This measure would recognize the 45th anniversary of Kwanzaa and proclaim December 26 through January 1 each year as Kwanzaa Week.
This measure would urge the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and specifically its director, Edward DeMarco, to immediately allow the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation to offer principal reductions to homeowners who owe more on their home loans than what their homes are worth.
This measure would recognize the 25th anniversary of the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial on November 23, 2013, and encourage all Californians to take part in ceremonies, organized by the California State Council of Vietnam Veterans of America along with assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs and other veterans service organizations. This measure would call upon the state archives to display memorabilia in a special display on the Vietnam War, as provided, the California State Military Museum to prepare and display exhibits on the Vietnam War, as provided, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to add names to the memorial, as provided.
This measure encourages the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California to consider and adopt the American Council on Education credit recommendations to give veterans due credit for their military experience.
(1) The Administrative Procedure Act generally sets forth the requirements for the adoption, publication, review, and implementation of regulations by state agencies. The act specifically provides that a regulation or order of repeal required to be filed with the Secretary of State shall become effective on the 30th day after the date of filing, subject to certain exceptions. This bill would instead provide that a regulation or order of repeal is effective on January 1, April 1, July 1, or October 1, as specified, subject to certain exceptions, including, but not limited to, specified regulations adopted by the Fish and Game Commission. (2) The act requires the Office of Administrative Law to make a free copy of the full text of the California Code of Regulations available on its Internet Web site. This bill would also require the office to provide on its Internet Web site a list of, and a link to the full text of, each regulation filed with the Secretary of State that is pending effectiveness, as specified. (3) Existing law requires that every state agency subject to the act that maintains an Internet Web site or similar forum for the electronic publication or distribution of written material publish on that Internet Web site or other forum specified information regarding a proposed regulation or regulatory repeal or amendment. This bill would also require a state agency to post on its Internet Web site each regulation that is filed with the Secretary of State, as specified, and to send to the office the Internet Web site link of the regulation. The bill would not apply to a state agency that does not maintain an Internet Web site. This bill would also make a conforming change. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 116064 of the Health and Safety Code, proposed by AB 2114, to be operative only if AB 2114 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2013, and this bill is chaptered last.
This measure would declare December 12, 2012, as California Bullying Prevention Day, and would recognize the need for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local governments, and the state to take action on behalf of bullying prevention in California.
This measure would request the President and the Congress of the United States to enact the Social Security Fairness Act of 2011, which would repeal the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision from the Social Security Act.
This measure would designate a specified bridge over Interstate 905 as the Randy Sanchez Memorial Bridge. The measure would also designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 35 as the John Burton Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing these special designations and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.
Existing law requires, in any city, county, or city and county that administers a system of controls on the price at which residential rental units may be offered for rent or lease and that requires the registration of rents, upon the establishment of a certified rent level, any owner who charges rent to a tenant in excess of the certified lawful rent ceiling to refund the excess rent to the tenant upon demand. This bill would limit, notwithstanding any local law to the contrary, for those units governed by the local rent stabilization ordinance in the City and County of San Francisco, levels of compensation for the temporary displacement of a tenant household for less than 20 days to temporary housing and living expenses, of $275 per day per tenant household, and actual moving expenses, as specified. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.
Under existing law, it is the policy of the state to conserve and protect resources by encouraging the recycling of solid waste and the purchase of those recycled materials, including recycled concrete and rubberized asphalt concrete. Under existing law, in purchasing any materials to be used in paving or paving subbase for use by the Department of Transportation or any other state agency that provides road construction and repair services, the State Procurement Officer is required to make contracts available for those items that use recycled materials. Existing law also requires the State Procurement Officer to make contracts available that use crumb rubber, as defined, unless the Director of Transportation determines that the use of the materials is not cost effective based on specified factors. This bill would authorize the Department of Transportation, by January 1, 2014, to establish specifications for the use of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) of up to 40% for hot mix asphalt mixes. The bill would specify that this authorization does not limit the authority of the department to establish specifications for this use of reclaimed asphalt pavement in amounts greater than 40%. The bill would require the department to submit a report to the Legislature, by March 1, 2016, on its progress, since the year 2011, toward the development and implementation of these specifications.
