AB 262 - Public Postsecondary education: Credit Card Marketing
Location: Chaptered into Law
This bill regulates credit card marketing on public campuses and universities by requesting each campus to disclose all exclusive credit card marketing arrangements with banks or other commercial entities, and prohibits banks and other commercial card companies from offering gifts to students for completing credit card applications.
AB 338 – Workers’ Compensation: temporary disability payments
Location: Chaptered into Law
This bill allows temporary disability payments for which injured workers may be eligible to be paid to expand from two years to within five years from the date of injury.
AB 761 – State contracts: infrastructure bonds: small businesses
Location: Chaptered into Law
This bill requires each state agency to establish a 25 percent small business participation goal for construction of the states infrastructures financed with bond proceeds, and requires each state agency, on and after August 1, 2009, to report to the Director of the Department of General Services on certain statistics regarding small business and micro business participation.
AB 796 – Earthquake Insurance
Location: Chaptered into Law
This bill requires insurance companies who charge an additional premium or deductible because a dwelling fails to meet anchor bolt requirements to not make that charge if the dwelling is brought into compliance with the successor edition to the 1991 edition of the Uniform Building Code.
AB 797 – Insurance: agents
Location: Chaptered into Law
This bill authorizes the curriculum board to approve courses in business management practices to qualify for continuing education credit, and authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to issue a limited “automobile-only” insurance agent license.
AB 798 – Unemployment Insurance and Base Periods
Location: Chaptered into Law
Authorizes the Chancellor of the CCCs to obtain quarterly wage data from EDD on community college students to assess the impact of education on the employment and earnings of students.
ACR 43 – Cinco de Mayo
Location: Chaptered into Law
This resolution proclaims April 29 through May 5, 2007, as Cinco de Mayo Week and urges all Californians to reflect on the courage and achievements not only of the Mexican forces at Puebla, but also on the courage and achievements of Latinos here in California.
AB 144 – Pupil testing: high school exit examination
Location: Vetoed by Governor
This bill allows the Franklin-McKinley School District to administer the high school exit exam in mathematics to eight grade students.
AB 183 – Pupils: high schools: voter registration
Location: Vetoed by Governor
This bill requires every school district with at least one high school to publish, beginning with the 2009-10 school years and annually thereafter, specified voter registration efforts.
AB 252 – Pupil testing: primary language assessments
Location: Vetoed by Governor
This bill authorizes the state Department of Education to make available primary language assessments to public schools where students are enrolled in dual language immersion programs. This bill also requires, beginning with the 2010-11 school year, the annual release of test items from the achievement tests in Spanish.
AB 280 – Instructional programs: State Seal of Biliteracy
Location: Vetoed by Governor
This bill establishes the State Seal of Biliteracy to be awarded to high school graduates who have achieved proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing skills in one or more languages, in addition to English.
AB 624 – Private foundations: diversity (2 yr bill)
Location: Assembly Judiciary
This bill requires large foundations to disclose the racial and gender composition of their boards of directors and the number of grants awarded to organizations serving ethnic minority communities.
AB 143 – Charter schools: funding
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
This bill establishes a pilot program to authorize a charter school, beginning July 1, 2008, which serve pupils who meet requirements for assignment to a community day school, to receive community day school funding until January 1, 2012.
AB 145 – San Jose State University – National Hispanic University: Collaboration
Location: Assembly Appropriations
This bill authorizes San Jose State University and the National Hispanic University to enter into a collaborative agreement for outreach, transfer, joint classes, research, and other education services. The bill appropriates $10 million from the state General Fund for these purposes.
AB 178 – High schools: curriculum and enrollment: College Readiness
Location: Senate Education
This bill establishes incentives for schools adopting A-G requirements as the primary curriculum: Provides $100 per student for 3 years, and appropriates $1 million annually from the state for this purpose.
AB 274 – Taxation: Credit: Brownfield cleanup
Location: Assembly Revenue & Taxation
This bill authorizes a tax credit for small business owners who spend funds to cleanup a polluted brownfield property in California to a satisfactory level.
AB 393 - Personal Income Tax: Deduction: Qualified Mortgage
Location: Assembly Appropriations
This bill allows taxpayers to deduct their mortgage insurance payments for state income tax purposes. This proposal would conform to a recent federal law that allows these deductions for federal income tax purposes.
AB 586 - School Finance
Location: Assembly Education
This bill expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reform how schools are financed and focuses on the issue of whether they are adequately funded in comparison to the actual cost of educating pupils.
AB 760 – Pupil Health: school health services
Location: Assembly Appropriations
This bill requires school districts, beginning in the 2008-09 school year, to annually report (for three years) the number of pupils who have an acute health or chronic health condition that requires assistance during the regular school day to the State Department of Education.
AB 1188 – Escrow: disbursements
Location: Senate Judiciary
This bill requires escrow agents who make loan disbursements to certify to the lender the date of the disbursement and that the amount of interest collected at closing was calculated in accordance with the escrow instructions.
AB 1279 – California Dream Act
Location: Senate Floor
This bill makes California high school graduates who meet the non-resident in-state tuition requirements eligible for a fee waiver at community colleges and able to participate in the Cal Grant Program the Office Immigrant Affairs within the Department of Community Services and Development and charges the Office of Immigrant Affairs with duties related to the integration and civic participation of immigrant communities.
AB 1395 – School facilities: new construction: ongoing eligibility
Location: Senate Education
This bill extends for 3 years the eligibility of state construction funds for school districts with declining student enrollment.
