AB 1547 (Quirk-Silva) - Support - Capital Access Loan Program

The Capital Access Loan Program includes the Small Business Capital Access Loan Program (ADA Program) to assist small businesses in financing the costs of projects that alter or retrofit existing small business facilities to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

AB 1547 makes changes to the ADA Program to improve participation and better target the specific kinds of small businesses intended to benefit from the program.

pdf version 1-8-18 support letter
pdf version 6-15-18 support letter
pdf version 7-13-18 suppport letter
pdf version 9-6-18 request for signature

AB 2030 (Limon) - Support - CalWORKs Disability Accommodations

This bill requires the Department of Social Services to inquire into the applicant’s need for an accommodation by including questions in the application and then provide a notice on the first page of the applicant’s file to inform the applicant’s caseworker of the need for an accommodation.

pdf version 3-13-18 support letter
pdf version 6-21-18 support letter
pdf version 7-13-18 support letter
pdf version 8-30-18 request for signature

AB 2448 (Gipson) - Support - Internet Access for Youth

We must give our most disadvantaged youth an opportunity to thrive in their communities. Providing Internet access to youth in foster care and in juvenile detention facilities is an important step in ensuring that they have access to a broader scope of information that technology provides.

pdf version 6-5-18 support letter
pdf version 7-11-18 support letter
pdf version 9-4-18 request for signature

AB 2749 (Bonta) - Support - Internet Website Accessibility

This bill requires each state agency to certify that its internet website is mobile friendly. The bill would also prohibit a website maintained by a state agency that is intended for use by the public from becoming operational unless it is mobile friendly and accessible by persons with disabilities. 

pdf version 7-11-18 support letter
pdf version 9-4-18 request for signature

AB 2806 (Obernolte) - Support if Amended - Disabled Parking in Electric Vehicle Charging Stall

This bill allows a vehicle with a disability license plate or placard and equipped with a lift, ramp, or other assistive equipment for loading or unloading a person with a disability to park in a stall for electric vehicles. The vehicle can park in the space without charging if is used to load or unload a person with a disability from the parked vehicle.

  pdf version 5-7-18 support if amended letter

AB 2994 (Holden) – Support - Accessible Restrooms

This bill requires the Building Standards Commission, in the next triennial adoption process of the California Building Standards Code, to adopt standards requiring newly constructed public restrooms to be equipped with grab bars.

pdf version 4-18-18 support letter
pdf version 6-14-18 support letter

AB 3002 (Grayson) – Support - Building Permits or Business Licenses

This bill would additionally require the above local jurisdictions issuing building permits for commercial construction or business licenses to make available a notice containing specified information regarding disability access.

pdf version 3-26-18 support letter
pdf version 6-6-18 support letter
pdf version 6-29-18 support letter
pdf version 9-6-18 request for signature

AB 3006 (Stone) - DRC Sponsored Bill - Support - Equal Access to Child Welfare Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing 

This bill ensures equal access to services for deaf and hard of hearing families in the child welfare system.

pdf version 4-16-18 support letter
pdf version 5-22-18 support letter

AB 3158 (Mathis) – Oppose - Notice of Disability Access Violations 

This bill establishes notice requirements and places the burden on the person with a disability who encounters an access barrier to send a written notice specific enough to allow a business owner to identify the barrier, including the provisions of the state access laws or the Americans with Disabilities Act being violated. Once the business receives notice, the legislation allows up to 120 days, to fix even simple access barriers.

pdf version 3-26-18 oppose letter

SB 760 (Wiener) - Oppose Unless Amended - State Highway Improvements

DRC is concerned that Caltrans and local entities fail to consider and comply with federal Americans with Disabilities Act and state accessibility regulatory requirements in designing streets and roadways. This failure negatively affects both the safety and ability to travel for pedestrians, especially those with disabilities, including those with vision impairments.

pdf version 6-22-18 oppose unless amended letter

SB 936 (Allen) – Support - Automated Vehicle Technology 

This bill would form a task force for the purpose of moving forward policies and objectives for automated vehicle technology. Autonomous vehicles will be transformative for people who cannot drive. If self-driving cars will one day be rolled out on a large scale, they must be designed and built with the millions of people with disabilities in mind. SB 936 specifically provides that one of the charges of the task force is to ensure the accessibility of people with disabilities is not hindered.

pdf version 5-9-18 support letter

SB 1376 (Hill) - Support - Transportation Network Companies

This bill seeks to improve accessibility in the transportation network companies (such as Uber and Lyft) business model while continuing to hold them to their existing obligations of ensuring full accessibility to persons with disabilities who use motorized wheelchairs services equivalent to those persons without disabilities.

pdf version 6-14-18 support letter
pdf version 6-19-18 support letter

SB 1396 (Galgiani) – DRC Sponsored Bill - Support - Accessible Technology

This bill establishes a central point of authority within state government to ensure that every state agency and entity complies with state and federal law by providing accessible technology for persons with disabilities to access information, services and benefits that they are entitled to receive.

pdf version 4-13-18 support letter
pdf version 7-19-18 support letter