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Staff for Sen. Valadares outlines three public-safety bills and opposes proposed mileage tax
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Summary
Thomas Moreno, staff for Senator Valadares, briefed the commission on three public-safety bills (a human-trafficking task force bill, an illegal-dumping fines bill and 'Kaylee's Law') and said the senator is opposed to a proposed mileage tax referenced as bill 1421.
Thomas Moreno, staff for Senator Valadares, told the Lancaster Criminal Justice Commission about three public-safety bills the senator is sponsoring or supporting.
Moreno described the first bill (spoken as "SB 1022") as creating a human-trafficking task force to coordinate state and local programs. He said the second bill (spoken as "SB 1230") would strengthen fines for repeat illegal-dumping offenders and designate CalRecycle as the lead state agency for local illegal-dumping responses. Moreno also discussed a previously introduced bill called "Kaylee's Law" (spoken as "SB 1395"), which the staffer said would allow judges discretion to issue life injunctions against certain registerable-sex-offender defendants at sentencing; Moreno said the measure stalled in the prior session but the senator is reintroducing it.
Moreno told commissioners the senator "is majorly against" a proposed mileage tax (referred to in the discussion as bill 1421) and will oppose it on behalf of commuter communities. He offered to return with updates next month if there are developments on the bills.
Commissioners asked a few clarifying questions about the mileage-tax timeline and whether the senator would provide additional information to the commission in future meetings.
