Pub. 3 2021-2022 Issue 2

13 AB84/SB95 would make an employer’s obligation to provide COVID-19 paid sick leave retroactive to Jan. 1, 2021, and mandates that any employee who requests a retroactivepayment must be paid upon request by the employee if the employee was absent for a qualifying reason. that can be used to opt-out from those advertisements and that do not contact their mail delivery service to ensure that recipients who opt out no longer receive the company’s commercial mail advertisements. 5. SB 346 (Wieckowski, D-Fremont): Requires dealers to provide additional disclosures related to OEM- installed and OEM-operated in-vehicle cameras. This bill aims to require dealers to “prominently inform” vehicle purchasers about the operation of any in-vehicle cameras during the vehicle purchase process, with no additional information as to how that warning should be given. CNCDA’s perspective is that vehicle manufacturers should be responsible for informing customers about vehicle technology-specific features via the owner’s manual instead of requiring dealers to provide a notice that will differ for each consumer depending on which vehicle trim level they purchase. 6. AB 84 (Committee on Budget) and SB 95 (Skinner, D-Berkeley): Mandates up to 80 hours of COVID-19 paid sick leave retroactive to Jan. 1, 2021. AB 84/SB 95 would make an employer’s obligation to provide COVID-19 paid sick leave retroactive to Jan. 1, 2021, and mandates that any employee who requests a retroactive payment must be paid upon request by the employee if the employee was absent for a qualifying reason. CNCDA is part of a CalChamber-led coalition with over 100 other California businesses to oppose this measure. 7. AB 782 (Cooper, D-Elk Grove): Prohibits dealers from selling EVs unless OEMs certify that no child labor was involved in producing vehicle components. AB 782 would bar dealers from selling vehicles unless they can certify that any cobalt found in the vehicles (contained in EV batteries) was not mined or refined using child labor. The author is trying to combat the issue of child mining in the Congo, an honorable goal. However, dealers have no involvement in the manufacture of vehicles. They do not know where various vehicle components are sourced, so including dealers within this bill’s purview is unworkable. 8. AB 1382 (Patterson, R-Fresno): Modernizes the DMV by creating virtual field offices. Assembly Member Patterson has been pushing for years for a total overhaul of the DMV and its processes. AB 1382 is an effort to help modernize the DMV by creating virtual field offices that would allow for the electronic completion of certain transactions, including low-emission vehicle decal applications and title transfer transactions. 9. AB 1218 (McCarty, D-Sacramento; Berman, D-Menlo Park; Medina, D-Riverside): Attempts to codify the Governor’s Executive Order to bar the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035. This bill is an effort to put into statute Governor Newsom’s Executive Order prohibiting the sale of new gas-powered vehicles in California by the year 2035. AB 1218 also requires vehicle manufacturers to decrease vehicle greenhouse gas emissions annually or face civil penalties. 10. AB 1287 (Bauer-Kahan, D-Livermore; C. Garcia, D-Bell Gardens): Prohibits businesses from pricing products differently based on a consumer’s gender. This bill is an effort, tried many times in the past, to prohibit businesses from charging more for “pink” products than “blue” products. This year, the authors have pledged that there will be no private right of action in the bill, removing many of CNCDA’s concerns with the proposal. However, we will be watching this issue closely. CNCDA will be actively engaging on these and many other issues in what is already shaping up to be a very active legislative session. 3