CA NOW Legislation Final Bill List 2016
CA NOW Priority Bills:
Senator Isadore Hall who introduced SB 1063 with Jan B. Tucker at Empowerment Congress
SB 1063 (Hall) Wage Equality Act of 2016 that would prohibit employers from paying a wage rate less than the rate paid to employees of a different race or ethnicity for substantially similar work. Lead Sponsor
[Jan Tucker comment: this is the strongest equal pay law ever passed with criminal penalties, something we haven’t seen in labor civil rights laws in California since the 1937 legislature]
Status: Passed Senate 26 to 13 6/1/16 i
In ASM Labor & Employment Committee hearing 6/22/16
ASM Appropriations Committee Hearing 8/11/16
8/15/16 ASM Floor ordered to 3rd reading 8/18/16
9/30/16 Signed into law by Governor Brown
AB 1676 (Campos) Wages: Gender pay equity would prohibit employers seeking written or oral salary history. CA NOW Cosponsor
Status: In Senate Labor & industrial Committee Hearing 6/22/16
ASM Appropriations Committee Hearing 8/1/16
8/2/16 Read 2nd time. Ordered to 3rd reading 8/18/16
9/30/16 Sign into law by Governor Brown
AB 1732 (Ting) Single user-restrooms would require all business open to the public to provide all-gender toilet facilities. CA NOW Cosponsor
Status: 5/9/16 Passed ASM Floor 55 to 19 5/19/15 referred to SEN Transportation & Housing Committee Hearing 6/21/16
Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing 8/1/16
8/9/16 Read 2nd time. Ordered to 3rd reading 8/18/16
9/29/16 Signed into law by Governor Brown
SB 813 (Leyva) Sex Offenses: Statute of Limitations would eliminate the current 10 year statue of limitations in CA. (20 other states do not have a SOL) CA NOW Cosponsor
Status: 6/1/16 3rd reading passed 33 to 0 referred to ASM Public Safety Committee Hearing 6/21/16
Passed ASM Appropriations Committee Hearing and on the ASM floor 8/18/16 passed 72 to 0 going to the Governors desk.
Rally Sept 6th on the Capitol steps 11 AM
9/28/16 Signed into law by Governor Brown
Support:
AB 1595 (Campos) Employment: Human Trafficking Training: mass transportation employers:
Status: 5/27/16 ASM Appropriations Committee: Held under submission
(This bill is dead)
AB 1760 (Santiago) Human Trafficking – Safe Harbor for Trafficked Children. Will protect minor victims of all forms of human trafficking – both sex and labor – from these unintended consequences and hopefully lead to increased prosecutions of human traffickers.
Status: ASM Appropriations hearing 5/27/16 held under submission (This bill is dead)
AB 1761 (Weber) Human Trafficking: victims: Affirmative defense. Puts in place an important additional protection for victims to ensure they are not convicted of crimes their traffickers force them to commit. It also strengthens the ability of the judicial system to more fully describe the complexity of these crimes through expert testimony,
Status: Passed ASM 5/26/16 in Senate Public Safety Committee
Hearing 6/28/16
in Senate Appropriations Hearing 8/1/16
8/2/16 Read 2nd time. Ordered to 3rd reading 8/18/16
9/26/16 Signed into law by Governor Brown
AB 1762 (Campos) Human Trafficking: victims; vacating convictions. Puts in [lace a comprehensive system to ensure that all trafficking survivors-both sex and labor, both adults and children- are able to fully clear their criminal records so that they can leave behind the legal obstacles caused by their trafficking experience.
Status; 6/15 16 Senate Public Safety Committee Hearing 6/28/16 —
In Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing 8/1/16
8/17/16 read 3rd time and amended. Ordered to second reading 8/18/16
9/26/16 Vetoed by Governor Brown
AB 1795 (Atkins) Heath Care Programs: Cancer Makes changes to the breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program and the breast and cervical cancer treatment program within the Department of Heath Care Services regarding eligibility for screenings, period of treatment and eligibility of coverage after re-occurrence of cancer.
Status: passed Senate Heath Committee 6/15/16 re referred to Appropriations Committee
In Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing 8/1/16
8/17/16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
9/25/16 Signed into law by Governor Brown
AB 1954 (Burke) Health care coverage: reproductive health care services: Prohibits an employer of five or more employees from refusing to allow an employee, upon request, to take up to 12 weeks of parental leave to bond with a new child within one year of the child’s birth, adoption, or foster care placement. Letter of Support
Status: SEN Health Hearing 6/22/16 (Need to look at amendments)
In Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing 8/1/16
8/17/16 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading 8/18/16
9/23/16 Signed into law by Governor Brown
AB 2569 (Melendez) Registered sex offenders; would include relatives not currently required to register. Letter of Support
Status: Senate Public Safety Hearing 6/28/16
Still In Senate Public Safety Committee
8/11/16 In Committee: Held under submission
AB 2590 (Weber) Sentencing: Restorative Justice will find and declare the purpose of sentencing is public safety achieved through accountability, rehabilitation and restorative justice.
Status: Senate Appropriations Hearing 8/1/16
8/15/16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading 8/18/16
9/27/16 Signed into law by Governor Brown
SB 10 (Lara) Immigration: Governor’s Office of New America
Will require the state to apply for a federal waiver that will allow undocumented immigrants and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients to buy coverage through our state marketplace using their own money
Status: Sign by Governor 6/10/16
SB 899 (Hueso) Gender Discrimination: would extend existing Gender Tax Repeal Act prohibitions against pricing discrimination on the basis of gender with respect to services of similar or like kind to goods of similar or like kind as well.
Status; ASM Judiciary Committee Hearing 6/21/16
6/28/16 second hearing canceled by request of the author
(this bill is not going to make it through this year a new version is being written for next year)
9/27/16 Signed into law by Governor Brown
SB 1166 (Jackson) Unlawful employment practice: parental leave will be know as the New Parent Leave Act and will 1. Prohibit an employer of five or more employees from refusing to allow an employee, upon request, to take up to 12 weeks of parental leave to bond with a new child within one year of the child’s birth, adoption, or foster care placement. Supported in Senate Labor committee hearing
Status: ASM Labor & Employment Committee Hearing 6/22/16
Failed passage in committee Bill Died
SB 1322 (Mitchell) Commercial sex acts: minors –Decriminalizes prostitution for those under the age of 18 years of age.
Status: 8/4/16 ASM Floor 3rd reading 8/18/16
9/26/16 Signed into law by Governor Brown
SB 1380 (Mitchell) Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to establish Housing First to end homelessness
Letter of Support sent to committee Transportation & Housing
Status: 6/1/16 ASM referred to Committee on H and C&D
Assembly Appropriations Committee Hearing 8/3/16
8/15/116 Read 3nd time. Ordered to 3rd reading
9/26/16 Signed into law by Governor Brown
Opposing:
AB 2855 ( Frazier) Charitable solicitations: financial disclosure for 501 (c) 3’s Status: First Hearing failed passage Location: ASM Privacy and Consumer Protection
Status: 5/27/16 ASM Appropriations Committee Held under submission (This bill is dead or almost dead)
is bill is dead or almost dead)
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