This resolution would respectfully request that the International Maritime Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, adopt the North American Emission Control Area, as proposed by the United States, Canada, and France at the 60th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee, scheduled for March 2010.
This measure would urge various state and private entities to withhold financial support of Arizona businesses in response to recent Arizona state laws relating to illegal immigration.
Existing law specifically authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to create infrastructure financing districts, adopt infrastructure financing plans for those districts, and issue bonds financed by projected increases in ad valorem property taxes to fund certain public facilities, pursuant to a specified procedure. Existing property tax law establishes various procedures and requirements with respect to the annual apportionment and allocation of ad valorem property tax revenues, including increased revenues from infrastructure financing districts. This bill would recast these provisions authorizing the City and County of San Francisco to create infrastructure financing districts that include specified waterfront property. This bill would also modify the procedures for San Francisco to adopt an infrastructure financing plan, and allocate projected increases in ad valorem property taxes to specified annual apportionments. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco. This bill would provide that certain provisions of Chapter 664 of the Statutes of 2010 not become operative if specified conditions occur. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires the Department of Justice to establish and chair a task force known as the Crime Laboratory Review Task Force to review and make recommendations as to how best to configure, fund, and improve the delivery of state and local crime laboratory services in the future and to report its findings to the Department of Finance and specified legislative committees by July 1, 2009. This bill would require the task force to submit to the Legislature a supplemental report, by July 1, 2011, that includes a proposal to establish a statewide body to oversee crime laboratories, as specified.
The California Constitution provides that the Legislature may by statute prohibit retirement board investments if it is in the public interest to do so, and providing that the prohibition satisfies specified fiduciary standards. Existing law prohibits the boards of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System from investing public employee retirement funds in a company with active business operations in Sudan and Iran, as specified. Existing law also requires the boards of these retirement systems to sell or transfer any investments in a company with business operations in Sudan. Existing law requires the boards of these retirement systems to submit an annual report to the Legislature regarding any investments in a company with business operations in Sudan and the sale or transfer of those investments. Existing law requires the state to indemnify, from the General Fund, and hold harmless the present, former, and future board members, officers, and employees of, and investment managers under contract with, these retirement systems by reason of any decision to restrict, reduce, or eliminate investments in Sudan, as specified. This bill would additionally prohibit the boards of public pension or retirement systems, as defined, from investing public employee retirement funds in a company with business operations engaged in predatory investment practices, as defined, that rely on, or result in, the displacement of persons residing in rent-regulated housing, converting rent-regulated housing units to market rate units, or raising rents above regulated levels as determined by the appropriate governing authority, in order to generate profits to investors and would require the boards to establish a policy in regard to investing in rent-regulated housing, as specified. This bill would make related legislative findings and declarations. Existing law provides that a statute that imposes a requirement that a state agency submit a periodic report to the Legislature is inoperative on a date 4 years after the date the first report is due. This bill would, notwithstanding that requirement, require these boards to report annually to the Legislature regarding implementation and compliance of the above-described provisions and regarding compliance with the provisions of the rent-regulated housing investment policy. The bill would also require these boards to develop and implement, on or before June 30, 2011, and thereafter maintain, a policy that prohibits the investment of public employee retirement funds in predatory investment practices, as specified.
This measure would declare February 19, 2010, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
Existing law prohibits an admitted insurer that is licensed to issue and is issuing motor vehicle liability policies from failing or refusing to accept an application for that insurance, failing or refusing to issue that insurance to the applicant, or from issuing or cancelling that insurance under conditions less favorable to the insured than in other comparable cases because of specified reasons, including discrimination between persons within the same geographic area. Existing law also prohibits the admitted motor vehicle liability insurer from using any characteristic of sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, including, but not limited to, language or location within a geographic area, of itself, as a condition or risk for which a higher rate, premium, or charge is required of the insured for that insurance. Existing law defines geographic area as a portion of this state of not less than 20 square miles defined by description in the rating manual of an insurer or in the rating manual of a rating bureau of which the insurer is a member or subscriber. This bill would redefine geographic area as a portion of this state of not less than 15 square miles defined by description in the rating manual of an insurer or in the rating manual of a rating bureau of which the insurer is a member or subscriber.
This measure would memorialize the President and the Congress of the United States to enact the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which would make supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and state and local fiscal stabilization.
This measure would recognize February 2010 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.
Existing law requires a local educational agency, at the initial detention or placement or any subsequent change in placement of a foster child, to allow the foster child to continue his or her education in the school of origin, as defined, for the duration of the school year. This bill would instead require a local educational agency to allow the foster child to continue at the school of origin at the foster child's initial detention, placement, or any subsequent change in placement for the duration of the jurisdiction of the court, and would require the local educational agency to allow the child to continue his or her education at that school of origin for the duration of the school year if the court's jurisdiction is terminated prior to the end of the academic year. The bill would specify other requirements for a foster child's placement in school when the foster child is transitioning between school grade levels, as specified. By requiring local educational agencies to perform additional duties, 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
