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Featured here is a list of AGC of California priority bills that survived the legislative process and the governor’s review. While this list is not comprehensive of AGC’s total advocacy efforts, it does include measures that took most of the legislative session to monitor and advocate on.


End of the 2022 Legislative Session: What Bills Impacting Construction Survived


BY FELIPE FUENTES T


he California Legislature con- cluded the regular order of the 2021-22 session right at the con-


stitutional time limit of midnight on August 31. Several key urgency bills (i.e., 2/3 vote measures) affecting energy policy were taken up after the normal deadline, bringing the legislative session to an end just past 1 a.m. Governor Gavin Newsom had until September 30 to sign or veto legislation sent to his desk. Tose bills signed into law, unless designated as an urgency measure, will go into effect on January 1, 2023. Below is a list of AGC of California


priority bills that survived the legislative process and the governor’s review, along with a notation as to whether AGC of California took a support, oppose or neutral position on them. While this list does not represent AGC of California’s total advocacy efforts, it does include measures that took most of the legisla- tive session to monitor and advocate on. Tose bills marked neutral indicate that amendments were taken because of our advocacy to move AGC of California off an oppose position.


ASSEMBLY AB 152 (Budget Committee) – Supple- mental Paid Covid-19 Sick Leave – Tis bill extends COVID-19 supplemental paid


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sick leave provisions from September 30, 2022, to December 31, 2022, which entitles covered employees up to 80 hours of paid sick leave under specified circum- stances. It makes changes to the testing requirements to determine paid sick leave eligibility and establishes a grant program within the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development to assist qualified small businesses who incurred costs providing supplemental paid sick leave to employees. Neutral. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chap- ter 736, Statutes of 2022.


AB 1041 (Wicks) – Family Leave – Tis bill expands the class of people for whom an employee may take leave to care for to include a designated person. It would define a “designated person” to mean any individual related by blood or whose asso- ciation with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship. Further, the bill would authorize a designated person to be identified at the time the employee requests the leave and would authorize an employer to limit an employee to one designated person per 12-month period. Oppose. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 748, Statutes of 2022.


AB 1851 (R. Rivas) – Public Works: Hauling Prevailing Wage – Tis bill would expand the definition of “public works” for


those purposes to include the on-hauling of materials used for paving, grading, and fill onto a public works site if the individual driver’s work is integrated into the flow process of construction. Te bill would make a related intent statement that the Legislature in enacting paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 1720.3 of the Labor Code to restore, as of the effective date of this act, the holding of O. G. San- sone Co. v. Department of Transportation (1976) 55 Cal.App.3d 434, and its subse- quent interpretations, as it relates to the on hauling of materials used for paving, grading, and fill onto a public works site. Neutral. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 764, Statutes of 2022.


AB 1932 (Daly) – Construction Manager At-Risk Construction Contracts Exten- sion – Existing law authorizes the use of construction manager at-risk construction contracts in California by a county, with approval of the board of supervisors, or a public entity, of which the members of the county board of supervisors make up the members of the governing body of that public entity (with the approval of its governing body). Tese contracts may be used for the erection, construction, alteration, repair, or improvement of any infrastructure, owned or leased by the county, subject to certain requirements, including that the method may only be


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