• The California Senate (21-14) approved legislation authored by state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco/San Mateo, to prohibit businesses from denying service to a patron because of the language he or she speaks.
Two years ago, former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed similar legislation authored by Yee.
Like SB 242 (2009), Yee’s SB 111 (2011) would add protections for language to the state’s civil rights act, which prohibits discrimination within business establishments. While speaking one’s native language is generally protected in cases of employment and housing under state law, such protections are not currently extended to consumers, according to Yee’s office.
• The Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee passed legislation to provide market certainty for the infrastructure that is needed to support California’s electric vehicle consumer fleet by a 12-1 vote. Assembly Bill 631, authored by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, will place into law a decision by the California Public Utilities Commission to not regulate electric vehicle charging stations as utilities.
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• The California Assembly passed Assembly Bill 199, authored by Ma and Assemblyman Paul Cook, R-Yucca Valley, by a vote of 72-0. The legislation will ensure Filipino veterans who fought side by side American troops are remembered by future generations.
City government
• The San Carlos Planning Commission is accepting applications for one vacancy due to the expired term of one commissioner. The commission meets the first and third Monday of the month at 7 p.m. Duties include making recommendations to the general plan for future developing, acting on development applications, initiating zoning code reviews and voting on variances and conditional use permits. Applicants must be city residents. Applications can be had by calling the city clerk at 802-4219, visiting City Hall, 600 Elm St., second floor, or downloading it from the city website www.cityofsancarlos.org.
The deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18. Interviews are tentatively scheduled with the City Council for Monday, Feb. 28.
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