CalChamber Policy Advocates Put Spotlight on Priority Business Issues

Adam Regele, CalChamber vice president of advocacy and strategic partnerships, moderates a quick look at CalChamber-opposed priority bills that haven’t been tagged as-job killers at the CalChamber Capitol Summit on May 17 with policy advocates Rob Moutrie, Brenda Bass and Brady Van Engelen. Subjects included pending legislation to apply a workplace violence standard written for hospitals to all workplaces; a proposal to give the State Water Resources Control Board expansive new authority to regulate water use and insulate the board from judicial review; an emissions reporting requirement affecting businesses of all sizes and in multiple industries throughout the supply chain; and a labor-sponsored bill that changes the state’s direct democracy process to essentially eliminate the ability for anyone to qualify a referendum.

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