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Orange County Business Council (OCBC), opposes SB 1075 (Reyes), which would impose significant new constraints on local land use decision-making and create substantial uncertainty for businesses, infrastructure projects and economic development across California. At a high level, SB 1075 requires...

Orange County Business Council (OCBC) opposes AB 1790 (Connolly), which would eliminate California’s water’s-edge election beginning in 2028 and require mandatory worldwide combined reporting for corporate taxpayers. OCBC is concerned that this proposal would significantly increase tax burdens on companies...

AB 1776 (Aguiar-Curry) would grant the state Attorney General broad authority to open investigations into any company, of any size, for virtually any reason. The bill also includes a private right of action that would allow unions, competitors and other...

SB 310 would have undermined the progress made by the passage of Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) legislation two years ago, which curbed abusive lawsuits, reduced penalties for employers making good faith efforts to follow the law and encouraged faster and...