Existing law, the Public Safety Communication Act of 2002, provides that the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee shall have primary responsibility in state government to develop and implement a statewide integrated public safety communication system that facilitates interoperability among state public safety departments and other first response agencies and to coordinate other shared uses of the public safety spectrum. It requires the committee to make recommendations for state agency purchase of public safety radio subscriber equipment that will enable those agencies to commence conforming to industry and governmental interoperability standards. Existing law specifies that, as technology evolves, the committee shall recommend the purchase of nonproprietary equipment or systems that have open architecture and backward compatibility. The act defines "nonproprietary equipment or systems," "open architecture," "backward compatibility," and other related terms for these purposes. This bill would delete references in these provisions to "nonproprietary" equipment or systems and instead specify standards-based equipment or systems, defined to mean equipment or systems that are built to a voluntary, consensus-based industry standard or a governmentally recognized standard, as applicable, to enable the equipment or system to function with another manufacturer's equipment or system. It would recast the definition of "backward compatibility" to mean equipment or systems that are able to function with prior versions of the equipment or systems or to operate with legacy equipment or systems. It also would require that the committee ensure that its recommendations for radio or other technology are consistent and compatible with recommendations and standards established by the United States Department of Homeland Security or the Federal Communications Commission, or both, as applicable. The act authorizes, but does not require, the committee to make similar equipment recommendations to any other federal, state, regional, or local entity with responsibility for developing, operating, or monitoring interoperability of the public safety spectrum. This bill would authorize the California Emergency Management Agency, rather than the committee, to recommend equipment to these other entities. It would also recast other provisions specifying certain industry standards and make conforming changes.
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The California Constitution requires the Legislature to pass a Budget Bill by June 15 of each year. This bill would prohibit, if the Budget Bill is not passed by the Legislature and sent to the Governor by midnight on June 30 of each year, Members of the Legislature from engaging in campaign fundraising activities from July 1 until August 15 or the date on which the Budget Bill is passed and sent to the Governor, whichever occurs first.
Existing law establishes the California State University and its various campuses under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University. Existing law requires the California State University to offer undergraduate and graduate instruction through the master's degree in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education, including teacher education. This bill would authorize the California State University to award the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. The bill would distinguish the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the doctor of philosophy degree offered at the University of California. The bill would require the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program to be designed to enable professionals to earn the degree while working full time, train nurses for advanced practice, and prepare clinical faculty to teach in postsecondary nursing programs. The bill would require initial funding to come from existing budgets, without diminishing the quality of undergraduate programs or reducing enrollment therein. The bill would require the California State University to annually report on the status of the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program, as specified.
The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on the sale of or the storage, use, or other consumption of tangible personal property in this state at specified rates. This bill would, in addition, impose a tax on the sale of, or the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property that is harmful matter, as defined, in this state at a rate of 12%. This bill would create the Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Prevention Fund and the Domestic Abuser Surveillance Fund and would require that all revenues, less refunds, derived from the 12% tax be transferred to each fund in a specified percentage. This bill would continuously appropriate all of the money in the Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Prevention Fund to the State Department of Public Health and the California Emergency Management Agency for programs preventing domestic violence and assisting victims of sexual assault, sexual crimes, and domestic violence, and in the Domestic Abuser Surveillance Fund to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to fund a system for the electronic surveillance of domestic abusers and stalkers. This bill would result in a change in state taxes for the purpose of increasing state revenues within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law requires the Governor to appoint the Secretary of Corrections and Rehabilitation and other specified positions within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law authorizes individuals appointed to these positions to serve at the pleasure of the Governor. This bill would eliminate these provisions and instead create the Corrections and Rehabilitation Board, consisting of the Governor, Controller, and the Attorney General, and require the board to appoint individuals to these positions. This bill would also provide that individuals appointed to these positions shall serve at the pleasure of the board, and would require the secretary to perform other duties prescribed by the board.
(1) Existing law establishes the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. These 3 segments are the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law requires the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, and the governing board of each community college district to adopt or provide for the adoption of specific rules and regulations governing student behavior. This bill would require the board of governors of each community college district and the Trustees of the California State University, and request the Regents of the University of California to include in their rules and regulations governing student behavior, rules and regulations prohibiting online harassment, as defined. By imposing requirements on the governing boards of community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also require each institution to report to the Legislature annually regarding the rules and regulations adopted regarding online harassment. (2) 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.
Existing law makes it either a misdemeanor or a felony for a person to violate restraining orders relating to domestic violence, as specified. This bill would require the court to order, prior to sentencing, the probation department to administer a risk assessment evaluation when a person is convicted of violating a restraining order. This bill would require the court to impose continuous electronic surveillance of the person using specified GPS technology if the court determines that the results of the risk assessment and any other relevant conditions merit the order, as specified. The bill would also require the defendant to pay for the costs of the monitoring if he or she is able and would require the court to impose a $200 fee upon conviction, if the defendant is able to pay the fee, as specified. Existing law establishes a program of intense parole supervision for persons released on parole after a term of imprisonment because of a conviction for stalking. This bill would include in that program a requirement that the parolee be continuously monitored using specified GPS technology. This bill would require the parolee to pay for the costs of the monitoring unless he or she does not have the ability to pay, as specified. Existing law establishes specific conditions of probation for persons convicted of domestic violence, as specified. This bill would require the court to order, as a condition of probation for a person convicted of domestic violence, as defined, continuous electronic surveillance using specified GPS technology if the court determines that the results of a risk assessment evaluation and any other relevant conditions merit the order, as specified. This bill would also require the probationer to pay for the costs associated with the monitoring if he or she is able, as specified. Because this bill would increase the duties of certain local officials, it 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. The California Constitution provides for the Right to Truth in Evidence, which requires a 23 vote of the Legislature to exclude any relevant evidence from any criminal proceeding, as specified. Because this bill would exclude evidence of crimes other than restraining order violations that is obtained from the GPS surveillance authorized by this bill from criminal proceedings, it requires a 23 vote of the Legislature.
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.
The Donahoe Higher Education Act sets forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California's public and independent segments of higher education, and their respective institutions of higher education. The act applies to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, act to make the act applicable. Existing law requires that a person, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as defined, who has attended high school in California for 3 or more years, who has graduated from a California high school or attained the equivalent thereof, who has registered at or attends an accredited institution of higher education in California not earlier than the fall semester or quarter of the 2001–02 academic year, and who, if he or she is a person without lawful immigration status, has filed a prescribed affidavit relating to obtaining lawful immigration status, is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University. Existing law also requires the waiver of student fees charged by community college districts for students who demonstrate financial need or are otherwise eligible for the waiver. Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to allocate, to community college districts for determining financial need and delivering student financial aid services, an amount based on the amount of fees waived. This bill would amend the Donahoe Higher Education Act to require the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and to request the Regents of the University of California, to establish procedures and forms that enable persons who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under that provision, or who meet equivalent requirements adopted by the regents, to be eligible to receive institutional financial aid awards. The bill would define institutional financial aid as financial assistance offered by a campus of the California Community Colleges, California State University, or University of California, including grant, scholarship, workstudy, and loan programs. The bill would specify that institutional financial aid does not include a specified board of governors fee waiver. The bill would declare that it is a state law within the meaning of a federal statute that permits a state to provide an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States with eligibility for a state or local public benefit only through the enactment of a state law affirmatively providing for that eligibility. The bill would apply to the University of California only if the regents, by appropriate resolution, act to make it applicable.
Existing law provides for the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons receive services enabling them to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing law permits services to be provided under the IHSS program either through the employment of individual providers, a contract between the county and an entity for the provision of services, the creation by the county of a public authority, or a contract between the county and a nonprofit consortium. Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. Under existing law, IHSS recipients who are eligible for the Medi-Cal program are provided with personal care option services, as defined, in lieu of receiving these services under the IHSS program. Existing law, enacted in 2009, makes various statutory changes with respect to the provision of in-home supportive services, relating to matters, including, but not limited to, provider enrollment procedures, criminal background checks, orientation, and duties, as well as eligibility standards for recipients, unannounced home visits, and program integrity and fraud prevention. This bill would make the operation of the statutory changes described above subject to a stakeholder process, to be conducted, as specified, by the State Department of Social Services, prior to the implementation of those changes. The bill would require implementation of any of the statutory changes described in the bill to occur either on the date specified in an applicable statute, or 60 days after the department notifies the Joint Legislative Budget Committee that the changes may be implemented, whichever is later. This bill would prohibit information notices relating to the implementation of these statutory changes from being sent to recipients or providers until the stakeholder process is completed. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.