Existing federal law provides for allocation of federal funds through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program to eligible states. Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program for the allocation of federal funds received through the TANF program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families. Existing law provides that a parent or caretaker relative shall not be eligible for CalWORKs aid when he or she has received aid for a specified number of months. Existing law excludes any month in which certain conditions exist from being counted as a month of receipt of aid for these purposes. Existing law requires certain participants in the CalWORKs program to participate in certain welfare-to-work activities, and imposes graduated financial sanctions on a CalWORKs household when an individual fails or refuses to comply with program requirements, as specified. Under existing law, after a participant has been removed from the assistance unit because he or she has reached the time limit for aid, a county is authorized to provide additional welfare-to-work services and the recipient is required to participate in community service. This bill would revise the requirements for providing aid under the CalWORKs program, by deleting the county authority in the latter provision described above to provide welfare-to-work services and the participant's community service requirement. The bill would instead require a parent or caregiver relative who has reached that time limit, as well as an unaided parent or caregiver relative, to satisfy federal work requirements in order for his or her child to continue to receive CalWORKs aid, except as specified. This bill would make these changes operative on the first day of the first month following 90 days after the effective date of the bill. By increasing county duties in administering the CalWORKs program, 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, 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.
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Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities administered by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law requires any person, political subdivision of the state, or governmental agency desiring a license for a health facility, approval for a specified special service, or approval to manage specified types of licensed health facilities, that has not filed an application for a license to operate that facility, to file with the department a verified application on forms prescribed and furnished by the department, containing specified information. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in those provisions prescribing the information required to be contained in an application for licensure.
Existing law provides that no handgun ammunition vendor, as defined, shall sell, offer for sale, or display for sale, any handgun ammunition in a manner that allows that ammunition to be accessible to a purchaser without the assistance of the vendor or employee thereof. Existing law requires, subject to exceptions, commencing February 1, 2011, that handgun ammunition vendors obtain a thumbprint and other information from ammunition purchasers, as specified. Existing law provides, subject to exceptions, that commencing February 1, 2011, the delivery or transfer of ownership of handgun ammunition may only occur in a face-to-face transaction, with the deliverer or transferor being provided bona fide evidence of identity of the purchaser or other transferee. Violations of any of the above provisions are misdemeanors, some with specified penalties. This bill would repeal these provisions and make related conforming and technical changes.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of its provisions a crime. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to a provision of the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975.
Existing law requires that a state or local initiative petition required to be signed by the voters contain a notice to the signers that the person circulating the petition may be a paid signature gatherer and that the signer has the right to inquire. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Existing law generally provides for the release of inmates from prison on parole. Existing law requires, in the case of any inmate sentenced pursuant to any provision of law other than specified provisions of law providing for determinate sentences, that a panel of 2 or more commissioners or deputy commissioners of the Board of Parole Hearings meet with an inmate one year prior to the inmate's minimum eligible parole release date to set a parole release date. Existing law requires the panel, or the board if sitting en banc, to set a release date at the meeting unless it determines that the gravity of the current convicted offense or offenses, or that the timing and gravity of current or past convicted offense or offenses, is such that consideration of the public safety requires a more lengthy period of incarceration, and that a parole date cannot be fixed at the meeting. This bill would instead require the panel or board to deny parole for this class of inmate unless the inmate proves that the gravity of the current convicted offense or offenses, or that the timing and gravity of current or past convicted offense or offenses, is such that consideration of the public safety does not require a more lengthy period of incarceration, and that a parole date can be fixed at the meeting. The bill would also make a related technical, nonsubstantive change. The bill would authorize the board to base its decision to deny parole solely upon the circumstances of the current convicted offense or offenses or the inmate's past criminal history, and would require the board to give greater weight and consideration to those factors than those of institutional behavior or psychiatric evaluations in determining whether the inmate has proven that he or she does not pose an unreasonable risk of danger to society if released from prison. The bill would provide that the facts of the commitment offense or offenses alone may support the ultimate conclusion that the inmate has not proven that he or she does not pose an unreasonable risk to public safety if released on parole. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This bill would urge the United States Patent and Trademark Office to place a satellite office in California.
Existing law, the Administrative Procedure Act, governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. Under existing law, a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation becomes effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State, except as provided. This bill would require that a regulation or an order of repeal of a regulation become effective, instead, on January 1 next following a 90-day period after the date it is filed with the Secretary of State, except as provided.
This measure would designate that January 16, 2012, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.
The Vehicle License Fee Law establishes, in lieu of any ad valorem property tax upon vehicles, an annual license fee for any vehicle subject to registration in this state in the amount of 0.65% of the market value of that vehicle, as provided. Existing law requires a portion of those revenues to be deposited into the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, as provided. This bill would state that designated vehicle license fee revenues shall not, for purposes of an ordinance of the County of Nevada that requires that any revenues derived pursuant to that vehicle license fee be expended for a specified purpose, be deemed vehicle license fee revenues. The bill would define "designated vehicle license fee revenues" to mean vehicle license revenues that are collected and deposited into the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Nevada.