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AB 1451 (Holden): Concurrent Enrollment. AB 1451 would help provide rural high school students with access to higher education opportunities. Status: Passed out of the Assembly Higher Education Committee. RCRC Position: Support
AB 1799 (Gordon): Land Use: Mitigation Lands. AB 1799 would eliminate, if a governmental entity provides evidence that it possesses an investment grade credit rating and meets other specified conditions, the requirement of an endowment for long term stewardship. Status: Passed out of the Assembly Local Government Committee. RCRC Position: Support
AB 2126 (Bonta): Meyers-Milias-Brown Act: Mediation. AB 2126 would impose mandatory mediation requirements on local public agencies under the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act ( which governs the local collective bargaining process). Status: AB 2126 gained passage in the Assembly Public Employees, Retirement & Social Security Committee and awaits consideration in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. RCRC Position: Oppose
AB 2177 (Brown): Saturday/Sunday Voting. AB 2177 would require all county local elections officials to allow for early voting on Saturdays/Sundays in the weeks immediately preceding the election. Status: AB 2177 gained passage in the Assembly Elections & Redistricting Committee and now awaits consideration in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. RCRC Position: Oppose
AB 2241 (Eggman): Local Government: Agricultural Land. AB 2241 would change the rescission fee charged by a county when land under Williamson Act contract or land designated as a farmland security zone enters into a solar-use easement to 10 percent of the fair market value of the property and allows for counties that choose to utilize this approach to retain half of the rescission fee. Status: Passed out of the Assembly Local Government Committee. RCRC Position: Support
AB 2514 (Pan): Physician Corps Program. AB 2514 would allow a tax credit for health care professionals who reside and practice medicine in a designated rural health care professional shortage area. Status: Assembly Revenue & Taxation Committee. RCRC Position: Support
SB 1364 (Fuller): Extending Phone Rate Surcharge/Rural Service. SB 1364 would extend the funding surcharge (commonly known as the High Cost Fund A and the High Cost Fund B)which supports the deployment of communication services in rural California. Status: SB 1364 gained passage in the Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee and now awaits a hearing in the Senate Appropriations Committee. RCRC Position: Support
SB 1399 (Galgiani): Agricultural Seed: County Seed Enforcement Subventions. SB 1399 would extend the sunset date of the seed enforcement subvention program through July 1, 2019. The subvention program, funded by the seed industry, provides counties with a source of revenue to cover a portion of their costs for enforcing the California Seed Law. Status: Passed out of the Senate Agriculture Committee. RCRC Position: Support