During the last week of the 2013 legislative year, the Legislature approved and sent Governor Brown over 500 measures for his consideration. Thus far, of those measures, the Governor has signed 267 and vetoed 12. With 10 days remaining until the October 13, 2013, deadline for gubernatorial action, over 200 bills remain under consideration.
The following bills were being followed by the Association:
AB 47 (Gatto D) Emergency telephone system: abuse.
Status: This will be carried into the next legislative session – 2 year bill.
Summary: Would make any person who calls the 911 telephone system to dispatch a police, sheriff, fire department, or emergency medical service personnel response to a residence or place of business where there is no emergency, with the intent to annoy or harass another person, and police, sheriff, fire department, or emergency medical service personnel are dispatched as a result of the call, guilty of a
misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,000, by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 218 (Dickinson D) Employment applications: criminal history.
Status: 9/26/2013-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
Summary: Would, commencing July 1, 2014, prohibit a state or local agency from asking an applicant to disclose information regarding a criminal conviction, except as specified, until the agency has determined the applicant meets the minimum employment qualifications for the position. The bill would include specified findings and declarations of the Legislature in support of this policy. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 300 (Perea D) Telecommunications: prepaid mobile telephony services: state surcharge and fees: local charges collection.
Status: 9/25/2013-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
Summary: Would enact the Prepaid Mobile Telephony Service Surcharge Collection Act (act). The bill would establish a prepaid MTS surcharge, as defined, based upon a percentage of the sales price of
AB 911 (Bloom D) Telephone systems: 911.
Status: This will be carried into the next legislative session – 2 year bill.
Summary: Would require an MLTS operator, as defined, to program, maintain, and operate the MLTS, as specified, to ensure that each emergency call placed from any telephone on the MLTS is routed to the appropriate public safety answering point or private emergency answering point and provides either automatic location information, automation number identification , or emergency response location to the public safety answering point or private emergency answering point . The bill would provide an exemption for a multiline telephone system serving a building or structure with less than 7,000 square feet of workspace.
SB 135 (Padilla D) Earthquake early warning system.
Status: 9/24/2013-Chaptered by Secretary of State – Chapter 342, Statutes of 2013.
Summary: Would require the Office of Emergency Services, in collaboration with various entities, including the United States Geological Survey, to develop a comprehensive statewide earthquake early warning system in California through a public-private partnership and would require the system to include certain features, including the installation of field sensors. The bill would require the office to develop an approval mechanism, as provided, to review compliance with earthquake early warning standards as they are developed.