Existing law authorizes a local authority to enact various speed laws, including setting by ordinance or resolution, a prima facie speed limit of 25 miles per hour on any street, other than a state highway, adjacent to any children's playground in a public park, under specified circumstances. This bill would authorize the City and County of San Francisco to reduce the prima facie speed limit to 15 miles per hour when driving on a street or road within Golden Gate Park in the City of San Francisco, with specified exclusions, and report to the Department of Transportation regarding any traffic calming measures undertaken to maintain or increase pedestrian and bicyclist safety, as prescribed. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Golden Gate Park in the City of San Francisco.
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Existing law establishes various programs to provide financial assistance to California children and their families. This bill would enact the Every Kid Counts (EKC) Act that would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, provide for a one-time deposit by the state to each account opened under the Golden State Scholarshare Trust Act.
The Katz-Harris Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Act requires the Franchise Tax Board to establish the position of the Taxpayers' Rights Advocate and makes the advocate or his or her designee responsible for coordinating the resolution of taxpayer complaints and problems, including any taxpayer complaints regarding unsatisfactory treatment of taxpayers by board employees. Existing law requires the board, in consultation with the Taxpayers' Rights Advocate, to develop and implement a taxpayer education and information program directed at, but not limited to, identifying forms, procedures, regulations, or laws which are confusing and lead to taxpayer errors. Existing law requires the board to perform annually a systematic identification of areas of recurrent taxpayer noncompliance and report its findings to the Legislature on December 1 of each year. This bill would change the due date of that report to December 31 of each year.
This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2017–18 fiscal year. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2017.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would amend the Budget Act of 2016.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2017.
Existing law authorizes the court, in addition to any other penalty in an infraction, misdemeanor, or felony case, to impose a civil assessment of up to $300 against any defendant who fails, after notice and without good cause, to appear in court for any proceeding authorized by law, or who fails to pay all or any portion of a fine ordered by the court or to pay an installment of bail, as specified. Existing law provides that the assessment shall not become effective until at least 20 calendar days after the court mails a warning notice to the defendant, and requires the court, if the defendant appears within the time specified in the notice and shows good cause for the failure to appear or for the failure to pay a fine or installment of bail, to vacate the assessment. This bill would provide that the assessment shall not become effective until at least 60 days after the court mails a warning notice to the defendant. The bill would require the court to vacate a civil assessment if the underlying charge is dismissed, refund any payments made by a defendant towards that assessment, and terminate any collection action. The bill would require the court to vacate a civil assessment imposed pursuant to those provisions, if the defendant certifies that he or she had good cause to not appear or not pay a fine, or is unable to pay the assessment. The bill would define good cause for this purpose. The bill would also require a court to allow a defendant to file a motion to vacate a civil assessment at any time. Finally, the bill would require the court to include a form to petition the court to vacate a civil assessment with any notice of or request to pay the civil assessment.
Existing law, the Donahoe Higher Education Act, sets forth the missions and functions of the 4 segments comprising the state's postsecondary education system. These segments are the University of California, administered by the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, administered by the Trustees of the California State University, the California Community Colleges, administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and independent institutions of higher education. This bill would establish the 9-member Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Postsecondary Education, and specify its membership and duties. The bill would require the commission to publish a report on designated subjects and submit this report to designated governmental entities by January 1, 2020. The bill would require the Office of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Postsecondary Education to close on June 30, 2020, and would repeal the provisions of the bill on January 1, 2021. The bill would require, upon that repeal, all of the documents and working papers of the commission to become the property of the State Archives.