Ca. Gov. Brown VETOED AB 1081, The Trust Act.
The Governor announced that he has vetoed the following bills:
• AB 145 by Assemblymember Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) –Voter registration: paid registration activities. A veto message can be found here.
• AB 889 by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) – Domestic work employees. A veto message can be found here.
• AB 1000 by Assemblymember Henry Perea (D-Fresno) – Health care coverage: cancer treatment. A veto message can be found here.
• AB 1081 by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) – State government: federal immigration policy enforcement. A veto message can be found here.
• AB 1461 by Assemblymember William Monning (D-Carmel) – Individual health care coverage. A veto message can be found here.
• AB 1968 by Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont) – Peace officers. A veto message can be found here.
• AB 2031 by Assemblymember Felipe Fuentes (D-Los Angeles) – Probation: community corrections program. A veto message can be found here.
• AB 2152 by Assemblymember Mike Eng (D-Monterey Park) – Health care coverage. A veto message can be found here.
• AB 2162 by Assemblymember Anthony Portantino (D-Pasadena) – Political Reform Act of 1974: economic interest disclosure. A veto message can be found here.
• AB 2220 by Assemblymember Mike Gatto (D-Burbank) – Elections: statewide ballot pamphlet. A veto message can be found here.
• AB 2346 by Assemblymember Betsy Butler (D-Marina Del Rey) – Agricultural employee safety: heat-related illness. A veto message can be found here.
• AB 2451 by Assemblymember John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) – Workers' compensation: firefighters. A veto message can be found here.
• AB 2623 by Assemblymember Michael Allen (D-Santa Rosa) –State hospitals: peace officers. A veto message can be found here.
• AB 2676 by Assemblymember Charles Calderon (D-Whittier) – Agricultural employee safety. A veto message can be found here.
• SB 259 by Senator Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) – Higher education: employees. A veto message can be found here.
• SB 359 by Senator Ed Hernandez (D-Los Angeles) – Hospital billing: emergency services and care. A veto message can be found here.
• SB 393 by Senator Ed Hernandez (D-Los Angeles) – Patient-centered medical homes. A veto message can be found here.
• SB 411 by Senator Curren Price (D-Los Angeles) – Home Care Services Act of 2012. A veto message can be found here.
• SB 878 by Senator Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord) – Office of the Transportation Inspector General. A veto message can be found here.
• SB 961 by Senator Ed Hernandez (D-Los Angeles) – Individual health care coverage. A veto message can be found here.
• SB 970 by Senator Kevin De León (D-Los Angeles) – Health Care Reform Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention Planning Act: coordination with other programs. A veto message can be found here.
• SB 1246 by Senator Ed Hernandez (D-Los Angeles) – Health facilities: staffing. A veto message can be found here.
For full text of the bills, visit: Search Bills.
Jerry Brown vetoes 'Trust Act' bill targeting immigration holds
September 30, 2012
Jerry Brown vetoes 'Trust Act' bill targeting immigration holds
Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed legislation designed to curtail the deportation of undocumented immmigrants arrested on minor or non-violent offenses.
Assembly Bill 1081 would have prohibited local law enforcement agencies from holding arrestees for federal immigration authorities unless the crime or conviction involved a serious or violent felony.
Known by supporters as the "Trust Act," the measure was touted by its author, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, as a way to save money and police time by limiting use of local jails for immigration enforcement, an obligation of the federal government.
Brown, in vetoing AB 1081, applauded the role that undocumented immigrants play in the state's economy and expressed support for comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship.
"Until we have immigration reform, federal agents shouldn't try to
coerce local law enforcement officers into detaining people who've been picked up for minor offenses and pose no reasonable threat to their community," Brown wrote in his veto message.
But Ammiano's bill was flawed because its definition of serious or violent omitted many major crimes, he said.
"For example, the bill would bar local cooperation even when the person arrested has been convicted of certain crimes involving child abuse, drug trafficking, selling weapons, using children to sell drugs, or gangs," Brown wrote.
"I believe it's unwise to interfere with a sheriff's discretion to comply with a detainer issued for people with these kinds of troubling criminal records," he concluded.
Brown vowed to work with the Legislature to correct such deficiencies and craft a law that he can sign in the future.
Ammiano, D-San Francisco, had hailed AB 1081 as California's counter to a controversial Arizona law, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, that allows police to check the immigration status of people they stop in the normal course of their duties.
AB 1081 would have curtailed the practice of local law enforcement agencies holding an arrestee who is an undocumented immigrant for 48 hours upon request by immigration authorities for possible deportation.
Ammiano contended that routine use of immigration holds by local communities has prompted some Californians to hesitate in reporting crimes for fear that they or their loved ones could be deported.
AB 1081 would have applied both to offenders who were convicted of certain crimes but served their sentences and to arrestees accused but eligible for release on bail pending court proceedings.
Opponents said that assisting the federal government in enforcing immigration laws is good public policy. They said AB 1081 would make communities less safe by releasing undocumented offenders rather than enabling their deportation.
Capitol Alert: Jerry Brown vetoes 'Trust Act' bill targeting immigration holds
California governor vetoes "Anti-Arizona" immigration bill
California governor vetoes "Anti-Arizona" immigration bill
http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources...=CBRE8900C8800 California Governor Jerry Brown speaks at a news conference to announce the Public Employee Pension Reform Act of 2012 at Ronald Reagan State Building in Los Angeles, California August 28, 2012.
Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni
By Mary Slosson
Mon Oct 1, 2012 12:48am EDT
SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed an immigration measure dubbed the "anti-Arizona" bill late on Sunday that would shield some illegal immigrants from federal status checks.
The bill would have prohibited local authorities from honoring federal detention requests, which may lead to deportation proceedings, on illegal immigrants unless those individuals were charged or convicted of a serious or violent felony.
Supporters said the measure would have served as a counterpoint for what they say is racial profiling inherent in an Arizona law that cracks down on illegal immigration that was allowed to stand by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this summer.
In his veto message, Brown said that, while he supports comprehensive immigration reform, the bill was "fatally flawed" by exempted individuals who had committed crimes such as child abuse, drug trafficking and selling weapons.
"I believe it's unwise to interfere with a sheriff's discretion to comply with a detainer issued for people with those kinds of troubling criminal records," he said.
Brown's veto sparked ire among immigrant-rights groups who sponsored the measure and had been lobbying the governor to take a lenient stance toward illegal immigrants.
"Governor Brown has failed California's immigrant communities, imperiling civil rights and leaving us all less safe," Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said in a statement.
If Brown had signed the bill, California would have stood apart not only from Arizona, but also Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah, which have all adopted strict laws in the past two years to try to discourage illegal immigrants from settling there.
California has the largest population of undocumented immigrants in the United States, with nearly 2.6 million at the start of 2010, according to government figures.
California governor vetoes Anti-Arizona immigration bill | Reuters
California legislator will review ‘’anti-Arizona’’ law after veto by Brown
California legislator will review ‘’anti-Arizona’’ law after veto by Brown
Considers that Brown has failed California’s immigrant communities
by EFE Agency
October 2 2012
WASHINGTON.- One day after California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the ‘’anti-Arizona’’ bill, the California legislator Tom Ammiano offered to review the bill that would protect illegal immigrants from being subjected to federal status checks.
The bill known as the ‘’anti-Arizona’’ would of prohibited law enforcement from verifying an individual’s immigration status that could possibly lead to their deportation.
Brown explained that although he supports a comprehensive immigration reform, the bill was ‘’fatally flawed’’ because it would exempt individuals who had committed crimes such as child abuse, drug trafficking and the illegal sale of firearms.
‘’This is more than just about the governor, this is a movement and we will accomplish it’’, stated Ammiano.
The legislator said he is willing to review the bill, and see what crimes will exempt some illegal immigrants from being subjected to an immigration status check, and plans to introduce a similar bill in January.
‘’Obviously it is within our hands to fix it’’ he stated.
‘’Brown has failed California’s immigrant communities, imperiling civil rights and leaving us all less safe’’ Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said in a statement.
On their part the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) made an announcement to Efe today, that they will make a complaint to the Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca ‘’to change his position on this topic, because he is the main reason for the governor’s decision on the veto’’.
Brown recognizes the important role that illegal immigrants have in the California economy, and reassured that the ‘’significant differences’’ the bill has can be fixed and will lead to a new legislation in his hands soon.
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