We have been engaged in thousands of pieces of legislation over the years. The following is a short list of some of the legislation and legislative areas in which we have been involved:

Alcohol

  • Allocation of Alcoholic Beverage Licenses
  • Community Protest methods
  • Wine sales, delivery, production, and tasting
  • Beer sales, delivery, production, and tasting
  • Alcoholic Beverage Wholesaler Oversight
  • Beverage Retailer Oversight for in-house consumption
  • Beverage Retailer Oversight for home consumption


Banking and Corporations

  • CA Financial Privacy Legislation
  • Mortgage Foreclosure: Homeowner’s Bill of Rights
  • Banking and Credit Union Oversight Legislation
  • Deferred-Deposit legislation
  • State Assistance Fund for Enterprise, Business, and Industrial Development (SAFEBIDCO)
  • CA Finance Lenders Law
  • Industrial Banks: “Box Store” Acquisition
  • Money Transmitters
  • Broker-Dealer Security Transactions
  • Limited Liability Company 
  • Escrow Agent Fees


Consumer Protection

  • CA Professional Licensing: Scope and Practice
    • Accountancy
    • Acupuncture
    • Architects
    • Athletic Commission
    • Automotive Repair
    • Barbering and Cosmetology
    • Cemetery and Funeral
    • Contractors
    • Court Reporters
    • Electronic and Appliance Repair
    • Engineers, Land Surveyors, Geologists and Geophyscits
    • Home Furnishings 
    • Landscape Architects
    • Pharmacy
    • Private Postsecondary & Vocational Schools
    • Professional Fiduciaries
    • Real Estate & Appraisers
    • Security and Investigative Services
    • Guide Dogs for the Blind
    • Structural Pest Control
  • Sports Memorabilia
  • Consumer Protection initiatives


Economic Development 

  • Enterprise Zones
  • International Trade Offices


Emergency Services

  • State Fire Marshal and Emergency Services
  • First Responder Radio Interoperability


Gaming

  • State-Tribal Gaming Compacts (75 compacts)
  • Chartiable Raffles
  • State Lottery Allocation Changes
  • Gaming Device Control
  • Card Room Oversight


Government Organization

  • CA Public Records Act
  • State Procurement Statutes and Processes
  • Joint Powers Authority Establishment


Healthcare

  • Medicare Part D Implementation
  • Diabetes and Obesity Reduction Programs (13 States)
  • Pharmaceutical Marketing Transparency (Physician Payments Sunshine Act) 
  • Patient Assistance and Affordable Care Act (federal)
  • MassCare - Health Reform of 2006 (Pre-cursor to Affordable Care Act).
  • Medical Waste Management Act 


Horseracing

  • Thoroughbred Horseracing Purse recalculations
  • Reallocation of Horseracing Days among state’s tracks
  • Quarter horse racing
  • Paint horse racing
  • Horseracing Backstretch Reforms


Veterans Affairs

  • National Guard: Health Coverage when called to active service
  • Veteran’s Homes upgrades
  • Cal-Vet eligibility for active service time
  • Veterans' Home Funding for Construction of three new facilities
  • DVBE’s: Increased bid preference
  • Recognized Military Firefighter Training for Post-Military Employment
  • Required Complete Accounting of Veteran Home Care

Our Approach


Always seeking to improve legislation and regulatory efforts.

We are active in pushing for improvements to a wide variety of pending law, with regulatory bodies, Department/Agency heads, elected members of the legislature, their staff, and other interested stakeholders.