Assemblymember Legislation Signed Into Law

Assembly Bill 22 - Increasing Penalties for Identity Theft and Computer Hacking
Increases fines for identity theft and computer hacking.

Assembly Bill 488 – Boys Republic
Provides Boys Republic – a successful provider of residential and day treatment services for juvenile offenders referred by county Juvenile Courts – a state waiver that will allow them to continue operating.

Assembly Bill 576 - Reimbursing the Cost of Graffiti Removal
Makes local governments eligible for reimbursement from offenders for the cost of clean-up and removal of graffiti they’ve caused.

Assembly Bill 770: Foster Care, Indian Tribes
Maximizes opportunities for foster care programs for Indian children.

Assembly Bill 899 – Common Interest Developments
Clarifies disclosure requirements and provides greater transparency for homeowners signing contracts with homeowner associations.

Assembly Bill 912 – Funding for 9-1-1 System
Expands the uses of the 9-1-1 surcharge on phone bills to allow emergency dispatchers to deploy new technologies and upgrade dispatchers’ skills.

Other 2009-2010 Legislation Introduced

Assembly Bill 1683 – At-Risk Youth Education
Makes County offices of education eligible for federal funding targeting at-risk youth and ensures that very high-risk young children will receive priority eligibility for state preschool.

Assembly Bill 1689 – Elections, Democratic Party
Allows independent voters, who requested a Democratic Party Ballot at the partisan primary election, to be selected as delegates or alternates to represent CA at the Democratic Party national convention to nominate a candidate for President of the United States.

Assembly Bills 424, 1679; ACR 107 - Improving the 9-1-1 System
Begins a multi-year process to improve the over-all responsiveness of the 9-1-1 system, in a cooperative approach to identify problems, and to work with the executive branch, law enforcement, telephone carriers, consumers, and the public, to correct them.

Assembly Bill 424 - Public Education Campaign for 9-1-1
Directs the state’s Chief Information Officer to establish a public education campaign to help the public better understand the proper and inappropriate uses of the 9-1-1 system.

Assembly Bill 337 - Juvenile Records Notification
Directed the court to provide every person who has reached 18 years old and is eligible to have his or her records sealed, with a written notification and clear explanation of their rights to have their records sealed or destroyed.

Assembly Bill 339 - Equity Funding for County Offices of Education
Specified that, for the purpose of allocating and apportioning federal funds, county offices of education are included in the definition of “local educational agencies.”

Assembly Bill 423 – 9-1-1 Dispatcher Training
Would address the recruitment and training of dispatchers to ensure that workers in these high stress jobs are fully capable of serving the public.

Assembly Bill 769 - State Preschool Eligibility for Children of Foster & Incarcerated Youth
Would have ensure that young children of very high risk youth, i.e., on probation or in the foster system, received priority eligibility for state preschool. These children would have been given priority when new positions opened and would not have displaced children already are on the priority list.