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Business Issues & Legislative Guide

This handy guide to the most pressing issues facing California business provides background information essential to understanding the problems and outlines solutions to help keep businesses competitive in a global economy.​


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Easy-to-reference California Chamber of Commerce publication contains background information compiled by CalChamber policy advocates on issues the CalChamber has identified as supporting the ability of businesses of all sizes to succeed, thereby helping the economy recover.

The theme of the 2012 edition, “Creating Certainty in an Uncertain Economy,” emphasizes a critical need for businesses in planning future investments in jobs, plants or equipment.

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Business Issues and Legislative Guide

  • Background information and general discussion of major issue areas critical to the economy
  • Brief summaries of issues expected to arise in the coming year
  • Biographies of CalChamber policy advocates/executive team
  • Guide to legislative process, including protocol for contacting legislators, glossary of terms
  • How to write an effective lobbying letter
  • Guide to reading a bill
  • Organization chart of the executive branch
  • Tips on talking with the media
  • Recap of CalChamber candidate recruitment/development program
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State Issues         

  • Renew California (five pillars of economic recovery)
  • Budget/Taxation: 2012 Tax Front and Proposition 26
  • California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
  • Climate Change (AB 32)
  • Consumer Product Ingredient Regulation (Green Chemistry)
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Health Care Reform Implementation
  • Labor and Employment Reform (meal periods, alternative schedules, independent contractors, private actions)
  • Legal Reform
  • Managing Employees: California Leaves of Absence
  • Unemployment Insurance
  • Water
  • Workers’ Compensation

Federal Issues

  • International Trade
  • National Labor Relations Board

Issue Summaries

  • Endangered Species
  • Resources Funding
  • Building Code Update
  • Local Air Rules
  • Waste Reduction
  • Immigration
  • Export Control Reform
  • Russia: Permanent Normal Trade Relations
  • Trade Promotion Authority
  • Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment
  • Trans-Pacific Partnership
  • World Trade Organization
  • Limits on Information Gathering
  • Tourism
  • Federal Transportation Funding
  • High-Speed Rail
  • Port Competitiveness

 


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