2020 Legislation
Domestic Violence
SB 1141 (Author) Domestic violence: coercive control. The bill would add “coercive control” to the Family Code. This behavior of coercive control includes: Isolating the victim from friends, relatives, or other support; depriving the victim of basic necessities; controlling the victim’s communications, daily behavior, finances, economic resources, and many other behaviors that cause severe emotional distress.
SB 1276 (Author) The Comprehensive Statewide Domestic Violence Program. The bill removes the 10 percent cash or in-kind matching requirement for state grants awarded to domestic violence programs that provide essential resources. In addition to state requirements, domestic violence service providers must also meet match fund requirements for federal funding sources.
SB 1190 (Authors) Tenancy: termination - Allows a tenant to terminate a tenancy when the tenant or a household member is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder and dependent adult abuse to also include a crime that caused bodily injury or death, the exhibition, drawing, brandishing, or use of a firearm or other deadly weapon or instrument, or that included the use of force or threat of force against the victim, and expands these provisions to apply if an immediate family member of the tenant is a victim of an eligible crime, as provided.
Housing
SB 1212 (Author) Joint powers authorities: San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust: board of directors. It will strengthens the San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust by making three changes to the board. First, it will guarantee continuity of experience by staggering the two-year terms of board members. Second, it will expand housing and homelessness expertise on the board. Third, it will ensure board decisions are equitable by requiring city representatives on the board be from different cities.
AB 3308 (Coauthor) School districts: employee housing. - Allows school districts to restrict occupancy of affordable housing on school district-owned land, funded with low income housing tax credits (LIHTC), to teachers and school district employees of the school district that owns the land. It further allows local public employees to also occupy the housing constructed under this provision.
SB 1079 (Coauthor) Residential property: foreclosure. - Requires trustees to provide prospective owner-occupants and public entities, as those terms are defined, an opportunity to bid on foreclosed real property before all others; limit the bundling of properties for sale during foreclosure sales; limit the number of properties purchased by a purchaser to no more than 3 at a foreclosure sale; and increase the maximum fine a jurisdiction may impose on an owner of unoccupied foreclosed property for failing to maintain the property.
SB 1117 (Coauthor) Master-meter customers: electrical or gas service.- Ensures existing consumer protections for electrical service provided via a master-meter customer are also explicit for sub-metered residents and tenants of mobile home parks, apartment buildings, or similar residential complexes, regardless of whether the regardless of whether the electrical generation is provided by an entity other than an electrical corporation.
SB 1190 (Authors) Tenancy: termination - Allows a tenant to terminate a tenancy when the tenant or a household member is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or elder and dependent adult abuse to also include a crime that caused bodily injury or death, the exhibition, drawing, brandishing, or use of a firearm or other deadly weapon or instrument, or that included the use of force or threat of force against the victim, and expands these provisions to apply if an immediate family member of the tenant is a victim of an eligible crime, as provided.
Local Government
SB 1307 (Author) Street lighting systems: City of Rosemead This bill will allow the City of Rosemead to utilize funding established through the 1919 Lighting District funds for public benefits allowed under 1972 Landscape and Lighting Act.
Horse Racing
SB 800 (Authors) Horse racing: veterinary medical records: racehorse fatalities: racehorse drug testing. - Authorizes veterinarians to make available the entire medical records of racehorses to specified parties involved in horse racing; requires the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) to publish on a weekly basis all horse fatalities that occur within a licensed facility, as specified; and requires the CHRB to post results of nonconfidential official racehorse drug test samples within five business days of the confirmed negative split sample test result.
AB 1974 (Coauthor) Horse racing: welfare and safety of racehorses and jockeys. - Strengthens the state's commitment to horse welfare by requiring veterinary monitoring during morning training sessions.
Children
AB 1929 (Coauthor) Child abuse and neglect reporting - Allows a county welfare agency to develop a program for internet-based reporting of child abuse and neglect and requires the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) to oversee and administer the program.
AB 2276 (Coauthor) Childhood lead poisoning: screening and prevention.
AB 2325 (Coauthor) Child support: suspension.
Mental Health
AB 1976 (Coauthor) Mental health services: assisted outpatient treatment.
AB 2112 (Coauthor) Suicide prevention.
Immigration
AB 2788 (Coauthor) Public utilities: cooperation with immigration authorities.
Tobacco
SB 793 (Coauthor) Flavored tobacco products.
Local Governance
SB 869 (Coauthor) Tribal gaming: compact ratification.
Environment
SB 895 (Coauthor) Energy: zero-emission fuel, infrastructure, and transportation technologies.
Homelessness
SB 1065 (Coauthor) CalWORKs: homeless assistance.
Consumers