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• Drafting the testimony for our two key witnesses, Mayor Cassidy and City Manager Zapata, when the item was before the Senate and Assembly Local Government Committees; • Briefing the office of every Assembly and Senate committee member to explain why the City of San Leandro and State need this bill, what the impact is, and what the City is hoping to achieve; • Testifying before the Assembly and Senate Appropriations committees; • Working with the author, his office, the City, and Legislative leadership to successfully move the bill out of the Assembly; • Working with the Senate Governance and Finance committee members and staff to successfully move the bill out of committee with bipartisan support; • Working with Assembly Member Bonta and his office to secure Senator Padilla as the legislator to manage the bill on the Senate Floor and successfully moving out of the Senate Floor; and • Partnering with Assembly Member Bonta, the Mayor, City leadership, and others to advocate to the Governor and his staff to sign the bill into law. • Those groups include California Library Association, California State Association of Counties, Central Coast Broadband Consortium, City of Dublin, City of Oakland, San Leandro Chamber of Commerce and IBEW Local 595. • This bill was signed into law by Governor Brown on September 29, 2014. 2. Additionally, TPA provided immediate, direct, and extensive advocacy efforts on behalf of the City of San Leandro regarding additional, specific legislation of interest to the City. SB 962 (Leno) Smart Phones -Support This bill, in an effort to curb cell phone theft, requires a `kill switch' on all smart phones sold after July 2015 in the state of California. The goal of the legislation is to remove the profit motive for those who would attempt to steal smart phones. Our efforts included working closely with Senator Leno and his office, Assembly Member Skinner (the coauthor) and her office, numerous public safety associations, consumer associations, and additional cities to ensure this bill moved through both houses. Once the bill was on the Governor's desk, TPA helped organize an intensive and focused letter writing campaign to the Governor outlining the need for the bill. SB 962 was signed by Governor Brown in August. AB 1147 (Bonilla) Massage Therapy -Support As one of the top City legislative priorities, TPA was actively engaged on this legislative initiative. This bill substantially revises the existing massage therapy law, incorporating changes that were recommended as a result of the 2014 sunset review process. This bill would revise, recast, and update multiple provisions of current law to give local government's greater authority to regulate massage establishments and businesses while creating a more robust statewide regulatory system for massage professionals. TPA worked closely with Assembly Member Bonilla's office, the City of San Leandro, Assembly Member Bonta's Office and the offices of Senator Hancock and Senator Corbett to ensure massage parlor legislation was crafted with the City of San Leandro in mind. The bill was signed into law by the Governor. AB 1399 (Medina) California New Markets Tax — Support This bill, as a means to stimulate economic growth in a post—Redevelopment Agency (RDA) world, establishes the California New Markets Tax Credit Program with the stated purpose of stimulating private sector investment in lower income communities. While financial institutions routinely extend working capital and long-term debt to larger businesses, smaller size businesses located in historically underserved areas are often bypassed. AB 1399 creates a $200 million state New Markets Tax Credit Program for the purpose of attracting federal New Market Tax Credit activities in order to stimulate City of San Leandro 2014 State Legislative Summary Page 2 of 4