This Week Inside The Capitol (1/11/2010)
January 11, 2010
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This Week Inside the Capitol is a weekly e-mail update of bills monitored by California Family Council. This Week is intended as a brief synopsis to alert you about which bills are being heard and when. CFC’s complete legislative analyses about these and other bills can be found at www.californiafamily.org.
Friday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger released his 2010-11 Budget Plan signaling the start of the legislative budget review process. Democrats immediately expressed their opposition to several components of the plan; however, throughout the coming weeks, legislative budget hearings will review the proposed budget and its potential impacts on constituency groups and recommend alternative viable actions (generally offered by the Legislative Analyst Office). Read more in Thursday’s Dateline Sacramento edition.
Governor Schwarzenegger also called the first special session of 2010 to address the state’s current budget shortfall. During this emergency session, the governor and legislative leaders will begin the arduous and contentious process of reducing current year expenditures, while identifying long-term fiscal solutions.
As legislative budget committees begin their review of the proposed budget, policy committees will continue to decide the fate 2009 bills before the January 31st deadline. Last week, many of 2009 bills scheduled for hearings were amended (modified) in hopes that changes would lead to their approval by the committee; and ultimately the Legislature.
Legislators, whose bills have little chance of passage, have begun reintroducing them as 2010 legislation. While the Legislature’s rules prohibit such re-introductions by the same author, legislators routinely ignore this rule. For instance, Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) reintroduced Senate Bill (SB) 557 as SB 677 (these bills are virtually the same bill and would allow for the seizure of property of those convicted of human trafficking). This move is a clear violation of the Senate’s rules, but SB 677 (Yee) is scheduled to be heard this week in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Results From Last Week
Week of January 4, 2010
On the Assembly Floor
ACA 5 – Initiatives: State General Obligation Bonds (Calderon, C., D-Montebello)
Vote Not Taken
ACA 10 – Taxation: Education Finance District: Majority Vote Taxation (Torlakson, D-Antioch)
Vote Not Taken
SB 543 – Minors: Mental Health Treatment without Parental Consent (Leno, D-San Francisco) OPPOSE
Moved to the Inactive File
On the Senate Floor
AB 7 – Political Reform Act of 1974: Use of Children’s Images in Political Advertisement (Krekorian, D- Burbank)
Vote Not Taken
SCA 5 – State Budget: Two-Thirds Vote Exemption for General Fund Appropriations (Hancock, D-Berkeley)
Vote Not Taken
SCA 16 – Initiatives: Indirect Initiative: Legislative Review (DeSaulnier, D-Concord)
Vote Not Taken
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Assembly Health Committee – 1:30 p.m.
AB 535 – Elder Death Review Teams: Information requests (Ammiano, D-San Francisco)
Passed, 16-0
Committee Hearings
Week of January 11, 2010
Week of January 11, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Assembly Higher Education Committee – Upon Adjournment of Session
AB 284 – Charter Schools: Petitions (Garrick, R-San Diego)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Assembly Judiciary Committee – 9:00 a.m.
AB 939 – Family Law Access to Justice Act: Relating to Divorce (Judiciary Committee)
AB 973 – Minors: Temporary Custody (Strickland, A., R-Moorpark) SUPPORT
Assembly Public Safety Committee – 9:00 a.m.
AB 390 – Marijuana Control, Regulation and Education Act (Ammiano, D-San Francisco) OPPOSE
AB 575 – Sex Offenders: Restrictions (Torres, D-Pomona) SUPPORT
AB 633 – Inmates and Wards: Sexual Orientation Classification (Ammiano, D-San Francisco)
Senate Judiciary Committee – 1:00 p.m.
SB 438 – Charter Schools: Freedom of Speech and of the Press (Yee, D-San Francisco)
Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee – 2:00 p.m.
AB 535 – Elder Death Review Teams: Information requests (Ammiano, D-San Francisco)
Senate Public Safety Committee – 3:30 p.m.
SB 46 – Sex Offenders: Commencing trial: Time (Alquist, D-Santa Clara) SUPPORT
SB 134 – Juveniles: Communication with children (Liu, D-La Canada Flintridge) SUPPORT
SB 203 – Child pornography: Internet distribution (Harman, R-Huntington Beach) SUPPORT
SB 677 – Human Trafficking: Property: Seizures (Yee, D-San Francisco) SUPPORT
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Assembly Education Committee – 1:30 p.m.
AB 220 – Public Education Facilities Bond Act (Brownley, D-Woodland Hills)
AB 391 – Pupil Assessment: STAR Program (Torlakson, D-Antioch)
AB 976 – Public Schools: Alternative Education (Arambula, I-Fresno)
*Note: Not all bills reflect a CFC position. Others are included for informational purposes.
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