Existing law establishes the State Department of State Hospitals, provides for the administration of state hospitals by the department, and provides for the involuntary confinement of certain individuals in those state hospitals, including persons who have been found incompetent to stand trial. This bill would authorize the department to expand a specified pilot program to establish competency restoration programs in prescribed counties, to provide treatment in county jails to individuals found incompetent to stand trial, and who have not been committed to a state hospital. By requiring specified counties to participate in the pilot program if it is expanded, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for competency restoration programs in Los Angeles County and Kern County. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Existing law divides the state into agricultural districts within the boundaries of which agricultural associations may be formed. Existing law provides that District 28 is the County of San Bernardino. This bill would authorize the 28th District Agricultural Association, with the consent of the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, to enter into a joint powers agreement for the purpose of creating a joint powers agency to operate, maintain, and improve the facilities and functions of the 28th District Agricultural Association. The bill would specify the powers of the joint powers agency, and would authorize it to accept the donation of, acquire, own, sell, or lease real property and to pledge its property or revenue for the sale of bonds to construct, equip, and furnish related facilities, except that the bill would prohibit the joint powers agency from selling, divesting, or pledging real property owned by the state without statutory authorization or the express consent of the Department of Food and Agriculture and the Department of General Services. The bill would permit employees of the 28th District Agricultural Association to make an election concerning employment with the joint powers agency, as provided. This bill would provide that the state is not liable for any debt of the joint powers agency. Existing law authorizes a nonprofit organization or a joint powers agency that holds an annual fair, as specified, to elect to be a member of the network of California fairs on conditions mutually agreed upon by the Department of Food and Agriculture and the nonprofit organization. This bill would also provide that the joint powers agency for the 28th District Agricultural Association may elect to be a member of the network of California fairs on terms and conditions mutually agreed upon by the Department of Food and Agriculture and the joint powers agency.
Existing law prohibits a person from operating a motor vehicle upon a highway or in an offstreet public parking facility unless the motor vehicle is registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles. Existing law requires a vehicle owned by a person residing outside the state that is based in California or primarily used on California highways to be registered in the state. Existing law imposes, with specified exemptions, a fee on the registration of a motor vehicle. Existing law authorizes certain local governmental entities to impose additional registration-related fees for specified purposes. This bill would impose an additional fee, in an amount to be determined as specified, at the time of registration or renewal of registration on a motor vehicle registered to a nonresident owner who submits a registration or renewal of registration form with a residence or business address, as applicable, that is outside of the state. The bill would provide that the above fee applies to a motor vehicle that is initially registered or that has a registration expiring on or after July 1, 2013. The bill would, upon appropriation of the Legislature, make the fees collected available to the Department of Motor Vehicles to reimburse its costs associated with establishing the fee and costs incurred in carrying out the bill, and, in equal portion, to the Department of the California Highway Patrol to support databases and public warning systems used to alert motorists and the general public of specified information and the Department of Justice to maintain criminal justice databases designed to enhance the effectiveness of public safety warning systems. This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.
Existing law provides for state hospitals for the care, treatment, and education of mentally disordered persons. These hospitals are under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals, which is authorized by existing law to adopt regulations regarding the conduct and management of these facilities. This bill would require the department to reimburse an independent entity to conduct a review and analysis of staffing ratios to determine the appropriate levels for effective patient treatment, and would require a report with findings to be submitted to the Legislature by August 1, 2013. This bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2015.
Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and imposes certain requirements on health care service plans. Existing law imposes various fines and administrative penalties for certain violations of these provisions, which are deposited in the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund. Existing law requires the first $1,000,000 in the fund to be transferred each year to the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians in the Health Professions Education Fund for purposes of the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program. Existing law requires all remaining funds to be transferred each year to the Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund for purposes of the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program. This bill, beginning on the date that the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program becomes inoperative, would instead require all remaining funds over the first $1,000,000 to be transferred each year to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development for the purposes of the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act. The bill would require the Director of Finance to notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee in that regard.
Existing law provides that a city may purchase, lease, receive, hold, and enjoy real and personal property, and control and dispose of it for the common benefit. Other existing law establishes specific procedures for sale of public utility property owned by a municipal corporation, with special provisions that are applicable to the sale of property of a water utility. This bill would, until January 1, 2014, authorize the City of El Monte in the County of Los Angeles, which owns and operates a public utility for furnishing water service, to sell or transfer all or any part of the utility, as prescribed, if certain requirements are met. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of El Monte. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits, for a period of one year after the official leaves his or her position, elected and other specified local officials who held positions with a local government agency, as defined, from acting as agents or attorneys for, or otherwise representing, for compensation, any other person, by appearing before, or communicating with, that local government agency, or any committee, subcommittee, or present member of that local government agency, or any officer or employee of the local government agency, if the appearance or communication is made for the purpose of influencing administrative or legislative action, as specified, or influencing any action or proceeding involving the issuance, amendment, awarding, or revocation of a permit, license, grant, or contract, or the sale or purchase of goods or property. This bill, in addition, would apply this prohibition to other public officials serving as members of local governing boards or commissions with decisionmaking authority. Existing law makes a knowing or willful violation of the Political Reform Act of 1974 a misdemeanor and subjects offenders to criminal penalties. This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating an additional crime. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
The Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development serves as the Governor's lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. The office, among others, makes recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature regarding policies, programs, and actions to advance statewide economic goals. Commencing January 1, 2014, this bill would require the office to implement and administer the California Demonstration of Emerging Market Opportunities Act, which would allow state agencies to enter into demonstration agreements, as defined, with specified businesses and nonprofit organizations, as defined, to test, evaluate, or demonstrate innovative solutions pursuant to demonstration projects and pilot projects, as defined. The bill would prohibit the office from approving more than 10 demonstration agreements per year. The bill would authorize an agency to assess a fine of up to $10,000 against a business or nonprofit organization that falsifies or fails to disclose information in connection with a project, as specified. These provisions would be repealed as of January 1, 2019.
Existing law requires every peace officer, as defined, to satisfactorily complete an introductory course of training prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, demonstrated by passage of an appropriate examination developed or approved by the commission, prior to exercising the powers of a peace officer. Existing law authorizes the commission to evaluate and approve pertinent training previously completed by any jurisdiction's law enforcement officers as meeting current training requirements. This bill would authorize the commission to evaluate pertinent military police officer training previously completed by any jurisdiction's law enforcement officers for the purpose of determining whether the training meets the current training requirements prescribed by the commission. The bill would authorize the commission to develop a protocol that considers previous military police officer training as an applicable substitute for portions of the current standard training.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a credit in an amount equal to $3,000 for each full-time employee hired during the taxable year by a qualified employer, as defined. Existing law limits the total amount of credit that may be allocated under those provisions to $400,000,000. This bill would reduce the total amount of credit that may be allocated under those provisions to $375,000,000. This bill would allow a credit against the taxes imposed by the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law in an amount equal to $3,000 for each disabled veteran, as defined, hired as a qualified full-time employee during the taxable year by a qualified employer, as defined. This bill would limit the total amount of credit that may be allocated under those provisions to $25,000,000. This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
(1) Existing law requires the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources to regulate the construction and operation of wells. Under existing federal law, the division has been delegated with the responsibility of regulating class II wells under the federal Underground Injection Control program. This bill would, upon the adoption by the State Air Resources Board of a final methodology for carbon capture and storage projects seeking to demonstrate geologic sequestration of greenhouse gases, specifically require the division to regulate carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery projects that seek to demonstrate carbon sequestration under various laws providing for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. (2) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to establish regulations to achieve specified greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals. The act authorizes the state board to include market-based compliance mechanisms in achieving those reduction goals. This bill would require the state board, by January 1, 2016, to adopt a final methodology for carbon capture and storage projects seeking to demonstrate sequestration under various laws providing for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. (3) The Elder California Pipeline Safety Act of 1981 vests the State Fire Marshal with the exclusive safety regulatory and enforcement authority over intrastate hazardous liquid pipelines and, to the extent authorized by an agreement between the State Fire Marshal and the United States Department of Transportation, interstate hazardous liquid pipelines. This bill would additionally vest exclusive safety regulatory and enforcement authority over pipelines transporting a fluid consisting of more than 90% carbon dioxide compressed to a supercritical state. (4) Existing law defines land as a material of earth and includes free or occupied space for an indefinite upward or downward distance for the purpose of prescribing ownership of land. This bill would specify that free space includes pore space that can be possessed and used for the storage of greenhouse gas.
(1) Existing law establishes the Salton Sea Restoration Council as a state agency in the Natural Resources Agency to oversee the restoration of the Salton Sea. This bill would eliminate the council, and, instead, require the Salton Sea Authority, as defined, to lead Salton Sea restoration efforts, including the development of a restoration plan in coordination with the Natural Resources Agency, and supervision of the activities of a technical advisory group formed pursuant to the bill. By imposing duties on a local joint powers authority, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
