Legislative Session 2011-2012
In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Assemblywoman Ma had 25 bills chaptered into law, 4 Assembly Concurrent Resolutions and 1 Assembly Joint Resolution signed by Governor Brown.
A few of the Assemblywoman's bills are as follows:
AB 74 Public event action plans and cooperative management
In response to substance abuse-related deaths, injuries and arrests involving electronic-music shows at San Francisco's Cow Palace and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Assembly voted 75-0 to support AB 74. The bill establishes safety guidelines for electronic-music concerts when they are held on publicly owned properties such as the Cow Palace, which is located in Ma's 12th Assembly District. "California needs to better monitor and control events occurring on state properties," Ma said in a news release. "AB 74 is intended to prevent the loss of life and make safety a top priority at events on state property." The law requires the state agency intending to host any rave expected to draw 10,000 people or more to assess potential problems, the need for law enforcement and medical personnel, and other related issues. If the agency concludes there's a strong possibility for loss of life or harm to participants, the show's promoter would be required to prepare a plan to provide an adequate law-enforcement presence, control drug use and potentially prohibit minors.
AB 183 (2011) Alcoholic beverage licenses: self-service checkout
This bill prohibits off-sale licensees from selling alcoholic beverages using a customer-operated checkout stand located on the licensee's physical premises. This bill makes findings and declarations regarding the effects of allowing alcoholic beverages to be sold using self-service checkouts.
AB 199 (2011) Role of Filipinos in World War II
This bill encourages social science instruction in grades 7-12 to include the role of Filipinos in World War II.
AB 300 (2011) Safe Body Art Act
This bill enacts the Safe Body Art Act providing minimum statewide standards for the regulation of individuals in the business of tattooing, body piercing, and the application of permanent cosmetics. The provisions will take effect on July 1, 2012.
AB 593 (2012) Domestic violence: battering: recall and resentencing
This bill expands the provisions allowing a habeas corpus petition in cases where intimate partner battering was not introduced into evidence to include cases where the evidence was not competent or substantial and where such evidence may have changed the sentence not just the conviction.
AB 812 (2012) Recycled asphalt
This bill authorizes the Department of Transportation to establish specifications for the use of up to 40% reclaimed asphalt pavement for hot asphalt mixes on or before January 1, 2014.
AB 907 (2012) Processors of farm products
It authorizes the Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to impose sanctions three times the amount of unpaid or underpaid license fees and requires any bond or irrevocable guarantee, placed in lieu of proof of financial responsibility, to include both past and future debts owed as a requirement of obtaining a processor’s license.
AB 1593 (2012) Parole: intimate partner battering
This bill requires the Board of Parole Hearings (BPH), when reviewing a prisoner’s suitability for parole, to give great weight to any information or evidence that, at the time of the commission of the crime, the prisoner had experienced intimate partner battering and provide that they cannot use the fact that the prisoner brought in the evidence to find that a prisoner lacks insight to his or her crime.
AB 2564 (2012) Environmental quality: pipelines: project applicants
This bill expands the application of an existing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exemption for pipeline projects less than one mile in length.
ACR 42 (2011) Eat Local, Buy California Grown Day
This resolution declares that Sundays are “Eat Local, Buy California Grown Day,” and encourages families, restaurants, and grocers to buy California-grown foods because supporting California-grown food products will result in higher food quality, improved food safety, and higher environmental and animal welfare standards, in addition to significant economic benefits.
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