California Senator Tony Strickland Reports – March 17, 2009 Edition

The website and full report is here.

New Legislation introduced:

• SB 37 Public Employees: Compensation
  Requires state agencies provide a secure, electronic means of viewing earning statements if the employee is enrolled in the direct deposit system. Provides that no paper copies will be distributed.
  Status: Referred to S. PERSS
• SB 174 Public Safety Omnibus
  Makes technical and non-substantive changes to various code sections relating to public safety.
  Status: Introduced, eligible for committee on 3/17
• SB 263 Local Government: Community Service Districts
  Provides the Santa Rita Hills Community Service District is authorized to limit access to roads it owns to landowners and residents.
  Status: Introduced, eligible for committee on 3/27
• SB 326 Land Use: Housing Element
  Requires the housing element to include within the analysis of existing and projected housing needs a quantification of foreclosures and projected foreclosures and their impact on the housing needs and inventory.
  Status: Introduced, eligible for committee on 3/28
• SB 344 Crimes Against Elder & Dependent Adults
  Criminalizes the theft by exploitation and theft by undue influence against an elder or dependent adult and increases the penalties for offenders with prior convictions of financial elder abuse.
  Status: Introduced, eligible for committee on 3/28
• SB 685 State Boards & Commissions: Salaries: Suspension
  Prohibits members of a board or commission from receiving a salary if, in 2010 the salary is $100,000 or more and the board meets two or less times a month.
  Status: Eligible on 3/30
• SB 739 Political Reform Act of 1974: Fundraising
  Prohibits the spouse or domestic partner of an elected official or candidate from receiving compensation for services in connection with fundraising for the benefit of the elected official or candidate.
  Status: Introduced, eligible for committee on 3/30
• SB 744 Clinical Laboratories: Public Health Laboratories
  This bill would adjust the rate schedule for clinical laboratories.
  Status: Introduced, eligible for committee on 3/30.