Existing law requires each admitted insurer to provide information biennially to the Insurance Commissioner on all of its community development investments and community development infrastructure investments, as defined, in California. The commissioner and the Department of Insurance are required to provide certain information on these investments to the public, as specified. These provisions are to remain in effect only until January 1, 2011, and are repealed as of that date. This bill would instead require each admitted insurer to provide information, by January 1, 2014, to the commissioner on all of its community development investments and community development infrastructure investments. The bill would also require that the information the commissioner and the department are required to provide to the public on these investments be provided by May 31, 2014. This bill would extend the date for repealing those provisions to January 1, 2015, and would state that certain insurers could meet the filing requirements relating to community development investments and community development infrastructure investments through a specified filing. This bill would also require certain insurers to develop and file with the commissioner, no later than July 1, 2011, a community development investment and community development infrastructure investment policy statement that expresses the insurer's goals for these investments during the current and following calendar year. Thereafter, each insurer would be required to biennially review its policy statement and, if the insurer revises or changes its policy statement, submit the new policy statement to the commissioner no later than July 1 of each odd-numbered year. The bill would require the commissioner to establish a link on the department's Internet Web site providing public access to each insurer's community development investment and community development infrastructure investment information, as specified. This bill would delete obsolete provisions. The bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 926.2 of the Insurance Code, proposed by AB 1011 of the 2009–10 Regular Session, to be operative only if both bills are chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is chaptered last.
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(1) Existing law provides for the establishment of California American Indian education centers to serve as community-based educational resource centers for American Indian pupils, parents, guardians, and the public schools in order to promote the academic and cultural achievement of the pupils. Existing law provides that the California American Indian Education Center Program will become inoperative on January 1, 2012. This bill instead would provide that those provisions regarding the California American Indian education centers will become inoperative and be repealed on January 1, 2017, thereby extending the operation of those provisions by 5 years. (2) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with input from existing California American Indian education center directors, to appoint an American Indian Education Oversight Committee by January 30, 2007, composed of at least 7 educators, 4 of whom are required to be California American Indian education center directors. Existing law requires the committee to provide input and advice to the Superintendent on all aspects of American Indian education programs established by the state. This bill would allow the Superintendent, if he or she is unable to find a qualified individual to fill a vacancy in one of the 4 positions for center directors within 30 days of the vacancy arising, to fill the vacancy with an educator who is not a center director. (3) Existing law requires the State Department of Education, on or before January 1, 2011, to conduct an evaluation of the centers to determine whether to renew the application of each existing center or instead to approve an application to establish a new center. Existing law also requires the department, on or before January 1, 2011, to report consolidated results for all centers and supply information that is required for a comprehensive evaluation of those results, and make recommendations for program improvement. This bill, in addition, would require the department to perform those duties a 2nd time on or before January 1, 2016.
Existing law, until January 1, 2014, allows certain state and local transportation entities, if authorized by the California Transportation Commission, to use a design‑build process for contracting on transportation projects, as specified. This bill would authorize the Riverside County Transportation Commission, if authorized by the commission, to utilize this design-build procurement process for the State Route 91 Corridor Improvements Project on the state highway system. The bill would make the Department of Transportation responsible for the performance of construction inspection services for the project, as specified, and would require the commission to report on the progress of the project and related matters to specified legislative committees. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law provides for the formation of the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan for automobile bodily injury and property damage liability insurance. The Insurance Commissioner, after a public hearing, is required to approve or issue a reasonable plan for the equitable apportionment, among insurers admitted to transact liability insurance, of those applicants for automobile bodily injury and property damage liability insurance who are, in good faith, entitled to but are unable to procure that insurance through ordinary methods. Notice of the public hearing is required to be published at least 60 days prior to the hearing or close of the public comment period on the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation, in 2 newspapers of general circulation, one published in the City and County of San Francisco, and the other published in the City of Los Angeles. This bill would delete the notice requirement, and require that the hearings be conducted in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. Existing law requires the assigned risk plan to provide for effective dates of coverage, consistent with the required elements, including execution of the application forms and an electronic effective date procedure established by the plan. The insurance application form is also required to include a disclosure regarding the effective date of coverage. This bill would modify the notice and the effective dates of coverage requirements, as provided. (2) Existing law establishes, within the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan, a low-cost automobile insurance program. Existing law establishes the low-cost automobile insurance program in several specified counties and makes the expansion to all other counties in California subject to a determination of need made by the commissioner following a public meeting, as specified. Existing law provides for the issuance of automobile liability policies pursuant to this program under specified terms and conditions, and provides that a policy so issued satisfies specified requirements regarding financial responsibility. Existing law provides that the low-cost automobile insurance program shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2011. This bill would provide that the low-cost automobile insurance program would remain in effect until January 1, 2016. Existing law requires the commissioner, on or before March 1 of each year, to prepare and propose a plan to the Senate Committee on Banking, Finance, and Insurance and the Assembly Committee on Insurance setting forth the methods the commissioner intends to implement to inform households eligible for the program about the availability of low-cost automobile insurance. The plan is required to contain specified information, including the most recent annual report to the Legislature on the status of the low-cost automobile insurance program from the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan. This bill would delete the most recent annual report to the Legislature on the status of the low-cost automobile insurance program from the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan from the information required to be contained in the plan. (3) Existing law, on and after January 1, 2011, makes certain automobile insurance proof of financial responsibility requirements no longer applicable to people in the County of Los Angeles and the City and County of San Francisco. This bill would extend the repeal date to January 1, 2016. (4) This bill would make conforming changes and delete obsolete provisions.
Existing law provides that the California Horse Racing Board may authorize a California harness racing association conducting a live racing meeting to accept wagers on the full card of races conducted by another racing association on the day that other association conducts the Breeder's Crown Stakes, the Meadowlands Pace, the Hambletonian, the Kentucky Futurity, or the North American Cup. This bill would authorize the board to permit a California harness racing association conducting a live racing meeting to accept wagers on the full card of races conducted by another racing association on the day that other association conducts the Cane Pace. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes.
(1) Existing law establishes in the State Department of Education the California Education Information System, consisting of the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System and the California Longitudinal Teacher Integrated Data Education System. The function of the California Education Information System is to establish, conduct, and, by continuous concern, keep up to date, a basic, integrated, statewide information system for education. This bill would add to the provisions relating to the California Education Information System an expression of the intent of the Legislature that, as the California Education Information System is implemented over time, access to public information already available on various measures of the quality of teacher preparation programs be available in electronic format and be accessible to the extent practicable through downloadable pages and reports accessible to the public in a consolidated manner. This bill would also require all teacher preparation programs to provide information to prospective candidates regarding the license examination passage rates of completers of its program for the most recent available year, if that data is available electronically through the Internet Web site of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. (2) Existing law, the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program, establishes the Cal Grant A and B entitlement awards, the California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards, the Cal Grant C awards, and the Cal Grant T awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions. For purposes of the Cal Grant Program, existing law defines "qualifying institution" as a California private or independent postsecondary educational institution that participates in specified federal student aid programs, a nonprofit institution that is headquartered and operating in California that meets specified criteria, or a California public postsecondary educational institution. This bill would redefine "qualifying institution" for purposes of the Cal Grant Program to mean an institution that is within any of those 3 categories and that complies with a requirement to provide information on where to access California license examination passage rates for graduates of specified undergraduate programs if that data is electronically available through the Internet Web site of a California licensing or regulatory agency.
(1) Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt a state master plan for services to migrant children, as defined, that includes the provision of specified services and activities. Under existing law, a child may be deemed a "migrant child" for a period not to exceed 5 years during which the child resides in an area where programs are provided for migrant children. Existing law requires priority to be given to programs and activities for migrant children and prohibits migrant programs from being provided solely for children who have ceased to migrate. This bill would reduce the number of years a child may be deemed a migrant child from 5 years to 3 years. The bill would delete the provisions above regarding priority and the prohibition against programs solely for children who have ceased to migrate, and would instead specify that priority for services shall be consistent with federal law. (2) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish the service regional system as the primary method for the delivery of services to migrant children and requires that regions be contiguous, with no less than 1,500, and no more than 8,000, migratory children. The bill would delete the cap on the number of migratory children that may be served in a region. (3) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to sponsor an annual State Parent Advisory Council Conference, and requires the council to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature, the State Board of Education, and the Governor regarding the status of the migrant education program. Existing law also requires the Superintendent and each operating agency to establish and implement training programs for members of the statewide and operating agency parent advisory councils to enable them to carry out their responsibilities. The bill would require the report to include an evaluation of the program, a review of annual needs, a year-end assessment, policy recommendations, and the data collected regarding the program. The bill would require the council to submit the report within 120 days from the conclusion of a training program on preparing the report provided by the Superintendent. (4) The bill also would make clarifying and nonsubstantive changes.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides for specified labeling requirements for containers of alcoholic beverages sold within this state. This bill would require any wine bottled on or after January 1, 2014, labeled with an American Viticultural Area established pursuant to federal law that is located entirely within a county of the 19th class, to bear the designation "Sonoma County" on the label in specified type size as determined by the size of the wine container, as prescribed. The bill would authorize the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to suspend or revoke the license of any person who violates those provisions. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that a violation of its provisions is a misdemeanor, unless otherwise specified. This bill, by creating a new crime, imposes 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 for the regulation of various professions and vocations, including those of an athlete agent. This bill would make it unlawful for any person to hold himself or herself out as a certified athletic trainer unless he or she has been certified by the Board of Certification, Inc., and has either graduated from a college or university, after completing an accredited athletic training education program, as specified, or completed requirements for certification by the Board of Certification, Inc., prior to January 1, 2004. The bill would make it an unfair business practice to violate these provisions.
Existing law states that it is the policy of the state that the workweek of the state employee shall be 40 hours, and the workday of state employees 8 hours, except that workweeks and workdays of a different number of hours may be established in order to meet the varying needs of the different state agencies. Executive Order Nos. S-16-08 and S-13-09 imposed 3 unpaid furlough days on state employees. This bill would prohibit a state employee from being furloughed when the unemployment rate in California during the previous month reached or exceeded 8.5%, and the employee's position is at least 95% funded by the federal government, performs services that combat the state's recession, and works for the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board or the Employment Development Department. The bill would also make related findings and declarations.