1. Southwest California Legislative Council OCTOBER 25, 2012
Southwest California Legislative Council Vote Record:
Major Bills 2012
This report for the second year of the
This Year
2011–2012 legislative session focuses on While our legislators did not agree with
California legislators’ floor votes on the the SWCLC 100% of the time this year,
Southwest California Legislative the reasons they did not were (mostly)
Council's priority bills. understandable.
This is the 7th vote record the SWCLC has
compiled. The SWCLC publishes this For example, AB 369 (Huffman) and
report in response to numerous requests by AB 1000 (Perea) were health care bills
member firms and coalition members that intended to control certain costs for
would like a gauge by which to measure prescription drugs and cancer
the performance of their legislators. treatment. While the bills might have
conflicted with SWCLC goals to
Partial Picture contain costs for businesses, from a
No vote record can tell the entire story of a humanitarian perspective the bills
legislator’s attitude and actions on issues might have represented good policy.
of importance to business. Each year,
legislators cast thousands of votes on Senators Emmerson and Anderson and
thousands of proposed laws. To fully Assemblyman Nestande disagreed with
evaluate your legislative representative, our position on AB 369, Senator
consult the legislative journals and Emmerson and Assemblymen Jeffries
examine your legislator’s votes in and Nestande disagreed with us on AB
committee and on floor issues. You can ● The bills were voted upon by the full 1000. In both cases the Governor
view these via links at Senate and Assembly. This year 29 bills from agreed with us and vetoed the bills.
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/ a total of 85 considered met that criteria.
In 2012 the SWCLC adopted positions on ● Unless otherwise noted, final floor votes
Assemblyman Jeffries broke ranks to
85 bills. Of these, just 29 wended their are shown. Concurrence votes and vote YES on AB 278 (Eng) and SB 900
way through the legislative process and conference report votes are considered final (Leno), the Attorney Generals
made it to the Governor's desk. votes. Homeowners Bill of Rights. While
these measures were initially opposed
Many anti-business bills were rejected by Historical Record by the SWCLC and the California
legislators in policy or fiscal committees,
thus stopping proposals before they reached For the past four years our local legislators Association of Realtors, the amended
the floor for a vote. The vote record does not have scored a perfect 100% voting record on version that was finally passed was far
capture these votes. Most bills in this report SWCLC business issues. This year we did superior to the bill as introduced. CAR
cover major business bills that are of not expect that result and, in fact, did not had switched to a neutral position but
concern to both small and large companies repeat it. the bill passed too quickly for the
and especially to companies doing business Does this indicate our legislators have grown SWCLC to react to the final version.
in Southwest California. less business friendly? Not at all.
You can read the full text of each bill
The SWCLC recognizes that there are It does reflect the fact that the SWCLC took by clicking on the bill title in 2012 Bill
many bills supported or opposed by positions on nearly three times as many bills Tracker.
business that may not be included in this in 2012 as in prior years. We expanded our
vote record and analysis. A full list of focus to a broader spectrum of bills in Senators Joel Anderson and Bill
bill positions for SWCLC is available at keeping with our strategic initiatives of Emmerson each scored 100% votes on
http://southwestca.biz/ budget & tax reform, job creation & the 10 Senate bills evaluated by the
Factors Considered retention and environmental reform. California Chamber of Commerce.
Within that framework, the SWCLC took Assemblymembers Kevin Jeffries and
The SWCLC considers the following factors Brian Nestande each scored 100% on
in selecting vote record bills: positions on CEQA reform, workers
compensation, healthcare coverage, global the 11 bills rated by CalChamber.
● The bills and votes reflect legislators’ warming initiatives and issues of local
attitudes toward private enterprise, fiscal concern like returning Vehicle License Fees The Southwest California Legislative
responsibility and the business climate. to local cities (AB 1098 - LOSS) and Council considers it a privilege to
limiting frivolous lawsuits on ADA advocate on behalf of business interests
● Each bill was a priority for the SWCLC, a compliance (SB 1186 - WIN). It would be in Southwest Riverside County. We
position had been adopted by the SWCLC statistically improbable to garner 100% would like to thank our dedicated
and that position had been communicated agreement on such a broad range of issues. Legislators and their local staffs for
one or more times to the author of the bill,
the appropriate committee and to our local their support and cooperation in 2012.
legislators.

2. SWCLC 2012 Bill Tracker
Bill # Author Title Position Emmerson Anderson Jeffries Nestande Brown
AB 1098 Carter VLF Fees: Allocation SUPPORT A A A A VETO
AB 1612 Lara ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES SUPPORT A A A A PASS *
AB 1750 Solorio Rainwater Capture Act of 2012 SUPPORT A A A A PASS *
AB 1844 Campos EMPLOYER USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA SUPPORT NVR N A A PASS *
AB 2026 Fuentes INCOME TAXES: CREDITS: FILM: SUPPORT A A A A PASS *
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: CEQA:
AB 2245 Smyth Exemptions: Bikeways SUPPORT A A A A PASS *
Common interest developments:
AB 2273 Wieckowski Notice of transfer SUPPORT A NVR A A PASS *
SB 1099 Wright Regulations SUPPORT A A A A PASS *
INTERNET-BASED SERVICES: VOIP
SB 1161 Padilla Protocol SUPPORT A A A A PASS *
Steinberg & Disability access: liability (frivolous
SB 1186 Dutton lawsuits) SUPPORT A A A A PASS *
SB 1387 Emmerson Metal Theft SUPPORT A A A A PASS *
Grand Jury Proceedings: Attorney
SB 1474 Hancock General: Powers & Duties SUPPORT A A A A PASS *
AB 278 Eng California Homeowners Bill of Rights OPPOSE N NVR A N PASS
Health care coverage: prescription
AB 369 Huffman drugs OPPOSE A A N A VETO *
AB 685 Eng California Water Policy OPPOSE N N N N PASS
Health care coverage: cancer
AB 1000 Perea treatment OPPOSE A N A A VETO *
SUPPLEMENTAL JOB DISPLACEMENT
AB 1145 Cedillo VOUCHER OPPOSE N N N N VETO *
AB 1186 Skinner Increases Energy Costs GWSA OPPOSE N N N N VETO *
EMPLOYMENT: DISCRIMINATION:
AB 1450 Allen STATUS AS UNEMPLOYED OPPOSE N N N N VETO *
California Global warming solutions
AB 1532 Perez act OPPOSE N N N N PASS
Workers’ Compensation: Utilization
AB 1687 Fong Review OPPOSE N N N N VETO *
Agricultural employee safety: heat-
AB 2346 Butler related illness OPPOSE N N N N VETO *
California Communities Healthy Air
SB 535 De Leon Revitalization Trust. OPPOSE N N N N PASS
Public contracts: project labor
SB 829 Rubio agreements.Local Control OPPOSE N N N NVR PASS
SB 900 Leno California Homeowners Bill of Rights OPPOSE N N A N PASS
SB 1222 Leno Solar Energy: Permits OPPOSE N N A A PASS
SB 1234 De Leon Retirement Savings Plan OPPOSE N N N N PASS
EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION:
SB 1255 Wright ITEMIZED STATEMENTS OPPOSE A N N N PASS
SB 1572 Pavley JOB KILLER: Illegal Tax Increase GWSA OPPOSE N N N N FAIL *
Voted with SWCLC 89% 93% 86% 89% 62%
A = 'Aye' Vote N = 'No' Vote NVR = No Vote Recorded (absent or abstain)
* Denotes WINS by the SWCLC, WINS for small business

3. Southwest California Legislative Council OCTOBER 25, 2012
CalChamber Best Business Votes
Legislators are listed in descending order according to how often they voted in accord with the California Chamber of Commerce
position (first number) versus how often their votes were not in accord with the CalChamber’s position (second number) in 2012. Total
votes may not match the vote record because the tally for not voting or absent is not included in this list.
80% or more with CalChamber 60%-79% with CalChamber 40%-59% with CalChamber Less than 40% with CalChamber
Senate Assembly
Anderson, Joel (R) 10-0 Achadjian, Katcho (R) 11-0 Hueso, Ben (D) 5-6
Cannella, Anthony (R) 10-0 Berryhill, Bill (R) 11-0 Lara, Ricardo (D) 5-6
Dutton, Bob (R) 10-0 Conway, Connie (R) 11-0 Pérez, V. Manuel (D) 5-6
Emmerson, Bill (R) 10-0 Cook, Paul (R) 11-0 Torres, Norma (D) 5-6
Fuller, Jean (R) 10-0 Gaines, Beth (R) 11-0
Gaines, Ted (R) 10-0 Garrick, Martin (R) 11-0 Cedillo, Gil (D) 4-6
Huff, Bob (R) 10-0 Grove, Shannon (R) 11-0
LaMalfa, Doug (R) 10-0 Hagman, Curt (R) 11-0 Alejo, Luis (D) 4-6
Walters, Mimi (R) 10-0 Harkey, Diane (R) 11-0
Jeffries, Kevin (R) 11-0 Atkins, Toni (D) 4-7
Blakeslee, Sam (R) 9-1 Jones, Brian (R) 11-0 Block, Marty (D) 4-7
Knight, Steve (R) 11-0 Chesbro, Wesley (D) 4-7
Berryhill, Tom (R) 8-0 Logue, Dan (R) 11-0 Fong, Paul (D) 4-7
Mansoor, Allan (R) 11-0 Hayashi, Mary (D) 4-7
Rubio, Michael (D) 8-2 Miller, Jeff (R) 11-0 Huffman, Jared (D) 4-7
Morrell, Mike (R) 11-0 Wieckowski, Bob (D) 4-7
Strickland, Tony (R) 7-1 Nestande, Brian (R) 11-0 Williams, Das (D) 4-7
Wyland, Mark (R) 7-1 Nielsen, Jim (R) 11-0 Yamada, Mariko (D) 4-7
Norby, Chris (R) 11-0
Harman, Tom (R) 7-2 Olsen, Kristin (R) 11-0 Hernández, Roger (D) 3-6
Silva, Jim (R) 11-0
Correa, Lou (D) 7-3 Smyth, Cameron (R) 11-0 Calderon, Charles (D) 3-7
Hernandez, Ed (D) 7-3 Wagner, Donald (R) 11-0 Mitchell, Holly J. (D) 3-7
Wright, Roderick (D) 7-3
Valadao, David (R) 10-0 Allen, Michael (D) 3-8
Calderon, Ronald (D) 6-4 Blumenfield, Bob (D) 3-8
Vargas, Juan (D) 6-4 Gorell, Jeff (R) 10-1 Brownley, Julia (D) 3-8
Halderman, Linda (R) 10-1 Dickinson, Roger (D) 3-8
Wolk, Lois (D) 5-5 Eng, Mike (D) 3-8
Donnelly, Tim (R) 9-1 Lowenthal, Bonnie (D) 3-8
Padilla, Alex (D) 4-6 Pérez, John A. (D) 3-8
Price, Curren D. (D) 4-6 Fletcher, Nathan (I) 8-1 Skinner, Nancy (D) 3-8
Swanson, Sandré (D) 3-8
Pavley, Fran (D) 3-5 Huber, Alyson (D) 7-4
Perea, Henry T. (D) 7-4 Beall, Jim (D) 2-8
Alquist, Elaine (D) 3- Butler, Betsy (D) 2-8
7 de León, Kevin (D) 3- Bonilla, Susan (D) 6-5
7 Buchanan, Joan (D) 6-5 Ammiano, Tom (D) 2-9
DeSaulnier, Mark (D) 3-7 Galgiani, Cathleen (D) 6-5 Feuer, Mike (D) 2-9
Kehoe, Christine (D) 3-7 Ma, Fiona (D) 6-5 Gatto, Mike (D) 2-9
Negrete McLeod, Gloria (D) 3-7 Portantino, Anthony (D) 6-5 Monning, William (D) 2-9
Simitian, Joe (D) 3-7 Solorio, Jose (D) 6-5
Steinberg, Darrell (D) 3-7
Yee, Leland (D) 3-7 Furutani, Warren (D) 5-5
Hall, Isadore (D) 5-5
Lieu, Ted (D) 2-6 Mendoza, Tony (D) 5-5
Pan, Richard (D) 5-5
Liu, Carol (D) 2-7
Lowenthal, Alan (D) 2-7 Bradford, Steven (D) 5-6
Campos, Nora (D) 5-6
Hancock, Loni (D) 2-8 Carter, Wilmer Amina (D) 5-6
Leno, Mark (D) 2-8 Davis, Mike (D) 5-6
Fuentes, Felipe (D) 5-6
Corbett, Ellen (D) 1-9 Gordon, Rich (D) 5-6
Evans, Noreen (D) 1-9 Hill, Jerry (D) 5-6
* Senator Sharon Runner absent due to illness