The 2007 Vote Record: The 41 Potential Laws Tracked by the Long Beach Chamber and How Senator Alan Lowenthal and Assembly Member Betty Karnette Voted.

The Long Beach Chamber’s Government Affairs Council (GAC) unanimously voted in early 2007 to track 41 potential laws (bills) that might impact Long Beach businesses. Each month, the GAC members reviewed and discussed the merits of all 41 bills.

The Long Beach Chamber’s official positions on each of the 41 bills have been available online at www.longbeachadvocacy.biz including summaries and explanations of why the Long Beach Chamber opposed and supported each of the 41 bills. The Long Beach Chamber lobbied tirelessly during the 2007 legislative session for our legislators to OPPOSE 30 bills and SUPPORT 11 bills.

“The Long Beach Chamber continues to hold our local legislators accountable to the business community by tracking their votes on important bills that impact the ability for business to create more jobs,” said Randy Gordon, President and CEO of the Long Beach Chamber. Long Beach’s local legislators, State Senator Alan Lowenthal and Assembly Member Betty Karnette received letters on all 41 bills tracked by the Long Beach Chamber.

“The Chamber is ultimately responsible for tracking the issues that affect our membership and we take great pride in informing the business community about how our local legislators vote in Sacramento on these issues,” stated Matt Kinley, Chair of the Long Beach Chamber Board of Directors. “As always we will continue to advocate next year to our legislators to cease voting for anti-business and anti-jobs legislation,” continued Kinley.

The Long Beach Chamber leadership is committed to continue to meet with our legislators to develop the most economically and socially responsible legislation for our residents and business owners. This is even more critical with the local and economic challenges for the current year.

To reach the “percentage FOR pro-jobs legislation,” the Chamber tallied the number of times our legislators voted for the Chamber’s position and divided that total by the total number of potential new laws in which each legislator voted. A potential new law is not figured into the vote record percentage if a legislator, for whatever reason, did not vote or if the potential new laws died before the legislator had an opportunity to vote.

Log on to www.LongBeachAdvocacy.biz for more on the 2007 Vote Record.

 

Summary of Votes

2007 Vote Record – In Depth

 “N/A” = potential new law died before elected official had an opportunity to vote or in the case of the Governor the potential new law did not reach his desk.

AB 8 Nunez (D)

Health Care

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: Vetoed

AB 338 Coto (D)

Workers' Compensation: Temporary Disability Payments

Long Beach Position: Support

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: Signed

AB 437 Jones (D)

Employment Discrimination

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: n/a

AB 493 Ruskin (D)

Motor Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Incentives

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: n/a

AB 504 Swanson (D)

Lockouts

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: Vetoed

AB 510 Benoit (R)

Employment: Working Hours

Long Beach Position: Support

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: n/a

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

AB 512 Lieber (D)

Contracts: Translation

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: n/a

AB 613 Tran (R)

Workplace Postings

Long Beach Position: Support

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: n/a

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

AB 644 Dymally (D)

Workers' Compensation: Medical Treatment Utilization

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: n/a

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

AB 655 Swanson (D)

Public Contracts: Bond Acts

Long Beach Position: Support

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: n/a

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

AB 689 DeVore (R)

Income and Corporation Taxes: Employment Verification

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: n/a

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

AB 889 Lieu (D)

Metro Green Line Construction Authority

Long Beach Position: Support

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: n/a

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: n/a

AB 904 Feuer (D)

Recycling: Food Containers

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: n/a

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: n/a

AB 1065 Lieber (D)

Public Resources: Building Standards

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: n/a

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

AB 1073 Nava (D)

Workers' Compensation

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: Signed

AB 1104 Aghazarian (R)

Small Business Expansion Fund

Long Beach Position: Support

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: Signed

AB 1107 Arambula (D)

Goods Movement: Small Business and Microenterprise

Long Beach Position: Support

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: n/a

AB 1201 Leno (D)

Collective Bargaining: Direct Care Registered Nurses

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

AB 1285 Parra (D)

Taxation: Credits: Research and Development

Long Beach Position: Support

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support                                                  

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

AB 1400 Hayashi (D)

Child Care Resource and Referral Programs: Funding

Long Beach Position: Support

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: n/a

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: n/a

AB 1554 Jones (D)

Health Care Coverage: Rate Approval

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: n/a

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: n/a

AB 1634 Levine (D)

Healthy Pets Act

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: n/a

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: n/a

AB 1636 Mendoza (D)

Workers' Compensation: Supplemental Job Benefits

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support                                          

Governor: Vetoed

SB 24 Torlakson (D)

Tobacco Product Environmental Smoke: Fee

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: n/a

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

SB 140 Kehoe (D)

Fuels: Renewable Diesel Fuel

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: n/a

SB 180 Migden (D)

Labor Representatives: Elections

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: Vetoed

SB 201 Florez (D)

Leafy Green Vegetable Crop Safety

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

SB 210 Kehoe (D)

Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Fuel Standard

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: Vetoed

SB 375 Steinberg (D)

Transportation Planning: Travel Models: Reviews

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: n/a

SB 423 Harman (R)

Exemplary Damages

Long Beach Position: Support

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: n/a

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

SB 466 Steinberg (D)

Forest Resources

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

SB 494 Kehoe (D)

Vehicular Air Pollution Control: Clean Alternative

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

SB 549 Corbett (D)

Employees Right to Bereavement Leave

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: Vetoed

SB 622 Padilla (D)

Employment: Misclassification of Employees

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: Vetoed

SB 747 Corbett (D)

Disabled Person: Equal Access Rights

Long Beach Position: Support

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

SB 831Lowenthal (D)

Billing: Mobile Telephony Service

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

SB 840 Kuehl (D)

Single-Payer Health Care Coverage

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

SB 899 Simitian (D)

Toxic Packaging Materials

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: n/a

Governor: n/a

SB 936 Perata (D)

Workers' Compensation: Permanent Disability

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: Vetoed

SB 942 Migden (D)

Workers Compensation: Disability

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: Vetoed

SB 974 Lowenthal (D)

Ports: Congestion Relief: Air Pollution Mitigation

Long Beach Position: Oppose

State Senator Alan Lowenthal: Support

Assembly Member Betty Karnette: Support

Governor: n/a