High Priority Bill List
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Legislative policy committees are in full swing at the Capitol. The Legislature had until May 3, 2013 to pass all bills with fiscal implications to the Appropriations Committees. Non-fiscal bills must be passed out of policy committees and to the floor of each house by May 10, 2013. Each house has until May 31, 2013 to pass bills to the other house.
CLFP staff has been working with the Legislative Affairs Committee to determine the high priority measures in which to engage. Several bills have been identified which would have a direct impact on the food processing industry. These include:
AB 31 (Pan)
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Would inappropriately circumvent the Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture by giving the State Legislature the authority to set milk prices.
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Oppose |
| AB 153 (Bonilla) |
Would require CARB, on or before January 1, 2015, to adopt a specified process for the review and consideration of new offset protocols and to adopt guidelines and incentives that prioritize the approval of specified offset protocols. |
Support |
AB 177 (Perez)
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Would require all retail sellers of electricity, including investor-owned electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities, to procure all available renewable resources not limited by any procurement targets established for these resources by statute or regulatory decision.
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Oppose
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AB 227 (Gatto)
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Would help protect businesses from shakedown lawsuits by giving them 14 days to fix alleged Prop. 65 violations.
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Support
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AB 284 (Quirk)
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Sets up the Road to 2050 Board to fund studies on how best to reach greenhouse gas emissions reductions goal of 80% of the 1990 emissions level by 2050.
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Oppose
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AB 327 (Perea)
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Would provide a starting point for electric customer residential rate reform, specifically rate design. Under the current framework small users do not pay their fully calculated costs, which are then picked-up by remaining electric customers.
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Support
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AB 922 (Patterson)
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This bill changes the CARE application process to require an applicant to submit proof of income when applying for enrollment under the penalty of perjury.
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Support
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AB 1001 (Gordon)
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Would expand the recycling requirements for beverage containers to including juice drinks larger than 46 ounces, adding aseptic and paperboard containers and pouches.
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Oppose
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SB 250 (Wolk)
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Would establish the California Olive Oil Commission necessary to assure the continued vitality and competiveness of the industry by engaging in olive oil quality research, nutritional research, and grades and labeling standards.
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Support
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SB 617 (Evans)
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Comprehensive CEQA Expansion — Inappropriately expands CEQA, slowing development and growth in the state, by increasing CEQA notice filing and publication requirements, inviting more litigation over CEQA projects by overturning a recent court decision and allowing project opponents to challenge EIRs that don’t adequately evaluate and mitigate impacts related to conditions and physical features in the environment like sea-level rise and fault-lines, and eliminating several existing CEQA exemptions.
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Oppose
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SB 622 (Monning)
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Would impose a targeted tax on sweetened beverages, for the Children’s Health Promotion Fund.
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Oppose
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SB 731 (Steinberg)
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Comprehensive CEQA Reform -- Establishes the Legislatures’ intent to address a variety of problems with the CEQA process and CEQA litigation including: 1) expanding the infill exemption, 2) streamlining the process for several types of projects, 3) adopting thresholds of significance for certain environmental impacts, 4) streamlining the process for projects subject to a plan with a full EIR, 5) giving clearer instruction to trial courts, and 6) addressing document dumping. |
Support |
SB 747 (DeSaulnier)
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Establishes a new, duplicative, and burdensome program that requires the Department of Public Health to regulate manufacturers of consumer products that the Department determines contribute to a significant public health epidemic, (ie: obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease) and allows the department to restrict or prohibit the sale of such products.
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Oppose
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SB 691 (Hancock)
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Dramatically Increases Pollution Penalties – Exposes businesses to excessive increased air quality penalties, and expands applicability of those penalties to a wide range of new businesses without adequately defining what types and levels of pollution would trigger them.
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Oppose
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The CLFP Legislative Affairs Committee will continue to assist
staff in engaging on these and other measures throughout the legislative
process. If you are interested in being
a member of the Committee, please contact Trudi Hughes (trudi@clfp.com) or Allyson Rathkamp (allyson@clfp.com).
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