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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: Gained passage in the Assembly. RCRC Position: Support
AB 1512 (Stone): Corrections: Inmate Transfers. AB 1512 would extend until July 1, 2018 a county’s ability to contract with another county for jail bed capacity for specified eligible inmates upon authorization from the county Board of Supervisors. Status: Gained passage in the Assembly. RCRC Position: Support
AB 1739 (Dickinson): Groundwater Basin Management: Sustainability. AB 1739 would require a sustainable groundwater management plan to be adopted, except as provided, for each high or medium priority groundwater basin by any groundwater management agency as defined. Status: Gained passage in the Assembly. RCRC Position: Pending; Amendments Requested
AB 1893 (Stone): Sharps Waste. AB 1893 would have required that a sharps waste container be provided free of charge with the purchase of 50 or more sharps in the State of California. It also would have required that sharps consumers receive information about the proper and legal disposal of sharps, including information about disposal locations. Status: Failed passage in the Assembly. RCRC Position: Support
AB 1894 (Ammiano): Medical Cannabis. AB 1894 would have established a state-run statewide regulatory framework for licensing medical marijuana dispensing facilities and cultivation sites. Status: Failed passage in the Assembly. RCRC Position: None taken
AB 2188 (Muratsuchi): Solar Energy: Permits. AB 2188 would require each city and county to create an expedited permitting and inspection process for small, residential solar energy systems among other provisions. Status: Gained passage in the Assembly. 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% 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 until January 1, 2020. Status: Gained passage in the Assembly. RCRC Position: Support
AB 2363 (Dahle): Electricity Procurement. AB 2363 would require the development of integration adders so that the Commission may accurately consider the full costs and benefits of the various technologies in its renewable portfolio standard decision-making by October 1, 2015. Status: Gained passage in the Assembly. RCRC Position: Support
AB 2415 (Ting): Property Tax Agents. AB 2415 would require individuals, as defined, acting as property tax agents to register with the California Secretary of State to ensure adequate protections for property owners and local governments. Status: Gained passage in the Assembly. RCRC Position: Support
AB 2471 (Frazier): Public Contracts: Change Orders. AB 2471 would require a local public agency to issue a change order to public works contracts within 30 days or be held liable for payment of the contractor’s invoice for the change order and or additional work that was provided. Status: Gained passage in the Assembly. RCRC Position: Oppose
AB 2703 (Quirk-Silva): County Veterans Service Officers. AB 2703 would allocate $6,000,000 from the General Fund to counties for the purpose of funding various CVSO activities, and would create a formula through which those funds would be allocated. Status: Gained passage in the Assembly. RCRC Position: Support
SB 1137 (Torres): School Transportation Apportionments. SB 1137 would reimburse school districts for 50 percent of approved transportation costs. Status: Gained passage in the Senate. RCRC Position: Support
SB 1168 (Pavley): Groundwater Management. SB 1168 would establish the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which declares the Legislature's intent to have all groundwater basins and sub-basins managed by local entities pursuant to an adopted sustainable groundwater management plan. Status: Gained passage in the Senate. RCRC Position: Pending; Amendments Requested
SB 1262 (Correa): Medical Marijuana: Regulation of Physicians, Dispensaries, and Cultivation Sites. SB 1262 wouldrequire the State Department of Consumer Affairs to license dispensing facilities and cultivation sites that provide, process, and grow marijuana for medical use, among various other things. Status: Gained passage in the Senate. RCRC Position: Pending
SB 1292 (Hueso): Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. SB 1292 would increase the maximum amount of a construction grant award from $3 million to $5 million for a water system serving severely disadvantaged communities. Status: Gained passage in the Senate. RCRC Position: Support
SB 1341 (Mitchell): Medi-Cal: Statewide Automated Welfare System. SB 1341 would require SAWS to be the system of record for Medi-Cal, and contain all Medi-Cal eligibility rules and case management functionality. Status: Gained Passage in the Senate. RCRC Position: Support
SB 1364 (Fuller): Telecommunications Universal Service Programs. SB 1364 would expand and extend the funding base for the state’s universal service and telecommunications programs which help support the deployment of communication services in California. Status: Gained passage in the Senate. RCRC Position: Support