Existing law designates certain locations as safe-surrender sites for the safe surrender of newborn children who are 72 hours of age or younger. This bill would require a designating entity to consult with the governing body of a city, if the site is within city limits, and with representatives of the applicable fire department and child welfare agency, as specified. The bill would permit a local fire agency, upon the approval of the appropriate local governing body of the agency, to designate a safe-surrender site. The bill would specify certain circumstances in which a safe-surrender site and its personnel have no liability for a surrendered child. By imposing new duties on local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would, on or before January 1, 2013, and on or before January 1 of each subsequent year, contingent on certain conditions, require the department to report to the Legislature specified information pursuant to the act. 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.
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Under existing law, every person engaged in the business of tattooing, body piercing, or permanent cosmetics is required to register with the county in which that business is conducted, obtain a copy of the county's sterilization, sanitation, and safety standards, as established by the California Conference of Local Health Officers and distributed by the State Department of Public Health, as specified, and pay a one-time registration fee of $25. Existing law allows the county to charge an additional fee, if necessary to cover the cost of registration and inspection, and allows a county to adopt regulations that do not conflict with, or are more comprehensive than, standards adopted by the department. Under existing law, a person who fails to register or who violates the sterilization, sanitation, and safety standards is liable for a civil penalty of up to $500, to be collected in an action brought by the prosecuting attorney of the county or city and county in which the violation occurred. This bill would, as of July 1, 2011, repeal these provisions and, instead, enact the Safe Body Art Act. The act would prohibit a person from performing body art, as defined, without registering annually with the local enforcement agency. The bill would require practitioners to comply with specified requirements, including, among other things, client information and questionnaires, vaccination, bloodborne pathogen training, and sanitation. The bill would also require the owner of a body art facility, as defined, to obtain and annually renew a health permit from the local enforcement agency, as specified, and to maintain the body art facility in a specified manner. This bill would exempt from the definition of body art the piercing of an ear with a disposable, single-use, presterilized stud or solid needle that is applied using a mechanical device to force the needle or stud through the ear but would impose specified requirements on that practice. The bill would allow a local enforcement agency to require facilities performing ear piercing in that jurisdiction to submit a notification form, as provided, with the local enforcement agency. The bill would allow the local enforcement agency to charge a one-time facility notification fee in an amount between $25 and $45, but not in excess of the amount required to cover the actual costs of administering and enforcing the program. The bill would allow a county, after December 31, 2014, to charge a different fee, established by local ordinance, so long as an increased fee amount is necessary to cover the actual costs of administering and enforcing the provisions. This bill would regulate the performance of body art in vehicles, temporary booths, and at body art events and would require a person sponsoring a body art event to obtain a permit and fulfill specified requirements. The bill would allow inspection by an enforcement officer, and would provide for the suspension or revocation of a certificate of registration or a health permit in specified circumstances. The bill would make performing body art without being registered, operation of a body art facility without a health permit, or operation of a temporary body art event without a permit a misdemeanor and would allow the local enforcement agency to assess an administrative penalty, in an amount not less than $25 and not more than $1,000 for violating a provision of the chapter. This bill would allow the State Department of Public Health to adopt regulations relating to specific provisions of the act that would, upon adoption, preempt the specified provision. This bill would allow a city, county, or city and county to adopt regulations or ordinances that do not conflict with, or are more stringent than, the provisions of the act as those provisions relate to body art. Because this bill would place the inspection and enforcement requirements on local governments and because it creates a new crime, it 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 specified reasons.
Existing law, the Every Woman Counts program, requires the State Department of Public Health to provide breast cancer and cervical cancer screening services to eligible low-income individuals under a federal grant made under the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention breast and cervical cancer early detection program. Funding for these services is provided by a combination of federal and state moneys. Existing law requires these services to be provided at the level of funding budgeted from state and other resources during the fiscal year in which the Legislature has appropriated funds to the department for this purpose. The bill would require the department, 90 days prior to making policy changes, to send written notice outlining the proposed changes to contractors providing services pursuant to this program and to notify the Legislature, in writing, if the changes would restrict access or reduce services offered. Existing law establishes the Breast Cancer Fund, which funds various programs through the Breast Cancer Control Program for the detection, treatment, and cure of breast and cervical cancer, as specified. Entities funded by the Breast Cancer Control Program are required to submit a specified report annually to the Legislature. This bill would require that the report be submitted on or before February 1 of each year and would add specified information to that report.
(1) Existing law, the Donahoe Higher Education Act, establishes the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. These segments include the California State University, administered by the Trustees of the California State University, the University of California, administered by the Regents of the University of California, and the California Community Colleges, administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. A provision of the act applies to the University of California only to the extent that the regents, by resolution, make that provision applicable. Existing provisions of the act require the governing bodies of the 3 public postsecondary segments, with appropriate consultation with the academic senates of the respective segments, to develop, maintain, and disseminate a common core curriculum in general education courses for the purposes of transfer. This provision requires that a person who has successfully completed the transfer core curriculum is to be deemed to have completed all lower division general education requirements for the University of California and the California State University. Existing law requires the governing board of each community college district to direct the appropriate officials at their respective campuses to provide students with a copy of the current transfer core curriculum and to distribute and publish copies of the transfer core curriculum in a specified manner and in specified locations. This bill would require the California State University and the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to work together to establish the most effective methods to inform students, college advisers, and the general public about specified transfer pathways. The bill would require the final methods to be completed prior to the beginning of the fall term of the 2011–12 academic year and included as part of a specified report. The bill would authorize community college districts to use the methods established by the California State University and the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to inform community college students of the California State University majors that are considered to be similar to community college majors or areas of emphasis required to obtain an associate degree for transfer. (2) Existing law requests the University of California, among other things, to address deficiencies in the articulation of major preparation courses between the community colleges and University of California campuses, to identify commonalities and differences in similar majors across University of California campuses, to articulate courses and course sequences at each campus of the California Community Colleges for specified major degree programs for purposes of student transfer, and to conduct a specified review of transcripts of transfer students. This bill would request the University of California to continue those efforts with a goal of working in collaboration with the California Community Colleges to design community college transfer degrees that provide students adequate preparation for entry into a major. The bill would also request the University of California to consider and implement other specified actions to increase transfer between the university and the California Community Colleges. The bill would request the University of California to provide an interim report on the university's review, and a final report on the university's implementation, of specified transfer pathways to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature by specified dates. (3) Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California State University to establish transfer student admissions requirements to give highest priority to certain transfer students, to specify lower division transfer curriculum for specified major degree programs, and to articulate courses at each campus of the California Community Colleges for specified major degree programs for purposes of student transfer. Existing law requires each campus of the California State University to identify nonelective course requirements beyond systemwide lower division transfer curriculum requirements for each major for purposes of student transfer, in accordance with prescribed requirements. This bill would require the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in a manner that is consistent with the general common course numbering system used by community college districts, to establish a process to facilitate the identification of courses that satisfy lower division preparation requirements throughout the California Community Colleges system, which would be required to be included as part of a specified report. (4) This bill would provide that it would not become operative unless SB 1440 of the 2010–11 Regular Session is chaptered.
Existing law authorizes a local authority to place an official traffic control device at an intersection to regulate or prohibit turning movements at that intersection and requires that when a right- or left-hand turn is prohibited at an intersection that notice be given by erection of a sign. Existing law authorizes the limit line, intersection, or other places where a driver is required to stop to be equipped with an automated traffic enforcement system to enforce specified violations, including turning in violation of an official traffic control device, if the system meets certain requirements. Existing law authorizes a governmental agency to contract out the operation of the system under certain circumstances, except for specified activities. This bill would authorize the City and County of San Francisco to utilize an automated traffic enforcement system to enforce a specified traffic offense involving prohibited turning movements from Market Street onto the Central Freeway located at the intersection of Market Street and Octavia Boulevard if the system meets the above-stated requirements. The bill would require the City and County of San Francisco to compile prescribed data, and report to the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing and the Assembly Committee on Transportation on specified topics related to the safety and traffic flow impacts that may have resulted if the above provisions are implemented. This bill would state the findings and declarations of the Legislature concerning the need for special legislation, and would require that these provisions remain in effect only until January 1, 2013.
(1) Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of psychologists, professional clinical counselors, clinical social workers, and marriage and family therapists. Existing law requires a person applying for licensure in these professions to have completed specified coursework or training in child abuse assessment and reporting from certain types of institutions. This bill would encourage the Board of Psychology and the Board of Behavioral Sciences to include in that training elder and dependent adult abuse assessment and reporting, and would also apply that training and coursework requirement to professional clinical counselors. (2) Existing law, with respect to psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, and licensed professional clinical counselors, requires a licensee to complete, as a condition of licensure and relicensure, specified coursework in aging. This bill, on and after January 1, 2012, would expand the required coursework to additionally cover elder and dependent adult abuse assessment and reporting. (3) Existing law, with respect to marriage and family therapists, requires an applicant for licensure or registration to possess a doctoral or master's degree in various disciplines, including marriage, family, and child counseling, relative to applicants who begin graduate study before August 1, 2012, and complete that study on or before December 31, 2018. This bill would authorize the requisite coursework related to developmental issues and life events to include coursework in abuse and neglect of older and dependent adults. (4) Existing law requires an applicant for licensure as a marriage and family therapist under (3) to complete a minimum of 10 contact hours of coursework in aging and long-term care, which may include the biological, social, and psychological aspects of aging. This bill, on and after January 1, 2012, would require the coursework to include instruction on the assessment and reporting of elder and dependent adult abuse and neglect and associated treatment. (5) Existing law requires an applicant for licensure as a marriage and family counselor, prior to applying for a licensure examination, to complete certain hours of experience. This bill would encourage those hours of experience to include working with elders and dependent adults. (6) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 4980.43 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 1489, to be operative if SB 1489 and this bill become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is enacted last.
Existing law establishes the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. These segments include the California State University, the campuses of which are administered by the Trustees of the California State University, the University of California, which is administered by the Regents of the University of California, and the California Community Colleges, which are administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state, and authorizes them to provide instruction to students at community college campuses. Existing law, known as the Donahoe Higher Education Act, authorizes the community colleges to grant associate in arts and associate in science degrees. The act also requires the regents, the trustees, and the board of governors to have as a fundamental policy the maintenance of a healthy and expanded program to increase the number of transfer students from community colleges. This bill would enact the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act, which, commencing with the 2011–12 academic year, would require a student that receives an associate degree for transfer to be deemed eligible for transfer into a California State University baccalaureate program when the student meets prescribed requirements. The bill would condition a community college district's receipt of state apportionment funds on its development and granting of associate degrees for transfer, unless each of the state's community college districts waives reimbursement for specified state-mandated costs of implementing the bill in accordance with a prescribed procedure. This bill would prohibit a community college district from imposing any requirements, in addition to these requirements, for a student to be eligible for the associate degree for transfer, and would prohibit remedial noncollegiate level coursework from being counted towards the units required for the associate degree for transfer. This bill would require the California State University to guarantee admission with junior status to any community college student who meets the requirements for the associate degree for transfer. This bill would not guarantee a student admission for specified majors or campuses, but would require the California State University to grant a student priority admission to his or her local California State University campus and to a program or major that is similar to his or her community college major or area of emphasis, as determined by the California State University campus to which the student is admitted. This bill would authorize the California State University to require a transferring student to take additional coursework at the California State University in specified circumstances, and would prohibit the California State University from requiring a transferring student to repeat courses that are similar to those taken at the community college that counted towards the units required for the associate degree for transfer. This bill would also require the Legislative Analyst's Office to review and report to specified legislative committees and subcommittees, within a prescribed time period, on specified outcomes and recommendations related to this act. By requiring a community college district to grant the associate degree for transfer in exchange for receipt of state apportionment funds, 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, 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 provides for the regulation and licensing of pilots for Monterey Bay and the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun by the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun. The board consists of 7 members, appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, with specified staggered terms. This bill would revise the terms for members of the board who are licensed pilots and members who represent the industry. Existing law specifies the rates of bar pilotage for vessels inward or outward bound through the Golden Gate and into or out of the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun and also imposes certain movement fees and surcharges. This bill would exempt from those pilotage fees and surcharges noncommercial vessels that are maritime academy training vessels and vessels owned and operated by nonprofit museums or foundations. These vessels would be subject to the board operations surcharge. Existing law exempts from pilotage fees a vessel sailing under a coastwise license or appropriately endorsed registry and engaged in the coasting trade, as described, unless a pilot or inland pilot is actually used. A foreign vessel, a vessel bound to or from a foreign port, or a vessel sailing under a register is required to use a pilot or inland pilot. These provisions do not apply to a vessel that is less than 300 gross tons and is manufactured and used for private recreation. This bill would instead state that those provisions do not apply to a vessel that is less than 750 gross tons and is manufactured and used for private recreation.
The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a sales tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or a use tax on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, measured by sales price. Every person storing, using, or otherwise consuming in this state tangible personal property purchased from a retailer is liable for the use tax and must pay the tax to the State Board of Equalization, unless he or she has paid the tax to a retailer registered to collect the use tax. Existing law requires retailers, as specified, to register with, and to obtain a seller's permit or certification of registration-use tax from, the State Board of Equalization. For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2003, and on December 31, 2009, persons not otherwise registered with the board may make an irrevocable election to report qualified use tax, as defined, on that person's income tax return. The Franchise Tax Board is required to revise the income tax returns to allow a person to report and remit qualified use taxes to it and to remit the qualified use taxes collected to the board. This bill would authorize an eligible person to make an irrevocable election to report qualified use tax, as defined, on that person's income tax return, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2010, and would require the Franchise Tax Board to allow a person to report and remit qualified use taxes to it and to remit the qualified use taxes collected to the board. The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes personal liability for unpaid taxes, interest, and penalties on specified responsible persons who willfully fail to pay these amounts, upon the termination, dissolution, or abandonment of business of the corporation or other business entity, with the sum due to be collected by deficiency determination and collection in the manner provided under this law. This bill would also impose personal liability under the Sales and Use Tax Law for unpaid taxes, interest, and penalties on specified responsible persons who fail to pay these amounts during the time the rights, powers, and responsibilities of a closely held corporation or closely held limited liability company are suspended, as specified. This bill would additionally impose responsible person liability for unpaid taxes or fees, interest, and penalties on specified responsible persons who willfully fail to pay these amounts, upon the termination, dissolution, or abandonment of business of the corporation or other business entity, or who fail to pay these amounts during the time the rights, powers, and responsibilities of a closely held corporation or closely held limited liability company are suspended, as specified, under the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, Use Fuel Tax Law, Hazardous Substances Tax Law, Integrated Waste Management Fee Law, Oil Spill Response, Prevention, and Administration Fees Law, Fee Collection Procedures Law, and Diesel Fuel Tax Law. Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to eligible unemployed individuals, and requires the Employment Development Department to implement and administer the unemployment insurance system in the state. Existing law requires each employer to file with the department a report of wages paid to his or her workers and to furnish to each employee a written statement showing, among other things, the total amount of wages, and total wages subject to personal income tax, as provided. Existing law also requires each employer to file with the department specified information on new employees, and authorizes the use of that information for specified purposes including, among other things, providing employer or employee information to the Franchise Tax Board for the purpose of tax enforcement. This bill would also authorize the Employment Development Department to provide employer or employee information to the State Board of Equalization with information for tax or fee enforcement.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish, by January 1, 2010, and until January 1, 2015, the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program for the purpose of increasing the amount of umbilical cord blood that is donated in the state and that will be added to the national inventory. Existing law authorizes the department, to the extent private or public funds are identified for this purpose, to contract with blood banks that are licensed or accredited to provide umbilical cord blood banking storage services, for the purpose of collecting and storing umbilical cord blood. This bill would, instead, request the University of California to establish and administer the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program on or before July 1, 2011, to conclude no later than January 1, 2018, for the purpose of collecting units of umbilical cord blood for public use, as defined, for transplantation and for providing nonclinical units for specified research. Existing law provides that any funds made available for purposes of the program shall be deposited into the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program Fund. Existing law provides that moneys in the fund shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of the program. Existing law provides that the fund shall include any federal, state, and private funds made available for purposes of the program. Existing law requires the collection of a $7 fee for certified copies of birth certificates. Under existing law, $4 of the $7 fee is allocated to either the county Children's Trust Fund or to the State Children's Trust Fund, which exists in the State Treasury. Existing law requires that the money in the State Children's Trust Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated to the State Department of Social Services for the purpose of funding child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention programs, as specified. This bill would, instead, until January 1, 2018, require the collection of a $9 fee for certified copies of birth certificates and require that $2 of any $9 fee be paid to the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program Fund. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.