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State government: agency repeals.
AB 1659   (Huber)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Creates a Joint Sunset Review Committee to identify and eliminate waste, duplication, and inefficiency in government agencies.
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Passed.
Regulations: economic impact analysis.
AB 1833   (Logue)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Requires CalEPA, Div. of OSH and CARB to complete an economic analysis when proposing, amending or repealing administrative regulations. (Failed Passage)
Files:
ab_1833_roar_asm_b&p.doc Position Letter
Support
In Committee Process. Assembly Business and Professions
Professions and vocations: sunset review.
AB 2130   (Huber)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Makes specific boards and regulatory programs subject to review by a Joint Sunset Review Committee.
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Passed.
Small business advocate: report on costly regulations.
AB 2196   (Smyth)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Requires the Small Business Advocate to make a report on the ten most costly regulations. (Failed Deadline)
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In Committee Process. Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy
State Air Resources Board: rules and regulations: impacts analysis.
AB 2299   (Blakeslee)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Creates an external peer review process to evaluate secondary impacts of new rules and regulations, including impacts on the economy, California jobs, and subsequently the state\'s General Fund. (Failed Deadline)
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In Committee Process. Assembly Appropriations
State Air Resources Board: rules and regulations: impacts analysis.
AB 2299   (Blakeslee)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Creates an external peer review process to evaluate secondary impacts of new rules and regulations, including impacts on the economy, California jobs, and subsequently the state\'s General Fund.
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In Committee Process. Assembly Appropriations
State Air Resources Board: membership: small business owner.
AB 2328   (Niello)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Requires one public member of the CARB Board to be a small business owner. (Failed Passage, Senate Appropriations)
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Died. Senate Appropriations
State agencies: regulations: review.
AB 2529   (Fuentes)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Would review state agency regulatory philosophy and principles. Requires the Department of Finance to assist state agencies with the review of new and existing regulations including analyses performed by agencies in their promulgation. (Failed Deadline)
Files:
ab_2529_roar_asm_floor.doc Position Letter
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In Committee Process. Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development
Administrative regulations: legislative review.
AB 2652   (Niello)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Requires the Office of Administrative Law to submit copies of proposed regulations to the appropriate policy committee in each house of the Legislature and require the policy committees to conduct a hearing for the purpose of reviewing the proposed regulation. (Failed Deadline)
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In Committee Process. Assembly Appropriations
California Small Business Board.
AB 2692   (Tran)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Requires the Small Business Board within the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency as a priority area of focus, to review the state\'s licensing and permitting regulations as they impact small businesses, with special attention to the regulatory impact. Requires each state agency to cooperate with the board in that review. A summary of findings and recommendations will be made. (Failed Deadline)
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In Committee Process. Assembly Appropriations
Office of Small Business Advocate.
AB 2714   (V. Manuel Perez)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Moves the Office of Small Business Advocate to the Business Transportation and Housing Agency. Also provides that a representative from the office sit on the Calif. Small Business Development Board. (Failed Deadline)
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In Committee Process. Assembly Appropriations
Regulations: agency statement of reasons.
AB 2738   (Niello)
Vote required: Two Thirds   Approp.: No   Urgency: Yes   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Establishes a performance standards preference in the rulemaking process and requires justification for a technology-specific regulation.
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Passed.
Regulations: small businesses.
SB 356   (Wright)   2-year bill
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
NFIB sponsored bill to improve regulatory processes as they relate to small business. (Failed Deadline)
Support
In Committee Process. Assembly Rules
Regulations: review process.
SB 942   (Dutton)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Requires the Bureau of State Audits (BSA) to do a complete review of all existing regulations and recommend to the Legislature elimination or revision of any significant regulations that are not cost-effective. Also repeals all regulations ten years after their effective date unless the BSA determines that the regulations are cost-effective. (Failed Deadline)
Files:
sb_942_roar_sen_approps.doc Position Letter
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In Committee Process. Senate Appropriations
Legislative procedure: committee referrals: Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer or Business Protection.
SB 954   (Harman)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF)
Requires bills that have a statewide economic impact affecting business to first go to the renamed Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer or Business Protection to prepare an economic impact, hold a hearing and be approved before moving through the rest of the legislative process. Specifies procedures for holding bills estimated to generate a fiscal impact of $10,000 or more for small business and $50,000 or more on others for further consideration. (Failed Deadline)
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In Committee Process. Senate Rules
State Air Resources Board: regulations: Office of Administrative Law: report.
SB 960   (Dutton)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Requires the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) to review all CARB regulations that CARB estimates to cost at least $10 million. The OAL would determine whether the regulations are cost effective and technologically feasible.The LAO would determine whether the regulations are cost effective and technologically feasible. (Failed Passage)
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In Committee Process. Senate Environmental Quality
Regulations: 5-year review and report.
SB 988   (Huff)
Vote required: Two Thirds   Approp.: No   Urgency: Yes   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Requires the Bureau of State Audits to provide periodic reviews of energy regulations in the state. (Failed Deadline)
Files:
sb_988_roar_sen_app.doc Position Letter
Support
In Committee Process. Senate Appropriations
State Budget.
SB 1020   (Wolk)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Requires performance-based budgeting for each state agency. (Failed Deadline)
Files:
sb_1020_roar_asm_budget.doc Position Letter
Support
In Committee Process. Assembly Budget
State fiscal analysis.
SB 1160   (Dutton)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Requires dynamic economic analysis of tax and budget proposals. (Failed Deadline)
Files:
sb_1160_roar_asm_budget.doc Position Letter
Support
In Committee Process. Assembly Budget
State government: Economic Development and Job Creation Agency.
SB 1259   (DeSaulnier)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Establishes a Secretary of Economic Development and Job Creation Agency, subject to confirmation. 1st task to propose a re-organization of government by consolidating state departments working on economic development under one agency. (Failed Deadline)
Files:
sb_1259_sen_go.docx Position Letter
Sponsored, important, support
In Committee Process. Senate Appropriations
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: State Air Resources Board regulations.
SB 1351   (Wright)
Vote required: Majority   Approp.: No   Urgency: No   Legislature: Bill (HTML  PDF) Analysis (MSWord)
Requires CARB when adopting new regulations to make available implementation schedules, procedures and forms initially necessary for compliance. (Failed Passage)
Files:
sb_1351_roar_asm_floor.doc Position Letter
Support
Failed Passage in Committee. Senate Environmental Quality
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