AEG Status Report as of 5/3/2005
AB 14	(Harman) Common interest developments: conversions. (A-04/25/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 05/02/2005-In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
	Current Location: 05/02/2005-S RLS.
	Summary: Existing law defines and regulates common interest developments. Existing law requires that certain documents be recorded for a common interest development to be created, including a condominium plan, under specified conditions. Existing law provides for the creation of an assessor's office in each county, and requires the assessor's office to determine the new base year value for taxable real property that has been newly constructed. Existing law requires that land be properly described for tax assessment purposes. This bill would require that a document be recorded certifying the consent of the city, county, or city and county to a conversion of an existing property into a common interest development of less than 5 units as part of the creation of the development. The bill would also prohibit an assessor from taking action on, or assigning parcel numbers for, a common interest development, as specified, without receiving a document certifying the consent of the local government, as described above.
	Organization AEG
AB 180	(Horton, Jerome) Limited liability partnerships: engineers and land surveyors. (A-04/05/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/19/2005-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 18).
	Current Location: 04/19/2005-A APPR.
	Calendar Events: 05/04/05 8:30 a.m. - Room 4202 ASM APPROPRIATIONS
	Summary: Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of engineers and land surveyors. Existing law provides for the formation of various types of legal entities, including limited liability partnerships and foreign limited liability partnerships. Under existing law, registered limited liability partnerships and foreign limited liability partnerships may only be formed for the practice of accountancy, the practice of law, and, until January 1, 2007, the practice of architecture. This bill would also authorize registered limited liability partnerships and foreign limited liability partnerships to be formed for the practice of engineering or land surveying, and would provide that engineers or land surveyors are not prohibited from practicing or offering to practice, within the scope of their registration, as a limited liability partnership.
	Organization AEG
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 245	(Walters) County design-build contracts. (I-02/07/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/27/2005-Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
	Current Location: 04/27/2005-A APPR.
	Summary: Existing law requires public entities to comply with certain procedures in soliciting and evaluating bids and awarding contracts for the erection, construction, alteration, repair, or improvement of any public structure, building, road, or other public improvement. Existing law authorizes specified state agencies, cities, and counties to implement alternative procedures for the awarding of contracts on a design-build basis. Existing law also authorizes, until January 1, 2006, certain counties to enter into design-build contracts, as defined, according to specified procedures. This bill would additionally authorize Orange County, until December 1, 2008, to enter into design-build contracts, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions.
	Organization AEG		Position Support
AB 304	(Hancock) Building standards: reconstruction. (A-04/05/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/06/2005-Read second time. To third reading.
	Current Location: 04/06/2005-A THIRD READING
	Calendar Events: 05/04/05 53 ASM THIRD READING FILE
	Summary: Existing law authorizes a city, city and county, or county to establish, by ordinance, building reconstruction standards applicable to the reconstruction of buildings identified, as specified, by the city, city and county, or county as being hazardous to life if an earthquake occurs. This bill would authorize the governing body of a city, city and county, or county to establish reconstruction standards applicable to existing wood-frame, multiunit residential buildings where the ground floor portion of the structure contains parking or other similar open floor space that causes soft, weak, or open-front wall lines, as specified.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch
AB 316	(Nakanishi) Contractors: arbitration. (A-03/31/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/19/2005-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 19).
	Current Location: 04/19/2005-A JUD.
	Calendar Events: 05/03/05 9 a.m. - Room 4202 ASM JUDICIARY
	Summary: Under existing law, the disassociation of any qualifying partner, responsible managing officer, or responsible managing employee from a license that has been referred to arbitration does not relieve the qualifying partner, responsible managing officer, or responsible managing employee from responsibility for complying with an award rendered as a result of an arbitration referral. This bill would instead require a disassociated qualifying partner, responsible managing officer, or responsible managing employee to comply with an arbitration award rendered as a result of acts or omissions committed while acting as the qualifying partner, responsible managing officer, or responsible managing employee.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 342	(Baca) Perchlorate fee. (I-02/10/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 02/11/2005-From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
	Current Location: 02/10/2005-A PRINT
	Summary: Existing law, the Perchlorate Contamination Prevention Act, requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations, by December 31, 2005, specifying best management practices for managing perchlorate materials. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would authorize the department to assess a fee on products that contain perchlorate, as determined by the department, and to expend those funds to treat drinking water wells contaminated with perchlorate.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch
AB 353	(La Malfa) Public resources. (I-02/10/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 02/11/2005-From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
	Current Location: 02/10/2005-A PRINT
	Summary: Under existing law, the Public Resources Code compiles statutes regarding, among other things, parks and recreation, resource conservation, forests, energy, and environmental quality. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to revise the Public Resources Code by making technical changes to its provisions and deleting obsolete dates and report requirements.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 375	(Cogdill) CEQA: telecommunications lines: exemption. (A-03/29/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/18/2005-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
	Current Location: 03/30/2005-A NAT. RES.
	Summary: Existing law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared by contract, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA exempts from its provisions, among other things, certain types of ministerial projects proposed to be carried out or approved by public agencies, emergency repairs to public service facilities necessary to maintain service, and actions undertaken by a public agency relating to any thermal powerplant site or facility, including the expenditure, obligation, or encumbrance of funds by a public agency for planning, engineering, or design purposes, or for the conditional sale of purchase of equipment, fuel, water (except groundwater), steam, or power for a thermal powerplant, if the powerplant site and related facility will be the subject of an environmental impact report. This bill would additionally exempt from CEQA : (1) actions undertaken by a public agency relating to the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of an existing public or private structure, facility, mechanical equipment, or topographical feature, involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing at the time of the lead agency's determination and consisting of an existing facility of both investor and publicly owned utilities used to provide telecommunications public utility services, as specified ; (2) replacement or reconstruction of an existing telecommunication utility system or facility involving negligible or no expansion of capacity; (3) conversion of a telecommunication utility overhead distribution system facility to underground, as prescribed; (4) the construction and location of a telecommunications utility extension, as prescribed; (5) construction and location of a telecommunications utility facility, as prescribed . This bill contains other related provisions.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 400	(Gordon) CEQA: environmental impact reports: energy facilities. (I-02/15/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 02/16/2005-From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
	Current Location: 02/15/2005-A PRINT
	Summary: The existing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared by contract, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to streamline the process for obtaining an environmental impact report on a project in order to expedite the construction of new renewable energy facilities or repower existing renewable energy facilities.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch
AB 405	(Montanez) Toxics. (A-04/11/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/25/2005-Read second time. To third reading.
	Current Location: 04/25/2005-A THIRD READING
	Calendar Events: 05/04/05 76 ASM THIRD READING FILE
	Summary: Existing law, the Healthy Schools Act of 2000, provides that effective least toxic pest management practices should be the preferred method of managing pests at schoolsites and requires that the state take the necessary steps, pursuant to specified provisions, to facilitate the adoption of effective pest management practices at schoolsites. The existing act requires each schoolsite to maintain records of all pesticide use at the schoolsite for a period of 4 years and to make the records available to the public upon request. The existing act requires, on an annual basis, the school district designee to provide to all staff and parents or guardians of pupils enrolled at a school written notification addressing, among other things, expected pesticide use. The existing act requires that the recipients be afforded the opportunity to register with the school district to receive information regarding individual pesticide applications. The existing act requires the school district designee to post warning signs prior to application of pesticides at a schoolsite. This bill would prohibit, in specified circumstances, the use on a schoolsite of specified pesticides that have been granted a conditional registration, an interim registration, or an experimental use permit by the Department of Pesticide Regulation . The bill would prohibit the use on a schoolsite of a pesticide if that agency cancels or suspends registration, or requires phase out of use, of the pesticide. The bill would also prohibit a vendor or manufacturer from making those pesticides available to a school district either by sale or by gift.
	Organization AEG		Position Support
AB 406	(Haynes) Construction contracts: indemnity. (A-04/28/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 05/02/2005-Read second time. To Consent Calendar.
	Current Location: 05/02/2005-A CONSENT CALENDAR
	Calendar Events: 05/04/05 118 ASM CONSENT CALENDAR
	Summary: Existing law provides that provisions, clauses, covenants, or agreements regarding construction contracts that purport to indemnify a promisee against liability for damages for death or bodily injury to persons, injury to property, or other loss, damage, expense arising from the sole negligence or willful misconduct of the promisee or the promisee's agents, servants, or independent contractors who are directly responsible to the promisee or for defects in design furnished by those persons, are against public policy and are void and unenforceable, except as specified. Existing law also provides that provisions, clauses, covenants, or agreements relating to construction contracts with a public agency that purport to impose on the contractor, or relieve the public agency from liability for the active negligence of the public agency, are void and unenforceable. This bill would state the intent the Legislature to enact legislation governing the use of indemnification and additional-insured provisions in construction contracts with respect to construction defect disputes, as specified.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 409	(Yee) State contracts: small business bidding preference. (A-04/18/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/26/2005-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (April 26).
	Current Location: 04/26/2005-A APPR.
	Summary: Existing law requires state agencies to give small businesses or microbusinesses a 5% preference in contracts for construction, the provision of information technology, the procurement of goods, or the delivery of services, and to establish a subcontracting participation goal for small businesses on contracts with a preference for those bidders who meet the goal. This bill would increase the maximum percentage of the bidding preference afforded by state agencies to small businesses and microbusinesses and the subcontracting participation goal to 10% .
	Organization AEG		Position Watch
AB 492	(Baca) Hazardous waste: perchlorate: report. (I-02/16/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/27/2005-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 26).
	Current Location: 04/27/2005-A APPR.
	Calendar Events: 05/04/05 8:30 a.m. - Room 4202 ASM APPROPRIATIONS
	Summary:  Existing law, the Perchlorate Contamination Prevention Act, requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations, by December 31, 2005, specifying best management practices for managing perchlorate materials. Existing law also exempts a generator of effluent hazardous waste from dry cleaning operations that treats the waste onsite from certain hazardous waste facilities permit requirements and regulations, as specified. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime. This bill would require a business concern that handles or otherwise uses percholorate in the course of its operations, including a generator otherwise exempt from the hazardous waste facilities permit requirements, to submit a report to the department, by January 1, 2007, and by January 1 annually thereafter, detailing the manner in which the perchlorate waste is disposed. Because a violation of these report requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Organization AEG		Position Support
AB 501	(La Malfa) Water supply assessments. (I-02/16/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 02/17/2005-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
	Current Location: 02/16/2005-A PRINT
	Summary: Existing law requires a city or county that determines a project is subject to the California Environmental Quality Act to identify any public water system that may supply water for the project and to request those public water systems to prepare a specified water supply assessment, except as otherwise specified. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation by revising existing provisions of law relating to water supply planning to require a city or county that undertakes an environmental restoration project, wildlife restoration project, or conservation easement transfer, to identify any public water system that is, or may become a supplier of water for that project, and to determine if the water requirements of the project are included as part of a specified urban water management plan.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch
AB 508	(Richman) Department of Transportation: design-build contracting. (I-02/16/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 03/03/2005-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
	Current Location: 03/03/2005-A TRANS.
	Summary: Existing law makes the Department of Transportation responsible for improving and maintaining the state highway system. Under existing law, until January 1, 2010, the department is authorized to utilize design sequencing as an alternative contracting method for the design and construction of not more than 12 transportation projects. This bill would authorize the department to use the design-build procurement process for its state highway construction contracts.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 573	(Wolk) Construction contracts: indemnity. (A-04/28/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 05/02/2005-Read second time. To Consent Calendar.
	Current Location: 05/02/2005-A CONSENT CALENDAR
	Calendar Events: 05/04/05 119 ASM CONSENT CALENDAR
	Summary: Existing law provides that agreements contained in or affecting any construction contract that purport to indemnify the promisee against liability for damages for death or bodily injury to persons, injury to property, or any other loss, damage, or expense arising from the sole negligence or willful misconduct of the promisee or the promisee's agents, servants, or independent contractors who are directly responsible to the promisee, or for defects in design furnished by those persons, are against public policy and are void and unenforceable, except as specified. This bill would state the intent the Legislature to enact legislation governing the use of indemnification and additional-insured provisions in construction contracts with respect to construction defect disputes, as specified.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 579	(Emmerson) Groundwater. (I-02/16/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 02/17/2005-From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
	Current Location: 02/16/2005-A PRINT
	Summary: Existing law declares that groundwater is a valuable natural resource and should be managed to ensure its safe production and its quality. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 584	(Blakeslee) Seismic safety. (A-04/14/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/21/2005-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 20).
	Current Location: 04/21/2005-A APPR.
	Calendar Events: 05/04/05 8:30 a.m. - Room 4202 ASM APPROPRIATIONS
	Summary: Existing law required that an Earthquake Research Evaluation Conference be held to critique existing and emerging technologies for earthquake research and recommending a comprehensive plan for earthquake research. This bill would delete an obsolete cross-reference, repeal an obsolete grant program, transfer funds remaining in the Alfred E. Alquist Earthquake Fund to the Seismic Safety Account in the Insurance Fund , and appropriate those funds to the Seismic Safety Commission for expenditure in the 2005-06 fiscal year. This bill contains other existing laws.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 597	(Montanez) Response actions: brownfield sites. (A-04/19/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 05/02/2005-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 26).
	Current Location: 05/02/2005-A APPR.
	Calendar Events: 05/04/05 40 ASM SECOND READING FILE
	Summary:  Existing law, the California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004, provides that an innocent landowner, a bona fide purchaser, or a contiguous property owner, as defined, qualifies for immunity from liability for response costs or damage claims with regard to a site in an urban infill area, if the innocent purchaser, bona fide purchaser, or contiguous property owner meets specified conditions. The act defines the term "agency" as meaning the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the State Water Resources Control Board, or a California regional water quality control board. This bill would revise the public participation procedures that are required to be included in the response plan, including requiring the agency to notify all other appropriate governmental entities and local agencies, including, but not limited to, the department, a regional board, or redevelopment agency, that is not party to the response plan regarding the proposed response action. The bill would require the regional board to provide reasonable public notice in English and other languages commonly spoken in the area, if appropriate, for public review and comment. The bill would also require the regional board to hold a public meeting in the area to receive comments if a public meeting is requested. The bill would require the regional board to considerany comments prior to acting on the response plan and to consider the use of factsheets, electronic copies of the response plan and site assessment, electronic comment forms, and the forming of advisory groups as appropriate to disseminate information and assist the regional board in gathering public input, public notices, and additional public meetings or workshops. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 645	(Houston) Tide and submerged lands: California Coastal Sanctuary: wells. (A-04/28/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 05/02/2005-Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
	Current Location: 05/02/2005-A NAT. RES.
	Summary:  Under existing law, the Controller is required to annually, as of June 30, apportion to each city or county having specified tide and submerged lands, 1% of the revenues paid to the state from oil and gas leases within the city or county, and 20% of the revenues paid to the state that are derived from the production of oil, gas, and other hydrocarbons from a state tideland lease, not to exceed a total of $200,000,000, adjusted for inflation, over a 20-year period. The amounts paid are required to be deposited in a special trust fund and expended for specified purposes. Existing law exempts from this payment requirement a lease that did not have either a local or state development plan submitted for consideration on or before January 1, 2002. This bill would additionally require, as a condition of exemption, that the lease existed on or before January 1, 2002. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 648	(Jones) Development projects: disclosure requirements. (A-04/18/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/28/2005-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 27).
	Current Location: 04/28/2005-A APPR.
	Summary:  Existing law requires each state agency and each local agency to compile one or more lists that specify in detail the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. This bill would require that the list or lists additionally include the identity of the person or entity that will own or operate the project, if different from the person or entity applying for the development permit. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 662	(La Suer) Construction defects: County of San Diego: fires. (A-04/21/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/28/2005-In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
	Current Location: 04/28/2005-S RLS.
	Summary:  Existing law specifies the rights and requirements of a homeowner of a new residential unit to bring an action for construction defects, including applicable standards for home construction, the statute of limitations, the burden of proof, the damages recoverable, a detailed prelitigation procedure, and the obligations of the homeowner. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. This bill contains other existing laws.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 724	(Horton, Shirley) Design-build contracting. (I-02/17/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 02/18/2005-From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
	Current Location: 02/17/2005-A PRINT
	Summary: Existing law requires public entities to comply with certain procedures in soliciting and evaluating bids and awarding contracts for the erection, construction, alteration, repair, or improvement of any public structure, building, road, or other public improvement. Existing law, until January 1, 2006, permits certain counties, with the approval of the board of supervisors, to enter into design-build contracts, as defined, in accordance with specified provisions. These provisions require that contracts with a cost ranging from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, and authorizes contracts costing more than $20,000,000 to be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder or by best value. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 861	(Bass) Professions and vocations: licensure. (A-04/18/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/27/2005-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. (Refers to 4/26/2005 hearing)
	Current Location: 04/19/2005-A B. & P.
	Summary: Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes a board to deny licensure on certain grounds, including on the grounds that the applicant has been convicted of a crime. This bill would exempt licenses regulated by the Bureau of Automotive Repair, by the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, by the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, by the Bureau of Home Furnishing and Thermal Insulation, and by the Structural Pest Control Board from the provisions authorizing the denial of licensure for conviction of a crime with respect to a conviction for a nonviolent drug possession offense or a conviction for a misdemeanor or a felony that is not a serious or violent felony, if certain other conditions are met.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 895	(Walters) Environment: California Environmental Protection Agency. (I-02/18/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 02/20/2005-From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
	Current Location: 02/18/2005-A PRINT
	Summary: The Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1991, which was not fully statutorily implemented, created the California Environmental Protection Agency, transferred the State Air Resources Board, the California Integrated Waste Management Board, the State Water Resources Control Board, and the California regional water quality control boards to the agency and created the Department of Toxic Substances Control and the Department of Pesticide Regulation within that agency. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would consolidate, into a unified program under the authority of the California Environmental Protection Agency, the emergency response program of the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the business plan and accident release program of the Office of Emergency Services, the Marine Facilities Division of the State Lands Commission, and the oil spill unit of the California Coastal Commission.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 1024	(Walters) Professional vocations: abolition of boards and committees. (I-02/22/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 03/07/2005-Referred to Com. on B. & P.
	Current Location: 03/07/2005-A B. & P.
	Summary: Existing law, within the Department of Consumer Affairs, creates various boards with appointed members, which are charged with the licensing and regulation of certain professions and vocations, including the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board, the Hearing Aid Dispensers Advisory Committee, the California Architects Board, the Landscape Architects Technical Committee, the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, the Contractors' State License Board, and the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology. Existing law creates the Hearing Aid Dispensers Advisory Committee, which advises the Hearing Aid Dispensers Bureau of the department on related matters. Existing law, with respect to various other professions and vocations, provides for licensing and regulation of those professions and vocations directly by the Department of Consumer Affairs and staff appointed by the Director of Consumer Affairs. This bill would abolish all of the above-referenced boards and the committee, and transfer their responsibilities and duties to the Department of Consumer Affairs.
	Organization AEG		Position Oppose	Priority 1
AB 1453	(Daucher) Superior courts: adjudication of rights to produce groundwater. (A-03/30/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/26/2005-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
	Current Location: 03/31/2005-A JUD.
	Summary: Existing law specifies the jurisdiction of the courts, sets forth the proper venue for the adjudication of various causes of action, as specified, and provides for the transfer of certain causes of action. This bill would establish 9 water divisions in the superior courts of specified counties. The bill would require the presiding judge of the superior court of each specified county to assign a water judge to the water division to preside over actions that involve the adjudication of rights to produce groundwater, as specified , and would provide for the transfer of groundwater actions to those courts. The presiding judge would be required to consider the experience in groundwater adjudications of each candidate for assignment as water judge, and would provide for filling the position of water judge in the event of a vacancy. The bill would further provide that a water judge has exclusive subject matter jurisdiction, and a water division has exclusive venue, over all matters relating to the adjudication of rights to produce groundwater, as specified . The bill would also require the Judicial Council to promulgate special rules governing those actions, in consultation with the water judges , the Department of Water Resources, and the State Water Resources Control Board.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
AB 1561	(Umberg) State boards and commissions: removal and penalties. (I-02/22/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 02/24/2005-From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
	Current Location: 02/22/2005-A PRINT
	Summary: Existing law establishes various boards and commission in state government with specified duties and responsibilities. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to implement procedures that provide for the imposition of penalties, removal from office, or both, as to appointed members of state boards and commissions who do not adequately perform their duties, including the regular attendance of meetings.
	Organization AEG		Position Support	Priority 1
AB 1679	(Mullin) Building standards: hazard buildings. (I-02/22/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 02/25/2005-From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
	Current Location: 02/22/2005-A PRINT
	Summary: Existing law establishes a program for mitigation of potentially hazardous buildings, as defined, within all cities, both general and chartered, and all counties and those portions of a county that are located within a designated seismic zone to identify all potentially hazardous buildings. This bill would correct an obsolete reference.
	Organization AEG		Position Support	Priority 1
AB 1705	(Keene) Forestry: timber harvesting plans. (A-05/02/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 05/02/2005-Read second time and amended.
	Current Location: 04/28/2005-A APPR.
	Summary: The existing Z'berg-Nedjedly Forest Practice Act of 1975 requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to adopt district forest practice rules and regulations for each forest and fire protection district in accordance with the policies set forth in the act. The act defines "timberland," for purposes of its provisions, to mean land, other than land owned by the federal government and land designated by the board as experimental forest land, which is available for, and capable of, growing a crop of trees of any commercial species used to produce lumber and other forest products, including Christmas trees. This bill would eliminate Christmas trees from that definition of "timberland," and would specify that timberland does not include a parcel of land less than one acre, or a parcel of land less than 3 acres that was created under lead agency authority of a city and county, and the approval of which is subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
SB 140	(Margett) Subsurface installations: excavation. (I-02/02/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/18/2005-In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
	Current Location: 04/18/2005-A DESK
	Summary: Existing law requires an excavator to determine the exact location of subsurface installations that are in conflict with the excavation before using any power-operated or power-driven excavating or boring equipment within the approximate location of the subsurface installation, with a specified exception. The excavator is required to use hand tools to determine the location of subsurface installations, as specified. This bill would allow the utilization of vacuum excavation devices or power-operated or power-driven tools, provided that an express written mutual agreement exists, as specified.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
	Organization AEG		Position Support	Priority 1
SB 228	(Figueroa) Board for Geologists and Geophysicists: sunset date. (A-04/18/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 05/02/2005-Set for hearing May 9.
	Current Location: 04/26/2005-S APPR.
	Calendar Events: 05/09/05 1:30 p.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SEN APPROPRIATIONS
	Summary: Existing law, the Geologist and Geophysicist Act, provides for the regulation of geologists and geophysicists by the Board for Geologists and Geophysicists, in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Under existing law, the provisions creating the board and authorizing the board to appoint an executive officer will become inoperative on July 1, 2006, and will be repealed as of January 1, 2007. This bill would instead make these provisions inoperative and repealed on July 1, 2011 and January 1, 2012, respectively . This bill contains other related provisions.
	Organization AEG		Position Support	Priority 1
SB 246	(Figueroa) Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. (A-04/18/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 05/02/2005-Set for hearing May 9.
	Current Location: 04/26/2005-S APPR.
	Calendar Events: 05/09/05 1:30 p.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SEN APPROPRIATIONS
	Summary: Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires the board to appoint an executive officer. Existing law authorizes the board to make and enforce rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of law regulating land surveyors. Existing law provides that these provisions are to become inoperative and are repealed on July 1, 2006, and January 1, 2007, respectively . This bill would instead make these provisions inoperative and repealed on July 1, 2012 and January 1, 2013, respectively .
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
SB 668	(Kuehl) Mining. (A-04/25/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 05/02/2005-Set for hearing May 9.
	Current Location: 04/26/2005-S APPR.
	Calendar Events: 05/09/05 1:30 p.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) SEN APPROPRIATIONS
	Summary:  Existing law requires the owner, lessor, lessee, agent, manager, or other person in charge of a mining operation to annually submit certain information in a report to the Director of Conservation, and to submit specified reporting fees to the State Mining and Geology Board. Existing law defines the term "mining operation" for purposes of these requirements, as a surface mine. This bill would revise the definition of "mining operation" for purposes of these requirements to include any mining operation, including, but not limited to, a mining operation that is classified as a surface mine, and would impose those requirements upon the owner or operator of a mining operation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
SB 754	(Poochigian) Unitrust conversions. (A-04/20/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/20/2005-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to committee.
	Current Location: 03/10/2005-S JUD.
	Calendar Events: 05/03/05 1:30 p.m. - Room 112 SEN JUDICIARY
	Summary: Existing law governs proceedings for the administration of trusts. This bill would authorize a trustee, unless prohibited by the governing instrument, to convert a trust into a unitrust, pursuant to specified procedures. The bill would permit the trustee to convert a trust into a unitrust without a court order if specified conditions and requirements are satisfied, the trustee gives written notice of the intent to convert in accordance with certain notice requirements, and no legally competent beneficiary objects to the proposed action in writing during a specified timeframe. The bill would give the trustee the power, after a trust is converted to a unitrust, to make regular distributions of trust income in accordance with specified provisions. The bill would also establish procedures by which a trustee may reconvert from a unitrust to a trust and change the distribution payout percentage of a unitrust. The bill would require a fiduciary administering a unitrust, reconverting a unitrust, or changing the percentage payout from a unitrust to administer the trust impartially. The bill would make other conforming changes to related provisions of law related to trust administration.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
SB 834	(Figueroa) Department of General Services: information technology. (A-04/18/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/28/2005-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 844.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
	Current Location: 04/28/2005-S APPR.
	Summary:  Existing law sets forth the requirements for the acquisition of information technology goods and services by the state, and requires all contracts for the acquisition of those goods and services to be made by or under the supervision of the Department of General Services, with expenditures in this regard subject to the review and approval of the Department of Finance. This bill would, on or before July 1, 2007, require the Procurement Division of the Department of General Services to identify information technology maintenance and support service providers who have multiple contracts with the state and report this information to the Legislature, including an evaluation of whether the state should negotiate a single master services contract with each of the identified vendors.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
SB 954	(Figueroa) Information technology goods and services: procurement. (A-04/25/2005  html  pdf)
	Status: 04/28/2005-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 845.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
	Current Location: 04/28/2005-S APPR.
	Summary: Existing law sets forth the requirements for the acquisition of information technology goods and services by the state, and requires all contracts for the acquisition of those goods and services to be made by or under the supervision of the Department of General Services, with expenditures in this regard subject to the review and approval of the Department of Finance. This bill makes certain findings and states the intent of the Legislature to reform the manner in which state agencies procure information technology goods and services. This bill would require all state agencies and departments to conform with specified practices and guidelines in the procurement of information technology goods and services.
	Organization AEG		Position Watch	Priority 3
Total Position Forms: 39