Southwest California Legislative Council OCTOBER 25, 2012

Southwest California Legislative Council Vote Record: Major Bills 2012

This report for the second year of the 2011–2012 legislative session focuses on California legislators’ floor votes on the Southwest California Legislative Council's priority bills. This is the 7th vote record the SWCLC has compiled. The SWCLC publishes this report in response to numerous requests by member firms and coalition members that would like a gauge by which to measure the performance of their legislators. Partial Picture No vote record can tell the entire story of a legislator’s attitude and actions on issues of importance to business. Each year, legislators cast thousands of votes on thousands of proposed laws. To fully evaluate your legislative representative, consult the legislative journals and examine your legislator’s votes in committee and on floor issues. You can view these via links at http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/ In 2012 the SWCLC adopted positions on 85 bills. Of these, just 29 wended their way through the legislative process and made it to the Governor's desk. Many anti-business bills were rejected by legislators in policy or fiscal committees, thus stopping proposals before they reached the floor for a vote. The vote record does not capture these votes. Most bills in this report cover major business bills that are of concern to both small and large companies and especially to companies doing business in Southwest California. The SWCLC recognizes that there are many bills supported or opposed by business that may not be included in this vote record and analysis. A full list of bill positions for SWCLC is available at http://southwestca.biz/ Factors Considered The SWCLC considers the following factors in selecting vote record bills: ● The bills and votes reflect legislators’ attitudes toward private enterprise, fiscal responsibility and the business climate. ● Each bill was a priority for the SWCLC, a position had been adopted by the SWCLC and that position had been communicated one or more times to the author of the bill, the appropriate committee and to our local legislators.

● The bills were voted upon by the full Senate and Assembly. This year 29 bills from a total of 85 considered met that criteria. ● Unless otherwise noted, final floor votes are shown. Concurrence votes and conference report votes are considered final votes. Historical Record For the past four years our local legislators have scored a perfect 100% voting record on SWCLC business issues. This year we did not expect that result and, in fact, did not repeat it. Does this indicate our legislators have grown less business friendly? Not at all. It does reflect the fact that the SWCLC took positions on nearly three times as many bills in 2012 as in prior years. We expanded our focus to a broader spectrum of bills in keeping with our strategic initiatives of budget & tax reform, job creation & retention and environmental reform. Within that framework, the SWCLC took positions on CEQA reform, workers compensation, healthcare coverage, global warming initiatives and issues of local concern like returning Vehicle License Fees to local cities (AB 1098 - LOSS) and limiting frivolous lawsuits on ADA compliance (SB 1186 - WIN). It would be statistically improbable to garner 100% agreement on such a broad range of issues.

This Year While our legislators did not agree with the SWCLC 100% of the time this year, the reasons they did not were (mostly) understandable.

For example, AB 369 (Huffman) and AB 1000 (Perea) were health care bills intended to control certain costs for prescription drugs and cancer treatment. While the bills might have conflicted with SWCLC goals to contain costs for businesses, from a humanitarian perspective the bills might have represented good policy.

Senators Emmerson and Anderson and Assemblyman Nestande disagreed with our position on AB 369, Senator Emmerson and Assemblymen Jeffries and Nestande disagreed with us on AB 1000. In both cases the Governor agreed with us and vetoed the bills.

Assemblyman Jeffries broke ranks to vote YES on AB 278 (Eng) and SB 900 (Leno), the Attorney Generals Homeowners Bill of Rights. While these measures were initially opposed by the SWCLC and the California Association of Realtors, the amended version that was finally passed was far superior to the bill as introduced. CAR had switched to a neutral position but the bill passed too quickly for the SWCLC to react to the final version.

You can read the full text of each bill by clicking on the bill title in 2012 Bill Tracker.

Senators Joel Anderson and Bill Emmerson each scored 100% votes on the 10 Senate bills evaluated by the California Chamber of Commerce. Assemblymembers Kevin Jeffries and Brian Nestande each scored 100% on the 11 bills rated by CalChamber.

The Southwest California Legislative Council considers it a privilege to advocate on behalf of business interests in Southwest Riverside County. We would like to thank our dedicated Legislators and their local staffs for their support and cooperation in 2012.

SWCLC 2012 Bill Tracker

Bill # Author Title Position Emmerson Anderson Jeffries Nestande Brown

AB 1098 Carter VLF Fees: Allocation SUPPORT A A A A VETO

AB 1612 Lara ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES SUPPORT A A A A PASS *

AB 1750 Solorio Rainwater Capture Act of 2012 SUPPORT A A A A PASS *

AB 1844 Campos EMPLOYER USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA SUPPORT NVR N A A PASS *

AB 2026 Fuentes INCOME TAXES: CREDITS: FILM: SUPPORT A A A A PASS *

AB 2245 Smyth ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: CEQA: Exemptions: Bikeways SUPPORT A A A A PASS *

AB 2273 Wieckowski Common interest developments: Notice of transfer SUPPORT A NVR A A PASS *

SB 1099 Wright Regulations SUPPORT A A A A PASS *

SB 1161 Padilla INTERNET-BASED SERVICES: VOIP Protocol SUPPORT A A A A PASS *

SB 1186 Steinberg & Dutton

Disability access: liability (frivolous lawsuits) SUPPORT A A A A PASS *

SB 1387 Emmerson Metal Theft SUPPORT A A A A PASS *

SB 1474 Hancock Grand Jury Proceedings: Attorney General: Powers & Duties SUPPORT A A A A PASS *

AB 278 Eng California Homeowners Bill of Rights OPPOSE N NVR A N PASS

AB 369 Huffman Health care coverage: prescription drugs OPPOSE A A N A VETO *

AB 685 Eng California Water Policy OPPOSE N N N N PASS

AB 1000 Perea Health care coverage: cancer treatment OPPOSE A N A A VETO *

AB 1145 Cedillo SUPPLEMENTAL JOB DISPLACEMENT VOUCHER OPPOSE N N N N VETO *

AB 1186 Skinner Increases Energy Costs GWSA OPPOSE N N N N VETO *

AB 1450 Allen EMPLOYMENT: DISCRIMINATION: STATUS AS UNEMPLOYED OPPOSE N N N N VETO *

AB 1532 Perez California Global warming solutions act OPPOSE N N N N PASS

AB 1687 Fong Workers’ Compensation: Utilization Review OPPOSE N N N N VETO *

AB 2346 Butler Agricultural employee safety: heat-related illness OPPOSE N N N N VETO *

SB 535 De Leon California Communities Healthy Air Revitalization Trust. OPPOSE N N N N PASS

SB 829 Rubio Public contracts: project labor agreements.Local Control OPPOSE N N N NVR PASS

SB 900 Leno California Homeowners Bill of Rights OPPOSE N N A N PASS

SB 1222 Leno Solar Energy: Permits OPPOSE N N A A PASS

SB 1234 De Leon Retirement Savings Plan OPPOSE N N N N PASS

SB 1255 Wright EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION: ITEMIZED STATEMENTS OPPOSE A N N N PASS

SB 1572 Pavley JOB KILLER: Illegal Tax Increase GWSA OPPOSE N N N N FAIL * Voted with SWCLC 89% 93% 86% 89% 62%

A = 'Aye' Vote N = 'No' Vote NVR = No Vote Recorded (absent or abstain) * Denotes WINS by the SWCLC, WINS for small business

Southwest California Legislative Council OCTOBER 25, 2012

CalChamber Best Business Votes Legislators are listed in descending order according to how often they voted in accord with the California Chamber of Commerce position (first number) versus how often their votes were not in accord with the CalChamber’s position (second number) in 2012. Total votes may not match the vote record because the tally for not voting or absent is not included in this list.

80% or more with CalChamber 60%-79% with CalChamber 40%-59% with CalChamber Less than 40% with CalChamber

Senate

Anderson, Joel (R) 10-0 Cannella, Anthony (R) 10-0 Dutton, Bob (R) 10-0 Emmerson, Bill (R) 10-0 Fuller, Jean (R) 10-0 Gaines, Ted (R) 10-0 Huff, Bob (R) 10-0 LaMalfa, Doug (R) 10-0 Walters, Mimi (R) 10-0

Blakeslee, Sam (R) 9-1

Berryhill, Tom (R) 8-0

Rubio, Michael (D) 8-2

Strickland, Tony (R) 7-1 Wyland, Mark (R) 7-1

Harman, Tom (R) 7-2

Correa, Lou (D) 7-3 Hernandez, Ed (D) 7-3 Wright, Roderick (D) 7-3

Calderon, Ronald (D) 6-4 Vargas, Juan (D) 6-4

Wolk, Lois (D) 5-5

Padilla, Alex (D) 4-6 Price, Curren D. (D) 4-6

Pavley, Fran (D) 3-5

Alquist, Elaine (D) 3-7 de León, Kevin (D) 3-7 DeSaulnier, Mark (D) 3-7 Kehoe, Christine (D) 3-7 Negrete McLeod, Gloria (D) 3-7 Simitian, Joe (D) 3-7 Steinberg, Darrell (D) 3-7 Yee, Leland (D) 3-7

Lieu, Ted (D) 2-6

Liu, Carol (D) 2-7 Lowenthal, Alan (D) 2-7

Hancock, Loni (D) 2-8 Leno, Mark (D) 2-8

Corbett, Ellen (D) 1-9 Evans, Noreen (D) 1-9

* Senator Sharon Runner absent due to illness

Assembly

Achadjian, Katcho (R) 11-0 Berryhill, Bill (R) 11-0 Conway, Connie (R) 11-0 Cook, Paul (R) 11-0 Gaines, Beth (R) 11-0 Garrick, Martin (R) 11-0 Grove, Shannon (R) 11-0 Hagman, Curt (R) 11-0 Harkey, Diane (R) 11-0 Jeffries, Kevin (R) 11-0 Jones, Brian (R) 11-0 Knight, Steve (R) 11-0 Logue, Dan (R) 11-0 Mansoor, Allan (R) 11-0 Miller, Jeff (R) 11-0 Morrell, Mike (R) 11-0 Nestande, Brian (R) 11-0 Nielsen, Jim (R) 11-0 Norby, Chris (R) 11-0 Olsen, Kristin (R) 11-0 Silva, Jim (R) 11-0 Smyth, Cameron (R) 11-0 Wagner, Donald (R) 11-0

Valadao, David (R) 10-0

Gorell, Jeff (R) 10-1 Halderman, Linda (R) 10-1

Donnelly, Tim (R) 9-1

Fletcher, Nathan (I) 8-1

Huber, Alyson (D) 7-4 Perea, Henry T. (D) 7-4

Bonilla, Susan (D) 6-5 Buchanan, Joan (D) 6-5 Galgiani, Cathleen (D) 6-5 Ma, Fiona (D) 6-5 Portantino, Anthony (D) 6-5 Solorio, Jose (D) 6-5

Furutani, Warren (D) 5-5 Hall, Isadore (D) 5-5 Mendoza, Tony (D) 5-5 Pan, Richard (D) 5-5

Bradford, Steven (D) 5-6 Campos, Nora (D) 5-6 Carter, Wilmer Amina (D) 5-6 Davis, Mike (D) 5-6 Fuentes, Felipe (D) 5-6 Gordon, Rich (D) 5-6 Hill, Jerry (D) 5-6

Hueso, Ben (D) 5-6 Lara, Ricardo (D) 5-6 Pérez, V. Manuel (D) 5-6 Torres, Norma (D) 5-6 Cedillo, Gil (D) 4-6 Alejo, Luis (D) 4-6 Atkins, Toni (D) 4-7 Block, Marty (D) 4-7 Chesbro, Wesley (D) 4-7 Fong, Paul (D) 4-7 Hayashi, Mary (D) 4-7 Huffman, Jared (D) 4-7 Wieckowski, Bob (D) 4-7 Williams, Das (D) 4-7 Yamada, Mariko (D) 4-7 Hernández, Roger (D) 3-6 Calderon, Charles (D) 3-7 Mitchell, Holly J. (D) 3-7 Allen, Michael (D) 3-8 Blumenfield, Bob (D) 3-8 Brownley, Julia (D) 3-8 Dickinson, Roger (D) 3-8 Eng, Mike (D) 3-8 Lowenthal, Bonnie (D) 3-8 Pérez, John A. (D) 3-8 Skinner, Nancy (D) 3-8 Swanson, Sandré (D) 3-8 Beall, Jim (D) 2-8 Butler, Betsy (D) 2-8 Ammiano, Tom (D) 2-9 Feuer, Mike (D) 2-9 Gatto, Mike (D) 2-9 Monning, William (D) 2-9