'Job-killer' bills on the hit list of state group.A coalition of statewide business groups has listed 32 bills making their way through the state Legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: n. 1. Basketball An aggressive defensive strategy in which one or two players harass the ball handler in the backcourt while the rest of the team maintains a close man-to-man or zone defense. 2. to stop them. The Coalition for California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). Jobs--a group that includes manufacturers, major corporations, small business owners and anti-tax groups--issued its fourth annual job-killer bill list last week. While the total doesn't does·n't Contraction of does not. match the record 45 bills the coalition tagged last year, should any of the bills pass, the coalition claims the state's business climate could be seriously harmed. "One piece of 'job killer' legislation is bad, but all 32 bills directly target California's economic development by putting up barriers that will make state businesses less competitive and drive up costs for consumers," said Jack Stewart Jack Stewart is a name shared by several people:
The bills range from the perennial perennial, any plant that under natural conditions lives for several to many growing seasons, as contrasted to an annual or a biennial. Botanically, the term perennial proposals for a single-payer health care Single-payer health care is an American term describing the payment for doctors, hospitals and other providers for health care from a single fund. The Canadian health care system and Medicare in the U.S. for the elderly are single-payer systems. system and raising the minimum wage (with annual cost of living increases) to a proposed cap on carbon emissions and an increase in the personal income tax paid by small business owners. Democratic lawmakers who authored these bills and their labor union labor union: see union, labor. allies dismissed the release of the job-killer bill list as a ploy ploy n. An action calculated to frustrate an opponent or gain an advantage indirectly or deviously; a maneuver: "A typical ploy is to feign illness, procure medicine, then sell it on the black market" to generate a climate of fear. Democrats critical "(The list) is a scare tactic," said Art Pulaski, California Labor Federation chief. "What the Chamber of Commerce shows is that they are dead-set against every improvement for workers." All of these bills cleared their house of origin last month, but last year only eight of the 45 bills cleared made it all the way through to the governor's desk--only to be vetoed. Given that history, it's not likely any of the bills will become law, though Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] has moved toward the center since his special election ballot measures failed in November. Indeed, business advocates are taking no chances. They held a press conference last month to unveil the job-killer bill list and have dispatched Dispatched was a Swedish melodic death metal band formed in 1992 by Daniel Lundberg. Their sound is very similar to the older Gothenburg style of early In Flames. Biography Dispatched was formed just before New Year's Eve of 1991 by Daniel Lundberg and Krister Andersson. their lobbyists to make the case against each of the bills. The bill drawing the most attention is AB 32, originally introduced by Assemblywoman as·sem·bly·wom·an n. A woman who is a member of a legislative assembly. Noun 1. assemblywoman - a woman assemblyman representative - a person who represents others Fran Pavley Fran Pavley is a Democratic politician and previously served as a California Assemblywoman and as the first mayor of the Southern California community of Agoura Hills. She served as a Mayor and Councilmember for four terms. , D-Agoura Hills. This so-called "greenhouse gas greenhouse gas n. Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. greenhouse gas " bill would require facilities emitting e·mit tr.v. e·mit·ted, e·mit·ting, e·mits 1. To give or send out (matter or energy): isotopes that emit radioactive particles; a stove emitting heat. 2. a. high levels of carbon to report those emissions to the state Air Resources Board and authorizes the ARB to draw up regulations to reduce those emissions over the next 15 years. Pavley has defended her legislation in the face of escalating business attacks, saying the search for new technologies to reduce carbon emissions would generate thousands of jobs. Veto veto [Lat.,=I forbid], power of one functionary (e.g., the president) of a government, or of one member of a group or coalition, to block the operation of laws or agreements passed or entered into by the other functionaries or members. In the U.S. possible Schwarzenegger has indicated he favors reducing carbon emissions and business groups are uncertain what he would do if the Pavley bill ends up on his desk. Other measures include one that would grant employer-paid unemployment insurance benefits to workers involved in labor disputes, add new restrictions on housing developments, impose additional hoops for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other big-box retailers that want to expand, mandate the use of alternative fuels, expand grounds for law-suits and boost taxes.
Targeted Legislation
Here are some key bills among the 32 identified by a statewide business
coalition as "job killers" now moving through the Legislature:
Bill number Author Brief description
AB 1835/SB 1162 Sally Lieber, D-Mountain Increases minimum wage to
View/Gil Cedillo, at least $7.75 an hour
D-Los Angeles and then indexes annually
to inflation rate.
AB 2209 Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Requires employer to pay
Hills unemployment benefit for
workers that are on
strike or locked out by
the employer.
SB 840 Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Establishes single-payer
Monica health coverage, with
some initial set-up cost
to be picked up by
private sector.
SB 1414 Carole Migden, Requires employers with
D-San Francisco over 10,000 employees to
spend 8 percent of their
total payroll on health
insurance for their
workers or pay an
equivalent amount to the
state.
AB 32 Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Requires facilities
Hills and Fabian Nunez, emitting significant
D-Los Angeles amounts of carbon to
report emissions to the
state, and authorizes
California Air Resources
Board to draw up
regulations to reduce
carbon emissions.
SB 1379 Don Perata, D-Oakland Sets up biomonitoring
program that measures
levels of industrial
chemicals accumulating in
people. Intended as
precursor to more
stringent limits on use
of these chemicals.
AB 581 Johan Klehs, Allows labor-management
D-San Leandro committees the right to
sue employers for labor
code violations.
AB 1177 Wilma Chan, D-Oakland Increases highest
personal income tax rate
from current 9.3 percent
to 11 percent; many small
business owners and
partnerships pay this
tax.
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