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�.�- �o Legisl�tive Bili Action ............................................................... funding. Staff: Dan Carrigg; Position: Request tion: Request for VETO; Status: SIGNED - For Signature; Status: VETOED. Chapter #951, Statutes of 2004. AB 2581 (Lieber) Mobilehome Parks: ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES Conversion. AB 2581 clarifies that if a mobilehome park is closed by a code enforce- _(pavley). Public Agency Attomeys. ment agency through a suspension of the permit AB 2713 narrowfy defines when it is proper and to operate, the park owner is responsible for pemiissible for a pubiic agency attomey to dis- preparing the required park conversion report. close confidential information or conversations Staff: Dan Carrigg; Position: Request For with staff or elected officials without being subject Signature; Status: SIGNED - Chapter #680, to sanctions by the State Bar. Staff: Yvonne Statutes of 2004. Hunter; Position: Request For Signature; Status: VETOED. AB 2702 (Steinberg) Housing: Second Units. AB 2702 limits local ability to regulate the SB 494 (Escutia). Medi Cal Liens. Insur- development of second housing units and prohibit ance. SB 494 permits cost recovery beyond the absentee-landlord duplexes within single family negotiated rate for Medi-Cal patients. By allowing zones. Staff: Dan Carrigg; Position: Request for for cost recovery beyond the negotiated Medi-Cal VETO; Status: VETOED. rate, SB 494 could make a local govemment, either through its own self-insurance policy or SB 1818 (Hollingsworth) Density Bonuses. through an outside insurance provider, liable for This legislation makes a number of flawed policy the inflated phantom medical bills. Staff: Yvonne changes to state Density Bonus Law. The bill Hunter, Position: Request for VETO; Status: also imposes additional unfunded state mandates. VETOED. Staff: Dan Carrigg; Position: Request for VETO; Status: SIGNED - Chapter #928, Statutes of ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 2004. AB 2006 (Nunez). Electricity. New Genera- SB 1056 (Alarcon) Development Projects: tion Facilities. AB 2006 establishes procedures Superstore Retailers. SB 1056 undertnines that would facilitate and encourage investment in local land use authority by requiring a city or Califomia's energy infrastructure — including county, prior to approving or disapproving a generation and transmission facilities — in order to "superstore retailer", to require that an economic promote stable, diverse, reliable and cost effective impact report be prepared by a public or private electric service in the future. Staff: Yvonne Hunter, entiry that is professionally qualified in economic Position: Request For Signature; Status: analysis. Staff: Dan Carrigg; Position: Request VETOED. for VETO; Status: VETOED. AB 389 (Montanez). Brownfields. Liability. AB 3065 (Kehoe) General Plan: Safety AB 389 addresses the difficult issue of how to Element. AB 3065 requires approximately 50 encourage the redevelopment and revitalization of cities within the state with designated very high contaminated brownfields throughout Califomia. It fire hazard severiry zones to submit their safety does so by providing limited liability protection for elements for review and comment by the State developers who purchase contaminated proper- Board of Forestry and Fire Protection and any ties, but who did not cause the contamination. local agency that provides fire protection services Staff: Yvonne Hunter; Position: Request For to the affected area. Staff: Dan Carrigg; Posi- Signature; Status: SIGNED - Chapter #705, Statutes of 2004. www.cacities.org -- Visit the League's fficial Web ite PRIORITY FOCUS/PAGE 10