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AB 406, as it passed the Assembly, prohibited a petitioner that submits a charter petition for the establishment of a charter school or a charter school that submits a charter renewal or material revision application from operating as, or being operated by, a for-profit corporation, a for-profit educational management organization, or a for-profit charter management organization on and after January 1, 2019.

The Senate amendments instead prohibit these types of petitioners from operating as, or being operated by, as defined, a for-profit corporation, a for-profit educational management organization, or a for-profit charter management organization on and after July 1, 2019. The Senate amendments also add a coauthor.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 282, as it passed the Assembly, prohibited a person whose actions are authorized pursuant to the End of Life Option Act from being prosecuted for deliberately aiding, advising, or encouraging suicide.

The Senate amendments make technical changes and delete the name of a joint author.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: no.

AB 2598, as it passed the Assembly, among other things, established a fine for commercial properties that are in violation of local building and safety codes, as provided, not to exceed $2,500.

The Senate amendments apply those fines only to commercial properties with an existing building at the time of the violation.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 1062, as it passed the Assembly, required the Governor to appoint 2 additional student members to the Trustees of the California State University.

The Senate amendments delete the provisions of AB 1062 as it passed the Assembly and, instead, remove the January 1, 2015 deadline, for authorizing a student at the California State University to enroll in an online course at another CSU campus, for the trustees to establish an online database of courses, and for the trustees to establish a series of uniform definitions for online education. The Senate amendments also add to the performance data to be reported to the Legislature on state-supported online courses, and require this report to be submitted on or before January 1, 2019, and again 2 years later.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 1584, as it passed the Assembly, prohibited the collection of a DNA sample from a minor, except as ordered by a court, as required by law, or with the written consent of the minor and the minor’s parent or legal guardian.

The Senate amendments instead recast these provisions into another section of code and additionally, among other things, require that the minor and parent or guardian be advised of certain rights before giving consent and prohibit extending the detention of a minor solely for the purpose of obtaining parental consent after a reasonable attempt to contact that person or persons has been made.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 1889, as it passed the Assembly, among other things, prohibited the board of directors of the Santa Clara Valley Water District from adopting an ordinance to provide compensation to a director for more than a total of 20 days in any calendar month.

The Senate amendments, instead, until December 31, 2023, prohibit the board of directors from adopting an ordinance to provide compensation to a director for more than a total of 15 days in any calendar month. The Senate amendments additionally require the board of directors to annually adopt a written policy describing why more than 10 meetings per month are necessary for the effective operation of the district if the district compensates its members for more than 10 meetings in a calendar month.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 1977, as it passed the Assembly, authorized the sale, exchange, sale combined with an exchange, or lease for fair market value of real property known as the Department of General Services’ Santa Ana State Building.

The Senate amendments, in addition, authorize the sale, exchange, sale combined with an exchange, or lease for fair market value of several parcels known as California Highway Patrol area offices.

Vote: 54. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2096, as it passed the Assembly, allowed an individual to designate on his or her tax return that a specified amount in excess of his or her tax liability be transferred to the Organ and Tissue Donor Registry Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund, which was created by the bill. AB 2096, as it passed the Assembly, continuously appropriated those funds to the Controller and the Franchise Tax Board for administrative costs and required remaining funds to be disbursed to the California Organ and Tissue Donor Registrar for its ongoing activities to maintain the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry.

The Senate amendments specify that above-described disbursement of funds be given to the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registrar and require the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registrar to comply with specified Internet Web site reporting requirements.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2137, as it passed the Assembly, granted the general manager of the Riverside County Regional Park and Open Space District, with district board approval, the authority to bind the district, in accordance with board policy, and without advertising, for the payment for supplies, materials, labor, or other valuable consideration for any purpose in amounts not exceeding $50,000, and made legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Riverside County Regional Park and Open Space District.

The Senate amendments delete these changes and instead provide that the general manager of any park or open space district, with district board approval, may bind the district, in accordance with board policy that has been adopted in an open meeting, and without advertising, for the payment for supplies, materials, labor, or other valuable consideration for any purpose in amounts not exceeding $50,000 and authorizes the district, by action of the board in an open meeting, to increase the amount by which the general manager of the district may bind the district above the $50,000 limit, as specified.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2388, as it passed the Assembly, expanded existing restrictions on employing minors to include employment in social media advertising. AB 2388 also expanded an existing exemption from those and other restrictions for the appearance of a minor in a radio or television broadcasting exhibition to include an exception for digital exhibitions.

The Senate amendments remove the restrictions on employing minors in social media advertising.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2400, as it passed the Assembly, renamed the California Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Research Fund as the California Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Research Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund, required the funds to be continuously appropriated to the Franchise Tax Board and the Controller for costs incurred in administering the provisions relating to the fund, and continuously appropriated funds to the State Department of Public Health to support eligible programs awarded grants under selection criteria established by the State Department of Public Health Alzheimer’s Disease Program, and required the State Department of Public Health to comply with certain Internet Web site reporting requirements.

The Senate amendments additionally appropriate funds to the State Department of Public Health for administrative costs, and prohibit the moneys appropriated to the State Department of Public Health from being used for any purpose outside this state.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2485, as it passed the Assembly, prohibited a local official who inspected a commercial property or business for compliance with a state statute or regulation or local ordinance from being accompanied during the inspection by a person with a potential financial interest in the outcome of the inspection, unless a specified exemption was met, including an exemption for a person who had an existing contract with the local government to provide certain services for that particular inspected property or business.

The Senate amendments revise that exemption to apply to a person who has, or operates under, an existing contract with the local government to provide certain services and has been directed by a local official to perform services at that particular inspected property or business.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2595, as it passed the Assembly, prohibited a ward from being confined in excess of the term of confinement set by the committing court, and authorized the juvenile court to set a term of confinement based upon the facts and circumstances of the matter that brought a ward under the jurisdiction of the court necessary to achieve rehabilitation.

The Senate amendments instead require the juvenile court to set a maximum term of confinement as deemed appropriate to achieve rehabilitation.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2620, as it passed the Assembly, decreased the amount of time required to pass before a presumption of embezzlement applies to the failure to return a rental vehicle from 5 days to 48 hours following the expiration of the rental agreement.

The Senate amendments instead authorize a rental company, until January 1, 2024, to use electronic surveillance technology, under specified circumstances, if the rental vehicle has not been returned within 72 hours after the contract return date.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2746, as it passed the Assembly, provided that a taxpayer whose property is in default for failure to pay the taxes owed on the property and who failed to redeem the property by the final redemption date loses all rights to the property during the auction period. AB 2746, if the tax-defaulted property has not been redeemed prior to the redemption termination deadline, as specified, required any person or entity with title of record to the property to lose all rights in the property, unless the right of redemption period is revived, as provided, and specified that the commencement of a tax sale constitutes the actual sale date, regardless of the conclusion of the auction.

The Senate amendments provide that the taxpayer’s right of redemption on the property terminates at the close of business on the last business day prior to the commencement date of the tax sale and specify that these provisions and the provisions described above apply regardless of whether the tax sale is conducted in person.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2801, as it passed the Assembly, made it a crime to maliciously destroy, cut, break, mutilate, efface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any veteran’s memorial.

The Senate amendments instead specify that the existing prohibition on maliciously destroying, cutting, breaking, mutilating, effacing, or otherwise injuring, tearing down, or removing any law enforcement memorial or firefighter’s memorial does not preclude prosecution under any other law, including specified provisions regarding veteran’s memorials.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2944, as it passed the Assembly, established the Schools Not Prisons California Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund, allowed an individual to designate for transfer to this fund a specified amount in excess of his or her personal income tax liability, and allocated money in the fund to, the Franchise Tax Board and the Controller for reimbursement of costs incurred in connection with their duties related to the fund.

The Senate amendments, instead, allocate the money in the fund to, the Franchise Tax Board, the Controller, and the State Department of Education for reimbursement of costs incurred in connection with their administrative duties under related to the fund.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 324, as it passed the Assembly, removed the requirement that a person recorded be identifiable with respect to the crime of secretly recording or photographing under or through the clothing worn by another person for the purpose of viewing their body or undergarments, or while the other person is in a state of full or partial undress in an area in which they have a reasonable expectation of privacy, without their consent.

The Senate amendments restored those provisions to existing law and instead define the term identifiable for these purposes to mean capable of identification, or capable of being recognized.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 479, as it passed the Assembly, required, when an employee sustains an injury arising out of and in the course of employment resulting in breast cancer, specified impairments to be considered, and provided that whether the person is of childbearing age shall not be a determining factor when determining impairment due to breast cancer.

The Senate amendments remove a joint author and make technical changes.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: no.

AB 558, as it passed the Assembly, prohibited registered sex offenders who were convicted of misdemeanor child molestation from applying to the Department of Justice for the exclusion of their information from the Internet Web site that contains specified information about registered sex offenders.

The Senate amendments delete the contents of the bill and instead provide that the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies may recommend that the State Air Resources Board provide education and support to local governments regarding specific components of local government climate action plans. The Senate amendments also require the state board, no later than April 1, 2019, to develop a simple, factual summary on the distribution of E85 and flexible fuel vehicle registrations, as specified; to provide that summary to the United States Environmental Protection Agency; and to post that summary on the state board’s Internet Web site. The Senate amendments require the state board to develop policy recommendations to maximize the use of E85 in flexible fuel vehicles that operate in the state and to consider adopting those policy recommendations at a board meeting no later than October 1, 2019.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 1217, as it passed the Assembly, enacted the California Teacher Corps Act of 2017, under which the Superintendent of Public Instruction would make grants to applicant local educational agencies and consortia of local educational agencies to assist these agencies in establishing, maintaining, or expanding teacher residency programs, as defined. As it passed the Assembly, AB 1217 established teacher residency programs, defined as school-based teacher preparation programs, in which a prospective teacher would teach alongside an experienced mentor teacher, as defined, while also receiving teacher training instruction in a teacher credentialing program in a qualified institution of higher education. As it passed the Assembly, AB 1217 also established eligibility standards for persons applying for participation in the teacher residency programs established by the bill. As it passed the Assembly, AB 1217 further provided that its operation, for the 2017–18, 2018–19, and 2019–20 fiscal years, would be subject to the enactment, in the annual Budget Acts or other statutes, of appropriations from the General Fund to the Superintendent to make grants to applicant local educational agencies and consortia of local educational agencies.

The Senate amendments delete the contents of the bill as it passed the Assembly. Instead, the Senate amendments establish a state school located in a county with a population of more than 3,500,000. The Senate amendments require the state school to be governed by a nonprofit public benefit corporation for the purpose of providing outstanding and innovative instruction in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to historically underrepresented pupils in grades 6 to 12, inclusive. The Senate amendments require the state school to complete a plan that governs the education of its pupils and the operation of the school in accordance with a specified timeline and prescribed criteria. The Senate amendments also require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to oversee, monitor, and report on the operation of the state school, as specified. The Senate amendments also require the state school to annually prepare and submit several reports to the Superintendent, as specified, and further provide that, except as provided in this bill, the state school would be exempt from the statutes that govern school districts. The Senate amendments also add a joint author and a coauthor.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 1373, as it passed the Assembly, required an insurance producer soliciting the sale of an annuity product to provide the applicant with the appropriate deferred annuities buyer’s guide, as defined, and added those buyer’s guides to the list of training topics required to be covered in a specified annuity training course for insurance producers.

The Senate amendments instead include within the definition of employees for purposes of specified group life insurance policies, classes of former employees, including retired employees, and require those employees to receive with their group life insurance policy, a certificate setting forth specified information regarding the ability of an employee to retain insurance upon termination, to receive benefits upon death, and to obtain individual insurance.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 1776, as it passed the Assembly, authorized the County of San Bernardino to work with the Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agency to conduct a pilot project until January 1, 2022, that would authorize an emergency medical technician to provide emergency transportation for a police dog injured in the line of duty to a facility that is capable of providing veterinary medical services to that dog if no person requires medical attention or medical transportation at the time the decision is made to transport the dog.

The Senate amendments require additional conditions to be met before authorizing emergency transportation of the injured police dog, including, but not limited to, requiring the owner of the ambulance to have a policy permitting transport of an injured police dog and requiring the canine handler to accompany and remain in full control of the dog during transport. The Senate amendments also require the Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agency to collect specified data during the pilot project and to submit a report to the Legislature that includes this data by January 1, 2022.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 1944, as it passed the Assembly, divided the San Luis Rey Valley Groundwater Basin into an upper and lower subbasin and required the water beneath the surface of the ground within the Upper San Luis Rey Valley Groundwater Subbasin to be included within the definition of groundwater, as specified, for the purposes of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. AB 1944, as it passed the Assembly, provided that the application of specified provisions of law to water within the Lower and Upper San Luis Rey Valley Groundwater Subbasins downstream of the confluence of the San Luis Rey River and Frey Creek is not altered by these provisions.

The Senate amendments revise the latter provision to generally apply to water within the Lower and Upper San Luis Rey Valley Groundwater Subbasins, generally.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2041, as it passed the Assembly, strongly urged the Regents of the University of California to require its Office of Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) to use best efforts to encourage diversity, including encouraging partner firms to use best efforts to encourage diversity. AB 2041 also required the OCIO to submit a report on its actions and plans addressing the issues raised by the bill, to the chairs of the appropriate policy committees of each house of the Legislature on or before January 1, 2020.

The Senate amendments urge the Regents to direct their OCIO to use, and to urge its partner firms to use, reasonable efforts to encourage diversity, and specify that the actions to be taken are not to be inconsistent with the regents’ or OCIO’s fiduciary duties. The Senate amendments also alter the required contents of the report.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2117, as it passed the Assembly, authorized renewal of an expired associate registration for an associate marriage and family therapist, associate clinical social worker, and an associate professional clinical counselor in the same manner in which an unexpired registration is renewed; required an associate clinical social worker to participate in a required state law and ethics examination each year until successful completion of the exam, prohibited renewal or reinstatement of a registration as an associated clinical social worker beyond 6 years from the month that registration was issued, required an applicant seeking to obtain a subsequent associate clinical social worker registration where no further renewals are possible to pass the state law and ethics examination as a condition of obtaining a subsequent registration, and required the course in California law and ethics to be completed before registration as an associate clinical social worker based on experience gained outside the state; and revised the method for determining substantially equivalent experience for an applicant who is licensed outside of California and applying for licensure in California as a marriage and family therapist or a professional clinical counselor and has held his or her license for less than 4 years immediately preceding the date of application.

The Senate amendments make various nonsubstantive changes.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: no.

AB 2322, as it passed the Assembly, prohibited the disclosure of the home address of a retired judge or court commissioner permanently upon his or her request for confidentiality, and prohibited the disclosure of the home address of the surviving spouse or child of a judge or court commissioner for 3 years following his or her death.

The Senate amendments clarify that these provisions apply to active or retired judges and court commissioners, and instead expand those protections to the surviving spouse or child of a judge or court commissioner, only if the judge or court commissioner died in the performance of his or her duties. The Senate amendments make a violation of these provisions a crime.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2363, as it passed the Assembly, required the Secretary of Transportation to establish and convene the Vision Zero Task Force, as specified, and required the task force to include representatives from specified organizations, such as the Department of the California Highway Patrol, bicycle safety organizations, and road safety organizations.

The Senate amendments rename the task force to the Zero Traffic Fatalities Task Force. The Senate amendments no longer require the task force to include representatives from road safety organizations and instead require the task force to include representatives from the Department of Transportation, the State Department of Public Health, statewide motorist service membership organizations, and transportation advocacy organizations, among other organizations.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2458, as it passed the Assembly, commencing on January 1, 2020, required the tax collector of a county that contracts with a school district to collect a qualified special tax for which the district provides an exemption, as specified, to include a hyperlink on his or her Internet Web site containing certain information that this bill would require the school district to provide to the tax collector. AB 2458, as it passed the Assembly, required the tax collector to include on each county tax bill information indicating that school district parcel tax exemption information is available on his or her Internet Web site.

The Senate amendments specify that these requirements only apply when the school district provides the required information. The Senate amendments also prohibit the tax collector from posting or including on the county tax bill any hyperlink to a location on a school district Internet Web site that is invalid.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2495, as it passed the Assembly, prohibited a city, county, or city and county, including an attorney acting on behalf of those entities, from charging a defendant for the costs of investigation, prosecution, or appeal in a criminal case, including a criminal violation of a local ordinance.

The Senate amendments establish exceptions to that prohibition for certain violations, including, among others, making a knowingly false or fraudulent material representation for the purpose of obtaining compensation pursuant to workers’ compensation provisions, as specified. The Senate amendments define “costs” for purposes of the prohibition to include, among other items, the salary, fees, and hourly rate paid to attorneys and law enforcement personnel. The Senate amendments clarify that the prohibition does not affect the authority of a probation department to assess and collect authorized fees or charges.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2564, as it passed the Assembly, made a person who, operates a glider vehicle, as defined by the State Air Resources Board, in violation of specified emission standards or other requirements for glider vehicles, subject to a minimum civil penalty of $25,000 per violation.

The Senate amendments provide a definition for the term “glider vehicle” and require all moneys collected by the state board pursuant to this provision to be deposited in the Air Pollution Control Fund, to be available upon appropriation.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2594, as it passed the Assembly, revised the standard forms of fire insurance and county fire insurance policies to extend the period in which to bring a suit after a loss from 12 months to 24 months after the inception of the loss, if the loss is related to a state of emergency, as specified.

The Senate amendments add an urgency clause, specify that the above extension applies only to a policy originated or renewed on or after the effective date of the bill, and require insurers to revise the standard form of fire insurance and county fire insurance policies to incorporate the extension language on or before July 1, 2019.

Vote: 54. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2622, as it passed the Assembly, among other things, exempted a program that operates at a schoolsite located in an area that has a population density of less than 11 persons per square mile from grant level adjustment of the 3-year after school grant for being under its targeted attendance level by more than 15% in each of 2 consecutive years. AB 2622 exempted a program that operates at a schoolsite located in an area with the above-specified low population density from department review and grant level adjustment if the actual attendance level of a school within the program falls below 75% of the target attendance level in any year after the initial grant year. AB 2622 provided that, after technical assistance has been provided, a program that operates at a schoolsite located in an area with the above-specified low population density shall not be reduced below the minimum grant amount specified in the program for failing to meet either the requirement to demonstrate measurable program outcomes or to attain 75% of its proposed attendance level after having its program reviewed and its grant level adjusted.

The Senate amendments instead require the department to adjust the grant level of a program that operates at a schoolsite located in an area with the above-specified low population density for being under its targeted attendance level by more than 35% in each of 2 consecutive years. The Senate amendments require the department to review a program that operates at a schoolsite located in an area with the above-specified low population density if the actual attendance level of a school within the program falls below 55% of the target attendance level, and to adjust the grant level as the department deems appropriate. The Senate amendments provide that, after technical assistance has been provided, a program that operates at a schoolsite located in an area with the above-specified low population density may be terminated if the school fails for 3 consecutive years to meet either the requirement to demonstrate measurable program outcomes or to attain 55% of its proposed attendance level after having its program reviewed and its grant level adjusted.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2821, as it passed the Assembly, authorized the County of Riverside to operate an integrated and comprehensive county health and human services system similar to the existing authorization for the County of San Diego to operate an integrated and comprehensive county health and human services system.

The Senate amendments instead authorize any county to similarly operate an integrated and comprehensive county health and human services system.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2867, as it passed the Assembly, specified that a motion to vacate a conviction or sentence based on prejudicial error may, but need not, include a finding of ineffective assistance of counsel.

The Senate amendments authorize the court to hold a hearing on that motion without the moving party’s counsel present, provided that it finds good cause as to why the moving party cannot be present. The Senate amendments also add legislative findings and declarations regarding motions to vacate a conviction or sentence and make other technical changes.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.

AB 2955, as it passed the Assembly, authorized the City of Burbank and the City of Glendale, when conducting an engineering and traffic survey of the public streets within the boundaries of the Rancho Master Plan Area and the Horse Overlay Zone, respectively, to each consider equestrian safety, in addition to the specified factors set forth.

The Senate amendments additionally authorize the City of Los Angeles, when conducting an engineering and traffic survey of the public streets within the boundaries of the Sylmar Community Plan Area and the Sunland-Tujunga-Lake View Terrace-Shadow Hills-East La Tuna Canyon Community Plan Area, to consider equestrian safety, in addition to the specified factors set forth.

Vote: 41. Substantial substantive change: yes.