BILL ANALYSIS
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 73
Author: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Amended: 9/4/09
Vote: 21
PRIOR SENATE VOTE NOT RELEVANT
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 51-22, 9/8/09 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : State fees
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill provides statutory changes in the
areas of public safety and private employee safety to
implement the 2009 Budget. This bill provides technical
and clarifying changes to provisions enacted pursuant to
ABX4 12 (Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10 Fourth
Extraordinary Session) in order to ensure the 2009 Budget
is fully implemented.
NOTE: This bill is identical to AB 188 (Assembly Budget
Committee).
Assembly Amendments deleted the prior version of the bill
ANALYSIS : Under existing law, the Department of Housing
and Community Development is required to establish a
schedule of fees to pay for the cost of administration and
enforcement of the Employee Housing Act. The department is
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required to establish a schedule of fees that includes, but
is not limited to, specified minimum permit fees. The
department is authorized, on or after January 1, 2010, to
increase these specified fees, if necessary, to finance the
costs of administration and enforcement of the act.
The Mobilehome Parks Act requires the payment of various
registration and renewal fees to the department for a
specified section of a manufactured home, mobilehome, or
commercial coach and the payment of an annual operating
permit fee, as specified.
Existing law establishes the Labor Enforcement and
Compliance Fund in the State Treasury and requires the
Director of the Department of Industrial Relations to levy
a separate surcharge upon all employers for purposes of
deposit in the fund. Existing law requires that the total
amount of the surcharges be allocated between employers in
proportion to payroll respectively paid in the most recent
year for which payroll information is available, and
requires the director to adopt reasonable regulations
governing the manner of collection of the surcharges.
This bill repeals and reinstates the above provisions of
existing law.
Specifically, this bill makes technical (non-substantive)
and clarifying changes to the following provisions, enacted
pursuant to ABX4 12, regarding fees collected in support of
the Employee Housing Program, mobilehome licensing,
mobilehome park compliance, and the Division of Labor
Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial
Relations.
Among other things, ABX$ 12 did the following:
1.Increases mobilehome registration fees by $12 and
increase the Permit to Operate fee to $140 to ensure
mobilehome park inspections and other services can
continue to be provided.
2.Increases fees on providers of employee housing to $200
per facility and $27 per employee in order to maintain
minimal safety inspection service for these facilities.
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Suspend until July 1, 2012, the requirement that the
Department of Housing and Community Development provide
an annual employee housing report.
3.Creates the Labor Enforcement and Compliance Fund, funded
by surcharges on employers, for support of the activities
of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the
Department of Industrial Relations. This provision
sunsets in 2013.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Ammiano, Arambula, Beall, Blakeslee, Block,
Blumenfield, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles Calderon,
Carter, Chesbro, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon,
Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani, Galgiani,
Gilmore, Hall, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Huffman, Jones,
Krekorian, Lieu, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Monning,
Nava, Nielsen, John A. Perez, Portantino, Ruskin, Salas,
Saldana, Skinner, Solorio, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres,
Torrico, Yamada, Bass
NOES: Anderson, Bill Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Conway,
DeVore, Duvall, Emmerson, Fuller, Gaines, Hagman, Harkey,
Jeffries, Knight, Logue, Miller, Nestande, Niello, V.
Manuel Perez, Silva, Smyth, Audra Strickland, Villines
NO VOTE RECORDED: Adams, Brownley, Fletcher, Garrick,
Huber, Tran, Vacancy
JJA:do 9/9/09 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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