Existing law provides that any person who deprives or violates the personal liberty of another with the intent to effect or maintain certain felonies, or to obtain forced labor or services, is guilty of human trafficking. This bill would provide in addition that depriving or violating a person's liberty with the intent to effect or maintain the provision of a person under the age of 16 to another person for the purpose of any lewd or lascivious act, or the procurement of minors in the preparation of material depicting sexual conduct by a minor, constitutes human trafficking. This bill would also expand the scope of the offense of human trafficking to provide that any person who causes, induces, or persuades a person under 18 years of age to engage in a commercial sex act, as defined, with the intent to effect or maintain specified felonies, or who obtains forced labor or services from a minor, is guilty of human trafficking. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, 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.
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Existing law authorizes the governing board of an insolvent school district to request an emergency apportionment through the Superintendent of Public Instruction subject to specified requirements and repayment provisions, including a requirement that the district repay the loan amount with interest. Existing law requires the Superintendent to assume all of the legal rights, duties, and powers of the governing board of a qualifying school district, as defined, that receives an emergency apportionment. Existing law requires the Superintendent, in consultation with the county superintendent of schools, to appoint an administrator to act on behalf of the Superintendent in exercising the authority assumed from the school district. This bill would require a charter school located within the geographic boundaries of a school district that is repaying an emergency apportionment to pay a prorated amount of the annual payment made by the district on the apportionment. The bill would require the Superintendent to deduct the prorated amount, to be calculated based upon the ratio of pupil enrollment, as prescribed, from the general purpose entitlement funding calculated for the charter school and apply the amount deducted to the outstanding balance of the applicable emergency apportionment.
The Metropolitan Water District Act provides for the creation of metropolitan water districts, governed by a board of directors composed of at least one representative of each member public agency appointed or selected by the member public agency, as prescribed. This bill would require the representative of a member public agency serving on the board to at all times be authorized to represent the member public agency that appointed the representative. The bill would prohibit the governing body of the member public agency or an elected or appointed official or member of a member public agency from directing or instructing a member of the board to vote in a particular manner with respect to any question, order, resolution, or ordinance that comes before the board for a vote.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to administer federal funds pursuant to specified federal programs to eligible entities to reduce fossil fuel emissions, improve energy efficiency, and reduce overall energy use. This bill would require the commission, upon the enactment of the federal Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010, in consultation with the United States Department of Energy, to develop programs that are required by, and that complement, the federal act. The bill would require the commission, in consultation with specified entities, to take specified actions to implement the federal Home Star program. This bill would be repealed on January 1, 2012.
This measure would memorialize the Congress and the President of the United States to uphold protections of women's equality and to encourage all Americans to participate in the celebration of Women's Equality Day on August 26, 2010, the 90th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.
This measure would declare April 2010 as Financial Aid and Literacy Month to raise public awareness about the need for increased financial literacy.
Existing law authorizes, subject to specified procedures and restrictions, the medical testing of prisoners for HIV under certain circumstances. This bill would require the chief medical officer in every state prison, and the medical director of each state hospital housing patients sentenced pursuant to the Penal Code, for each inmate or patient to be incarcerated in or committed to that facility for more than one year, to offer testing for HIV at admission to the prison or facility and at least annually while the inmate or patient is incarcerated or committed, as specified.
This measure would commend the Girl Scouts for 98 years of service and for inspiring millions of girls with the highest ideals of confidence, courage, and character.
This measure would recognize the week of April 18, 2010, through April 24, 2010, as Crime Victims' Rights Week.
(1) Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as a segment of public postsecondary education in the state. Existing law, notwithstanding open course provisions in statute or regulations of the board of governors, authorizes the governing board of a community college district that provides classes for inmates of certain facilities, including a federal correctional facility, to include the units of full-time equivalent students generated in those classes for purposes of state apportionments. This bill would instead require the open course provisions in statute or regulations of the board of governors to be waived for a governing board of a community college district that provides those classes for inmates, including inmates of state correctional facilities, and would authorize the board of governors to include the units of full-time equivalent students generated in those classes for purposes of state apportionments. (2) Existing law provides for the method of computing apportionments for purposes of these inmate education programs. This bill would make revisions to that method of computation. The bill would prohibit a community college district from claiming, under the bill, for purposes of apportionments, a class for which a district receives full compensation for its direct education costs for the conduct of the class from a public or private agency, individual, or group of individuals, and a class offered pursuant to a contract or instructional agreement entered into between the district and a public or private agency, individual, or group of individuals that has received from another source full compensation for the costs the district incurs under that contract or instructional agreement, as prescribed.