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2006 California Legislation

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AB 44 (Cohn) Crime Amends existing law that provides that any person who unlawfully and maliciously damages any wireless communication device with the intent to prevent the use of the device to summon assistance or to notify law enforcement to provide that these provisions are also violated when one obstructs the use of such equipment, and that the crime is punishable by a fine, imprisonment in a county jail, or both.
AB 103 (Cohn) Pupil Safety: Disaster Preparedness Requires the State Department of Education to electronically distribute disaster preparedness educational materials and lesson plans that are currently available to local education agencies. Requires the department to ensure that the materials are available in at least the seven most dominant primary languages spoken by English learners in the state.
AB 158 (Bermudez) Railroads: Safety Study Creates the Special Railroad Safety Task Force to study certain railroad safety issues, and to make recommendations for improving railroad safety measures. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to include the findings and recommendations of the task force in a specified report to the Legislature on sites on railroad lines that are found to be hazardous.
AB 450 (Yee) Standardized Emergency Management System: Animals Relates to existing law that requires the Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with specified agencies, to jointly establish a standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency management agencies. Permits the system to take into account the needs of individuals with household pets, service animals, livestock and equines following a major disaster or emergency.
AB 1559 (Gordon) Homeland Security Communications Development Act Enacts the Homeland Security Communications Interoperability Development Act of 2005 which requires the Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee and the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee to form a joint committee to prepare a specified report to the Legislature with findings and recommendations for implementing a statewide communications and interoperability system.
AB 1783 (Nunez) Infrastructure Financing Provides for the financing of state and local government infrastructure through various funding sources, including bonds, fees, assessments, and other sources. Funds transportation, flood control, safe water systems, environmental improvement, housing, hospital seismic safety repair, and emergency public safety communications equipment.
AB 1848 (Bermudez) Homeland Security: Interoperable Public Safety Network Designated the annual report of the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee to serve as the state strategic plan for establishing a statewide integrated interoperable public safety communications network. Requires the report to include implementation strategies and time-lines.
AB 1889 (Nava) California Emergency Council Requires the membership of the California Emergency Council to include the Adjutant General, the Director of Homeland Security or its successor entity, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Director of Emergency Services. Requires meetings of the council to take place in Sacramento.
AB 1894 (Blakeslee) Department of Corrections: Mutual Aid Agreements Requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to enter into an agreement with the United States Department of Homeland Security for the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to train Department of Corrections personnel to perform functions relating to the processing of inmates who are illegally within the United States.
AB 1906 (Blakeslee) Emergency Services: Earthquake Scenarios Requires the Department of Conservation and the California Geological Survey to update the existing earthquake scenarios, and develop new scenarios as appropriate, for major regions in the state over the next 6 years and report the findings to specified state agencies. Appropriates funds therefor.
AB 2041 (Nava) Public Safety: Communications Amends the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee membership. Adds the Military Department, State Department of Health Services, and Department of Finance to, and removes the Department of Youth Authority from the committee. Requires that a representative of the Office of Emergency Services serve as chairperson. Requires that interoperability be developed to include first response agencies as the committee deems appropriate. Provides meeting requirement for the committee.
AB 2116 (Cohn) Emergency Services: Disaster Assistance: Equipment Amends existing law that requires the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee to make recommendations for state agency purchase of communications equipment or systems that will enable interoperability and other shared uses of public safety spectrum with local and federal agencies. Specifies the recommended equipment be public safety radio subscriber equipment that also conforms to governmental standards for interoperability. Requires local public safety agencies to ensure the equipment conforms.
AB 2224 (Houston) Emergency Response: Critical Incident Planning/Mapping Requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish a statewide critical incident planning and mapping system for public buildings in the state for use by emergency response agencies, to include specified components. Requires state agencies to participate in the system to the extent funding is available for such purpose. Authorizes local agencies to participate at their option.
AB 2231 (Pavley) Accessibility to Emergency Services Information Requires all providers of cellular phone services or digital or cellular text page services to transmit to their customers the emergency information notices produced by the Office of Emergency Services' Emergency Digital Information Service.
AB 2237 (Karnette) Harbors and Ports: Security Requires the Director of Homeland Security to submit an annual report to the Legislature on policies, projects, and funding necessary to protect the harbor facilities, port facilities, and the commercial marine transportation sector from terrorist attack.
AB 2274 (Karnette) Harbors and Ports: Emergency Response and Evacuation Requires local, regional and statewide agencies responsible for emergency preparation and response activities to work with all harbor agencies within their jurisdiction to ensure integrative of the harbor agencies' emergency preparation, response and evacuation procedures with the agencies' activities.
AB 2346 (Oropeza) Infrastructure Financing: Los Angeles Harbor District Provides that the Los Angeles Harbor District is an infrastructuring financing district. Expands the definition of debt for these purposes. Includes environmental remediation and certain types of repairs within those projects that may be financed. Includes various facilities within those qualifying for financing, and make various conforming changes. Includes tidelands and submerged lands subject to the public trust for commerce, navigation, and fisheries, and the applicable statutory trust grant or grants.
AB 2451 (Richman) Public Health Preparedness Act Enacts the Public Health Preparedness Act. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare and deliver to the Governor and the Legislature, and to annually review, the Public Health Emergency Plan for responding to a public health emergency, including specified provisions and guidelines. Requires copies of the plan be sent to state and local government agencies responsible for the implementation of the plan, and to interested persons and members of the public.
AB 2508 (Haynes) Immigration: Emergencies Includes illegal immigration within the definition of the terms of state of emergency and local emergency under the Emergency Services Act.
AB 2561 (Torrico) Privacy Protection: Personal Identification Documents Requires the state Research Bureau to submit a report on security and privacy for government-issued, remotely readable identification credentials. Requires the bureau to establish an advisory board, to be comprised of specified government officials and representatives from industry and privacy rights organizations, to make recommendations and provide technical advice to the bureau in preparing the report.
AB 2584 (De La Torre) Emergency and Disaster Response Exercises: Diseases Requires the State Department of Health Services, when conducting emergency or disaster preparedness exercises relating to the outbreak of an infectious disease, establish a process to identify any deficiencies in the preparedness plans and procedures and track implementation of corrective measures, according to specified criteria.
AB 2678 (Harman) Immigration: Federal Cooperation Funding Establishes the Immigration and Customs Enforcement program to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services. Makes an appropriation from the General Fund to fund grants to local law enforcement agencies who participate in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement program.
AB 2852 (Nava) Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Establishes the Tsunami Steering Committee to guide tsunami hazard preparation activities in the state. Requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish a statewide tsunami hazard mitigation program to maintain consistent planning efforts regarding preparation, communication, response, and mitigation in the event of a tsunami.
AB 2883 (Oropeza) Local Government: Urban Areas States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would clarify the definition of urban area to maximize eligibility for federal Department of Homeland Security funding in high-risk localities.
AB 2895 (Karnette) Infrastructure States that if the Governor has not submitted the infrastructure plan to the Legislature within one week of the date of introduction of the Governor's annual budget bill, the Legislature may request in writing that the plan be submitted.
AB 2963 (DeVore) Ports Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reduce congestion and the threat of a terrorist attack at California ports.
AB 2990 (Levine) Adult Day Health Care: Emergency Evacuation Plans Requires an adult day health care center to maintain an emergency evacuation plan, including an alternative location where participants may be safely housed if the center becomes uninhabitable.
AB 2991 (Karnette) Port Infrastructure Financing Requires any counter terrorism or antiterrorism funding received from governmental or private entities and deposited into the infrastructure fund to be used only for terrorism preparation or response.
AB 3058 (Jobs, Economic Development & The Economy Committee) Disaster Preparedness: Small Businesses Requires the Office of Small Business Advocate, in cooperation with the Office of Emergency Services, to develop a web-based handbook for small business on emergency preparedness and recovery strategies. Requires the office to hold at least 3 meetings to share best practices on disaster preparedness for small businesses. Require the Department of Industrial Relations to include, in its worker occupational safety and health training and education program emergency preparedness training for small businesses.
SB 335 (Maldonado) Airport Security, Safety and Capacity Grants Provides for an appropriation each year from 2005 to 2009 by transferring moneys from the General Fund to the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund, for expenditure by the Department of Transportation, without regard to fiscal years, for grants to publicly owned general aviation airports for security and safety, as determined by the department.
SB 403 (Machado) Chemical Tanker Task Force Requires the Administrator of the Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response to convene a Chemical Tanker Task Force to gather information and make recommendations regarding chemical tankers carrying hazardous materials that enter, leave or navigate the waters of the state.
SB 409 (Kehoe) Emergency Health Care Services: Appropriations Appropriates from the General Fund moneys to the Department of General Services for the 2005-06 fiscal year, for specified public health purposes, including emergency health care services.
SB 433 (Simitian) Department of Motor Vehicles: Personal Information Prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from issuing, renewing, duplicating, or replacing a driver's license or identification card, if the license or card uses radio waves to either transmit personal information remotely or to enable personal information to be read from the license or card remotely.
SB 611 (Speier) Meat and Poultry Recalls Requires a meat or poultry supplier, distributor, broker or processor that sells meat- or poultry-related product in the state that is subject to a voluntary recall issued by the United States Department of Agriculture to immediately notify the Department of Health Services and the public and to provide the department with a list of retailers who have received or will receive any product subject to recall that the supplier, distributor, broker or processor has handled or anticipates handling.
SB 693 (Morrow) State Militia: Border Control Assistance Requires the Adjutant General to develop a plan to provide support for federal border control operations.
SB 760 (Lowenthal) Ports: Congestion Relief: Security Enhancement Imposes on each shipping container processed in the Port of Los Angeles or the Port of Long Beach a fee of $30 per twenty-foot equivalent unit, payable by the marine terminal operator processing the container to the port where the marine terminal is located. Requires each port to retain 1/3 of the funds derived from imposition of the fee and transmit the remaining 2/3 in the amount of 1/2 due to the Port Congestion Relief Trust Fund and 1/2 to the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
SB 768 (Simitian) Identity Information Protection Act Enacts the Identity Information Protection Act of 2005. Requires identification documents that are created or issued by various public entities that use radio waves to broadcast personal information, or to enable personal information to be read remotely, to meet specified requirements. Provides that the intentional remote reading or attempting to remotely read such documents using radio waves without permission is punishable by specified criminal penalties.
SB 955 (Soto) Public Safety: Firefighting Authorizes the State Fire Marshal to contract with the Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship program for the development of curriculum criteria.
SB 1160 (Cedillo) Vehicles: Driver's License Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, in the issuance of driver's license and identification cards, to issue licenses and cards that are in compliance with specified requirements of the federal Real ID Act of 2005, as certified by the Secretary of Homeland Security. Requires the Department to issue licenses that permit driving, and are not acceptable for federal identification to applicants who do not provide valid documentary evidence of lawful  status.
SB 1194 (Morrow) Employment: Hiring Practice: Immigration Status Requires the Department of Personnel Administration to verify the legal status or authorization to work of every employee of the state and of agencies that contact with the state prior to the hiring of that employee in accordance with the federal Basic Pilot Program. Requires an employer to verify the legal status or authorization to work of every employee of that employer and other employers that contract with that employer prior to the hiring of that employee. Relates to electronic verification.
SB 1339 (Romero) Emergency Medical Services Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to create a working group to, among other things, design a study to assess the adequacy of the state's emergency and trauma care system and provides a specified report to the chairs of the appropriate committees of the Legislature.
SB 1379 (Perata) Biomonitoring Requires the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control within the Department of Health Services to establish the Healthy Californians Biomonitoring Program to monitor the presence and concentration of designated chemicals in Californians. Establishes the Healthy Californians Biomonitoring Fund for deposit  of funds for the biomonitoring program.
SB 1389 (Poochigian) Crime: False Personation Amends existing law which provides that any person who falsely personates another and does any act whereby, if done by the person  falsely personated, might make him or her liable to any suit or prosecution is punishable. Includes any act that might make the person falsely personated liable to arrest or a criminal charge.
SB 1430 (Alquist) Local Pandemic and Emergency Health Preparedness Act Enacts the Local Pandemic and Emergency Health Preparedness Act. Authorizes disclosure of information to a local health department for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease injury, or disability as authorized by state and federal law. Includes circumstances of an imminent or proximate threat of the introduction of any contagious, infectious or communicable disease, chemical agent, noncommunicable biologic agent, toxin, or radioactive agent to the scope for declaring a county health emergency.
SB 1451 (Kehoe) Emergency Preparedness, Planning and Information Provides that the State Fire Marshal shall convene a permanent advisory committee to make recommendations regarding preparedness, planning, procedures and accessible information relating to the emergency evacuation of designated groups, including the elderly, persons with disabilities, and persons without access to transportation, from public and private facilities and private residences during emergency or disaster situations.
SB 1479 (Soto) Office of Emergency Services: Disaster Information Requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish and maintain an Internet-based disaster information center for public access during disasters and other emergencies that would include specified information.
SB 1648 (Kehoe) California Emergency Services Act: Emergency Planning Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to the Emergency Service Act which sets forth the duties of the Governor in coordinating the State Emergency Plan and emergency programs, and the preparation of those plans and programs by the political subdivisions of the state, according to specified criteria.
SB 1723 (Kehoe) Emergency Services Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to existing law which provides that during a state of war emergency or a state of emergency, the Governor may suspend any regulatory statute, or statute prescribing procedures for conduct of State business, or the orders, rules or regulations of any State agency where the Governor determines and declares that strict compliance with any statute, order, rule or regulation would in any way prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the emergency.
SCA 29 (Morrow) Ports: California Port Security Enhancement Act Amends the Constitution to prohibit a state or local government entity that owns or operates a harbor or port facility within the state from authorizing or permitting, by contract or otherwise, an entity owned or controlled by a government of a foreign country to manage or operate that harbor or port. Includes a requirement that the Governor disclose to the public who owns or controls the entities that manage or operate the harbors and ports in the state.
SCR 107 (Kehoe) Homeland Security: Emergency Services Increases the membership of the Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security.
SJR 26 (Morrow) Port Security Memorializes the President and Congress to exercise the utmost scrutiny and judgment in any decisions affecting the port and maritime security of the U.S. and her citizens, specifically with regard to the Dubai Port World Contract. Makes another memorialization to federal government to ensure that any terminal operation contracts abide by the Maritime Transportation Security Act and the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code.
SJR 29 (Kehoe) Homeland Security Urges the United States Department of Homeland Security to revisit its calculation of risk for the San Diego and Sacramento areas to ensure their inclusion in future Urban Area Security Initiative Grant programs.