Read. Adopted. (Page 1681.).
The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act establishes a statewide program for the control of the quality of all the waters of the state. The act authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board, a California regional water quality control board, or a publicly owned treatment works to require a discharger, as defined, to complete a pollution prevention plan if the discharger meets certain criteria. This bill would repeal an obsolete provision of law relating to pollution prevention plans and would make a conforming change. The bill would also make other nonsubstantive changes.
Existing law, the Gambling Control Act, establishes the California Gambling Control Commission, which is responsible for licensing and regulating various gambling activities and establishments. Existing law requires the commission to maintain a public record of every vote at its principal office. This bill would additionally require the commission to post a public record of every vote on the commission's internet website no later than the close of business on the 2nd business day after the meeting at which the vote was taken.
Existing law requires the Department of General Services to maintain a complete and accurate statewide inventory of all real property held by the state, to update the inventory annually, and to categorize that inventory by agency and geographical location. This inventory is required to include specified information furnished by state agencies and the University of California. This bill would require that this inventory be completed and updated by January 1 of each year.
Read. Adopted. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1100.)
Read. Adopted. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1103.)
Read. Adopted. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1599.).
Read. Adopted. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1080.)
Existing law establishes the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) , administered under the authority of the Insurance Commissioner and governed by a 3-member board, to transact insurance in this state as necessary to sell policies of basic residential earthquake insurance. Existing law establishes a capital structure for the CEA, with several sources of financing. Existing law authorizes the CEA, with the Treasurer as its agent, to issue and sell investment grade revenue bonds or issue or secure other debt financing, or both, up to a specified amount, if claims and claim expenses paid following an earthquake event exhaust 4 specified sources of capital. Existing law authorizes the CEA to impose a surcharge on all CEA policies up to a specified amount to secure funds to repay the bonded indebtedness or other debt. Existing law additionally authorizes the CEA to assess participating insurers, up to a specified amount, if claims and claim expenses exhaust the CEA's sources of capital and the policy surcharge. Existing law further authorizes the CEA to assess participating insurance companies up to $1,780,000,000 if claims and claim expenses paid by the CEA due to earthquake events exhaust the 4 specified sources of capital, the policy surcharge, and the participating insurance company assessment, described above. This bill would repeal the $1,780,000,000 assessment authorization and make conforming changes. Existing law requires the CEA to report annually by each August 1 to the Legislature and the commissioner on program operations, including, but not limited to, the financial condition of the authority. Existing law requires the authority, within 120 days following a seismic event and within one year of a major seismic event that results in the payment of claims by the authority, to submit a concise written report of program operations related to that seismic event to the President pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the Assembly, the Chairpersons of the Senate and Assembly Insurance Committees, the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, and the commissioner. This bill would delete the 120-day reporting requirement as well as the requirement to report to the various officials and committees and incorporate the major seismic event reporting requirement into the annual report due by each August 1 to the Legislature and commissioner.
Read. Adopted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1048.)
Read. Adopted. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 1572.).
Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the primary state agency for the administration of state-authorized student financial aid programs available to students attending all segments of postsecondary education. Existing law requires the commission to include 2 members, appointed by the Governor, who are students enrolled in a California postsecondary educational institution. This bill would instead require the commission to include 4 student members, one from each of the following: the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and a California private postsecondary educational institution.
