This measure would proclaim the month of May 2016 as Bladder Cancer Awareness Month.
This measure would designate the portion of Interstate 10 from the State Route 57 Interchange to the North Towne Avenue exit in the County of Los Angeles as the Pomona Police Officer Shaun Diamond Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
This measure would proclaim the month of February 2016 as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, and would encourage all Californians to observe Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month with programs and activities that raise awareness about teen dating violence.
This measure would recognize April 17, 2016, as World Hemophilia Day.
This measure would request the President and the Congress of the United States to express their support for access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including the services provided by Planned Parenthood, and to oppose efforts to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of day care centers by the State Department of Social Services. Existing regulations require a separate license to be issued for each component of a combination center, and establishes teacher-child ratio requirements. This bill would require the department to, in consultation with specified stakeholders, adopt regulations on or before January 1, 2018, to develop and implement a birth to entering first grade license option for day care centers. The bill would require the regulations to include age-appropriate transition times, as specified, a requirement that a single integrated license option list the age groups of children being served at the day care center, and a requirement that all other licensing regulations that apply to a day care center shall also apply to a birth to entering first grade license option. The bill would require, until a day care center has the new integrated license, standards for inspection of a day care center to be based on the current license.
(1) Existing law prohibits a person from using or operating, or assisting in using or operating, a boat, aircraft, net, trap, line, or other appliance to take fish or amphibians for commercial purposes unless the person holds a commercial fishing license issued by the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Existing law prohibits the taking of shark and swordfish for commercial purposes with drift gill nets except under a valid drift gill net shark and swordfish permit issued to that person that has not been suspended or revoked and is issued to at least one person aboard the boat, except as provided. Existing law authorizes a permit to be transferred under certain circumstances. Existing law establishes an annual fee of $330 for a permit. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would prohibit the department from issuing any drift gill net permit. The bill would require the department to revoke all latent drift gill net permits, as defined, within 12 months of a federal authorization to use deep set buoy gear or similar gear to take swordfish and would require the department to revoke all drift gill net permits if the department has not been notified of any landings under any drift gill net permit during any 2 successive fishing seasons. The bill, beginning March 31, 2017, would limit the circumstances under which a drift gill net permit can be transferred to a situation where the permittee permanently retires the permit by transferring the permit to an entity engaged in retiring permits or where a person exchanges the permit for a deep set buoy gear permit. The bill, beginning March 31, 2017, would increase the fee for a drift gill net permit to $1,500 and would authorize the department to increase the fee to fully recover its costs in administering the drift gill net program. This bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations establishing a deep set buoy gear fishery for swordfish. The bill would require the department, upon a federal authorization to use deep set buoy gear or similar gear to take swordfish, to issue initial permits to specified persons and would authorize the department to issue additional permits 5 years after the federal authorization to use this gear, subject to specified requirements. The bill would prohibit the use of deep set buoy gear to take swordfish for commercial purposes, except under these permits issued by the department. Because a violation of this provision would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the department to set an annual fee for the permit and a fee for transferring a permit. The bill would require the department to establish measures and incentives that are needed to prevent, reduce, and eliminate the incidence of derelict deep set buoy gear left at sea to the extent that these measures are not established pursuant to federal law. (2) The California Ocean Protection Act establishes the Ocean Protection Council and requires the council, among other things, to coordinate activities of state agencies that are related to the protection and conservation of coastal waters and ocean ecosystems, and to establish policies to coordinate the collection and sharing of scientific data related to coastal and ocean resources among agencies. The act creates the California Ocean Protection Trust Fund in the State Treasury and authorizes moneys deposited in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be expended by the council for projects and activities authorized by the council consistent with the purposes of the act. This bill would authorize the council to expend funds for the innovation and adoption of sustainable commercial fishing methods for swordfish and to expend funds to develop marketing and business structures to support a high and stable price for swordfish landed under a deep set buoy gear permit. (3) 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.
(1) The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to provide that a person who is either severely disabled or over 55 years of age may transfer the base year value, as defined, of property that is eligible for the homeowners' property tax exemption to a replacement dwelling that is of equal or lesser value located within the same county as the property from which the base year value is transferred, provided the replacement dwelling is purchased or newly constructed within 2 years of the sale of the original property, subject to certain conditions. This bill would provide, commencing with the 2017–18 fiscal year, that the base year value of an original property may be transferred to a replacement dwelling that is of greater value and would require the base year value of the replacement dwelling to be calculated by adding the difference between the full cash value of the original property and the full cash value of the replacement property to the base year value of the original property. The bill would prohibit a person from transferring the base year value of the original property to a replacement dwelling pursuant to these provisions if his or her household income, as defined, exceeds the area median income of the county. (2) Existing law defines "full cash value of the replacement dwelling" for purposes of this transfer of property tax base year value to mean the replacement dwelling's full cash value, determined in accordance with a specified provision, as of the date on which the replacement dwelling was purchased or new construction was completed. This bill would provide that full cash value of the replacement dwelling may also mean, in specified circumstances, the replacement dwelling's full cash value, determined in accordance with a specified provision, as of the date on which the original property is sold. (3) By changing the manner in which local assessors assess property for property taxation purposes, 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. (4) Section 2229 of the Revenue and Taxation Code requires the Legislature to reimburse local agencies annually for certain property tax revenues lost as a result of any exemption or classification of property for purposes of ad valorem property taxation. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2229 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for property tax revenues lost by them pursuant to the bill. (5) This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy, but would become operative only if ACA 12 of the 2015–16 Regular Session is approved by the voters.
Existing law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in the Department of Industrial Relations for the enforcement of labor laws, and establishes certain obligations on an employer, including, requiring an employer to post specified wage and hour information in a location where it can be viewed by employees. Under existing law, any person who deprives or violates the personal liberty of another with the intent to obtain forced labor or services is guilty of the crime of human trafficking. This bill would require a private or public employer that provides mass transportation services, as specified, in the state to train its employees, who are likely to interact or come into contact with victims of human trafficking, in recognizing the signs of human trafficking and how to report those signs to the appropriate law enforcement agency. The bill would require the Department of justice to develop guidelines for the training, including, but not limited to, guidance on how to report human trafficking. The bill would require that, by January 1, 2018, the training be incorporated into the initial training process for all new employees and that all existing employees receive the training.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to administer various grant programs, including a program to provide incentives for liquid fuels fermented from biomass and biomass-derived resources. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms to achieve its goals. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This bill would require the commission to develop and implement the Biosolids to Clean Energy Grant Program to provide 50% matching funds to local wastewater agencies for biosolids to clean energy capital projects. Beginning with the 2016–17 fiscal year, the bill would continuously appropriate $20,000,000 annually from the fund to the commission for purposes of the program.
