SB 1203: ANOTHER SPECIAL INTEREST SCHEME WITH A HUGE PRICE TAG.
California lawmakers are considering SB 1203, a bill that would raise the cost of hiring security guards in California by an estimated $2 billion. Small businesses would be forced to foot that bill, at a time when they’re already stretched thin.
We’ve seen this play out before: when the state raised fast food wages, restaurants couldn’t just absorb that new cost. They were forced to cut jobs. Now, SB 1203 sets up the same outcome for security guards.
More costs for businesses. Fewer jobs. A blow to public safety.
Watch the video below to see why CALSAGA urges legislators to oppose SB 1203.
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- August 13th – Statement from CALSAGA on SB 1203 Advancing out of Assembly Appropriations Committee
- August 10th – California bill attempts to change training standards, raise wages for private security guards on KCRA
- August 10th – California’s public security industry is sounding the alarm over SB 1203
- August 9th – CALSAGA President David Chandler sits down with the California Insider to discuss SB 1203
- August 4th – CALSAGA Launches Statewide Ad Campaign Opposing SB 1203, Warning the Bill’s $2 Billion Cost Poses Threat to Public Safety
- July 17th – California poised to endanger public safety with SB 1203 by David Chandler in The Capitol Weekly
- July 9th – Action Needed to Defeat SB 1203
- July 9th – CALSAGA hosted a second Urgent Member Call on SB 1203
- June 30th – CALSAGA Treasurer Mark Miller addressed the California Assembly Public Safety Committee
- June 29th – Assembly Committee on Public Safety SB 1203 Bill Analysis
- June 29th – CalMatters Discusses Broader Implications of Wage Policy Changes
- June 23rd – SB 1203 Update + Helpful Resources
- June 16th – CALSAGA Voices Opposition to SB 1203 Before Assembly Business and Professions Committee
- June 16th – CALSAGA represented at the Assembly Business and Professions Committee
- June 15th – The Latest on SB 1203 and What You Can Do
- June 9th – Urgent Member Call on SB 1203
- May 4th – Legislative Corner: SB 1203 – Protecting the Integrity of California’s Private Security Industry (Included in Q2 edition of The Californian: The Quarterly Newsletter of CALSAGA, page 4)
- April 21st – We Need Your Help to Defeat SB 1203
- April 6th – Job Killer Bill Introduced