This measure would acknowledge the month of April 2012 as Child Abuse Prevention Month, and encourage the people of the State of California to work together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention activities in their communities and schools.
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 designate the month of November 2012 as California Runaway and Homeless Youth Month and would recognize the need for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local governments, and the state to take action on behalf of runaway and homeless youth in California.
This measure would proclaim California as a Purple Heart State, honoring the service and sacrifices of our nation's men and women in uniform wounded or killed by the enemy while serving to protect the freedoms enjoyed by all Americans.
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, establishes the Delta Stewardship Council as an independent agency of the state. The act requires the State Water Resources Control Board to establish an effective system of Delta watershed diversion data and public reporting by December 31, 2010. The act requires the board to establish an effective system of Delta watershed diversion data collection and public reporting by December 31, 2010. The act requires the board to develop new flow criteria for the Delta ecosystem, as specified. The act subjects the flow criteria to modification over time based on a science-based adaptive management program that meets specified criteria. This bill would require the system, for certain diversions, in lieu of requiring reporting, to use data from the consumptive use index modeling used by the Department of Water Resources to determine the Net Delta Outflow Index. The bill would authorize the system to enhance or replace the consumptive use index modeling with satellite imagery. The bill would require that the system, to the maximum extent practicable, use consumptive use data from consumptive use modeling or satellite imagery in lieu of public reporting. The bill would require the new flow criteria to ensure that there is no degradation in water quality in Delta channels and to include flows into, within, and out of the Delta to replicate conditions when local and anadromous fish populations were at healthy and self-sustaining levels. The bill would require the flow criteria to include specified flows for anadromous fish, as defined. The bill would subject flow criteria to modification over time based on measured fish populations in a management program that meets specified criteria. The bill would restrict to prescribed circumstances the use of measures other than flow as a substitute for flow.
This measure would proclaim April 15 through April 22, 2012, 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.
Existing law, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, establishes the Delta Stewardship Council as an independent agency of the state. Existing law requires a state or local public agency that proposes to undertake a covered action that will occur within the boundaries of the Delta or the Suisun Marsh to prepare, and submit to the council, a specified written certification of consistency with the Delta Plan prior to taking those actions. Existing law defines the term "covered action" to mean a plan, program, or project, as specified. This bill would exclude from the definition of "covered action" any anticipated upgrades to existing drinking water, stormwater, or wastewater treatment facilities to meet state water quality requirements. Existing law, the Johnston-Baker-Andal-Boatwright Delta Protection Act of 1992, establishes a primary zone in the Delta where further development is barred and a secondary zone surrounding the Delta where development may proceed under certain conditions. This bill would also exclude from the definition of "covered action" any levee improvements and other flood control projects in the secondary zone, as specified, and would exclude from the definition the implementation of existing, fully permitted, habitat conservation and agricultural mitigation plans and programs within the primary and secondary zones of the Delta. Existing law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) , requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts housing for agricultural employees, housing affordable to low-income households, and other infill housing projects meeting specified criteria. This bill would exclude from the definition of "covered action" specified plans, programs, projects, or activities within the secondary zone that have received environmental certification under CEQA or otherwise have vested rights as of the effective date of the Delta Plan, or both, and would exclude all of the categorical CEQA exemptions. This bill would also exclude from the definition agricultural employee housing, low-income housing, infill residential projects, and other infill development projects, as described.
This measure would respectfully request Congress and the Department of Defense to remain committed to maintaining the 144th Fighter Wing and the Aerospace Control Alert mission in California in order to prevent any negative impacts to Southwest air defense operations, the California economy, and the ability of first responders to protect the residents of this state.
