This measure would designate the month of April 2014 as Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month.
This measure would recognize April 2014 as California Poppy Month.
This measure would designate the month of April 2014 as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and would recognize April 23, 2014, as Denim Day California.
This measure would proclaim the month of April 2014 as Alcohol Awareness Month in California.
This measure would designate the week of April 20 to 26, 2014, inclusive, as National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week, encourage continued research into policies and programs that seek to reduce cancer disparities and, as a result, improve cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and followup care for all Californians, and urge the President and the Congress of the United States to recognize National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week.
Existing law prohibits a person who is under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or under the combined influence of any alcoholic beverage and drug, or who has 0.08% or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood, or who is addicted to the use of any drug, to drive a vehicle. Existing law also makes it unlawful to drive under the influence and cause bodily injury to another person. This bill would make it unlawful for a person to drive a motor vehicle if his or her blood contains specified amounts of amphetamine, methamphetamine, cocaine or heroin or their metabolites, morphine, phencyclidine, or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol of marijuana. By expanding the scope of the crime of driving under the influence of a drug, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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.
(1) Existing law makes it an infraction to drive a motor vehicle while using a wireless telephone unless the telephone is designed and configured to allow hands-free listening and talking. Existing law makes it an infraction to drive a motor vehicle while using an electronic wireless communications device to write, send, or read a text-based communication, unless the wireless communications device is designed and configured to allow voice-operated and hands-free operation. Existing law makes it an infraction for a person under the age or 18 years to drive a motor vehicle while using a wireless telephone, even if equipped with a hands-free device, or while using a mobile service device. Under existing law, vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence is punishable either by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year or by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 4, or 6 years. Under existing law, vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year. This bill would make vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence committed during the course of a violation of the above prohibitions on driving a motor vehicle while using a wireless telephone, electronic wireless communications device, or mobile service device, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years, and would make vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence under these circumstances punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 4, 6, or 10 years. By increasing the punishment for a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Under existing law, any driver who violates certain specified provisions of law, including the above prohibitions on driving a motor vehicle while using a wireless telephone, electronic wireless communications device, or mobile service device, and as a result of that violation proximately causes bodily injury or great bodily injury is guilty of the public offense of unsafe operation of a motor vehicle with bodily injury or great bodily injury. Under existing law, a violation involving bodily injury is punishable by a fine of $70, and a violation involving great bodily injury is punishable by a fine of $95. This bill would make unsafe operation of a motor vehicle with bodily injury or great bodily injury involving a violation of the above prohibitions on driving a motor vehicle while using a wireless telephone, electronic wireless communications device, or mobile service device punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than 30 days, but not more than 6 months, and a fine not to exceed $1,000 for a violation involving bodily injury, and by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than 90 days, but not more than one year, and a fine not to exceed $1,000 for a violation involving great bodily injury. By increasing the punishment for a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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.
This measure would call upon all Californians to observe César Chávez's birthday, March 31, as a day of public service, to recognize the hard work and self-sacrifice that farmworkers go through to feed all the families in our state, and to learn from César Chávez's life and his mission of nonviolence, social justice, and selfless service to others.
This measure would proclaim April 27 through May 4, 2014, 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 recognize that active shooter incidents are increasing and would encourage local fire, law enforcement, and emergency medical services agencies in coordination with the Office of Emergency Services to develop standard operating procedures and coordinated training programs in an effort to more efficiently respond to active shooter incidents in California.
