The Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce & Convention-Visitors Bureau acts on legislative issues that will have an impact on your business.  We research and review information provided by many resources, including the CalChamber.  As our Chamber continues to work towards a more business-friendly California, we encourage you to become more involved in the process.  Below is a press release issued by the CalChamber regarding a "job killer" bill that has been put forth before the state legislature.  Our Chamber continues to send communication to the legislature about these type of bills, but hearing from you, the business person that may be directly impacted by these type of bills, may make a difference in how your local legislator votes.  Once you've read and watched the video, please communicate your thoughts to your local legislator.  Links to Santa Clara's representatives are included below.  Together we will make a difference!

Subject:  CalChamber News: Misplaced Legislative Priorities

The second installment of CalChamber News was released this morning. In this edition, we focus on misplaced legislative priorities. Rather than concentrating on jobs and the economy this year, legislators spent time on bills like AB 889 (Ammiano; D-San Francisco—which is the subject of this installment of CalChamber News. AB 889 is a nonsense bill that would require anyone hiring a domestic worker—including babysitters and nannies—to provide a duty-free, 30-minute meal period at or before five hours of work and a 10-minute uninterrupted rest period at or before four hours of work. 

In the video, CalChamber Policy Advocate Jennifer Barrera, who has been fighting AB 889 all year, discusses the fact that the bill expands mandates to private homeowners that sophisticated businesses with professional human resources staff and employment attorneys already struggle to implement properly. Although the bill is stalled for the rest of this year, backers of the measure will likely take it up again next year.

The video features interviews with a mom, who discusses the fact that the bill is unworkable; a current nanny who calls the bill "pointless"; and a retired educator who is puzzled by the Legislature's lack of focus on job creation. CalChamber calls into question how the bill has made it so far along in the process in a year when the Legislature’s priorities should be job creation and economic recovery. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5g_A4wEugU

State Senator Elaine Alquist (Senate District 13)  
Assembly Member Jim Beall (Assembly District 24)
Assembly Member Paul Fong (Assembly District 22)

Additionally, here is the email for the author of the bill:

Assembly Member Tom Ammiano of San Francisco (Assembly District 13)