03 – SB 719 – Revisions of 1985 School Safety Act

Year: 2003

Category: Educational, Family

Bill Description:

Require the School / Law Enforcement Partnership Program to sponsor biannual, statewide conferences to identify programs and techniques that have been effectively utilized to reduce crimes and violence in school including hate crimes, discrimination, and harassment. Require the statewide school safety cadre to provide ongoing training and technical assistance to the cadre representatives in enabling them to initiate and maintain safety programs. Delete reporting requirements to the Legislature and instead require the partnership to assess the effectiveness of these programs.

02 – SCA 9 – Exclusion of Cohabitants in Property Tax Re-Assessment

Year: 2002

Category: Housing, Social/Political

Bill Description:

Authorize counties to exclude from property tax re-assessment any transfer of ownership in a principal residence located within that county between that residence’s co-owners, if those parties co-owned and continuously lived in the residence for 3 years immediately before the transfer occurs, on or before January 1, 2005, by reason of the transferor’s death.

02 – SB 1661 – Family Temporary Disability Insurance

Year: 2002

Category: Social/Political, Family

Bill Description:

Establish, within the state disability insurance program, a family temporary disability insurance program to provide up to 6 weeks of wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, domestic partner, or to bond with a new child. 

02 – SB 1575 – Exceptions to Prohibited Transferees of Wills and Trusts

Year: 2002

Category: Medical, Family, Workplace

Bill Description:

Include registered domestic partners in the exceptions to current law that invalidates a donative transfer to the person who drafted the instrument, or to a person who is related by blood, or marriage, or an employee of the drafter.

02 – AB 2862 – Domestic Partners Clean-up Bill

Year: 2002

Category: Social/Political, Family

Bill Description:

Make technical and clarifying amendments to conform existing domestic partnership laws to several changes made under last year’s AB 25 before final passage by the California Legislature.  Eliminate collective bargaining requirement in order to make permanent health benefits coverage for state employees’ registered domestic partners.

02 – AB 2777 – County Employees’ Death Benefits

Year: 2002

Category: Workplace, Family

Bill Description:

Permit the counties of Los Angeles, Marin, and Santa Barbara to offer death benefits and survivors’ allowances to the surviving domestic partners of their county employees. 

02 – AB 2651 – Nondiscrimination in Foster Care

Year: 2002

Category: Social/Political, Family

Bill Description:

Establish explicit protections of the rights of youth, including LGBT youth, in foster care.

02 – AB 2216 – Inheritance Rights for Domestic Partners

Year: 2002

Category: Social/Political, Family

Bill Description:

Give a surviving domestic partner the right to inherit a specified share of a partner’s separate property if a partner dies without a will.

02 – AB AB 1080 – Equal Benefits in State Contracts

Year: 2002

Category: Workplace, Social/Political, Family

Bill Description:

Prohibit agencies of the State of California from contracting with businesses that discriminate in employment benefits being offered between employees with spouses and employees with domestic partners.

01 – AB 1049 – County employees’ retirement: domestic partners: San Mateo County

Year: 2001

Category: Workplace, Family

Bill Description:

AB 1049 permitted death benefits and survivor’s allowances be payable to the surviving domestic partners of San Mateo County employees.