AB 232 Community Development Block Grant –adds flexibility to the state rules governing the small cities portion of the federal Community Development Block Grant program. The measure will improve the state's ability to more quickly certify and award grant funding to local economic development projects across the state.

AB 880 Expedited Environmental Impact Report – facilitates timely compliance with California’s climate change rules and spurs job creation by expediting the environmental review process for material formulations and other narrowly defined projects to bring businesses into compliance with the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32).

AB 1137 Small Business Export Assistance and Private Investment – facilitates local economic development and job creation by assisting small business to access new export markets for their goods and services, updating the law relating to free trade zones, and authorizing the use of new federal funds under the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010.

AB 1233 State Economic & Workforce Development Strategy – requires the Director of the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to prepare a five-year economic and workforce development strategy. The blueprint will help the state set a strategic path forward by prioritizing and coordinating state activities, supporting local and regional economic development activities, and better leveraging of private and public sector resources.

AB 1411 Enterprise Zone Program Reform – makes a number of reforms to the California Enterprise Zone program to make it more transparent, effective, and accountable to the public and to the communities it serves.

AB 1544 Agriculture Jobs & Industry Stabilization Act of 2012 – creates a guest worker program, administered by the Employment Development Department, whereby current undocumented workers in the agriculture and service sectors, and their immediate family members, would be authorized to remain in California as legal residents provided they meet specified criteria. The program would be paid for with fees charged to those participating. The bill requires an analysis to be done in year three of the program to determine whether it had resulted in any displacement of employable U.S. citizens in the specified industries.

AB 1545 Bi-National Economic Development & Infrastructure Bank – establishes a state equivalent of the North American Development Bank to facilitate and finance economic and infrastructure projects in the California and Mexico border region. Improving the goods movement infrastructure and economy of California-Mexico border region, based on expediting legitimate commerce, will result in immediate and long-term benefits to the people of California. Economic stability in the border region also serves as a practical approach for minimizing and discouraging the unauthorized flow of individuals into California. This bill creates a tool to support the investment of private and federal dollars in projects that facilitate trade and economic growth and does not use state General Funds.

AB 1546 California High Skilled Worker Retention & Family Act of 2012 – authorizes the Employment Development Department to develop a state program that allows high skilled workers that meet specified criteria to be sponsored by businesses to work legally in California under the status of resident immigrant. The bill recognizes the economic importance of maintaining access to high skilled workers and creates a California version of the federal law related to sponsored immigrant workers. The program would be administered by EDD and would be paid for with fees from the sponsoring business.

AB 1740 Employment Protections for Victims of Domestic Violence – establishes workplace protections for victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking and requires the provision of reasonable accommodations to enable them to perform successfully and safely in the workplace.

AB 2205 Geothermal Waste Exemption – clarifies the existing regulatory structure regarding geothermal waste to include lithium extraction operations as long as the geothermal waste is contained in a piping system.

AB 2506 Innovation California – makes a number of enhancements to tax credit programs and administrative procedures for the purpose of creating jobs and supporting innovation-based businesses.

AB 2619 Start Up California Impact Investment Fund – authorizes the I-Bank to administer the Start-Up California Impact Investment Fund Program for the purpose of providing equity financing to start-ups and other small size businesses.