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AB 8: Health Care Tax on Employers—Would have imposed a tax on small employers who cannot afford to provide health care coverage, to fund heath care coverage for those who do not currently purchase it.
- AB 35: Increased Construction Costs—Would have established an insolated process by which a minimum level of “green building” standards were set by a private entity, thereby excluding any public review or input. The measure also created conflicts and confusion with existing and proposed building codes.
- AB 210: Restrictive Fuel Standard— Would have interfered with the development of a competitive alternative fuels market and threatened job creation in California by creating a costly Low Carbon Fuel Standard that conflicted with the existing standard created by Governor’s Executive Order S-7-04.
- SB 622: Independent Contractors— Would have created a new excuse to sue employers and expose them to excessive new penalties for “willful misclassification” of independent contractors without providing a clear workers’ compensation system.
- AB 888: Increased Construction Costs— Would have made it extremely difficult for small businesses to compete by establishing an arbitrary definition of “commercial.” The bill also created conflicts and confusion with existing and proposed building codes and established an isolated process by which a minimum level of “green building” standards were set by a private entity, thereby excluding any public review or input.
- AB 1058: Increased Construction Costs— Would have added significant costs to housing purchase as well as rental affordability by requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to use the most stringent provisions of five sets of national “green building” guidelines as a basis for developing California’s mandatory “green building” standards.