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Legislative Bill Action ordinances. Staff: Amy Brown, Status: GovDesk, Services Authority, which in tum, shall allocate Position: REQUEST FOR VETO. funds to the Califomia Fire Fighter Joint Appren- ticeship Committee (CFFJAC). CFFJAC shall do the following: 1) Offset the cost of paramedic ENVIRONMENTAl training course development, 2) Enter into reim- bursement contracts with eligible state and local AB 2351 (Canclamilla). Water Quality. agencies that in turn may contract with educational Mandatory Minimum Penalties. AB 2351, co- institutions for the delivery of paramedic training, 3) sponsored by the League, makes several modest Allocate funds, in the form of grants, to eligible changes to existing law that requires imposition of state and local agencies to defray the cost of mandatory minimum penalties for waste water providing paramedic training for tim services violations. It would exempt or reduce penalties for personnel, which may include instructional sup- some violations if the agency follows specified plies and trainee compensation expenses. Speci- procedures. Staff: Yvonne Hunter, Status: ties that in order for state and local agencies to be GovDesk, Position: REQUEST FOR SlGNA- eligible for the grants under this bill they must TURE. "demonstrate a need for additional paramedics." The League is particularly concerned about the SB t523 (Sher); SB 1619 (Romero). E- removal of grant criteria agreed to by the League Waste. Recycling. These bills establish a frame- and the California Professional Firefighters, and work with which to encourage recycling of corn- the tact that the current version of the bill subjects puter terminals and televisions (CRTs), including interested agencies to an unknown standard the imposition of a $10 front end fee for the pur- dictated by a third-party organization. Further- - chase of new CRTs. The revenue from the fees more, the League is opposed to requiring local would be used to fund CRT collection and recy- governments to contract with a single third-party cling programs, including grants to local govern- entity that is not accountable to the State of Califor- ment. Staff: Yvonne Hunter, Status: GovDesk, nia. Staff: Natasha Fooman, Status: GovDesk, Position: REQUEST FOR SIGNATURE. Position: REQUEST FOR VETO. AB 117 (Migden). Public Power. Commu- AB 2018, (Nakano). Interoperable Commu- nity Choice Aggregation. AB 117 makes it easier nications Systems. AB 2018 would provide that for a city to become a community choice the existing Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning aggregator by changing the current opt-in process Committee (Committee) shall have primary to an opt-out process. It would require customers responsibility in state government for developing joining a community choice aggregation program and implementing a statewide integrated public to pay an exit fee to cover the cost of the state's safety communications system for state govern- electricity purchases, thus avoiding cost-shifting to ment agencies that tacilitates interoperability and other customers. Staff: Yvonne Hunter, Status: other uses of public safety spectrum with local and GovDesk, Position: REQUEST FOR SIGNA- federal agencies. Also, this bill would require the TURE. Committee to consult with specific local govern- ment and law enforcement associations, which would be required to assign a representative to PUBLIC SAFETY work with the Committee to develop interoperebility agreements. The Committee would be assigned SB 1629 (Soto). Emergency Services. to work with local and federal agencies that oper- Training. Authorizes the Department of Finance ate a communication system on public safety to_transfer federal funds to the Emergency Medical spectrum and that have the capacity and technical Visit the League's Official Web Site--www.cacities.org PRIORITY FOCUS/PAGE 13