Asm. Richard Gordon

This measure would designate October 2013 as Internet Crimes Against Children Awareness Month and state that the Legislature supports increased funding for the Internet Crimes Against Children task forces, online communications systems, or computer technology to help detect the sexual exploitation of children, updating reporting laws, and strengthening disclosure laws.

This measure would recognize the month of October 2013 as Filipino American History Month and the 426th anniversary of the first presence of Filipinos in the continental United States.

This measure would proclaim May 1 through May 7, 2013, as Cinco de Mayo Week, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo.

This measure would urge Congress and the President to provide benefits, including applicable spousal benefits, to those veterans discriminated against solely on the basis of their sexual orientation.

Under existing law, the State Athletic Commission Act, the State Athletic Commission has jurisdiction over all professional and amateur boxing, professional and amateur kickboxing, and all forms and combinations of forms of full contact martial arts contests and is required to appoint an executive officer. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2014. A violation of the act is a crime. This bill would extend the repeal date to January 1, 2016. Existing law requires the commission, at its regularly scheduled meetings, to invite testimony from boxing stakeholders to identify actions that may lead to greater opportunities for its licensees to participate in major professional championship boxing contests in the state. Existing law requires the commission to annually make recommendations, based on that testimony, to the Governor and the Legislature. This bill would delete that recommendation requirement. Existing law authorizes the commission to license professional and amateur boxers, professional and amateur martial arts fighters, and booking agents, managers of professional boxers and professional martial arts fighters, trainers, chief seconds, and seconds of each. Under existing law, only a natural person may be licensed as a boxer and martial arts fighter. This bill would eliminate that natural person limitation on who may be licensed as a boxer and martial arts fighter. Under existing law, the commission may authorize a nonprofit boxing, wrestling, or martial arts club or organization, upon approval of its bylaws, to administer the commission's rules for amateur boxing, wrestling, and full contact martial arts contests subject to a specified finding by the commission. This bill would additionally authorize a sanctioning body to administer its rules. The bill would authorize the commission to rescind an authorization to a nonprofit boxing, wrestling, or martial arts club, organization, or sanctioning body to administer its rules. Existing law prohibits a professional boxer from sparring for training purposes with any person not licensed as a professional boxer or who does not have a sparring permit. Existing law prohibits a person from conducting or operating a professional boxers' training gymnasium unless he or she has been issued a license by the commission. Under existing law, the failure of a licensed training gymnasium owner or operator, fighter, boxer, trainer, second, or manager to report to the commission an injury or knockout of a licensed boxer or fighter or the holder of a sparring permit is grounds for the suspension of his or her license. This bill would repeal those provisions. The bill would prohibit a person from training a professional boxer or kickboxer or martial arts athlete unless he or she has been licensed by the commission. The bill would make the application and renewal fee for a licensed professional trainer $200. The bill would define a "professional trainer" as someone who is responsible for the day-to-day training of those aforementioned athletes and possesses a minimum of 5 years experience in combative sports. The bill would authorize only licensed professional trainers to make a recommendation to the commission on whether a contestant is prepared for his or her first amateur mixed martial arts bout or to turn professional in boxing, kickboxing, or mixed martial arts. The bill would require a professional trainer to be present in the corner of the contestant unless otherwise authorized by the commission or the executive officer. The bill would make the failure of a licensed professional trainer, fighter, boxer, second, or manager to report to the commission and a database designated by the commission an injury or knockout grounds for the suspension or revocation of his or her license. Under existing law, the commission requires, as a condition of licensure and as a part of the application process and for renewal of a license, the examination by a licensed physician and surgeon who specializes in neurology and neurosurgery of each applicant for a license as a professional athlete or contestant, in addition to any other medical examinations. Existing law requires the cost of the examinations to be paid from assessments on any one or more of the following: promoters of professional matches, managers, and professional athletes or other contestants licensed under the act. Existing law requires these assessments to be deposited in the State Athletic Commission Neurological Examination Account. This bill would specify that the administrative costs associated with managing and distributing the State Athletic Commission Neurological Examination Account shall be limited to no more than 20% of the prior year's contributions. The bill would authorize the commission to use no more than 30% of moneys from the State Athletic Commission Neurological Examination Account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to fund special neurological examinations and new diagnostic imaging and testing to be used in relation to those required examinations. Existing law requires the commission to license referees. Existing law requires a referee to be in attendance at every boxing contest and to enforce the rules of the commission at every boxing contest. Existing law requires a licensed physician and surgeon to observe the physical condition of the contestant during the contest. Existing law prohibits a referee or physician and surgeon from being assigned to a boxing contest if he or she has not participated in a clinic sponsored by the commission in the preceding 6 months. Existing law authorizes the commission to pay any necessary and permitted travel expenses of referees and physicians and surgeons who attend such clinics. This bill would instead prohibit a referee or physician and surgeon from being assigned to a boxing contest if he or she has not completed, within the preceding 6 months, a clinic offered by a provider approved by the commission, as specified. The bill would authorize a clinic provider to charge a referee or physician and surgeon participating in a clinic a reasonable fee. Existing federal law requires a state boxing commission to issue to each professional boxer who registers with it an identification card containing specified information and requires each professional boxer to renew his or her identification card at least once every 4 years. This bill would require the commission to charge a $20 fee to issue federal identification cards and would require those cards to be reissued once every 4 years. Existing law requires every person who conducts a contest or wrestling exhibition, within 5 working days after the determination of every contest or wrestling exhibition for which admission is charged and received, to furnish to the commission, among other things, a fee of 5% of the amount paid for admission to the contest or wrestling exhibition, but prohibits the fee from exceeding $100,000, and a fee of up to 5%, as specified, for the sale, lease, or other exploitation of broadcasting or television rights, except that this fee is prohibited from being less than $1,000 or more than $25,000. Existing law requires the commission to report to a specified legislative committee on the fiscal impact of that $100,000 limitation. If the fee for a boxing contest exceeds $70,000, existing law requires that 12 of the amount in excess of $70,000 be paid to the commission and 12 to the Boxers' Pension Fund. Existing law revises this requirement if a specified report recommends expansion of the application of the Boxers' Pension Fund. Existing law prohibits the minimum fee for an amateur contest or exhibition from being less than $500. This bill would instead require those fees to be furnished within 72 hours. The bill would require the commission to report to the Legislature on the fiscal impact of that $100,000 limitation during its next sunset review. The bill would increase the limit on the 5% fee for the sale, lease, or other exploitation of broadcasting or television rights to $35,000. The bill would delete the provisions that require revision of the distribution of fees in excess of $70,000 based on a specified report. The bill would prohibit the minimum fee for an amateur contest or exhibition from being less than $1,000. The bill would prohibit the minimum fee for a professional contest or exhibition from being less than $1,250. Existing law requires the administrative costs associated with investing, managing, and distributing the Boxers' Pension Fund to be limited to no more than 20% of the average annual contribution made to the fund in the previous 2 years, not including any investment income derived from the corpus of the fund. Existing law requires the commission to report to a specified legislative committee on the impact of these provisions during the next regularly scheduled sunset review. This bill would limit those administrative costs to no more than 2% of the corpus of the fund and would require that report to be submitted to the Legislature. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 18646 of the Business and Professions Code made by this bill and AB 1186 to take effect if both bills are chaptered and this bill is chaptered last. Because a violation of the bill's requirements would be a crime, the 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.

There is in state government, pursuant to the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 2, operative July 1, 2013, the Office of Emergency Services. Existing law requires the office to develop and distribute an educational pamphlet for use by kindergarten, any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and community college personnel to identify and mitigate the risks posed by nonstructural earthquake hazards. This bill would require the office, in collaboration with various entities, including the United States Geological Survey, to develop a comprehensive statewide earthquake early warning system in California through a public-private partnership and would require the system to include certain features, including the installation of field sensors. The bill would require the office to develop an approval mechanism, as provided, to review compliance with earthquake early warning standards as they are developed. The bill would require the office to identify funding sources for the system. The bill would prohibit the office from identifying the General Fund as a funding source to establish the system, beyond those components or programs that are currently funded. The bill would make these provisions contingent upon the office identifying funding sources for the system, as provided. If no funding sources are identified by January 1, 2016, the bill would repeal these provisions.

(1) Existing law authorizes a certified interior designer, as defined, to obtain a stamp from an interior design organization, as defined, that uniquely identifies the designer and certifies that he or she meets certain qualifications and requires the use of that stamp on all drawings and documents submitted to any governmental agency by the designer. Existing law provides that these provisions are repealed on January 1, 2014, and shall be subject to review by the Joint Sunset Review Committee. This bill would instead repeal those provisions on January 1, 2018, and would make them subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature. The bill would require a certified interior designer to use a written contract that includes specified information when contracting to provide interior design services to a client pursuant to these provisions and require that nothing in these provisions prohibit interior design or interior decorator services by any person or retail activity. The bill would require all meetings of an interior design organization to be subject to the open meeting requirements applicable to state agencies. (2) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various businesses and professions by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs, including the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind. Existing law requires that the board consist of certain members. Existing law establishes a pilot project to provide an arbitration procedure for the purpose of resolving disputes between a guide dog user and a licensed guide dog school, as specified. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2014. This bill would extend the operation of these provisions until January 1, 2018. (3) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of barbering and cosmetology by the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology and authorizes the board to appoint an executive officer. Under existing law, these provisions are repealed on January 1, 2014. This bill would instead repeal these provisions on January 1, 2016, and specify that the board would be subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature upon repeal. Existing law provides that a board-approved school of barbering and cosmetology is one that is licensed by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education or a public school in the state, and offers a course of instruction approved by the board. This bill would require a school to be approved by the board before it is approved by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education and authorize both entities to simultaneously process a school's application for approval. The bill would also authorize the board to revoke, suspend, or deny its approval of a school on specified grounds.

This bill would recognize October of each year as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Existing law creates the Santa Clara County Valley Transportation Authority with various powers and duties relative to transportation projects and services in the County of Santa Clara. Existing law creates the San Mateo County Transit District with various powers and duties relative to transportation projects and services in the County of San Mateo. Existing law authorizes the authority and the district to enter into contracts, as specified. This bill would authorize the authority and the district to utilize the Construction Manager/General Contractor project delivery contract method for transit projects within their respective jurisdictions, subject to certain conditions and requirements. The bill would require the authority or district to reimburse the Department of Industrial Relations for certain costs of performing wage monitoring and enforcement on projects using this contracting method, and would require those funds to be used by the department for enforcement of prevailing wage requirements on those projects.

This measure would honor the University of California, Davis' great achievement in earning the number one ranking in the world for teaching and research in the areas of agriculture and forestry.