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State Legislation Committee
April 18, 2007
3:00 pm
City Hall, Room 288
DRAFT Meeting Minutes
Members Present
Mayor’s Office (Chair) – Amiee Albertson
Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s Office – David Noyola
Supervisor Alioto-Pier’s Office – Catherine Stefani
City Attorney’s Office – MaryJane Winslow
Treasurer’s Office – Pauline Marx
Assessor’s Office – Zoon Nguyen
Controller’s Office – Marti Paschal
Other Attendees
Department of Environment – Mark Westlund
Department of Environment – Robert Haley
Mayor’s Office of Housing – Douglas Shoemaker
Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice – Nicolas King
Department of Public Health – Jim Soos
AGENDA
I. ROLL CALL
II. APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES
Action Item: the Committee voted to approve the minutes of the April 9, 2007 meeting of the State Legislation Committee.
III. PROPOSED LEGISLATION
Action items: the Committee voted to take the following positions on state legislation affecting the City and County of San Francisco.
A. AB 101 (Ma): to improve transit efficiency though authorization of photo-enforcement of parking violations in bus lanes and street sweeping zones.
Position taken: tabled
B. AB 1256 (Caballero): to amend the Density Bonus law to benefit cities that are already creating large amounts of affordable housing.
Position taken: Support if amended
C. SB 934 (Lowenthal): to allow creation of housing and infrastructure financing zones.
Position taken: Support
D. AB 845 (Bass): to provide state funding for housing for former foster youth and probation youth.
Position taken: removed from agenda because bill is already consistent with the Mayor’s State Legislative Plan.
E. SB 767 (Ridley-Thomas): to allow any person who believes that another person is experiencing a drug overdose to administer an opiod antagonist (Naloxone) without being subject to civil liability or criminal penalties as a result of that act.
Position taken: Support
F. AB 1496 (Swanson): to require legislative body approval for City and County departments to hire as-needed workers or to backfill employees on leave for more than 60 days.
Position taken: removed from the agenda because it was determined to be not applicable to the City and County of San Francisco.
G. SB 1020 (Padilla): to require counties to divert 75% of all solid waste.
Position taken: Support
H. AB 1471 (Feuer): to expand the types of weapons required to utilize micro-stamping technology to transfer unique identifiers from the weapon to the bullet when the weapon is fired.
Position taken: continued until the next meeting of the State Legislation Committee at the request of Supervisor Alioto-Pier’s office.
I. AB 1502 (Lieu): to create banking development districts to incentivize banks to develop and market products to the unbanked.
Position taken: Support
J. AB 1693 (Eng): to allow California tax filers to purchase a savings bond with part of their refund on their tax return.
Position taken: Support
K. AB 1300 (Price): to enact practices that improve family contact with incarcerated juveniles.
Position taken: Support
L. AB362 (de Leon): to combat handgun violence through increased regulation of handgun dealers.
Position taken: Support
M. SB 803 (Lowenthal): to enhance opportunities for community conservation corps programs to compete to construct transportation enhancement projects.
Position taken: Support
IV. SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
Discussion item: no new legislation was recommended for consideration.
V. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Discussion item: no members of the public wished to comment.
VI. ADJOURNMENT