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SUBJECT: 1998 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
1. ADOPT the attached 1998 Legislative Program for the County.
2. AUTHORIZE the County's lobbyist to seek authors for those items being
sponsored by the Board and to work toward their passage during 1998.
3. AUTHORIZE the County Administrator and other designated staff to testify in
support of the Board's position on these and other items which may be added
to the Board's 1998 Legislative Program from time to time during the year.
BACKGROUND:
Each year the Board of Supervisors adopts a legislative program for the coming
Session of the Legislature in Sacramento. This program generally consists of a few
carefully selected items which the Board sponsors. In other cases, the Board
indicates its support for a measure providing someone else sponsors the measure.
From time to time during the year other pieces of legislation are introduced which are
brought to the Board's attention and are added to the Board's legislative program
with an appropriate position.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE: C�
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RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON De ember 9, 1997 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
The following persons addressed the Board relative to the issues: Paul DeMange, IHSS Task Force;
Dana Simon, IHSS Task Force; and Herb Putnam, Mental Health Commission.
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
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AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
ATTESTED December 9, 1997
Contact:county Administrator PHIL RK OF THE BOARD OF
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COUNTY INISTR OR
Heim, Noack, Kelly&Spahnn
1121 L Street, Suite 100
Sacramento, CA 95825
BY
Christine War
Because of the amount of time and attention which must be give to the sponsorship
of a measure, it is.generally better to try to get another organization to sponsor a
measure, which the Board can then co-sponsor or support. Taking full responsibility
for the sponsorship of a measure involves planning the strategy for passage of the
measure, serving as the author's principal source of information when questions
about the bill come.to the attention of the author, lobbying members of committees
before which a bill will be heard, negotiating compromises where necessary in order
to reduce conflict and attempt to insure passage of a bill. This can realistically only
be undertaken with a very limited number of bills. In addition, the need to sponsor
additional measures generally occurs during the year as events warrant the need for
such action.
The 1998 Legislative Program has been assembled from a number of measures
suggested by staff.and Board members and has been discussed with the County's
lobbyist.
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PROPOSED ITEMS FOR THE BOARD'S 1998 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
Financing Issues (ERAF):
1. Continue to support efforts by CSAC and the Urban Counties Caucus to
stabilize and, if possible, reverse the transfer of property tax revenue to the
State through the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF). [Existing
Board position]
2. Determine the feasibility of sponsoring legislation similar to SB 756 (Chapter
501, Statutes of 1995), which exempted County Service Area P-6 from
contributing to the ERAF, applying it in this case to the Contra Costa County
Fire Protection District. [Recommended by the County Administrator].
Community Alert Network:
3. Continue to Sponsor legislation (AB 487 - Leach) to allow the County to
protect the confidentiality of unlisted telephone number and address
information obtained from Pac Bell for the Community Alert Network. [Existing
Board position]
4. onsor legislation to provide immunity to members of CAER for liability
resulting solely from their having participated in funding the system and to
confirm in statute the County's existing immunity from liability as a result of
accepting the Community Warning System. [Recommended by the Hazardous
Materials Council]
Municipal Court Pay & Staffing_
5. onsor Municipal Court Pay & Staffing amendments to an omnibus bill if
one is determined to be necessary in light of the changes in Trial Court
Funding. [Recommended by the County Administrator].
Social Service:
6. Continue to Sponsor legislation (AB 696 - Aroner) and amend it to authorize
the payment to a county for an assessment of a child when it is done in a
receiving center. Currently, the costs of such an assessment are eligible only
in a 24-hour a day children's shelter, a much more expensive and
inappropriate setting. [Existing Board position]
7. Support efforts to guarantee adequate funding from the State for cost
increases in a county that has formed a Public Authority for the administration
of the IHSS Program, both for the administration of the program and for cost
increases which may result from negotiated salary and/or benefit increases.
[Existing Board position]
8. Continue to Sponsor legislation (SB 159 - Rainey) which would permit this
County to draw down its foster care funds for concurrent planning in the Social
Service Department similar to what was done previously for the Family
Preservation Program. [Existing Board position]
9. Determine the feasibility of supporting legislation to reduce in some manner
the cost of attorneys for whom the County has to pay in complex dependency
cases. [Recommended by the County Administrator]
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Child Care Issues:'
10. Support waiving work participation requirements under CalWORKS for
mothers of children under 12 months of age. [Directed by the Board 11/4/97]
11. Support requiring that all exempt (unregulated) child care providers who are
paid with public funds receive at least a minimum level of training, as would
have been required under SB 309 (Watson) of 1997. [Directed by the Board
11/4/97]
12. Support requiring that all exempt (unregulated) child care providers who are
paid with public funds be "Trust Lined" (have a criminal records check through
fingerprints) to insure they have never been convicted of a violent crime,
including child abuse. [Directed by the Board 11/4/97]
Probation
13. Continue to support the efforts of CSAC, the Urban Counties Caucus and the
Chief Probation Officers Association to eliminate or moderate in some manner
the fees charged for committing youth to the CYA. [Recommended by the
County Probation Officer]
14. Continue to support efforts to place a juvenile hall bond measure on the ballot
in 1998. [Existing Board position]
15. Agree to Co- Sponsor with the Chief Probation Officers Association of
California legislation which would make it a felony for an inmate of juvenile hall
to assault a counselor or probation officer. Currently it is a misdemeanor.
[Existing Board position]
Library:
16. Support an increased appropriation in the 1998-99 State Budget for the Public
Library Foundation funding, which would increase funding to this County for
its library services. [Recommended by the County Librarian]
17. Support placing a library facilities and operations bond measure on the ballot
in 1998. [Recommended by the County Librarian]
Mental Health:
18. SS o�sor legislation proposed by the Mental Health Director to have the State
delegate to this County the authority to certify board and care facilities for
mentally ill patients so we have some control over the quality and quantity of
these important facilities. [Recommended by the Mental Health Director]
CCHP
19. Co-Sponsor with other Local Initiatives legislation which would prohibit the
State Department of Health Services from imposing retroactive rate decreases
for the local initiative. [Recommended-by the Executive Director, Contra Costa
Health Plan (CCHP)]
20. or support the efforts of others to introduce legislation which would
permit the use of the most recent public CMAC rates with sole source
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providers, adjusted for medical inflation, in those cases where the local
initiative is unable to reach agreement on a rate. [Recommended by the
Executive Director, CCHP]
Emeraengy Medical Care:
21. Co-Sponsor legislation or support the efforts of others to eliminate the use
of the term "Standby Emergency Room" in urban areas in California.
[Recommended by Supervisor Gerber]
22. Monitor the efforts of others to provide counties with the authority to adopt and
enforce protocols for the transfer of critical care patients between acute care
facilities. [Recommended by Supervisor Gerber]
Community Substance Abuse:
23. Continue to support legislation (AB 762 - Torlakson) or other legislation to
improve the capability of the County to assess those individuals who are
convicted of drunk driving and tailor treatment plans according to the level of
the individual's alcohol problem and past record of DUI convictions: [Existing
Board position]
Sheriff,
24. Support the efforts of others to alter the requirement for registration of
individuals convicted of specified narcotics offenses in order to reduce
unnecessary paper work and make the registration requirement more
meaningful. [Recommended by the Sheriff-Coroner]
25. Support the efforts of others to introduce legislation to protect the
confidentiality of records in the possession of a law enforcement agency in
responding to a subpoena duces tecum in a civil case. [Recommended by the
Sheriff-Coroner]
26. Support the efforts of others to introduce legislation to protect the privacy of
personal information held by a local agency in the same manner and for the
same purposes it is protected if held by a State agency. [Recommended by
the Sheriff-Coroner]
Records Retentions
27. S onso or support the efforts of others to address at least a portion of the
records retention requirements by permitting computer-stored records to serve
as the original record for departments such as the County Clerk-Recorder and
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. [Recommended by the County
Administrator]
Presented to the Board of Supervisors December 9, 1997
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