Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to provide breast cancer and cervical cancer screening services to eligible low-income individuals under a federal grant made under the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention breast and cervical cancer early detection program. Funding for these services is provided by a combination of federal and state moneys. Existing law requires these services to be provided at the level of funding budgeted from state and other resources during the fiscal year in which the Legislature has appropriated funds to the department for this purpose. This bill would, insofar as consistent with federal law and without jeopardizing federal funding, require the department to provide breast cancer screening and diagnostic services to individuals of any age who are exhibiting symptoms, with a physician's recommendation, and individuals 40 years of age or older, provided the individual otherwise meets the state eligibility requirements. This bill would appropriate an unspecified amount to the department for the breast and cervical cancer early detection program.
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Under existing law, various general obligation bond acts have been approved by the voters to provide funds for water projects, facilities, and programs. The Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006, a bond act approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,090,000,000 for the purposes of financing disaster preparedness and flood prevention projects. This bill, with regard to those bond funds, would appropriate $30,000,000 to the Department of Water Resources for flood protection projects that either improve the sustainability of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, implement specified flood management actions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, or do both.
The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 sets forth a comprehensive system of retirement benefits for county and district employees. This bill would declare the intent of Legislature to enact legislation that would address issues relating to county public employee retirement pensions.
Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, restricts the employment of licensed physicians and surgeons and podiatrists by a corporation or other artificial legal entity, subject to specified exemptions, and makes it a crime to practice medicine without a license. Existing law establishes, until January 1, 2011, a pilot project to allow qualified district hospitals that, among other things, provide more than 50% of patient days to the care of Medicare, Medi-Cal, and uninsured patients, to employ a physician and surgeon, if the hospital does not interfere with, control, or otherwise direct the professional judgment of the physician and surgeon. The pilot project authorizes the direct employment of a total of 20 physicians and surgeons by those hospitals to provide medically necessary services in rural and medically underserved communities, and specifies that each qualified district hospital may employ up to 2 physicians and surgeons, subject to specified requirements. This bill would delete that pilot project and would instead, until January 1, 2021, authorize a health care district, as defined, and a clinic owned or operated by a health care district, as specified, to employ physicians and surgeons if the health care district's service area includes a Medically Underserved Area (MUA) or a Medically Underserved Population (MUP) , or has been federally designated as a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) ; the district board conducts a public hearing and adopts a specified resolution declaring the need for the district to recruit and directly employ one or more physicians and surgeons; and the executive officer of the district provides specified documentation to the Medical Board of California. Upon receipt of that documentation, the bill would require the board to approve the employment of up to 5 primary or specialty care physicians and surgeons by the district, and, upon receipt of additional documentation after that employment, to approve an additional 5 primary or specialty care physicians and surgeons. The bill would provide that a district may, until December 31, 2020, enter into, renew, or extend any employment contract with a physician and surgeon for up to 10 years. The bill would require the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and the board, to report to the Legislature by June 1, 2018, with regard to the efficacy of the employment of physicians and surgeons by health care districts, as specified.
Existing law, operative on July 1, 2010, provides that prior to assuming a paid or volunteer position to supervise, direct, or coach a pupil activity program sponsored by, or affiliated with, a school district, all noncertificated candidates are required to obtain an Activity Supervisor Clearance Certificate from the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, as specified. This bill would make a technical nonsubstantive change in that provision.
The Enterprise Zone Act provides for the Department of Housing and Community Development's designation and oversight of various economic development areas in the state, including, but not limited to, enterprise zones, pursuant to which qualifying entities in those areas may receive various tax and regulatory incentives. This bill would establish the Green Technology Zone Pilot Program and authorize the City of Elk Grove and the City of Livermore, respectively, to participate in the program. The bill would authorize those governing bodies to designate, by resolution or ordinance, a green technology zone, as defined, within each one's respective jurisdiction. The bill would authorize those governing bodies to, by resolution or ordinance, adopt or suspend specified local laws to encourage economic development. The bill would prohibit a resolution or ordinance adopted for this purpose from preempting state law, and would require the resolution or ordinance to be subordinate to state law. The bill would also establish various incentives for economic development within a designated green technology zone, including, among others, a tax credit for the purchase of qualified property, as defined, a tax credit for the employment of a qualified employee, as defined, a 5% preference in specified solicitations for bids on contracts for goods by California-based companies located within a green technology zone, and the authority for state and local agencies to lease land to a business in a green technology zone at a price below fair market value, if that lease serves a public purpose. The bill would require an individual or business that takes advantage of these incentives to enter into agreements with state, local, regional, or county programs, or a qualified nonprofit organization, that provides education, job training, or career opportunities for individuals under 22 years of age, relating to clean technology, renewable energy, or energy efficiency. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Cities of Elk Grove and Livermore.
(1) The California Constitution requires the State Board of Equalization to assess the property, other than franchises, of companies transmitting or selling gas or electricity. Existing property tax law provides for the valuation, as a unit, of properties of a state assessee that are operated as a unit as a primary function of that assessee, and for the allocation of the assessed value of the unit among various counties in which the state assessee's unitary property is located. Existing law also provides, pursuant to specified formulas, for the application in each county of specified tax rates to unitary assessed value, and for the allocation among jurisdictions in that county of the resulting revenues. This bill would, for the 2011–12 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, require that a specified amount of property tax revenues derived from applying a specified tax rate to qualified property, as defined, be allocated first to the county in which the qualified property is located and to all of the school entities located in that county, 2nd to the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District, and 3rd to specified special districts, with the balance allocated to the redevelopment agency governing the project area in which the qualified property is located. This bill would also require that a specified amount of property tax revenues derived from applying another specified tax rate to the qualified property be first allocated to taxing jurisdictions in those tax rate areas in the county in which the qualified property is located, with the balance allocated to taxing jurisdictions pursuant to a specified formula. The bill would require the Oakley Redevelopment Agency to reimburse the county auditor for the actual and reasonable costs incurred by the county auditor in administering these allocations. The bill would also require the Oakley Redevelopment Agency to develop one new housing unit for each 40 jobs created on real property within the project area, as prescribed. (2) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute. (3) This bill would also incorporate additional changes in Section 100 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, proposed by AB 308, to be operative if AB 308 and this bill are both enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is enacted last. (4) By establishing new duties with respect to the annual allocation of property tax revenues derived from state‑assessed property, this bill would create 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. (5) This bill would change the pro rata shares in which ad valorem property tax revenues are allocated among local agencies in a county, within the meaning of paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 25.5 of Article XIII of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.
This measure would recognize the Lunar New Year 4708 celebration.
The California Constitution conditions the imposition of a special tax by a city, county, or special district upon the approval of 23 of the voters of the city, county, or special district voting on that tax, and prohibits these entities from imposing an ad valorem tax on real property or a transactions or sales tax on the sale of real property. This measure would alternatively condition the imposition, extension, or increase of a parcel tax, as defined, by a school district, community college district, or county office of education upon the approval of 55% of its voters voting on the proposition, if the proposition meets specified requirements. This measure would also make conforming changes to related provisions.
This measure would declare February 23, 2010, to be Spay Day USA 2010 in California, and would request that Californians observe that day by having their dogs and cats spayed or neutered and by providing voluntary services or other support to organizations that provide spay and neuter services.