Existing law establishes the segments of the public postsecondary education system in the state, including the University of California administered by the Regents of the University of California, the California State University administered by the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law establishes the Higher Education Outreach and Assistance Act for Emancipated Foster Youth, which requires the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to perform specified services to assist emancipated foster youth. This bill would enact the Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act of 2012, which would additionally require the California State University, and request the California Community Colleges and the University of California, to establish foster youth campus support programs, which are separate from the Higher Education Outreach and Assistance Act for Emancipated Foster Youth, to provide comprehensive support and outreach services, as specified, to current and former foster youth in an effort to retain foster youth in higher education. The bill would require the California State University, and request the California Community Colleges and the University of California, to designate a foster youth campus support program coordinator using new or existing resources. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services to annually notify foster youth 13 years of age or older, and those foster youths' caregivers, of the postsecondary educational support provided to them pursuant to this bill.
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Existing law establishes the public elementary and secondary schools and the system of public community colleges in this state, and provides for a system for their funding. Provisions of the California Constitution require that a minimum amount of aggregate funding, calculated as specified, be allocated to school districts and community college districts. Pursuant to existing statutes, school district, community college districts, and other local educational agencies receive a portion of their funding through apportionments of state funds made in accordance with payment schedules. This measure would require that the total amount due for allocation to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts pursuant to the constitutional minimum funding requirement described above for a fiscal year, as estimated at the time of enactment of the annual Budget Act for that fiscal year, be apportioned pursuant to statute during that fiscal year, unless that minimum funding requirement is suspended for that fiscal year pursuant to an existing constitutional provision authorizing that suspension. The measure would require this estimate to be set forth in the Budget Bill passed by the Legislature. By requiring payment of the full amount of this estimate unless the minimum funding obligation is suspended as referenced above, this measure could increase the amount of the constitutional minimum funding obligation in any year that estimate exceeds the otherwise applicable obligation. The measure would require apportionments of state aid to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts to be made no later than the times specified by the statutory payment schedule that was in effect during the 2000–01 fiscal year, except that the Legislature may require by statute that these apportionments be made earlier in the fiscal year.
This measure would designate May 2012 as Foster Care Month in California.
Existing law requires the Assembly Committee on Rules, the Senate Committee on Rules, and the Joint Rules Committee to annually prepare a report to the public of all expenditures made from the operating fund subject to their direction and control, including a list of expenditures for each Member and committee of the Legislature, as prescribed. This bill would require the Assembly Committee on Rules, the Senate Committee on Rules, and the Joint Rules Committee, as appropriate, to provide to each Member of the Assembly and Senate a monthly report of that Member's office and committee budgets, as specified. The bill would require each Member of the Legislature to publish the monthly budget report on the Member's Internet Web site or legislative committee Internet Web site, as specified. Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide for the manner in which the Legislature may pass a bill, and authorize the Legislature to adopt rules for its proceedings. This bill would prohibit either house of the Legislature from taking a vote on any bill until the bill, in its present form, has been made available to the public on an Internet Web site for at least 72 hours, unless the house dispenses with this requirement by a 23 vote. The Political Reform Act of 1974 imposes various reporting and disclosure requirements on contributions made to or by candidates and candidate-controlled committees. This bill would require a Member of the Legislature or a controlled committee of a Member of the Legislature that receives a legislative deadline contribution to report that contribution within 24 hours, as prescribed. The bill would define "legislative deadline contribution" to mean a contribution of $100 or more that is made to a Member of the Legislature or a controlled committee of a Member of the Legislature within the 7 days prior to specified legislative deadlines for a regular session of the Legislature. Existing law makes a knowing or willful violation of the act a misdemeanor and subjects offenders to criminal penalties. By creating additional crimes, 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. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the act may be amended by a statute that becomes effective upon approval of the voters. This bill would require the Secretary of State to submit the provisions of the bill that would amend the Political Reform Act of 1974 to the voters for approval at a statewide election, as specified.
This measure would designate the second full week in April as California Public Safety Telecommunicators Week.
Existing law requires instruction in social sciences to include the early history of California and a study of the role and contributions of specified groups of people to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States of America, with particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society. This bill would instead authorize instruction in social sciences to include the early history of California and a study of the role and contributions of specified groups of people to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States of America, with particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society.
Existing law creates within state government the Commission on the Status of Women, consisting of 17 members. Existing law sets forth the powers and duties of the commission. Public members receive per diem while on official business, and each member of the commission is entitled to receive his or her actual necessary traveling expenses. Existing law authorizes the commission to hire staff, for purpose of completing a specified study, subject to appropriation in the annual Budget Act. Existing law requires the commission to appoint the public members of an advisory committee that establishes a course of training for district attorneys in the investigation and prosecution of sex crimes. This bill would repeal the Commission on the Status of Women, and would make conforming changes to related provisions. The bill would provide that new public member vacancies on the advisory committee described above be filled through appointments by the Senate Rules Committee.
Existing law establishes within state government the California Law Revision Commission, and sets forth its powers and duties. Existing law requires the commission to, among other things, examine the common law and statutes of the state and judicial decisions for the purpose of discovering defects and anachronisms in the law and recommending needed reforms. This bill would eliminate the California Law Revision Commission, and would make conforming changes to related provisions.
This measure would designate April 18, 2012, as DMV/Donate Life California Day in the State of California, and April 2012 as DMV/Donate Life California Month in the State of California, and would encourage all Californians to be organ, tissue, and blood donors.
Under existing law, the state has sole responsibility for the funding of court operations. Existing law authorizes a superior court to appoint as many official court reporters, and official court reporters pro tempore, as are deemed necessary. Those court reporters who are court employees are subject to the Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act, which authorizes each trial court to establish a salary range for each of its employee classifications. Existing law also prescribes the compensation of official court reporters and official court reporters pro tempore in Stanislaus County. This bill would repeal those provisions of law prescribing the compensation of official court reporters in Stanislaus County that have been rendered obsolete by that act. The bill would provide that the repeal of a specified provision shall not affect the calculation of compensation for retirement purposes for any official court reporter first hired by the Stanislaus County Superior Court before January 1, 2013.