Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to consider permitting apiculture on department-managed wildlife areas, and requires the department to determine, when developing or amending its land management plans, the appropriate use or permit fee to be assessed for conducting apiculture on department-managed wildlife areas. This bill would instead require the department to consider authorizing, rather than permitting, apiculture on department-managed wildlife areas. The bill would require the department to determine the appropriate fee and lease rent to be assessed for conducting apiculture on department-managed wildlife areas, would specify that the fee determined by the department for those purposes shall be sufficient to recover the administrative and implementation costs of the department, and would require the lease rent to take into account if the lease is a nonexclusive use of the land.The bill would authorize the department to authorize the temporary placement of beehives on department-managed wildlife areas through simple lease or permit agreements specifying appropriate conditions and would provide that these agreements are not subject to competitive bidding requirements.The bill would authorize the department to continue any authorization for apiculture on department-managed lands that it granted before January 1, 2015, without taking further action. Existing law generally authorizes the Director of General Services, with the consent of the agency concerned, to let any real or personal state property in accordance with specified requirements. This bill would authorize the director to let state land for apiary purposes, and would authorize the director to lease state land for those purposes for less than fair market rent if the lease for apiary purposes does not require exclusive use of the land. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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(1) Existing law establishes the California State University, the University of California, and the California Community Colleges as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district to publish a notice calling for bids or proposals in a newspaper of general circulation. Existing law requires this notice to state the work proposed to be done or the materials or supplies to be furnished and the time when, and the place where, bids or proposals will be opened. This bill would also authorize the governing board of a community college district to post the notice described above on its Web site or through an electronic portal. (2) Existing law declares that nothing in the Public Contract Code precludes the governing board of a community college district from purchasing materials, equipment, or supplies through the Department of General Services, as specified. This bill would declare that nothing in either the Education Code or the Public Contract Code would preclude a community college district from purchasing materials, equipment, supplies, or services under the same terms and conditions as are specified in a contract lawfully awarded by the University of California or the California State University.
Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to immediately suspend a person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle for a specified period of time if the person has driven a motor vehicle when the person had a certain blood-alcohol concentration. Existing law authorizes certain individuals, whose privilege is suspended pursuant to that provision to receive a restricted driver's license if specified requirements are met, including the completion of specified periods of license suspension or revocation. Existing law also requires the department to immediately suspend or revoke a person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle if the person has been convicted of violating specified provisions prohibiting driving a motor vehicle under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or drug or the combined influence of an alcoholic beverage and drug, or with 0.08% or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood or while addicted to the use of any drug, with or without bodily injury to another. Existing law authorizes certain individuals whose privilege is suspended or revoked pursuant to that provision to receive a restricted driver's license if specified requirements are met, including the completion of specified periods of license suspension or revocation and, in some instances, the installation of an ignition interlock device on the person's vehicle. Existing law does not permit a person who has been convicted of a first offense of driving a motor vehicle under the influence, with injury, to receive a restricted driver's license. Existing law also requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish a pilot program from July 1, 2010, to January 1, 2016, inclusive, in the Counties of Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Tulare that requires, as a condition of being issued a restricted driver's license, being reissued a driver's license, or having the privilege to operate a motor vehicle reinstated subsequent to a conviction for any violation of the above offenses, a person to install for a specified period of time an ignition interlock device on all vehicles he or she owns or operates. This bill would extend the operation of that pilot program until July 1, 2017. This bill would make these provisions relating to the pilot program inoperative on July 1, 2017, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2018.
This measure would proclaim April 12 through April 19, 2015, as California Holocaust Memorial Week and would urge Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.
This measure would designate November 2015 as Court Adoption and Permanency Month and would encourage the courts and their local communities to join in activities to expedite permanency for children.
This measure would establish the California Task Force on Family Caregiving, to meet, if a nonstate organization agrees to provide administrative support to the task force, to examine issues relative to the challenges faced by family caregivers and opportunities to improve caregiver support, review the current network and the services and supports available to caregivers, and make policy recommendations to the Legislature. The task force would be required to submit an interim report to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2017, and a final report no later than July 1, 2018.
This measure would recognize the California Association of County Veterans Service Officers for helping veterans secure their federal and state benefits over the past 70 years.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to permanently reauthorize and fully fund the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund in order to maintain and preserve land and water resources.
This measure would encourage citizens, businesses, groups, organizations, and public institutions to observe and participate in coastal protection activities, and proclaim September 19, 2015, as the 31st annual Coastal Cleanup Day.
This measure, among other things, would urge both private and public medical training institutions in the state to provide equal access to osteopathic and allopathic students to apply to training programs, would urge osteopathic medical schools, allopathic medical schools, and their training institutions to build on current successes of working toward greater collaboration and coordination of education and training for California's future physicians, and would urge efforts by training institutions and allopathic and osteopathic medical schools to work toward greater acceptance and integration of osteopathic and allopathic students.