FLOOR SESSION AGENDA - Regular Session:Check-in Session - 9:00 a.m.

SB 1438, as it passed the Senate, revised and recast provisions regulating investment of public funds by specified local agencies to, among other things, authorize investment in commercial paper issued by an entity organized as a federally or state-chartered bank or a federally or state-licensed branch of a foreign bank and in senior unsecured unsubordinated obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the Inter-American Investment Corporation. SB 1438, as it passed the Senate, removed the January 1, 2031, sunset date for investments in United States-issued securities in a period of negative market interest rates, thereby extending that exception indefinitely. SB 1438, as it passed the Senate, also revised and recast provisions that impose various limits on local government investment in commercial paper and removed the January 1, 2031, reduction of the maximum investment to 25% of total investment for certain local governments and agencies with $100,000,000 or more in investment assets. For a county, city and county, or local agency that pools money in deposits or investments with other agencies, SB 1438, as it passed the Senate, authorized an eligible bank headquartered outside the state to submit letters of credit drawn on its regional federal home loan bank.

The Assembly amendments make nonsubstantive changes to the above-described provisions, including updating cross-references.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: no.

SB 1088, as it passed the Senate, replaced the term “Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment” with “POLST” or “Portable Orders Listing Scope of Treatment” and authorized a request regarding resuscitative measures to be entered into by an individual with capacity or a health care agent, conservator, or surrogate, as defined, and a physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant acting under the supervision of the physician. SB 1088, as it passed the Senate, required the POLST document to contain the date on which it was signed by the health care provider and the patient or their health care agent, conservator, or surrogate but clarified that the failure to include this date would not invalidate an otherwise valid POLST form and specified that a dated POLST form should be treated as more recent than an undated POLST.

The Assembly amendments removed the requirements relating to having the date on the POLST form. The Assembly amendments also require a conservator signing a request regarding resuscitative measures to have health care decisionmaking authority and authorize additional categories of nurse practitioner to sign the document.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 1175, as it passed the Senate, amended the Political Reform Act of 1974 to require an individual lobbyist to submit an amended certification or notice of termination directly to the Secretary of State, in lieu of submitting the certification or notice to the lobbyist’s lobbying firm or lobbyist employer for filing with the Secretary of State. SB 1175 would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

The Assembly amendments make conforming changes to the act’s filing requirements for lobbyist employers and other persons that will become operative when the Secretary of State certifies that the online filing and disclosure system for lobbyist employers and other specified persons is functional, as well as other conforming changes that will become operative one year after this certification.

Vote: 27. Substantial substantive change: yes.

SB 918, as it passed the Senate, authorized approval of a passthrough window service opening of up to 432 square inches if equipped with an air curtain device or a self-closing device, and authorized approval of a passthrough window service opening that is larger than 432 square inches if equipped with both a self-closing device and an air curtain device.

The Assembly amendments instead require approval in both cases.

Vote: 21. Substantial substantive change: yes.