State agencies: boards, commissions, and reports.

(1) Existing law requires various state agencies to submit certain reports, plans, evaluations, and other similar documents to the Legislature and other state agencies. This bill would eliminate the requirement that certain state agencies submit certain reports to the Legislature and other state agencies relating to a variety of subjects. The bill would also modify various requirements of certain reports by, among other ways, requiring specified reports be placed on the Internet Web site of the reporting agency rather than submitted to the Legislature or other state agencies, requiring certain agencies to collaborate with other agencies in preparing specified reports, consolidating certain reports, deleting the requirement that specified state agencies make specified information available on their Internet Web sites, and transferring reporting duties from one agency to another. This bill would make various conforming changes. (2) Existing law requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to convene a committee to develop and submit to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31, 2008, a Strategic Vision for a Sustainable Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. This bill would repeal the provisions establishing that committee. (3) Existing law, the Naturopathic Doctors Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of naturopathic doctors by the Naturopathic Medicine Committee within the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. Existing law also requires the committee to establish a naturopathic childbirth attendance advisory subcommittee to issue recommendations concerning the practice of naturopathic childbirth attendance based upon a review of naturopathic medical education and training, as specified. This bill would repeal the provisions providing for the establishment of this subcommittee. (4) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of accountants by the California Board of Accountancy. Existing law requires an applicant for an accountancy license to complete a minimum of 24 semester units in accounting subjects and a minimum of 24 semester units in business-related subjects. Existing law, on and after January 1, 2014, requires an applicant for an accountancy license to complete an additional 10 semester units or 15 quarter units in ethics study and 20 units in accounting study. Existing law establishes the Advisory Committee on Accounting Ethics Curriculum within the jurisdiction of the board to, by January 1, 2012, recommend guidelines for the ethics study requirement to the board. This bill would repeal the provisions establishing the Advisory Committee on Accounting Ethics Curriculum and would make related conforming and technical changes. (5) Existing law establishes the Committee of Executive Salaries, and requires the committee to study issues relating to executive salaries in the private and public sector, and to report to the Legislature on a biannual basis its findings and recommended changes. This bill would repeal the provisions establishing the committee. (6) Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to regulate certain types of candy, as defined, and requires the department to convene an interagency collaborative to serve as an oversight committee for the implementation of those provisions and to work with the department in establishing and revising the required standards. This bill would repeal those provisions establishing the interagency collaborative and would make technical and conforming changes. (7) Existing law creates the Fraud Division within the Department of Insurance to enforce specific provisions of law regarding crimes against insured property and insurance fraud reporting. Existing law creates the advisory committee on automobile insurance fraud and economic automobile theft prevention within the division to recommend ways to coordinate the investigation, prosecution, and prevention of automobile insurance claims fraud, and to provide assistance to the division towards implementing the goal of reducing the frequency and severity of fraudulent automobile insurance claims, among other things. This bill would repeal the provisions establishing the advisory committee. (8) This bill would make various technical and conforming changes.