocations. Vetoed

SB 1780 Business,

Professions, and Economic Development Committee

Professions and vocations. Held on Assembly Floor

SCR 60 Aanestad Leo J. Trombatore State Office

Building. Chapter 16, 2008

SJR 19 Ridley-Thomas Health professionals: torture. Chapter 114, 2008

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Anderson AB 1419 Bureau of State Audits: transfer to the Controller.

Held in committee

Anderson AB 1869 State boards and commissions:

reorganization. Held in committee

Anderson AB 2652 Prisoners: professional mental health

providers: marriage and family therapists.

Held in committee

Bass AB 3 Physician assistants. Chapter 376, 2007 Bass AB 139 Vehicles: schoolbus drivers: medical

examinations. Chapter 158, 2007

Bass AB 638 California Physician Assistant

Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program.

Chapter 628, 2008

Bass AB 1025 Professions and vocations: licensure. Vetoed Bass AB 2423 Professions and vocations: licensure. Chapter 675, 2008 Beall AB 126 Structural Fumigation Enforcement

Program. Chapter 379, 2007

Berg AB 64 Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health

Practitioners Act. Held in committee

Berg AB 1123 State surplus property: Healdsburg

Armory. Chapter 625, 2007

Berg AB 1952 Business licensing: exemptions: veterans. Chapter 435, 2008 Berg AB 2543 Geriatric and Gerontology Workforce

Expansion Act. Vetoed

Berryhill AB 844 Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous

material. Chapter 731, 2008

Blakeslee AB 358 State property: Santa Maria. Chapter 448, 2007 Blakeslee AB 2793 Professional engineers: disclosures. Held in committee

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Blakeslee AB 2794 Diagnostic imaging services. Chapter 469, 2008 Brownley AB 851 Prescription drugs: informational insert. Referred to

another committee Brownley AB 2733 Real property disclosures. Vetoed Business and Professions

AB 935 County clerks: preservation of records. Chapter 402, 2007

Business and Professions

AB 936 Contractors. Chapter 240, 2007

Business and Professions

AB 937 Architects: landscape architects. Chapter 275, 2007

Caballero AB 1253 Water: Salinas Valley State Prison

wastewater treatment plant. Chapter 695, 2007

Caballero AB 1347 Pet Store Animal Care Act. Chapter 703, 2007 Caballero AB 1756 Local infrastructure development:

public-private partnerships. Held in committee

Calderon AB 1486 Licensed professional counselors. Held in committee Carter AB 1483 Automotive repair: crash parts. Vetoed Carter AB 1941 State surplus land. Held in committee Carter AB 2825 Automotive repair: crash parts. Vetoed Carter AB 2968 Cosmetic surgery. Vetoed Cook AB 455 Contractors State License Board. Held on Senate

Floor Cook AB 456 Construction Management Education

Account. Held in committee

Cook AB 461 Recovery audits. Held in committee Cook AB 1070 Approval of contracts. Held in committee Cook AB 2169 Business licenses: ice cream truck

operation. Held in committee

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Davis AB 865 State agencies: live customer service

agents. Vetoed

Davis AB 868 Gasoline dispensing: weights and

measures. Chapter 398, 2007

Davis AB 2452 Notaries public. Chapter 67, 2008 Davis AB 2995 Education facilities: inspections. Held in committee De La Torre AB 523 Contracts: University of California. Referred to

another committee De La Torre AB 887 State surplus property: Lynwood

Armory. Chapter 651, 2008

De La Torre AB 2439 Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps

Loan Repayment Program: fees. Chapter 640, 2008

De Leon AB 730 Public contracts: information technology

goods and services: protections against default.

Held on Senate Floor

DeSaulnier AB 239 Alcoholism and drug abuse counselors. Vetoed DeSaulnier AB 1225 Vehicles: state and local government

motor vehicles fleet. Referred to another committee

DeSaulnier AB 1367 Alcoholism and drug abuse counselors. Held in committee DeVore AB 1498 State-funded programs. Held in committee DeVore AB 1849 State Surplus Property: Los Angeles

Memorial Coliseum. Held on committee

DeVore AB 1850 Office of Public-Private Partnerships. Held in committee DeVore AB 2089 State contracts: unauthorized aliens. Held on committee Duvall AB 387 Design-build: transit contracts. Chapter 185, 2008 Duvall AB 2756 Pharmacists: furnishing drugs during

emergency. Held on Senate Floor

Duvall AB 3024 Payment bonds: public works. Chapter 79, 2008

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Dymally AB 185 Clinical laboratories: personnel. Held in committee Dymally AB 311 Colon Hydrotherapy Act. Held in committee Dymally AB 2661 Telemedicine. Held in committee Emmerson AB 17 California Dental Corps Loan

Repayment Program of 2002. Referred to another committee

Emmerson AB 450 State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Chapter 12, 2008 Emmerson AB 711 Contractors: landscape contractors. Chapter 107, 2007 Emmerson AB 839 Real estate: military licensee. Chapter 194, 2007 Emmerson AB 840 Real estate: licenses. Chapter 140, 2007 Emmerson AB 1444 Physical therapists: scope of practice. Held in committee Emmerson AB 1861 State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Held on committee Emmerson AB 1897 Marriage and family therapists:

licensure. Chapter 489, 2008

Emmerson AB 1947 Pharmacy technicians. Held on committee Emmerson AB 2128 Health facilities: dietitians. Chapter 225, 2008 Emmerson AB 2393 Dental Board of California: seal. Held in committee Eng AB 234 Professions and vocations: Marriage and

family therapists and licensed educational psychologists.

Chapter 586, 2007

Eng AB 240 State surplus personal property:

centralized sale. Held in committee

Eng AB 249 Licensees: healing arts: settlement

agreements. Vetoed

Eng AB 253 Medical Board of California. Chapter 678, 2007 Eng AB 269 Dentists: dental auxiliaries: licensure

renewal. Chapter 262, 2007

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Eng AB 609 State building construction: energy conservation.

Chapter 600, 2007

Eng AB 675 Department of General Services: public

contracts: report. Held in committee

Eng AB 969 Acupuncture: continuing education. Referred to

another committee Eng AB 986 Optometrists: regulation. Chapter 276, 2007 Eng AB 1137 Chiropractors. Held in committee Eng AB 1284 Geologists and geophysicists. Chapter 488, 2008 Eng AB 1545 Professions and vocations. Chapter 35, 2008 Eng AB 1925 Franchise Tax Board: professional or

occupational licenses. Held in committee

Eng AB 2412 Unlicensed contractors. Vetoed Eng AB 2427 Professions and vocations. Vetoed Eng AB 2603 Public contracts: information technology:

reports. Held in committee

Eng AB 2637 Dental auxiliaries. Chapter 499, 2008 Eng AB 3037 Boards and commissions. Held on Assembly

Floor Feuer AB 1442 Clinical laboratories. Held on Assembly

Floor Fuentes AB 214 Public Protection and Physician Health

Program Act of 2008. Vetoed

Fuentes AB 2276 State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind. Held in committee Furutani AB 2179 Air quality: diesel fuel. Vetoed Furutani AB 2908 State contracts: bids. Held in committee Galgiani AB 1760 Veterinarians and registered veterinary

technicians. Vetoed

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Galgiani AB 1816 Cemeteries: temporary manager. Vetoed Galgiani AB 1911 Funeral establishments. Chapter 490, 2008 Galgiani AB 1927 Vocational nursing and psychiatric

technicians. Chapter 299, 2008

Garcia AB 432 Real estate: time-share plans. Chapter 53, 2007 Garcia AB 2919 Advertising. Chapter 256, 2008 Hancock AB 785 Energy efficiency measures. Vetoed Hancock AB 2133 State contracts: agency projects: habitat

and wetlands. Chapter 444, 2008

Hancock AB 2479 Contractors: energy efficiency measures. Referred to

another committee Hancock AB 2939 Building standards: green buildings:

local variances. Vetoed

Hayashi AB 814 Consumer Sales Security Act. Held in committee Hayashi AB 1185 Accountants: peer review program. Held in committee Hayashi AB 1951 Mental health professionals: suicide

prevention training. Referred to another committee

Hayashi AB 2413 Excess real property sales. Vetoed Hayashi AB 2946 Cemeteries. Chapter 504, 2008 Hernandez AB 354 Cremation: pacemakers. Vetoed Hernandez AB 498 Public contracts: state contract

eligibility: business activities in Sudan. Chapter 272, 2008

Hernandez AB 1089 Public contracts: Sudan. Held in committee Hernandez AB 1224 Optometrists: telemedicine. Chapter 507, 2007 Hernandez AB 1436 Nurse practitioners: scope of practice. Held in committee Hernandez AB 1922 Healing arts practitioners: peer review. Chapter 25, 2008

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Hernandez AB 2848 Optometrists: retired licenses. Held on Senate

Floor Horton AB 2223 Structural Fumigation Enforcement

Program. Chapter 450, 2008

Houston AB 1047 Uniform Public Construction Cost

Accounting Act: notification. Chapter 144, 2007

Huff AB 1981 Surplus property: Chino Valley Unified

School District. Chapter 663, 2008

Huffman AB 1860 Unsafe products: recall or warning. Chapter 569, 2008 Huffman AB 2950 Commercial e-mail messages: falsity and

deception. Vetoed

Jeffries AB 165 State government: Office of Community

Initiatives. Held in committee

Jeffries AB 2490 Governmental reorganization. Held in committee Jones AB 779 Personal information: state agencies and

businesses. Vetoed

Jones AB 1219 State property. Vetoed Jones AB 1517 Surplus state property: 58th Street

Armory. Vetoed

Jones AB 2265 State property: Old Sacramento State

Historic Park. Vetoed

Karnette AB 1276 Pharmacies: prescription containers:

labels. Held in committee

Karnette AB 2189 Shorthand reporters: continuing

education requirements. Vetoed

Keene AB 709 Real estate appraisers. Vetoed Keene AB 1867 Real estate appraisers. Vetoed Krekorian AB 2013 New construction: water-permeable

pavement. Held in committee

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Krekorian AB 2734 Health care practitioners: business cards

and advertisements. Held on Assembly Floor

La Malfa AB 687 State property: Crystal Creek Regional

Boys' Camp. Chapter 608, 2007

La Malfa AB 2888 Businesses: services for minors. Held in committee La Malfa AB 2992 Resource conservation districts:

California Prompt Payment Act. Vetoed

Laird AB 1438 Conveyances: DeLaveaga Park. Vetoed Laird AB 2472 Conveyances: DeLaveaga Park. Vetoed Laird AB 3033 University of California: contracts. Vetoed Leno AB 706 Fire retardants: toxic effects. Held on Senate

Floor Leno AB 2948 Firearms: sales at the Cow Palace. Held on Senate

Floor Levine AB 636 Acupuncture. Held in committee Levine AB 922 Local government: statistical districts. Vetoed Levine AB 1634 California Healthy Pets Act. Held on Senate

floor Levine AB 2360 Public contracts: state contracts: healthy

lifestyle benefits. Held in committee

Levine AB 2769 Digital television. Referred to

another committee Lieber AB 512 Personal information: security breaches. Referred to

another committee Lieber AB 1579 Information technology goods and

services: requests for proposals. Held in committee

Lieu AB 236 Public resources: state and local motor

vehicle fleets. Chapter 593, 2007

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Lieu AB 295 State agencies: collection of demographic data.

Vetoed

Lieu AB 623 Radiologic technology: radiologist

assistants. Held in committee

Lieu AB 888 Green building standards. Vetoed Lieu AB 1538 Housing Trust Fund: home loan

refinance assistance. Held in committee

Ma AB 547 Medical Board of California: licensure

fees. Vetoed

Ma AB 983 Governor's Budget: services contracts. Referred to

another committee Ma AB 1778 Junk dealers and recyclers: newspaper

and California Redemption Value CRV containers.

Chapter 733, 2008

Ma AB 1829 Public contracts: purchasing authority

delegation: audits. Referred to another committee

Ma AB 2592 Locksmiths. Chapter 679, 2008 Ma AB 2649 Medical assistants: authorized services. Vetoed Ma AB 2841 Medical procedures: reusable adipose

cannula. Held on Assembly Floor

Maze AB 727 Property acquisition. Held in committee Maze AB 1006 Pawnbrokers and dealers. Held in commitee Maze AB 2348 Property acquisition. Held in committee Maze AB 2482 Physician assistants: continuing

education. Chapter 76, 2008

Mendoza AB 163 State buildings: bicycle facilities. Referred to

another committee Mendoza AB 264 Secondhand dealers and coin dealers. Vetoed Mendoza AB 265 Barbering and cosmetology: threading. Chapter 50, 2007

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Mendoza AB 518 Barbering and cosmetology: threading. Chapter 187, 2008 Mendoza AB 1479 State bodies: governance. Chapter 211, 2008 Mendoza AB 1670 Fictitious business name statements. Chapter 716, 2007 Mendoza AB 1866 Service contracts: retailers. Vetoed Mendoza AB 2136 Prepaid calling cards. Chapter 739, 2008 Mendoza AB 2516 Prescriptions: electronic transmission. Held in committee Mullin AB 1456 Office of Intellectual Property. Referred to

another committee Nakanishi AB 243 Contractors: filing complaints and

disciplinary actions. Chapter 85, 2007

Nakanishi AB 244 Contractors: home improvement

contracts: service and repair contracts. Chapter 230, 2007

Nakanishi AB 329 Chronic diseases: telemedicine. Chapter 386, 2007 Nakanishi AB 611 California Physician Assistant

Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program.

Referred to another committee

Nakanishi AB 956 Public contracts: school districts:

relocatable buildings. Held in committee

Nakanishi AB 2336 Contractors: arbitration procedures. Held in committee Nakanishi AB 2398 Practice of medicine: cosmetic surgery:

employment of physicians and surgeons. Held on Senate Floor

Nakanishi AB 2442 Medicine. Vetoed Nakanishi AB 2443 Medical Board of California: physician

and surgeon well-being. Vetoed

Nakanishi AB 2444 Medical Board of California: disciplinary

actions. Chapter 242, 2008

Nakanishi AB 2445 Medical Board of California: disciplinary

procedures: applicants. Chapter 247, 2008

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Nava AB 1974 State property: sale or exchange. Chapter 662, 2008 Niello AB 1175 Clinical laboratories: personnel. Chapter 61, 2007 Niello AB 1643 Nurse practitioners. Held in committee Niello AB 2473 Accountancy: licensure. Held in committee Niello AB 2600 State government infrastructure. Held in committee Niello AB 2746 Private postsecondary education:

California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2008.

Held in committee

Nunez AB 2059 Mailed solicitations: disclosures. Chapter 738, 2008 Nuñez AB 2916 State buildings: energy efficiency

measures. Held in committee

Parra AB 994 Public contracts: preferences: forest

products. Referred to another committee

Plescia AB 1574 Surgical clinics: licensure. Vetoed Plescia AB 2201 Unauthorized aliens: public contracts:

hiring. Held in committee

Portantino AB 2037 State budget. Referred to

another committee Price AB 241 Barbering and cosmetology: threading. Referred to

another committee Price AB 2210 Dentistry: emergency services. Chapter 449, 2008 Richardson AB 1159 State funds: fiscal review. Referred to

another committee Runner AB 1615 State contracts: unauthorized aliens. Held in committee Ruskin AB 35 Environment: state buildings: sustainable

building standards. Vetoed

Ruskin AB 1907 Point-of-sale systems: price accuracy

verification. Chapter 434, 2008

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Ruskin AB 1942 Public contracts: small businesses and

disabled veteran business enterprises. Referred to another committee

Ruskin AB 2383 Social security numbers. Held in committee Salas AB 1282 Advertising: business location

representatives: floral or ornamental products or services.

Vetoed

Salas AB 3020 State Contract Act: definition:

department. Chapter 106, 2008

Saldana AB 2049 Public schools: children of military

families. Chapter 589, 2008

Silva AB 434 Notaries public. Chapter 496, 2007 Silva AB 691 Certified common interest development

managers. Chapter 236, 2007

Smyth AB 107 Public contracts: prospective bidders:

unauthorized aliens. Held in committee

Smyth AB 1932 Simi Valley: public cemeteries. Chapter 126, 2008 Smyth AB 2111 Physical therapy: regulation. Chapter 301, 2008 Spitzer AB 2374 Radiologic and nuclear medicine

technology: scans. Chapter 238, 2008

Strickland AB 1044 Optometrists: regulation. Held in committee Strickland AB 1135 State government: reports: declarations. Vetoed Strickland AB 2539 State boards and commissions:

suspension of salaries. Held in committee

Swanson AB 1944 Physicians and surgeons: health care

districts. Held in committee

Swanson AB 2346 Child care: state employees. Vetoed Torrico AB 617 State contracts: information technology

goods and services. Chapter 736, 2007

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Tran AB 309 State boards and commissions: salaries: suspension.

Held in committee

Tran AB 2871 Abraham Lincoln Commission. Vetoed Villines AB 2118 State agencies: administrative

regulations. Held on committee

Villines AB 3002 Department of Transportation: property

management. Held in committee

Walters AB 2102 State employment: eligibility verification. Held on committee Walters AB 2709 Department of Finance: state budget:

Internet database. Held in committee

Wolk AB 532 State property: solar energy. Chapter 598, 2007 Wolk AB 2529 Buildings: access. Vetoed

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APPENDIX B-2: SENATE BILLS BY AUTHOR

Aanestad SB 1178 Dentistry: registered sex offenders. Chapter 517, 2008 Aanestad SB 1581 Contractors. Held in committee Aanestad SB 252 Dentistry: registered sex offenders. Chapter 13, 2007 Aanestad SB 366 Clinical laboratories: personnel. Chapter 198, 2007 Aanestad SB 553 State surplus property: Department

of Forestry and Fire Protection. Vetoed

Aanestad SB 567 State property. Referred to another

committee Aanestad SB 630 Public works. Chapter 154, 2007 Aanestad SB 969 Veterinary medicine. Chapter 83, 2007 Aanestad SCR 60 Leo J. Trombatore State Office

Building. Chapter 16, 2008

Alquist SB 387 Dentists: death or incapacity. Chapter 433, 2007 Ashburn SB 721 State agencies: succession plans. Held in committee Battin SB 1681 State surplus property. Chapter 532, 2008 Business, Professions and Economic Development

SB 1047 Professions and vocations. Chapter 354, 2007

Business, Professions and Economic Development

SB 1048 Healing arts. Chapter 588, 2007

Business, Professions and Economic Development

SB 1049 Healing arts. Chapter 587, 2007

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Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee

SB 1779 Professions and vocations. Vetoed

Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee

SB 1780 Professions and vocations. Held on Assembly Floor

Calderon SB 1206 Pest control. Chapter 46, 2008 Calderon SB 1426 Recycled Material Held on Assembly

Floor Calderon SB 1469 Collateral recovery: tow vehicles. Vetoed Calderon SB 1473 Building standards. Chapter 719, 2008 Calderon SB 659 Repossessors. Chapter 192, 2007 Calderon SB 691 Junk dealers and recyclers:

nonferrous material. Chapter 730, 2008

Cedillo SB 1 Office of Immigrant Affairs. Referred to another

committee Cedillo SB 1270 Pharmacy: Electronic Pedigree Task

Force. Held in committee

Corbett SB 1402 Reporting requirements. Vetoed Corbett SB 1608 State property sale: Cow Palace. Chapter 549, 2008 Corbett SB 234 Consumer warranties: members of

the Armed Forces. Chapter 151, 2007

Corbett SB 250 Gift certificates. Chapter 640, 2007 Corbett SB 472 Prescription drugs: labeling

requirements. Chapter 470, 2007

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Correa SB 1218 Marriage and family therapy: licensure and registration.

Vetoed

Correa SB 1406 Optometry. Chapter 352, 2008 Correa SB 620 Dentistry: general anesthesia. Chapter 210, 2007 Cox SB 473 State agencies: fingerprinting

vendors. Chapter 248, 2007

Denham SB 455 Water: Salinas Valley State Prison

wastewater treatment plant. Vetoed

Ducheny SB 1135 Cemeteries: endowment trust funds. Chapter 545, 2008 Ducheny SB 1294 Healing arts. Held in committee Florez SB 1550 State property sale: Cow Palace. Held on Senate

Floor Kehoe SB 140 State property: City of San Diego. Chapter 513, 2008 Kehoe SB 1670 Energy efficiency and carbon

reduction. Held in committee

Kehoe SB 754 State property: leases. Chapter 681, 2007 Machado SB 1053 Real estate: brokers and

salespersons. Held in committee

Machado SB 1054 Real estate: brokers and

salespersons. Held in committee

Machado SB 1240 Real estate: brokers and

salespersons. Vetoed

Machado SB 1257 Consumers rebates. Vetoed Machado SB 1737 Real estate: brokers and

salespersons. Chapter 286, 2008

Machado SB 223 Real estate appraisals. Chapter 291, 2007 Machado SB 385 Real estate: mortgages: real estate

brokers. Chapter 301, 2007

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Maldonado SB 1209 Private security services. Held in committee Maldonado SB 281 District agricultural associations:

goods and property. Chapter 346, 2007

Maldonado SB 447 Junk dealers. Chapter 732, 2008 Maldonado SB 661 Healing arts: anatomic pathology

services. Chapter 656, 2007

Maldonado SB 666 Proprietary security services. Chapter 721, 2007 Margett SB 1282 Private investigators: continuing

education. Vetoed

Margett SB 1362 Electrician Certification. Chapter 716, 2008 Margett SB 1432 Contractors. Chapter 157, 2008 Margett SB 161 Public works contracts: Internet

submissions. Chapter 427, 2007

Margett SB 354 Contractors: aiding unlicensed

persons. Chapter 299, 2007

Margett SB 355 Contractors: consultants. Held in committee Margett SB 593 Department of Transportation:

retention proceeds. Chapter 471, 2008

Margett SB 789 Surplus property: Chino Valley

Unified School District. Vetoed

Migden SB 102 Blood transfusions. Chapter 88, 2007 Migden SB 619 Public contracts: retention proceeds. Held on Assembly

Floor Negrete McLeod SB 1461 Real estate licensees. Chapter 284, 2008 Negrete McLeod SB 226 Real estate licensees. Vetoed Oropeza SB 615 Pharmacy technicians: scholarship

and loan repayment program. Vetoed

Oropeza SB 731 Massage therapy. Chapter 384, 2008

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Padilla SB 1584 Veterinary medicine. Chapter 529, 2008 Perata SB 1526 Polysomnographic technologists:

sleep and wake disorders. Vetoed

Perata SB 534 Dentistry: dental assistants and

hygenists. Vetoed

Perata SB 853 Junk dealers and recyclers:

nonferrous material. Chapter 31, 2008

Ridley-Thomas SB 1060 California Science Center:

Exposition Park Authority: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission.

Held in committee

Ridley-Thomas SB 1307 Pharmacy: pedigree. Chapter 713, 2008 Ridley-Thomas SB 1441 Healing arts practitioners:

substance abuse. Chapter 548, 2008

Ridley-Thomas SB 1454 Healing arts: outpatient settings. Held on Assembly

Floor Ridley-Thomas SB 761 Healing arts: diversion:

investigations. Held in committee

Ridley-Thomas SB 797 Professions and vocations. Chapter 33, 2008 Ridley-Thomas SB 801 Chiropractors. Vetoed Ridley-Thomas SB 963 Regulatory boards: operations. Chapter 385, 2008 Ridley-Thomas SB 970 Rental vehicles. Chapter 667, 2007 Ridley-Thomas SB 986 Pet stores Vetoed Ridley-Thomas SJR 19 Health professionals: torture. Chapter 114, 2008 Romero SB 1698 Contractors: public works. Vetoed Scott SB 1448 Real estate brokers and

salespersons: fines. Chapter 156, 2008

Scott SB 1499 Metallic balloons. Vetoed

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Simitian SB 1400 Sweepstakes. Chapter 749, 2008 Simitian SB 26 State agencies: collection of data:

ancestry or ethnic origin. Held in committee

Simitian SB 509 Hazardous materials: toxic

substances. Chapter 560, 2008

Simitian SB 614 Public works: design-build

contracts. Chapter 471, 2007

Torlakson SB 441 State property: vending machines. Chapter 597, 2008 Torlakson SB 784 State General Obligation Bond Law:

reports. Held in committee

Wiggins SB 623 Gasoline: price disclosure. Vetoed Wiggins SB 678 Surplus state property: County of

Napa. Vetoed

Yee SB 1505 Board of Behavioral Sciences: fees. Referred to another

committee Yee SB 1527 State property sale: Cow Palace. Vetoed