2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 State Legislation Committee
April 13, 2005
2:00 pm
City Hall, Room 288
Meeting Minutes
Members Present
Mayor's Office (Chair) - Amiee Albertson
Supervisor Aaron Peskin's Office - David Owen
Supervisor Alioto-Pier's Office - Rob Black
City Attorney's Office - MaryJane Winslow
Controller's Office - Corina Monzon
Treasurer's Office - Pauline Marx
Members Absent
Assessor's Office - Craig Dziedzic
Other Attendees
Department of Public Health - Colleen Chawla
San Francisco Health Plan - Ellen Kaiser
Department of Human Services - Maggie Donahue
City Attorney - Jean Alexander
Mayor's Office of Community Development - Ahsha Safai
1 ROLL CALL
2 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
Action item: the Committee voted to approve the minutes of
the March 9, 2005 meeting of the State Legislation Committee.
3 PROPOSED LEGISLATION
Action items: the Committee took the following positions
on state legislation affecting the City and County of San Francisco:
A. Department of Public Health 2005 State Legislative
Agenda. Establishes the Department's position on a range of health-related
legislative topics.
The committee agreed to continue this item until
the May 11 meeting in order to give
committee members more time to review the document.
Position: Support
C. SB 167 (Speier): extend the deadline by which
hospitals can complete seismic retrofit until 2020.
Position: Support
D. SB 38 (Alquist):
to expand the Healthy Families program to cover all children up to 300% of
the Federal Poverty Level.
Position: Support
Position: Support
F. SB 1018 (Smitian): to include employees of certain
financial institutions as mandated reporters of financial abuse for elder
and dependent adults.
Position: Support
G. AB 1605 (Wolk): to include employees of certain
financial institutions as mandated reporters of financial abuse for elder
and dependent adults.
Position: Support
H. AB 824 (Chu): to extend the current age limit of 21 to 24 for the
Transitional Housing Placement Program for Emancipated Foster/Probation Youth
(also known as THP+).
Position: Support
I. AB 1282 (Mullin): to eliminate the 50/50 split
between San Francisco and San Mateo counties on the sale of jet fuel at SFO,
and allow San Mateo to keep all revenues.
Position: Oppose
J. AB 236 (Bermudez): to cap the sales tax on sale of jet fuel at
63 cents per gallon.
K. AB 769 (Horton): to authorize an enforcement agency to require
an owner of residential rental property to complete 15 hours of educational
courses if he or she fails to repair a building condition that is in violation
of the housing or building standard.
Position: Support
L. SB 894(Dunn): to allow the court to issue an
injunction against a property owner to prevent a recurrence or future occurrence
of nuisance activity.
Position: Support
Position: Support
4 SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
Discussion item: members of the Committee suggested the
following topics for consideration at the May 11 meeting:
- SB 308 (Smitian)
- State Legislative Plan for the City Attorney
- State Legislative Plan for the Department
of Human Resources
5 GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Discussion item: there was no public comment.
6 ADJOURNMENT
