Existing law establishes a program until January 1, 2013, known as "Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence and Stalking." That program authorizes specified persons to complete an application containing specified information in person at a community-based victims' assistance program to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of enabling state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant's residence address. The program also makes the participant's voter registration confidential, and requires the Secretary of State to act as that person's agent for service of process and to designate a substitute mailing address for program participants, as specified. Under existing law, any person who makes a false statement in an application for this program is guilty of a misdemeanor. Under the program any person who is granted confidentiality pursuant to these provisions may file a new affidavit of voter registration or reregistration and be considered an absent voter for subsequent elections until the county elections official is notified otherwise by the Secretary of State or the voter. Existing law provides that any records or documents pertaining to a program participant shall be retained and held confidential for a period of 3 years after termination of certification of participation in the program and then destroyed, as specified. This bill would extend the provisions of the program indefinitely. By extending indefinitely provisions of law, the violation of which is a misdemeanor, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law establishes a program similar to the above-described program, the "Address Confidentiality for Reproductive Health Care Services Providers, Employees, Volunteers, and Patients" program until January 1, 2013, for reproductive health care services providers, employees, volunteers, and patients. The program similarly provides that any person who makes a false statement in an application is guilty of a misdemeanor and any person who is granted confidentiality pursuant to these provisions may file a new affidavit of voter registration or reregistration and be considered an absent voter for subsequent elections until the county elections official is notified otherwise by the Secretary of State or the voter. This bill would extend indefinitely the "Address Confidentiality for Reproductive Health Care Services Providers, Employees, Volunteers, and Patients" program. By extending indefinitely provisions of law, the violation of which is a misdemeanor, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to retain and keep confidential records and documents pertaining to a participant in this address confidentiality program for a period of 3 years after termination of certification of the participant, and then to destroy the records and documents. This bill would provide an exception to those provisions for change of name records, which would be retained permanently. Existing law, until January 1, 2013, provides that any person filing with the county elections official a new affidavit of registration or reregistration who is a participant in certain address confidentiality programs may have the information relating to his or her residence address, telephone number, and e-mail address appearing on the affidavit, or any list or roster or index prepared therefrom, declared confidential, as specified. This bill would extend indefinitely the voter registration confidentiality provisions. 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.
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The California Farmland Conservancy Program Act establishes a program for grants from the Department of Conservation for the acquisition of agricultural conservation easements or fee title. The act imposes requirements for the funding of agricultural conservation easements. The act creates the California Farmland Conservancy Program Fund. The moneys in the fund, upon appropriation, are required to be used for the purposes of the program, including the purchase of agricultural conservation easements. The act requires an applicant for an agricultural conservation easement to meet specified eligibility criteria related to commercial agricultural production and agricultural land conservation, and specifies criteria the Director of Conservation is required to consider in evaluating the proposal. This bill, notwithstanding any other provision of the act, would authorize the Director of Conservation to make grants from a source other than the fund, and, upon appropriation by the Legislature from that source, disburse moneys for those grants to an applicant for the acquisition of an agricultural conservation easement, if the director determines that the grant meets the purposes of the act and additional specified requirements, including that the easement does not, and will not, substantially prevent agricultural uses on the easement property and that any restriction on the current or reasonably foreseeable agricultural use of the easement property would only be imposed to restrict those areas of the property that are not in cultivation. Existing law also establishes the Soil Conservation Fund, which provides money, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified land use purposes. This bill would establish the Farm, Ranch, and Watershed Account within the Soil and Conservation Fund from which money would be disbursed to provide the above grants.
(1) Existing law prohibits the manufacturing, shipping, selling, or offering for sale of jewelry, as defined, for retail sale in the state, unless the jewelry is made entirely from specified materials. Existing law also prohibits any person from taking those actions with regard to children's jewelry, as defined, unless the children's jewelry is made entirely from certain specified materials. Existing law prohibits parties that are signatories to a specified consent judgment from being subject to enforcement under those provisions. This bill would additionally prohibit a person from manufacturing, shipping, selling, offering for sale, or offering for promotional purposes children's jewelry that contains any component or is made of any material that is more than 0.03% cadmium by weight. This bill would exempt from this prohibition any toy regulated for cadmium exposure under the federal Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 and would make conforming changes. The bill would provide that the exemption from enforcement action for signatories to that consent judgment does not apply to this prohibition. (2) Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals or chemical ingredients in products may be identified and prioritized for consideration as being chemicals of concern and to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals of concern may be evaluated. The department is prohibited from duplicating or adopting conflicting regulations for regulated product categories. This bill would prohibit cadmium-containing jewelry from being considered as a product category already regulated or subject to pending regulation for purposes of those regulations. (3) Existing law imposes criminal penalties upon a manufacturer or supplier of jewelry who knowingly and intentionally manufactures, ships, sells, offers for sale, or offers for promotional purposes jewelry containing lead in violation of those provisions or who knowingly and with intent to deceive falsifies any document or certificate required to be kept or produced pursuant to those provisions. This bill would additionally impose those criminal penalties upon a manufacturer or supplier of jewelry containing cadmium, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes. (4) 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.
Existing law requires the Corrections Standards Authority to establish minimum standards for state and local correctional facilities, including standards restricting the shackling of women in labor, during childbirth, and while in recovery after giving birth, and to review those standards biennially and make any appropriate revisions, as specified. This bill would require that the standards ensure that women who are pregnant shall not be shackled by the wrists, ankles, or both during any transport, during labor, during delivery, and while in recovery after giving birth, except that the least restrictive restraints possible may be used when deemed necessary for the inmate, consistent with the legitimate security needs of the inmate, the staff, and the public. The bill would require the authority to develop these standards regarding the shackling of pregnant women as part of its biennial review of its standards. Under existing law, pregnant inmates of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, wards of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, and wards in the custody of a local juvenile facility, are to be transported in the least restrictive way possible when being taken to a hospital for purposes of childbirth. This bill would prohibit inmates and wards of these facilities who are known to be pregnant from being shackled by the wrists, ankles, or both during any transport, during labor, during delivery, and while in recovery after giving birth, unless deemed necessary for the safety and security of the inmate or ward, the staff, and the public. If restraints are deemed necessary during labor, delivery, recovery after birth, or transport, this bill would allow the person to be restrained in the least restrictive way possible, consistent with the legitimate security needs of each inmate or ward, the staff, and the public.
Existing federal law requires that fur products be labeled with the names of any animals used, manufacturer, country of origin, and other specified information. Fur products with a relatively small quantity or value of fur that is worth $150 or less are exempt from these labeling requirements. This bill, commencing September 1, 2011, would prohibit the sale or display for sale of any coat, jacket, garment, or other clothing apparel made wholly or partially of fur, regardless of the price of the apparel or the amount or value of the fur contained therein, without having attached thereto and conspicuously displayed a tag or label including the names of the animals from which the fur was acquired and the country of origin of any imported furs. Used articles of clothing would be exempt from these labeling requirements. The bill would provide that any violation of the labeling requirements is subject to a civil penalty of not more than $500 for the first violation, and not more than $1,000 for each subsequent violation, except as specified.
Existing law provides that a marriage may be solemnized by authorized persons of any religious denomination, by specified legislators, constitutional officers, and California Members of Congress, while those persons are currently holding that office, and by specified justices, judges, and magistrates, both current and retired. This bill would authorize an elected mayor of a city, while that person holds that office, to solemnize a marriage ceremony, and would require the mayor to obtain and review from the county clerk all available instructions for marriage solemnization before the mayor first solemnizes a marriage. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, until January 1, 2014, allows certain state and local transportation entities, if authorized by the California Transportation Commission, to use a design‑build process for contracting on transportation projects, as specified. This bill would authorize the Riverside County Transportation Commission, if authorized by the commission, to utilize this design-build procurement process for the State Route 91 Corridor Improvements Project on the state highway system. The bill would make the Department of Transportation responsible for the performance of construction inspection services for the project, as specified, and would require the commission to report on the progress of the project and related matters to specified legislative committees. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing property tax law requires the personal property of an air carrier be taxed at its fair market value, and the California Constitution requires property subject to ad valorem property taxation to be assessed in the county in which it is situated. Existing law, for the 2005–06 fiscal year to the 2010–11 fiscal year, inclusive, specifies a formula to determine the fair market value of certificated aircraft of a commercial air carrier. Existing law further requires, until December 31, 2010, the Aircraft Advisory Subcommittee of the California Assessors' Association to designate, after soliciting input from commercial air carriers operating in the state, a lead county assessor's office for each commercial air carrier operating certificated aircraft in this state in an assessment year, and requires the lead county assessor to calculate the value of the air carrier's personal property and to transmit these calculations to other county assessors, but specifies that each county assessor is responsible for assessing and enrolling the taxable value of the property in his or her county, as provided. Existing law also requires, until December 31, 2010, the lead county assessor's office to lead a team to audit the books and records of a commercial air carrier and authorizes these air carriers to file a property statement solely with the lead county assessor's office, as provided. This bill would extend the 2010–11 fiscal year termination date to the 2015–16 fiscal year and the December 31, 2010, repeal date to December 31, 2015, for the above-described provisions relating to the determination of the fair market value and taxation of certificated aircraft. This bill would also specify that it shall be rebuttably presumed that the fair market value of certificated aircraft is the amount determined under the formula specified above, and would authorize this value to be rebutted by certain evidence. This bill would also require the value of an individual aircraft assessed to the original owner of that aircraft to not exceed its original cost from the manufacturer, as provided. By extending the application of the aforementioned valuation process for certificated aircraft beyond the 2010–11 fiscal year, thereby imposing new duties upon a lead county assessor's office, the 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.
(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of structural pest control operators by the Structural Pest Control Board within the Department of Pesticide Regulation. Under existing law, the board consists of 7 members, with appointments by, among others, the Governor. Under existing law, each board member holds office until the appointment and qualification of his or her successor or until one year after the expiration of the term for which he or she was appointed, whichever first occurs. Existing law provides that each appointment is for a 4-year term expiring June 1 of the 4th year following the year in which the previous term expires, or with respect to licensee members, the 4-year term expires on January 15th. This bill would specify that the Governor appoints the 3 licensed members. Under the bill, each member would hold office until the appointment of his or her successor, not to exceed one year from the expiration of the term for which he or she was appointed, and each appointment would be for a 4-year term expiring after either the date of the appointment or the date a previous term expired. With respect to the Governor's appointments, the bill would require the Governor to appoint members based on nominations received by the Director of Pesticide Regulation soliciting nominations from specified interested parties. The bill would require the director to solicit these nominations by mailing interested parties a notice as well as by posting a notice on the department's Internet Web site. The bill would require these nominations to be in writing and would require them to contain certain information and to be mailed to the director and be made available to the Governor and the director. Existing law prohibits a manufacturer, his or her agents or employees, or any person who is a consultant of or connected with any manufacturer, from being charged with the enforcement or execution of any of the structural pest control operator provisions. This bill would prohibit such a manufacturer from being appointed to the board. Existing law requires the board to consult with the department when developing or adopting regulations that may affect the department or the county agricultural commissioner's specified responsibilities. This bill would delete that provision. (2) Until January 1, 2011, existing law authorizes the Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner, the Orange County Agricultural Commissioner, the Santa Clara County Agricultural Commissioner, and the San Diego County Agricultural Commissioner to contract with the Director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation to perform increased structural fumigation, inspection, and enforcement activities in Los Angeles County, Orange County, Santa Clara County, and San Diego County. Existing law requires any person who performs a structural fumigation in any of the contracting counties to pay a specified fee to the county agricultural commissioner. This bill would instead authorize the Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner, the Orange County Agricultural Commissioner, the Santa Clara County Agricultural Commissioner, and the San Diego County Agricultural Commissioner to perform those services, and would require the director to provide oversight. The bill would also extend the operation of these provisions to January 1, 2014.
This measure would recognize the contributions of the automotive aftermarket to the state and consumers and its efforts to educate the motoring public about the benefits of proper vehicle maintenance. The measure also would recognize and support the designation of April as National Car Care Month and encourage all citizens to participate in activities that promote proper vehicle maintenance.