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STATE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
Monday, March 30, 2009
2PM
City Hall, Room 288
MEMBERS:
Mayor’s Office (Chair) – Nancy Kirshner-Rodriguez
Supervisor Chiu – David Noyola
Supervisor Alioto-Pier – Catherine Stefani / Sarah Ballard
City Attorney’s Office – MaryJane Winslow
Treasurer’s Office – Pauline Marx/ David Augustine
Assessor’s Office – Alissa Pines
Controller’s Office – Peg Stevenson
AGENDA
I . ROLL CALL
II. APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES
Action Item: the Committee will vote to approve the minutes of the March 23, 2009 meeting of the State Legislation Committee.
III. 2009 STATE AGENDA
Discussion item: the Committee will review and discuss the draft 2009 State Agenda for the City andCounty of San Francisco (See Supporting Documents)
IV. REVIEW OF DEPARTMENT STATE LEGISLATIVE PLANS
Action Item: the Committee will vote to approve the following State Legislative Plans for Departments of the City and County of San Francisco
a. Department of Public Health
b. Human Services Agency
c. Department of the Environment
Discussion item: the Committee will review and discuss the draft State Legislative Plans for Departments of the City and County of San Francisco
d. Public Utilities Commission
V. PROPOSED LEGISLATION
Action Items: vote to support, not support, or take no position on the following state legislation affecting the City and County of San Francisco
Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector
Pauline Marx / David Augustine
AB 1342 (Evans)
Existing law authorizes various local governmental entities to impose local taxes for various purposes. This bill would authorize the board of supervisors of any county, by ordinance, to impose either a personal income tax or a vehicle license fee, or both, in accordance with specified requirements.
Recommended action: Support
Human Services Agency
Noelle Simmons
AB 631 (Tran) and AB 1193 (Strickland)
Both bills would require that a district attorney investigator visit the home of every CalWORKs applicant and conduct a home walk-through and applicant interview and report the findings of the home visit to the county welfare agency before CalWORKs assistance could be approved. Local DA’s offices would be given 10 days to complete the home visit.
Recommended action: Oppose
Municipal Transportation Agency
Kate Breen
AB 1336 (Eng)
Existing law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco, until January 1, 2012, to enforce parking violations in specified transit-only traffic lanes through the use of video image evidence. This bill would extend that authorization until January 1, 2013. The bill would make a related change with respect to a notice of a delinquent parking violation.
Recommended action: Support
Arts Commission
Luis Cancel
AB 700 (Krekorian)
This bill would establish the Creative Industries and Community Economic Revitalization Act of 2010, which would create, in the State Treasury, the Creative Industries and Community Economic Revitalization Fund.
The bill would require that 20% of all revenues derived from the payment of sales and use taxes that are remitted to the State Board of Equalization by the taxpayers engaged in specified lines of business, as provided, be deposited in the fund. The council would be authorized to expend the moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to issue grants pursuant to the act.
The bill would authorize a city, county, district, including, but not limited to, a regional park district, a joint powers authority, or a nonprofit arts organization deemed eligible by the council, to apply to the council for a local assistance program grant for organizational support. The council would be required, when issuing a grant, to encourage joint partnerships between applicants, and to submit an annual report to the Legislature that includes the status of each grant made pursuant to the act.
Recommended action: Support
Department of the Environment
David Assmann
SB 518 (Lowenthal)
This bill would require that state funds not be used, directly or indirectly, to subsidize parking services, except as specified, for students, employees, or other persons on district-owned or district-leased property on and after January 1, 2011.
Recommended action: Support
AB 68 (Brownley) - Solid waste: single-use carryout bags.
This bill would, on and after July 1, 2011, prohibit a store, as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag to a customer unless the store charges a fee of not less than $0.25 per bag at the point of sale. The bill would exempt certain customers from paying the fee. The bill would establish the Bag Pollution Fund in the State Treasury and would require a store to remit the single-use carryout bag fees, less a specified amount, to the State Board of Equalization for deposit in that fund.
Recommended action: Support
AB 87 (Davis) - Single-use carryout bags: environmental effects: mitigation.
Likely to merge with AB 68 (Brownley). This bill would instead prohibit, on and after July 1, 2010, a store, as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag, including a green carryout bag, to a customer unless the store charges a fee of not less than $0.25 per bag at the point of sale. The bill would exempt certain customers from paying the fee (participants in California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children and participants in Food Stamp Program.). The bill would establish the Bag Pollution Fund in the State Treasury and, by January 31, 2011, would require a store that collects the single-use carryout bag fees to remit the fees, less a specified amount to be used as required, to the State Board of Equalization for deposit in that fund, and do so on a quarterly basis thereafter.
Recommended action: Support
AB 1141 (Calderon) - Carryout bags.
The bill would prohibit a city, county, or other public agency from adopting, implementing, or enforcing an ordinance, resolution, regulation, or rule that prohibits the use, import, sale, or distribution of a single use carryout bag.
Recommended action: Oppose
SB 55 (Corbett) - Recycling: California redemption value containers.
This bill would expand the types of containers covered under the bottle bill by revising the term beverage to include vegetable, nut, grain, or soy drinks that contain any percentage of juice, and would delete the requirement that a vegetable drink subject to the act be sold in a container of 16 ounces or less. The bill would delete the exclusion from the term beverage, for a product that is not sold in the above-specified types of containers. The bill would additionally exclude from the definition a beverage in a flexible foil, plastic pouch, or aseptic container delivering 7 or less fluid ounces. The bill would also make conforming changes to other definitions, for purposes of the act.
Recommended action: Support
AB 283 (Chesbro) - Solid waste: extended producer responsibility program.
This bill would create the California Product Stewardship Act of 2010 and would require the board to administer the program. The bill would require the board to adopt regulations by July 1, 2011, in order to implement the program to provide environmentally sound product stewardship protocols that encourage producers to research alternatives during the product design and packaging phases to foster cradle-to-cradle producer responsibility and reduce the end-of-life environmental impacts of the product.
Recommended action: Support
AB 1173 (Huffman) - Recycling: compact fluorescent lamps.
The existing California Lighting Efficiency and Toxics Reduction Act prohibits, on and after January 1, 2010, except for certain specified circumstances, a person from manufacturing, selling, or offering for sale in the state specified general purpose lights that contain levels of hazardous substances prohibited by the European Union pursuant to the RoHS Directive, as specified.
This bill would prohibit the distribution of moneys from energy efficiency investment funds or any other funds generated from usage-based charges on electricity distribution that are provided by California's retail sellers of electricity to any entity for compact fluorescent lamps, unless the compact fluorescent lamps meet certain specifications, and the manufacturer or distributor of the compact fluorescent lamps has implemented a recycling program or has agreed to pay an unspecified amount for every lamp for which funding is received into a compact fluorescent lamp recycling fund. The bill would prohibit the distribution of moneys from energy efficiency investment funds or any other funds generated from usage-based charges on electricity distribution that are provided by California's retail sellers of electricity to a retailer, unless the retailer has agreed to provide the public an in-store collection opportunity for the recycling of compact fluorescent lamps.
Recommended action: Oppose
AB 231 (Huffman) - California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Climate Protection Trust Fund.
This bill, using funds deposited in a Climate Protection Trust Fund, would reduce disproportionate impacts on low-income communities, provide incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and implement any market-based compliance mechanisms adopted by the state board.
Recommended action: Support
AB 1405 (De Leon) - California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Community Benefits Fund
This bill would establish the Community Benefits Fund, and would require an unspecified percentage of revenues generated pursuant to the act, including the fee discussed above, to be deposited into that fund. The moneys in the fund would be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in the most impacted and disadvantaged communities in California to accelerate greenhouse gas emission reductions and mitigate direct health impacts of climate change.
Recommended action: Support
SB 488 (Pavley) - Energy: energy efficiency financing.
We would support this bill without the provision that would provide that a seller or broker is not required to provide additional information regarding home energy efficiency if the transferee of a real property has received, as an alternative, any other information regarding energy efficiency produced by a utility provider or a public agency.
Recommended action: Oppose
Department of Public Health
Jim Soos
AB 1019 (Beall) and SB 558 (DeSaulnier)
AB 1019 would impose a $0.10 per drink excise tax on alcoholic beverages to establish the Alcohol-Related Services Fund administered by the California Department of Health Care Services for programs to prevent the use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs.
SB 558 would impose a $0.05 per drink excise tax to establish the Alcohol Abuse Treatment Program Fund administered by the California Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs to establish, or contract or provide grants for the establishment of, public education, outreach, counseling, case management, and recovery services, related to alcohol abuse.
Recommended action: Support
Port of San Francisco
Brad Benson
AB 1176 (Ammiano)
This bill would authorize the City and County of San Francisco to create infrastructure financing districts that include specified waterfront property. This bill would also modify the procedures for San Francisco to adopt an infrastructure financing plan, and allocate projected increases in ad valorem property taxes to specified annual apportionments.
Recommended action: Support
VI. SET REGULAR SCHEDULE FOR FUTURE COMMITTEE MEETINGS
VIII. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Discussion item: members of the public may address the Committee on items of interest that are within the Committee’s subject matter jurisdiction.
IX. ADJOURNMENT
Disability Access
Room 288 of City Hall is located at 1 Dr. Carton B. Goodlett Place, and is wheelchair accessible. The closest accessible BART Station is Civic Center, three blocks from City Hall. Accessible Muni lines serving this location are: #47 Van Ness, and the #71 Haight/Noriega and the F Line to Market and Van Ness, as will as Muni Metro stations at Van Ness and Civic Center. For more information about Muni accessible services, call 923-6142. There is accessible parking at the Civic Center Plaza garage.
Know Your Rights Under the Sunshine Ordinance
Government’s duty is to serve the public, reaching its decisions in full view of the public. Commissions, boards, councils, and other agencies of the City and County exist to conduct the people’s business. This ordinance assures that deliberations are conducted before the people and that City operations are open to the people’s review. For information on your rights under the Sunshine Ordinance (Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code) or to report a violation of the ordinance, contact the Donna Hall at Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244, San Francisco, CA 94102, by phone at 415-554-7724, by fax at 415-554-7854, or email the Sunshine Ordinance Taskforce Administrator at sotf@sfgov.org. Citizens may obtain a free copy of the Sunshine Ordinance by contacting the Task Force, or by printing Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code on the Internet, at www.sfgov.org/sunshine.htm.
Lobbyist Registration and Reporting Requirements
Individuals and entities that influence or attempt to influence local legislative or administrative action may be required by the San Francisco Lobbyist Ordinance (San Francisco Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code Sec. 2.100 –2.160) to register and report lobbying activity. For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance, please contact the San Francisco Ethics Commission at 30 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 3900, San Francisco, CA 94102; telephone 415-581-2300, fax 415-581-2317, Internet website: www.sfgov.org/ethics.
Cell Phones and Pagers
The ringing and use of cell phones, pagers, and similar sound-producing electronic devises are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the Chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices.
Public Comment
Public Comment will be taken on each item.
Document Review
Documents that may have been provided to members of the State Legislation Committee in connection with the items on the agenda include proposed state legislation, consultant reports, correspondence and reports from City departments, and public correspondence. These may be inspected by contacting Nancy Kirshner-Rodriguez, Director of Government Affairs, Mayor’s Office at: (415) 554-4846.
Health Considerations
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