Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, provides for the operation of live horse racing in this state and for wagering thereon, and for the operation of satellite wagering facilities, subject to regulation and oversight by the California Horse Racing Board. That law also requires the board to allocate racing weeks to a fair and to hold a public hearing and take testimony when making all determinations on the allocation of racing dates to a fair. This bill would require the board, when it receives a proposal to make a substantial change, as defined, to the number of days a fair conducts races or to the weeks in the horse racing calendar allocated to that fair to conduct a specified economic analysis of the proposal's effect on those fairs whose horse racing calendar would be impacted and to consider all proposed alternative racing dates based on that economic analysis before the board votes on the proposal or any alternative option to the original proposal. The bill would make other, nonsubstantive changes to the Horse Racing Law.
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Existing law, the Horse Racing Law, provides for the operation of live horse racing in this state and for wagering on horse races, and for the operation of satellite wagering facilities, subject to regulation and oversight by the California Horse Racing Board, as specified. The Horse Racing Law provides that the board consists of 7 members appointed by the Governor and that the members of the board receive a per diem of $100 for each day spent in attendance at official meetings and be reimbursed for traveling and other expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of official duties. This bill would expand the membership of the board to 9 members, 7 public members appointed by the Governor, one Member of the Senate appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, and, one Member of the Assembly appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly. The bill would provide that Members of the Legislature appointed to the board shall serve as nonvoting, ex officio members of the board and for a term of 2 years, with no limit on the number of terms that may be served by any one Member. The bill would provide that legislative members are subject to certain requirements, including, among other things, ineligibility to serve on the subcommittees of the board. The bill would also prohibit a legislative member of the board from receiving per diem or reimbursement for traveling and other expenses from the board for his or her service on the board.
Existing federal law, the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000, provides federal funds to assist the state in planning, coordinating, monitoring, and evaluating services for persons with developmental disabilities and in establishing a system to protect and advocate the legal and civil rights of persons with developmental disabilities. Existing law establishes the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to, among other things, serve as the state planning council responsible for developing the California Developmental Disabilities State Plan and monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the plan. Existing law requires the council to conduct activities related to meeting the objectives of the state plan. Existing law requires these activities to include, among other things, supporting and conducting technical assistance activities to assist public and private entities to contribute to the objectives of the state plan, and authorizes the activities to include, among other things, supporting and conducting activities to assist neighborhoods and communities to respond positively to individuals with disabilities and their families. This bill would revise the activities the council is authorized to conduct to include, among other things, encouraging and assisting in the establishment or strengthening of self-advocacy organizations led by individuals with developmental disabilities and appoint an authorized representative for persons with developmental disabilities, as specified. The bill would make additional changes relating to the activities of the council. Existing law requires the Governor to appoint 31 voting members to the council, including 13 members from the area boards and 7 members at large. Existing law requires the Governor, prior to appointing specified council members, to request and consider recommendations from organizations representing, or providing services to, or both, persons with developmental disabilities. Existing law also limits the term of those members to 3 years. This bill would instead require those 20 members of the council to be nonagency members who reflect the socioeconomic, geographic, disability, racial, ethnic, and language diversity of the state, and who shall be individuals with a developmental disability, or their parents, immediate relatives, guardians, or conservators residing in California, as specified. The bill would additionally require the Governor to consult with the current members, including the nonagency members, of the council prior to appointing specified members and would require those specified members to serve no more than 2 terms. Existing law also establishes the area boards on developmental disabilities to, among other things, conduct the local advocacy, capacity building, and systemic change activities required by the federal Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000, and to assist the council on implementing provisions of the act. Existing law requires area boards to locally assist the state council with the implementation of specified federal provisions and provides for the composition of area boards. This bill would revise and recast the area boards as regional offices or as regional advisory committees and would make the establishment of the regional offices and the regional advisory committees discretionary. The bill would require any regional offices and regional advisory committees established to be constituted and operated according to policies and procedures set by the state council. The bill would require the regional advisory committees to, upon the request of the state council, among other things, advise the state council and its regional office on local issues and to identify and provide input regarding local systemic needs within its community. The bill would make conforming changes. Existing law requires the state council chairperson to appoint an executive director and to appoint an executive director for each area board, as specified. Existing law requires the state council to have responsibility for the selection, hiring, and supervision of all state council personnel. This bill would instead require the state council to appoint an executive director and would instead require the state council, through its executive director, to have responsibility for the selection, hiring, and supervision of all state council personnel. Existing law establishes the State Department of Developmental Services and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the administration of state developmental centers and the administration and oversight of community programs providing services to consumers with developmental disabilities and their families. Existing law authorizes the department to contract with the council for the purpose of utilizing area boards to provide clients' rights advocacy services to individuals with developmental disabilities who reside in state developmental centers and state hospitals. This bill would instead authorize the department to contract with the council to provide clients' rights advocacy services to individuals with developmental disabilities who reside in developmental centers. The bill would make other conforming changes. This bill would incorporate changes to Section 4629 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by both this bill and SB 1093, which would become operative only if both bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue specialty license plates, including environmental license plates and specified special environmental design license plates. Under existing law, a state agency is authorized to apply to the DMV to sponsor a specialized license plate program, and the DMV is required to issue those license plates if the agency meets certain requirements. The DMV is required to charge specified fees for certain services related to the issuance of those plates. Existing law establishes the Breast Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund, and requires that funds in that account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated for the provision of early breast cancer detection services for uninsured and underinsured women. This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to apply to sponsor a breast cancer awareness license plate program, and would require the DMV to issue the license plates if the State Department of Health Care Services meets certain requirements. The bill would authorize the State Department of Health Care Services to accept and use donated artwork from California artists for the license plate. The bill would require the revenue generated from the license plates, as specified, to be deposited in the Breast Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Under existing law it is a crime for any person to unlawfully and maliciously take down, remove, injure, or obstruct any line of telegraph, telephone, or cable television, or any other line used to conduct electricity, or any part thereof, or appurtenances or apparatus connected therewith, or to sever any wire, or make any unauthorized connection with any line, other than a telegraph, telephone, or cable television line, used to conduct electricity. Under existing law a violation of these provisions is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed 16 months, 2 or 3 years, or by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year. This bill would additionally make it a crime for any person to unlawfully and maliciously disconnect or cut a line of telegraph, telephone, or cable television, or any line used to conduct electricity, or any part thereof, or appurtenance or apparatus connected therewith. The bill would specify that a connected appurtenance or apparatus includes a backup deep cycle battery or other power supply. The bill would make the crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine, or by imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years and a fine not exceeding $10,000. By expanding the scope 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.
This measure would declare November 8, 2014, as California Solar Professionals Day.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 116 in the County of Sonoma as the Deputy Sheriff Merrit W. Deeds Memorial Highway. This measure would also designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 1 in the County of Mendocino as the Deputy Sheriff Ricky Del Fiorentino Memorial Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing each of those special designations and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
This measure would urge the National Football League (NFL) to join with the Legislature and numerous organizations in calling for a name change for the Washington, D.C. NFL team, and calls upon the owners of NFL teams based in California to urge the owner of the Washington, D.C. NFL team and the NFL Commissioner to change the team mascot.
This measure would declare November 2014 as Diabetes Awareness Month.
This measure would recognize the month of October 2014 as Filipino American History Month and the 427th anniversary of the first presence of Filipinos in the continental United States.