03 – AB 1363 – Needle Exchange

Year: 2003

Category: Medical, Social/Political

Bill Description:

This bill would authorize cities, counties, or cities and counties to develop clean needle and syringe exchange projects that contain prescribed components.

03 – AJR 16 – Nonoxynol-9

Year: 2003

Category: Medical, Social/Political

Bill Description:

This measure would urge the federal Food and Drug Administration to ban condoms and lubricants that contain the spermicide nonoxynol-9.

03 – SB 2 – Health Insurance Act of 2003

Year: 2003

Category: Medical, Social/Political

Bill Description:

Establish the Health Insurance Act of 2003 to provide health coverage to specified individuals (and in some cases their dependents including domestic partners) who do not receive job-based coverage and who work for large and medium employers, as defined.

03 – SB 71 – California Comprehensive Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education Act

Year: 2003

Category: Medical, Educational

Bill Description:

This bill would establish the California Comprehensive Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education Act. The act would, among other things, authorize school districts to provide comprehensive sexual health education, as defined, in any kindergarten to grade 12, inclusive, and to ensure that all students in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive HIV/AIDS prevention education, as defined.

03 – SCA 5 – Co-owners Exemption from Property Tax Reassessment

Year: 2003

Category: Housing, Family

Bill Description:

Authorize the board of supervisors of a county to adopt an ordinance to exclude, from classification as a “purchase” or “change in ownership,” the transfer of an ownership interest in a principal residence located within that county between co-owners of that residence, if those parties co-owned and continuously resided in the residence for a period of 3 years immediately preceding the transfer and the transfer occurs on or after January 1, 2005, by reason of the death of the transferor.

03 – AB 205 – Domestic Partner Rights and Responsibilities Act of 2003

Year: 2003

Category: Family, Social/Political

Bill Description:

Expand significantly the rights and responsibilities currently provided to registered domestic partners and their families to include nearly all the legal rights, benefits, responsibilities, duties, and obligations under state law currently available only to spouses.

03 – AB 1082 – CalPERS Recognition of Locally-Defined Domestic Partners

Year: 2003

Category: Family, Workplace

Bill Description:

Authorize a contracting agency, that adopted a local definition of domestic partnership and that provided health care benefits for members of those domestic partnerships before contracting with CalPERS, to provide health care benefits to those domestic partners after contracting with the system.

03 – SB 85 – County Employees Death Benefits

Year: 2003

Category: Family, Workplace

Bill Description:

Allow any county (4 of the 20 counties already have the authority) that is subject to the 1937 County Employees Retirement Law to extend death benefits and survivor’s allowances to the surviving domestic partners of county employees, provided the county board of supervisors approved the policy.

03 – AB 661 – School-Based Data Collection on Bias Incidents

Year: 2003

Category: Educational, Social/Political

Bill Description:

Permit the administration of anonymous tests, questionnaires, surveys, examinations, or other writings that contain questions about a pupil’ s personal beliefs or practices in sex, morality, or religion if the pupil’s parent or guardian has had an opportunity to decline the pupil’s participation after receiving written notice of the subject matter, and an opportunity to visit the school to review a complete copy of the test, questionnaire, survey, examination, or other writing. Also permit the administration of an anonymous test, questionnaire, survey, examination, or other writing regarding discrimination without the notification or consent of the pupil’s parent or guardian.

03 – AB 1250 – Bias Prevention Training for Teachers

Year: 2003

Category: Educational, Social/Political

Bill Description:

Authorize the use of staff and teacher development program grant to include intolerance and bias prevention training.