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HEARING - Consider Legislative Program Committee Recommendations from the meeting of April 21, 2003, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.)
a) Oppose AB 185 (Horton), which would prohibit the Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture from entering into cooperative agreements with Boards of Supervisors unless the employees performing the work under the cooperative agreement are afforded permanent employee status;
b) Support HR 119, which would require the Federal Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to provide assistance, through States, to eligible weed management entities to control or eradicate harmful, non-native weeds on public and private lands, and authorize the Chair of the Board of Supervisors to execute a letter in support;
c) Support AB 1158 (Lowenthal), which reforms the Regional Housing Needs Assessment procedure in various ways. The bill, sponsored by the League of California Cities, and supported by CSAC, represents areas of consensus reached by a working group formed during the last legislative session;
d) Support AB 1475 (Steinberg), which would require the Federal Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) selection criteria for the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund to give priority to projects that include a supportive services component, which may include participating in an evaluation under the criteria set forth in the Adult and Older Adult Mental Health System of Care Act;
e) Oppose SB 744 (Dunn), which would establish the Housing Accountability Committee (HAC) within HCD. The HAC would hear developer appeals of city or county decisions on applications for the construction of affordable housing;
f) Oppose AB 1160 (Steinberg), which limits development standards local governments can apply to second units, unless the bill is amended to provide local flexibility in the areas of unit size and design, rent and income levels, owner occupancy, and parking;
g) Oppose AB 136 (Kehoe), which would provide that police officers, sheriffs, and firefighters are entitled to a leave of absence without loss of salary while disabled by injury or illness arising out of and in the course of employment, for the period of disability, but not exceeding 2 years;
h) Support SB 55 (Ackerman), which would provide that, for the period of January 1, 2004, through December 31, 2005, new state-mandated local programs would require a 2/3 vote of the legislature, and state-mandated local programs enacted prior to January 1, 2004, shall be suspended unless reenacted by a 2/3 vote of the legislature;
i) Support SB 228 (Alarcon) and direct staff to place the larger issue of workers' compensation reform, and a discussion of all of the pending workers' compensation bills on a future agenda of the Legislative Program Committee. SB 228 would establish a fee schedule, effective January 1, 2004, for provider fees, inpatient facility fees, and outpatient facility fees, at 120% of Medicare and for pharmaceuticals and pharmacy services at 100% of Medi-cal;
j) Consider without a recommendation from the Legislative Program Committee AB 1690 (Leno) Fire Protection Finance Agencies. The Committee did not have a quorum present to discuss this bill. Staff's recommendation is to Oppose AB 1690.
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE
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