Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed the following bills:

• AB 215 by Assemblymember Luis Alejo (D-Watsonville) – Local agency employment contracts: maximum cash settlement.

• AB 486 by Assemblymember Susan Bonilla (D-Concord) – Centralized hospital packaging pharmacies: medication labels.

• AB 1262 by Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) – Telecommunications: universal service: California Advanced Services Fund.

• AB 1339 by Assemblymember Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles) – School district employees: merit system: appointments.

• SB 216 by Senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) – The Public Employees' Retirement System.

• SB 285 by Senator Marty Block (D-San Diego) – Pawnbrokers: compensation: loans.

• SB 386 by Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) – Unlawful business practices.

• SB 525 by Senator Jim W. Nielsen (R-Gerber) – Respiratory care practice.

• SB 598 by Senator Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) – Sales and use taxes: consumer designation: all volunteer fire department.

• SB 797 by the Committee on Governmental Organization – Government finance.

For full text of the bills, visit: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov