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Legislative Bill Action The ~ollowing are summaries o. f just a ~ew o.f the legislative bills that are currently being acted upon by the League of California Cities. The League encourages you to review the bills and contact the appropriate committees to demonstrate your support or opposition o~ issues that are important to your community. Your assistance is appreciated. PUBLZC SAFETY ENWRONMEN?AL SB823 (Poochigian). Local Law Enforcement AB 640 (3ackson). Local Coastal Plans. Funding. Existing Law requires that each city that Amendments. Last week we reported that AB 640 receives funds from the Supplemental Law Enforce- would be amended to basically gut the substance of men[ Services Fund for frontEne [aw enforcement and the bilt and Emit it to the intent language and other purposes, to submit to the Controller a report direction to the Coastal Commission to adopt guide- prepared by the city's Supplemental Law Enforcement lines for future amendments to LCPs. The League Oversight Committee that details and summarizes reported that once the bill was amended, the League aEocations of the funds. Cities that fail to submit would remove its opposition and engage in serious the data wiLL forfeit their allocations. SB 823 would dialogue with the author and others to reach a require the annual report on those programs to be compromise for LCP amendments -- retaining the made beginning October ~5, 2002. [t would further fight, of course, to once again oppose the bil~ if prohibit the expenditure of allocated funds and agreement could not be reached. Upon further interest if the report and the data detailing and analysis and reflection, the League informed the summarizing allocations are not submitted. SB 823 author's office that the League would instead retain maintains existing law requiring city councils to hold its opposition, but remain committed to the antici- a pubtic hearing to consider written requests submit- pated negotiations. ted by the chief of police in September for each year that the Legislature appropriates funds, and the However, the author decided not to take the bill requirement that the dty treasurer detail and summa- up on the Assembly Floor this week. Because ~anu- rize aLLocations from the preceding fiscal year at least ary 31 is the last day for two-year biLLs to pass out of 30 days prior to the public heating. Staff: Natasha their house of origin, AB 640 is dead. ~t is not Fooman, Status: AsApps, Position: Support. known at this time whether the issue will resurface again. The League will be actively involved in any future discussions should Assembly Member ~ackson decide to pursue the topic. Staff: Yvonne Hunter, NOTE TO OUR READERS: Status: AsmF[r, Position: Oppose. 3anuary 3! was the legislative deadline for ELECTIONS, PUBLIC RECORDS AND FPPC two year bills to pass out of their house of origin. Thus, any Assembly or Senate bi[[ SCA 7 (Burton). Access to Government [nfor- that remains in its house of origin is dead. marion. SCA 7 is sponsored by the California First While this means that the bi[[ itself is Amendment Coalition and the California Newspaper dead, the issue may resurface elsewhere-- Publishers Association. SCA 7 provides that access in a newly introduced bi[t, or be amended to information concerning the conduct of the into another bi[[. Remember the old [egis- people's business is a fundamental and necessary [ative proverb: "A bi[[ is never reat[y tight of every person in this state. It provides that, dead." except as otherwise provided in the CaLifornia Constitution, the people have a right to attend, Visit the League's Offida[ Web Site--www. cacities.org PRIORITY FOCUS/PAGE 5