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June 14, 2016

CALIFORNIA PRIMARY REPORTSEIU members once again led the way and helped deliver California for Hillary Clinton with a decisive 56-43% win. Over the last month, thousands of SEIU members knocked on doors and called voters reminding them to turn out on Election Day. Our endorsed candidate, Kamala Harris, was the top vote getter in the race for U.S. Senate. She will face another Democrat, Loretta Sanchez. In the U.S. House of Representatives, only two of our endorsed candidates did not make the runoff – Roger Hernandez and Joe Dunn.

In the state legislative races, despite being massively outspent this primary cycle, all but four of SEIU’s endorsed candidates advanced into the runoff. In the State Senate, only Sukhee Kang did not make the runoff. In the State

Assembly, three of our endorsed candidates did not make the runoff: Virginia Madueno, Don Saylor, and Bryan Urias.

One of the most challenging results of this primary was the high number of Democratic on Democratic races heading into the general election. In total 12 districts are Dem on Dem. Some of these races feature candidates with records clearly indicating corporate influence. Others races feature two candidates who have a track record of support for working families.

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The highlight of election night was high Democratic turnout, reinforcing several districts as pickup seats in the general election. In total, we believe that as many as five legislative districts can be flipped from Republican to Democratic. Additionally, with Donald Trump on the ballot, there’s a good chance that Republican enthusiasm will be low in some marginal districts, opening up more opportunities to pick up additional Democratic seats.

Our members were instrumental in many of these victories. Please see below for our electoral report by the numbers.

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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: KEY SEIU PRIORITIES MOVE FORWARD AT CRUCIAL DEADLINESeveral of SEIU’s sponsored bills moved forward in late May and early June, as California Assemblymembers and Senators faced a deadline to vote on all bills originating in their respective houses.

Highlights include:SB 1234 (De León) – The Secure Choice Act will establish a secure retirement choice for the more than 4 million California workers who currently have no retirement security options at all. Given gridlock at the federal level, innovative state policy solutions such as SB 1234 represent the forefront of efforts to expand retirement security and fight the rising crisis of senior poverty.

“Every worker should have access to a secure, stable retirement plan like Secure Choice that builds wealth for workers. Sharing the risk of retirement among all workers and across generations of workers is key. Along with strengthening Social Security at the national level, Secure Choice is a crucial piece of the policy changes needed to make a secure retirement available to all.”

– Yvonne R. Walker, President, SEIU Local 1000

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AB 2079 (Calderon) – “Caregivers Count” is the message that thousands of nursing home workers and allies have brought to the Capitol as part of this groundbreaking effort to increase California’s nursing home staffing standards, the first such increase in a generation.

“I love my residents with all my heart, and I love working in this field, but sometimes we have too many residents under our care – and we need more help. I remember one time I was working in Imperial Valley, and I had a resident that was in transition. I remember trying to get to her, but I had residents I had to tend to. She would be calling my name and I couldn’t get there. There were just too many patients, and they had me working elsewhere. Later on someone came and told me that she passed away – that was rough on me.”

– Graciela Pennington, Nursing Home caregiver

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AB 1978 (Gonzalez) – The Immigrant Women Rising bill, provides greater protections for janitors from sexual harassment and rape, as well a registry to better regulate the janitorial contracting industry.

“We are taking our fight to the halls of the State Capitol – and to the streets if necessary – because no woman should ever be in fear of rape when she goes to work.” Maria Carrillo, a janitor of 16 years from Sacramento, who was arrested in the peaceful action.

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AB 2197 (C. Garcia) – For years, school workers having been fighting an unemployment insurance system that locks in poverty by excluding them from the same protections that all other workers have, but not until this year has a bill to begin reforming this discrimination made it out of its house of origin, a testament to workers’ perseverance and power.

“The passage of this bill by the Assembly brings us one step closer to ensuring

that workers who have made education their life’s work can have a basic

unemployment safety net. Each year, school staff who are predominately

women and people of color experience a ‘cruel summer’ – no paycheck and few

opportunities to find short-term replacement work.”

– Max Arias, Executive Director, SEIU Local 99

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A complete list of SEIU’s progress on its sponsored and priority bills at this mid-way mark is below:

SPONSORED ORGANIZING BILLS

AB 1978 (Gonzalez): “Into the Fight” Property Service – Wage Order and Workplace Violence Standards

Status: Passed out of first house 51 to 23, awaiting committee assignment in Senate.

AB 2133 (Chu): Training and Appeals Process

Status: Passed out of first house 77 to 0, awaiting committee assignment in Senate.

AB 2467 (Gomez): Hospital Executive Compensation Legislation

Status: Failed to pass Assembly Floor 33 to 36 pursuant to deadline.

AB 2652 (Eggman): “Dream Higher” For-Profit College Accountability

Status: Passed out of first house 55 to 25, awaiting committee assignment in Senate.

AB 2843 (Chau): Amend the Public Records Act to make explicit that public employee emails and cell phone numbers are legally private and cannot be obtained in PRA requests.

Status: Passed out of first house 79 to 0, awaiting committee hearing in Senate Judiciary.

ABX2 1(Thurmond): Developmentally Disabled (DD) Funding and Intermediate Care Facility (ICF) Funding – Growth Through ResCare Agreement

Status: Chaptered

SB 1420 (Mendoza): Early Education and Care – Quality, Training and Funding

Status: Failed in Appropriations.

OTHER SPONSORED BILLS

AB 1568 (Bonta) and SB 815 (Hernandez): 1115 Waiver Implementation

Status: Passed out of Senate Health 7 to 0 on June 8.

AB 1726 (Bonta): Health Equity/Eliminate Healthcare Disparities

Status: Passed out of first house 54 to 22, awaiting committee assignment in Senate.

AB 2019 (Santiago): CSU SSI Wage Scale for Faculty

Status: Failed to pass out of Appropriations.

AB 2079 (Calderon): Nursing Home Staffing Ratios

Status: Passed out of first house 43 to 25, awaiting committee assignment in Senate.

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AB 2183 (Gatto): CSU Privatization Accountability

Status: Passed out of first house 50 to 28, awaiting committee assignment in Senate.

AB 2197 (Garcia): Unemployment Insurance for School Employees

Status: Passed out of first house 51 to 27, awaiting committee assignment in Senate.

AB 2386 (Williams): Add a CSU Classified Employee to CSU Board of Governors

Status: Passed out of first house 63 to 12, awaiting committee assignment in Senate.

SB 10 (Lara): Opening Covered CA to Undocumented Californians

Status: Signed into law, after passing on a 55-20 vote in the Assembly, followed by a 28-10 vote in the Senate.

SB 450 (Allen): Establishing Voting Centers and Voting Drop Boxes

Status: TBD

HEALTHCARE COST CONTAINMENT AND TRANSPARENCY PACKAGE

AB 2436 (Hernandez, R): Drug Pricing Disclosure

Status: Motion for Reconsideration in Assembly

SB 1010 (Hernandez, E): Containment and Transparency Prescription Drug Costs

Status: Passed out of first house 25 to 10, awaiting committee assignment in Assembly

SB 1159 (Hernandez, E): California Health Care Cost and Quality Database

Status: Passed out of first house 25 to 12, awaiting committee assignment in Assembly.

SB 923 (Hernandez, E): Health care coverage: cost-sharing changes

Status: Passed out of first house 29 to 5, awaiting committee assignment in Assembly.

SB 908 (Hernandez, E): Health care coverage: premium rate change: notice: other health coverage.

Status: Passed out of first house 24 to 12, awaiting committee assignment in Assembly.

SB 1365 (Hernandez, E): Hospital Outpatient Notice

Status: Passed out of first house 26 to 11, awaiting committee assignment in Assembly.

SB 1139 (Lara): Physician training, residencies and diversity

Status: Passed out of first house 28 to 11, awaiting committee assignment in Assembly.

SB 1234 (De Leon): Secure Choice

Status: Passed out of first house 26 to 13, awaiting committee assignment in Assembly.

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SBX2 5 (Leno); ABX2 (Stone); SBX2 7 (Hernandez, E); ABX2 9 (Thurmond & Nazarian); ABX2 10 (Bloom); ABX2 11 (Nazarian): Special Session Tobacco Tax to Fund Medi-Cal

Status: All Signed and chaptered; except for ABX2 10

SB 586 (Hernandez, E): California Children's Services (CCS) Anti-Privatization

Status: To be heard in Assembly Health June 21.

OTHER PRIORITY BILLS

AB 2629 (Hernandez): Court Reporter Transcript Fee Increase

Status: Passed out of first house 52 to 26, awaiting committee assignment in Senate.

SB 966 (Mitchell): Criminal Justice Reform

Status: Passed out of first house 22 to 14, awaiting committee assignment in Assembly.

SB 1006 (Wolk): Gun Control (CIR)

Status: To be heard in Assembly Higher Education June 14.