2005 Legislative Updates - Jan/Feb/Mar
SB 409 (Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego) would require city and county general plans to correlate water supply in the conservation element with the land use element.
ACA 13 (Tom Harman, R-Huntington Beach) would make it easier to impose assessments on landowners to finance capital costs, maintenance, and operation expenses for flood control by exempting them from the majority vote requirements.
AB 797 (Lois Wolk, D-Davis) is a spot bill (i.e., it was introduced to hold a spot while additional amendments are considered), would change the membership of the Delta Protection Commission.
SB 695 (Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego) is a bill to create a central, public registry of state-funded conservation easements “for the purpose of monitoring” those easements.
SB 600 (Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento) and (Don Perata, D-Oakland, President Pro Tempore) has reintroduced biomonitoring legislation.
AB 1644 (Hector De La Torre, D-Los Angeles) would repeal the current 5.25 percent sales and use tax exemption afforded to implements of husbandry and other farm equipment and machinery.
AB 1313 (Paul Koretz, D-West Hollywood), sponsored by the UFW, would mandate agricultural employers to provide direct deposit services to their employees.
AB 802 (Lois Wolk, D-Davis) would require local jurisdictions to “consider” any urban water management plan prepared and adopted by an urban water supplier that affects the land covered by a local general plan.
AB 1685 (Johan Klehs, D-San Leandro) would prohibit the slaughter of agricultural animals on school grounds.
SB 509 (Dean Florez, D-Shafter) would require written notification of any pesticide application.
AB 365 (Simon Salinas, D-Salinas), a recently introduced Williamson Act proposal, specifies that greenhouses are an “agricultural use.”
SB 177 (Charles Poochigian, R-Fresno) would allow the State of California to use Alternative Dispute Resolution in managing workers compensation claims.
SB 178 (Charles Poochigian, R-Fresno) would give medium-size employers the opportunity to join group self-insurance plans while strengthening requirements that the new group self-insurance pools remain financially sound.
SB 179 (Charles Poochigian, R-Fresno) would improve the workers’ compensation fraud enforcement efforts by increasing the length of state provided grants to local district attorneys from one-year grants to three-year grants.
AB 1730 (Doug La Malfa, R-Richvale) would eliminate the requirement that generic manufacturers must obtain a letter of authorization (LOA) from branded pesticide manufacturers.
AB 1128 (Sam Blakeslee, R-San Luis Obispo) would allow regional water quality control board members to vote on region-wide permit actions and regulations.
AB 1328 (Lois Wolk, D-Davis) would designate a 31-mile stretch of Cache Creek as a part of the State Wild & Scenic Rivers System.
AB 1665 (John Laird, D-Santa Cruz) would replace the Reclamation Board with a new Central Valley Flood Assessment District.
SB 646 (Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica) would eliminate the existing farm run-off programs in several regions of the state, replacing them with farm permitting, reporting, monitoring, fees and enforcement.
SB 820 (Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica) would require statewide reporting of groundwater extractions in excess of 25 acre-feet annually.