Existing law provides that a person who is under 18 years of age and who commits a crime is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, as specified. If the juvenile court declares a person to be a ward of the court, the court issues an order with the disposition of the case. Under existing law, the court may, in some cases, commit the ward to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities. Existing law prohibits a court from committing a ward to the Division of Juvenile Facilities under certain conditions unless the ward's most recent admitted or adjudicated offense is a specified serious or violent offense or a sex offense. This bill would expand the class of persons who may be committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities to include a ward who has committed a specified sex offense, or who was previously found to have committed a specified serious or violent offense or a specified sex offense. Additionally, this bill would authorize the chief of the Division of Juvenile Facilities to enter into contracts with counties for the Division of Juvenile Facilities to provide housing to a ward who was in the custody of the Division of Juvenile Facilities on December 12, 2011, and whose commitment was recalled under specific circumstances. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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The existing Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65) prohibits any person, in the course of doing business, from knowingly and intentionally exposing any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving a specified warning, or from discharging or releasing such a chemical into any source of drinking water, except as specified. The act provides that it does not alter or diminish any legal obligation otherwise required in common law or by statute or regulation, or create or enlarge any defense in any action to enforce a legal obligation. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
Existing law requires all day labor utilized by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to be performed by individuals who are represented by a duly authorized employee representative unless individuals with that qualification are not reasonably available. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Existing law provides that parents or guardians of pupils enrolled in public schools have specified rights and should have specified opportunities with regard to the education of their children. Existing law, upon approval by the State Board of Education, requires the State Department of Education to make materials available that describe a comprehensive partnership at schoolsites that involves parents and guardians of pupils in the public schools of California, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that latter provision.
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 impact on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that impact. 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 provides for the judicial review of a lead agency's decision to certify an EIR. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities. Existing law authorizes the commission, each commissioner, and each officer and person employed by the commission to inspect, at any time, the accounts, books, papers, and documents of any public utility, as specified. Existing law also authorizes the commission, each commissioner, and any officer of the commission or any employee authorized to administer oaths to examine under oath any officer, agent, or employee of a public utility in relation to its business and affairs. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district, community college district, or school facilities improvement district, pursuant to a 23 vote of the governing board, to pursue the authorization and issuance of bonds by a 55% vote of the electorate, subject to certain additional requirements. Existing law prohibits a county board of education from ordering an election to determine whether bonds may be issued under these provisions to raise funds for a county office of education. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the latter provision.
Existing law requires school districts that establish early primary programs to provide educational continuity from preschool through kindergarten and grades 1 to 3, inclusive, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law, the Professional Fiduciaries Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of professional fiduciaries, as defined, by the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau within the Department of Consumer Affairs. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the provision naming the act.
Existing law defines the term "state agency," for the purposes of numerous statutes in the Government Code, to include every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission, except that, for these purposes, "state agency" does not include the California State University, with respect to specified statutes that are added or amended effective on or after January 1, 1997, unless a statute explicitly provides that it applies to the university. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.