CA Legislature to Reconvene Aug. 17

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The California Assembly and Senate reconvene after their summer recesses on August 17, 2015. There are a number of bills opposed by CLFP that are still making their way through the legislative process. CLFP will work to defeat these measures when the Legislature reconvenes.  

These bills include:

     SB 3 (Leno) Automatic Minimum Wage Increase: Unfairly increases employers’ costs while ignoring the economic factors or other costs of employers by increasing the minimum wage by $3.00 over the next two and a half years with automatic increases tied to inflation.

     SB 406 (Jackson; D-Santa Barbara) Significant Expansion of California Family Rights Act: Increases costs, risk of litigation and less conformity with federal law by dramatically reducing the employee threshold from 50 to at least 25 employees and expanding the family members for whom leave may be taken, which will provide a California-only, separate 12-week protected leave of absence for both small and large employers to administer.

     AB 465 (R. Hernández) Increased Litigation: Significantly drives up litigation costs for all California employers as well as increases pressure on the already-overburdened judicial system by precluding mandatory employment arbitration agreements, which is likely pre-empted by the Federal Arbitration Act.

    SB 350 (de León) Costly and Burdensome Regulations: Potentially increases costs and burdens on all Californians by mandating an arbitrary and unrealistic reduction of petroleum use by 50%, increasing the current Renewable Portfolio Standard to 50% and increasing energy efficiency in buildings by 50% — all by 2030 without regard to the impact on individuals, jobs and the economy.

    SB 32 (Pavley) Slows Economic Growth: Increases costs for California businesses, makes them less competitive and discourages economic growth by adopting further greenhouse gas emission reductions for 2030 and 2050 without regard to the impact on individuals, jobs and the economy.  

Additionally, CLFP will work to gain legislative approval on AB 384 (Perea), a CLFP-sponsored measure, which would remove the January 1, 2016, sunset date associated with the Food Industry Education and Training Program thus making the industry supported program permanent within the California Department of Public Health. The next significant legislative deadline is August 28, the date by which fiscal committees must send the bills to the floor for consideration by the entire Senate or Assembly. Both houses will have until September 11, 2015, to move bills out of the Legislature and to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk.

 

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