(1) Existing law establishes the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, a part of the Public Schools Performance Accountability Program, for schools that have not met adequate yearly progress and Academic Performance Index (API) growth targets, as established by the State Board of Education. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to take certain actions when a school does not meet those targets, and also authorizes the Superintendent to require a school district to enter into a contract with a school assistance and intervention team. This bill would require that the members of a school assistance and intervention team, that contracts with a school district in which one or more numerically significant pupil subgroups, as defined, did not meet those targets, possess specified certification and experience in meeting the needs of those pupil subgroups, and to use procedures and tools developed specifically for those pupil subgroups. (2) Existing law requires the school assistance and intervention team to complete a report that includes recommendations for corrective actions, as specified. This bill would require the school assistance and intervention team, in developing recommendations for corrective actions, to ensure that pupils have access to all core subjects, to ensure parental involvement and community involvement, and to include additional recommendations if alternative programs are the reason for program improvement status. (3) Existing law requires a local educational agency identified as a program improvement local educational agency under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 to take a self-assessment provided by the department. This bill would require, if a local educational agency is identified as a program improvement local educational agency because of the failure of one or more pupil subgroups to meet adequate yearly progress and API growth targets, that the State Department of Education provide self-assessment materials and criteria specifically for language and content instruction. This bill would require the district assistance and intervention team, in developing recommendations for corrective actions, to ensure that pupils have access to all core subjects, to ensure parental involvement and community involvement, and to include additional recommendations if alternative programs are the reason for program improvement status. The bill would require that the members of a district assistance and intervention team, contracting with a local educational agency identified as a program improvement local educational agency in which one or more pupil subgroups did not meet adequate yearly progress and API growth targets, possess specified certification and experience in meeting the curriculum and instructional needs of the pupil subgroups, as specified. This bill would provide that the additional requirements imposed by its provisions would only apply to school assistance and intervention teams, as specified, that were established on or after January 1, 2010.
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Existing law allows a county to establish an interagency elder death team to assist local agencies in identifying and reviewing suspicious elder deaths. Under existing law, the team may request specified information for its review, subject to prescribed confidentiality requirements. This bill would make conforming changes to refer to elder death review teams and would allow an elder death review team to request and obtain copies of certificates of death from the local registrar of births and deaths, subject to any fee requirements. Under existing law, deaths are required to be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths in the district in which the death occurs. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to enforce the laws pertaining to vital records, including certificates of death. Existing law requires the department to implement an Internet-based electronic death registration system. This bill would authorize the chair, cochair, or an agent of the chair or cochair, of a county elder death review team to participate in the Internet-based electronic death registration system to access specified information. Under existing law health facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, are required to file an annual report to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development containing prescribed data. This bill would require skilled nursing facilities, except for a skilled nursing facility that is a distinct part of a general acute care hospital, also to include within this report specified data on persons who have died in the facility. The bill would require the office to compile and make available this data to a requesting county elder death review team and would allow the office, upon request of the team, to provide additional information, as specified.
Existing state law provides that every person who possesses, sells, transports, or cultivates marijuana, concentrated cannabis, or derivatives of marijuana, except as authorized by law, is guilty of one or more crimes. This bill would remove marijuana and its derivatives from existing statutes defining and regulating controlled substances. It would instead provide for regulation by the Department of Alcoholic Beverages of the possession, sale, cultivation, and other conduct relating to marijuana and its derivatives, not including medical marijuana, by persons 21 years of age and older, for specified purposes. It would set up a wholesale and retail marijuana sales regulation program to be administered and enforced by the department, that imposes special fees to fund drug abuse prevention programs, as specified, to commence after regulations concerning the program have been issued by the department. It would ban local and state assistance in enforcing inconsistent federal and other laws relating to marijuana, and would provide specified infraction penalties for violations of these new marijuana laws and regulations, as specified. The bill would make existing prohibitions against the smoking of tobacco products in specified areas, including public offices and restaurants, applicable to the smoking of marijuana products. It would make other conforming changes. By creating various crimes for violations of regulations and laws created by this act, 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.
Existing law requires the Department of Personnel Administration to establish and adjust salary ranges for each class of position in the state civil service, subject to specified merit limits. Existing law requires the salary range to be based on the principle that like salaries shall be paid for comparable duties and responsibilities. Existing law allows the state to enter into memoranda of understanding relating to employer-employee relations with employee organizations representing certain state employees. This bill would make findings and declarations regarding the budget deficit facing the state. The bill would, until January 1, 2012, prohibit a person employed by the state whose base salary on or after the effective date of the bill is greater than $150,000 per year from receiving a salary increase while employed in the same position or classification, and from receiving payment for overtime work. The bill would exempt from this prohibition a person whose compensation is governed by an operative memorandum of understanding, as described above, a person who has been exempted by executive order of the Governor, as specified, and a person whose salary is set pursuant to the California Constitution.
(1) Under the Ellis Act, public entities generally are prohibited from adopting any statute, ordinance, or regulation, or taking any administrative action, to compel the owner of residential real property to offer or to continue to offer accommodations in the property for rent or lease. The act defines accommodations subject to the act to mean either residential rental units in any detached physical structure containing 4 or more residential rental units or, with respect to a detached physical structure containing 3 or fewer residential rental units, the residential rental units in that structure and in any other structure located on the same parcel of land. Existing law declares that it is the intent of the Legislature in enacting the Ellis Act to supersede any holding, or portion of the holding, of a specified case, to the extent that the holding, or portion of the holding, conflicts with this chapter, so as to permit landlords to go out of business. This bill would define, for purposes of the act, "to go out of business" to mean to discontinue in the business or occupation of being a landlord. (2) Existing law authorizes, subject to specified provisions, any public entity that has in effect any system of rent control to require the owner to notify the entity of an intention to withdraw those accommodations from rent or lease. This authorization provides that the rent control system may establish the date on which the accommodations are withdrawn from rent or lease 120 days from the delivery in person or by first-class mail of that notice to the public entity, unless the tenant or lessee is at least 62 years of age or disabled and has lived in his or her accommodations for at least one year prior to the date of delivery to the public entity of the notice of intent to withdraw, in which case the date of withdrawal of the accommodations of that tenant or lessee is required to be extended to one year after the date of delivery of that notice to the public entity. Existing law specifies that this one-year extension occurs only if the tenant or lessee gives written notice of his or her entitlement to an extension to the owner within 60 days of the date of delivery to the public entity of the notice of intent to withdraw. This bill would, instead, specify that the rent control system of a public entity may require that the one-year extension applies to all tenancies in the applicable accommodations if a tenant or lessee who is at least 62 years of age or disabled has lived in the accommodations for at least one year prior to the delivery of notice to a public entity and gives the required 60-day notice to the owner. This bill would require an owner, as applicable in these circumstances, to notify all tenants of the one-year extension. This bill would make conforming changes to related provisions.
Existing law provides that patients of skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities have prescribed rights. This bill would add to these rights the right of every resident to receive all information that is material to an individual's decision concerning whether to accept or refuse any proposed treatment or procedure. This bill would make the physician responsible for disclosing the material information to the resident and obtaining his or her informed consent. This bill would require that informed consent, as defined, be obtained in accordance with the above requirements of the bill, with respect to a resident's decision to accept or reject the administration of a psychotherapeutic drug. This bill would also require the State Department of Public Health to inspect for compliance with this requirement during prescribed inspections. Under existing law, the Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973, an attending physician and surgeon who seeks to prescribe, order, or increase an order for an antipsychotic medication for a resident of a skilled nursing facility is required to obtain the informed consent of that resident. A violation of this provision is a misdemeanor. This bill would extend these requirements to a physician and surgeon of a resident in an intermediate care facility. This bill would apply the definition of "informed consent" contained in the bill to this provision. Because this bill would change the definition of a 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.
Existing law provides that a minor may be adjudged a dependent child or a ward of the juvenile court under specified circumstances. Existing law authorizes the court to place a minor who has been removed from the custody of his or her parent or guardian in foster care among other placements, as specified. Existing law provides for the termination of the juvenile court jurisdiction when the minor reaches a specified age. This bill would require a probation officer or parole officer, whenever the juvenile court terminates jurisdiction over a ward, or upon release of a ward from a nonfoster care facility, to provide to the person a written notice stating that the person is a former foster child and may be eligible for the services and benefits that are available to a former foster child through public and private programs, and information that informs the person of the availability of, and assistance to enable the ward to apply for and gain acceptance into, federal and state programs that provide independent living services and benefits to former foster children for which the person is or may be eligible. By imposing additional duties upon probation officers, 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, 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.
The Bay Area County Traffic and Transportation Funding Act establishes a process for each of the 9 counties in the San Francisco Bay area to impose a retail transactions and use tax for transportation purposes subject to voter approval. Existing law provides for a county transportation expenditure plan to be developed in that regard, with expenditures from tax revenues to be administered by a county transportation authority, or, alternatively, by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Existing law requires the membership of a county transportation authority to be specified either in the county transportation expenditure plan or in the retail transactions and use tax ordinance. This bill would delete the option of specifying the membership of the authority in the retail transactions and use tax ordinance.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish an advisory committee to advise on all appropriate matters relative to the creation of the Academic Performance Index and the implementation of the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program and the High Achieving/Improving Schools Program. Existing law requires the committee to make recommendations to the Superintendent, by July 1, 2005, on the appropriateness and feasibility of a methodology for generating a measurement of academic performance by using unique pupil identifiers and annual academic achievement growth to provide a more accurate measure of a school's growth over time. This bill would require the advisory committee, by July 1, 2010, to make recommendations to the Superintendent regarding the inclusion of the results of the English language development test or series of tests developed or acquired pursuant to a specified provision and the feasibility of including English learner proficiency as part of the Academic Performance Index (API) . The bill would require the Superintendent, with the approval of the state board, to include the results of the English language development test or series of tests developed or acquired pursuant to a specified provision and English language proficiency levels and growth of those levels in the API.
Existing law provides that entry of judgment may be deferred with respect to defendants who are charged with certain enumerated crimes and meet certain criteria, including no prior convictions for any offense involving controlled substances and no prior felony convictions within the prior 5 years, as specified. Existing law requires the prosecuting attorney to review his or her file to determine whether those conditions apply to the defendant and, if the defendant is found ineligible for deferred entry of judgment, to file with a court a declaration stating the grounds upon which the determination is based. This bill would authorize the court, at the defendant's request, to review the prosecuting attorney's determination of ineligibility and would further authorize the court to make the final determination, as specified.