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CDF FIREFIGHTERS
LEGISLATIVE BILL SUMMARY REPORT - 1/20/2012
BY AARON READ &
ASSOCIATES
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AB 17
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(Davis D) Retirement: pension
fund management.
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Current
Text: Amended: 1/13/2012 pdf html
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Last
Amend: 1/13/2012
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Status: 1/19/2012-In committee: Set, final hearing.
Referred to APPR. suspense file. From committee: Do
pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (January 19).
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Location: 1/19/2012-A. SECOND READING
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Calendar: 1/23/2012 #1 ASSEMBLY ASSEMBLY
SECOND READING FILE
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Summary: Would require the Teachers' Retirement Board to
submit a report to the Legislature, on or before August 1, 2013
, and annually each August 1 thereafter, on the ethnicity and gender
of the investment managers with whom it has contracted in the immediately
preceding fiscal year, and who participate in managing its portfolios of
external fund management contracts, as specified. The bill would also require
the board to report to the Legislature, on or before August 1, 2013 , and annually each August 1 thereafter, on the
ethnicity and gender of the brokerage firms with which it has contracted in
the immediately preceding fiscal year, and that provide brokerage services to
the fund's internally and externally managed investment management firms, as
specified. The bill would also require the board to develop and report to the
Legislature, on or before August 1, 2013 , and
annually each August 1 thereafter, a plan and strategy for participation of
emerging investment managers and emerging brokerage firms. The bill would
provide for the repeal of these provisions on January 1, 2018. The bill would
also make related findings and declarations.
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AB 52
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(Feuer D) Health care
coverage: rate approval.
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Current
Text: Amended: 6/1/2011 pdf html
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Last
Amend: 6/1/2011
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Status: 9/1/2011-Ordered to inactive file at the request
of Senator Leno.
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Location: 9/1/2011-S. INACTIVE FILE
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Summary: Would further require a health care service plan
or health insurer that issues individual or group contracts or policies to
file with the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of
Insurance, on and after January 1, 2012, a complete rate application for any
proposed rate, as defined, or rate change, and would prohibit the Department
of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance from approving any rate
or rate change that is found to be excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory.
The bill would require the rate application to include certain rate
information. The bill would authorize the Department of Managed Health Care
or the Department of Insurance to approve, deny, or modify any proposed rate
or rate change, and would authorize the Department of Managed Health Care and
the Department of Insurance to review any rate or rate change that went into
effect between January 1, 2011, and January 1, 2012, and to order refunds,
subject to these provisions. The bill would authorize the imposition of fees
on health care service plans and health insurers for purposes of
implementation, for deposit into newly created funds, subject to
appropriation. The bill would impose civil penalties on a health care service
plan or health insurer, and subject a health care service plan to discipline,
for a violation of these provisions, as specified. The bill would establish
proceedings for the review of any action taken under those provisions related
to rate applications and would require the Department of Managed Health Care
and the Department of Insurance, and plans and insurers, to disclose
specified information on the Internet pertaining to rate applications and
those proceedings. The bill would require the Department of Managed Health Care
or the Department of Insurance, or the court, to award reasonable advocate's fees , including expert witness fees, and other reasonable
costs in those proceedings under specified circumstances, to be paid by the
plan or insurer. This bill contains other related provisions and other
current laws.
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AB 59
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(Swanson D) Family and medical
leave.
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Current
Text: Introduced: 12/7/2010
pdf html
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Status: 5/28/2011-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(5). (Last location was APPR. on 5/27/2011)
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Location: 5/28/2011-A. 2 YEAR
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Summary: Current law, the Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights
Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, as defined, to
refuse to grant a request by an eligible employee to take up to 12 workweeks
of unpaid protected leave during any 12-month period (1) to bond with a child
who was born to, adopted by, or placed for foster care with, the employee,
(2) to care for the employee's parent, spouse, or child who has a serious
health condition, as defined, or (3) because the employee is suffering from a
serious health condition rendering him or her unable to perform the functions
of the job. Under the act, "child" means a biological, adopted,
foster, or stepchild, a legal ward, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis,
who is either under 18 years of age or an adult dependent child. The act
defines "parent" to mean the employee's biological, foster, or
adoptive parent, stepparent, legal guardian, or other person who stood in
loco parentis to the employee when the employee was a child. This bill would
increase the circumstances under which an employee is entitled to protected
leave pursuant to the Family Rights Act by (1) eliminating the age and
dependency elements from the definition of "child," thereby
permitting an employee to take protected leave to care for his or her
independent adult child suffering from a serious health condition, (2)
expanding the definition of "parent" to include an employee's
parent-in-law, and (3) permitting an employee to also take leave to care for
a seriously ill grandparent, sibling, grandchild, or domestic partner, as
defined.
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AB 66
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(Chesbro D) Taxation: vehicle
license fees.
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Current
Text: Introduced: 12/13/2010
pdf html
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Status: 1/27/2011-Referred to Coms.
on REV. & TAX. and PUB.
S.
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Location: 1/27/2011-A. REV. & TAX
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Summary: The Vehicle License Fee Law, in lieu of any ad
valorem property tax upon vehicles, imposes an annual license fee for any
vehicle subject to registration in this state in the amount of 1% of the
market value of that vehicle, as provided, for a specified amount of time.
Current law also, until June 30, 2011, imposes an additional tax equal to
0.15% of the market value of specified vehicles, as determined by the
Department of Motor Vehicles, to the vehicle license fee, to be deposited in
the General Fund and transferred to the Local Safety and Protection Account,
a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would repeal the provision
relating to the sunset date and repeal of the additional 0.15% tax, thereby
depositing additional moneys into a continuously appropriated fund. This bill
contains other related provisions.
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