Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed more than a dozen bills by local lawmakers this weekend during a last-minute signing spree to meet a Sunday night bill-signing deadline. Acting on hundreds of bills from legislators across California, Schwarzenegger signed five bills by state Sen. Pat Wiggins, D-Santa Rosa, and eight by Assemblywoman Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa. The governor vetoed two bills by Wiggins and one by Evans.
State Sen. Pat Wiggins:
SB 2 — Signed — Extends the Pierce’s Disease Control Program within the California Department of Food and Agriculture through 2016. Expands the program’s research component to include new pests and diseases affecting grapes. Authorizes a vote of the Pierce’s Disease and Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Board on whether the industry assessment should be continued.
SB 215 — Signed — Requires local agency formation commissions to consider “sustainable community strategies” before making boundary decisions.
SB 260 — Signed — Increases the cap on the fee assessed on each gallon of motor oil manufactured in California from two cents per gallon to five cents per gallon to cover the costs of administering the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Petroleum Products Program.
SB 620 — Signed — Increases information practitioners must provide when being licensed or renewed by Osteopathic Medical Board of California.
SB 635 — Signed — Allows Sonoma County to increase various fees to fund domestic violence prevention programs. Extends the Solano County Family Justice Program until 2011.
SB 158 — Vetoed — Would have required health insurance plans that currently cover cervical cancer screening to also provide coverage for the genital human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for girls ages 11 to 26.
SB 272 — Vetoed — Would have updated academic and career counseling statutes and trained career and vocational education counselors to advise students of all their post-secondary options.
Assemblywoman Noreen Evans:
AB 94 — Signed — Extends and expands the state’s ability to acquire lands for conservation at about half-price through cost-neutral state tax credits and federal tax deductions.
AB 131 — Signed — Establishes a program to collect reimbursements for court-appointed counsel from parents and guardians in dependency cases.
AB 154 — Signed — Conforms California law to the federal Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, which increases incentives to promote the adoption of children in foster care, particularly those with special needs and older youth up to age 21.
AB 712 — Signed — Provides consistency between small claims court jurisdiction and statutes independently authorizing the small claims court to provide equitable relief such as restitution or impose injunctions barring specific conduct.
AB 729 — Signed — Eliminates the expiration date for the use of design-build contracting, a fast and economical way of bidding jobs, by county transit agencies.
AB 1216 — Signed — Makes technical changes to consumer product labeling requirements for honey sold in California.
AB 1364 — Signed — Protects thousands of state public works projects and jobs that were in danger of delay due to the “stop work order” enacted in December 2008.
AB 1470 — Signed — Enables wineries to offer consumers wine by the glass or bottle in a second tasting room while expanding public review process in winery licensing.
AB 82 — Vetoed — Establishes a three-year pilot project in which strict safeguards must be met before a juvenile judicial officer may authorize the administration of psychotropic drugs for foster youth.
Posted in Local on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:00 am Updated: 1:34 pm.
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