SUPPORT:
• H.R. 976 (Rangel; R-New York 15): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for small businesses, and for other purposes.
Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2007 – Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to small business to: (1) extend through 2008 the work opportunity tax credit: (2) qualify certain individuals between ages 18 and 40 living in an empowerment zone, enterprise community or renewal community for the work opportunity tax credit and expand the eligibility for, and amount of, such credit for certain disabled veterans; (3) increase to $125,000 (adjusted for inflation) the expensing allowance for small business assets and extend such increased allowance through 2010; (4) allow employers to claim a business tax credit for social security taxes paid with respect to employee cash tips without regard to any increase in the federal minimum wage rate.
• AB 2127 (Benoit; R-Palm Desert) Employment: Small business family scheduling options.
Amends Labor Code 511 to allow employees and employers flexibility in work schedules to help accommodate employees' diverse family obligations, personal pursuits, commuting issues and environmental concerns by allowing a small business to agree to provide scheduling options requested by an employee. This option, known as the Small Business Family Scheduling Option, would allow a small employer to agree to an employee's request to work four 10-hour days a week or eight nine-hour days and one eight-hour day in two weeks. This bill applies exclusively to small businesses with 25 or fewer employees that are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
• SB1539 (Calderon; D-Los Angeles) Meal periods.
Provides a comprehensive solution to compliance and enforcement of meal period laws that provides clarity and flexibility to employers and employees across all industries regardless of employer size or union status.
• SB1248 (Wyland; R-Carlsbad)
Career Technical Education Comprehensive Reform.
Restores Career Technical Education programs to California's schools, and moves our education system into the 21st century by educating our students for all their post-high school options.
• AB 2292 (Garrick; R-Carlsbad) Health Savings Accounts.
This is a conformity measure to bring California in line with federal tax law, which allows an individual to claim a tax deduction in the amount that he/she contributed to a health savings account during a calendar year.
OPPOSE:
• SB 1338 (Migden; D-San Francisco) Workers' compensation: Medical treatment: Predesignation of physician.
Existing workers' compensation law generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. Existing law, until December 31, 2009, provides an employee with the right to be treated by his or her personal physician from the date of injury if specified requirements are met, including a requirement that the physician agrees to be predesignated. This bill would delete the December 31, 2009 repeal date for those provisions pertaining to an employee's predesignation of a personal physician.
• H.R. 976 (Rangel; R-New York 15): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for small businesses, and for other purposes.
Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2007 – Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to small business to: (1) extend through 2008 the work opportunity tax credit: (2) qualify certain individuals between ages 18 and 40 living in an empowerment zone, enterprise community or renewal community for the work opportunity tax credit and expand the eligibility for, and amount of, such credit for certain disabled veterans; (3) increase to $125,000 (adjusted for inflation) the expensing allowance for small business assets and extend such increased allowance through 2010; (4) allow employers to claim a business tax credit for social security taxes paid with respect to employee cash tips without regard to any increase in the federal minimum wage rate.
• AB 2127 (Benoit; R-Palm Desert) Employment: Small business family scheduling options.
Amends Labor Code 511 to allow employees and employers flexibility in work schedules to help accommodate employees' diverse family obligations, personal pursuits, commuting issues and environmental concerns by allowing a small business to agree to provide scheduling options requested by an employee. This option, known as the Small Business Family Scheduling Option, would allow a small employer to agree to an employee's request to work four 10-hour days a week or eight nine-hour days and one eight-hour day in two weeks. This bill applies exclusively to small businesses with 25 or fewer employees that are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
• SB1539 (Calderon; D-Los Angeles) Meal periods.
Provides a comprehensive solution to compliance and enforcement of meal period laws that provides clarity and flexibility to employers and employees across all industries regardless of employer size or union status.
• SB1248 (Wyland; R-Carlsbad)
Career Technical Education Comprehensive Reform.
Restores Career Technical Education programs to California's schools, and moves our education system into the 21st century by educating our students for all their post-high school options.
• AB 2292 (Garrick; R-Carlsbad) Health Savings Accounts.
This is a conformity measure to bring California in line with federal tax law, which allows an individual to claim a tax deduction in the amount that he/she contributed to a health savings account during a calendar year.
OPPOSE:
• SB 1338 (Migden; D-San Francisco) Workers' compensation: Medical treatment: Predesignation of physician.
Existing workers' compensation law generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. Existing law, until December 31, 2009, provides an employee with the right to be treated by his or her personal physician from the date of injury if specified requirements are met, including a requirement that the physician agrees to be predesignated. This bill would delete the December 31, 2009 repeal date for those provisions pertaining to an employee's predesignation of a personal physician.