This resolution would respectfully request that the International Maritime Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, adopt the North American Emission Control Area, as proposed by the United States, Canada, and France at the 60th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee, scheduled for March 2010.
This measure would encourage state government to make the retention of private sector employment and the creation of new employment opportunities its highest priority, and it would declare the Legislature's leading role in restoring the business climate in the state to encourage economic growth.
This bill would urge the President of the United States and the Congress to employ necessary measures to ensure that no terrorist or suspected terrorist detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is permitted to enter California in custody or otherwise.
The Enterprise Zone Act provides for the designation of enterprise zones by the Department of Community Housing and Development, based on the department's approval of applications from a city, county, or city and county with a geographic area meeting certain criteria. Existing law provides that specified entities within a designated enterprise zone may receive regulatory, tax, and other incentives for private investment and employment. Existing law prohibits the existence of more than 42 enterprise zones at any one time. This bill would make nonsubstantive, technical changes in these provisions.
This measure would recognize February 2010 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.
Existing law prescribes procedures for the issuance of registered warrants and provides that a registered warrant is acceptable and may be used as security for the performance of any public or private trust or obligation. This bill would, if the Controller makes a specified determination, require a state agency to accept, from a person or entity, a registered warrant issued by the Controller and endorsed by that payee, at full face value, for the payment of any obligations owed by that payee to that state agency. The bill would specify that its requirements do not apply to certain obligations and would require the Controller, on or before the September 1 following the conclusion of a fiscal year in which a state agency is required to accept registered warrants pursuant to these provisions, to submit a report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. The bill would make its provisions inoperative on July 1, 2012, and would repeal them on January 1, 2013. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA allows a lead agency to use a tiered environmental impact report when a prior environmental impact report has been prepared and certified for a program, plan, policy, or ordinance and a later project meets certain requirements. Existing law provides that the report on the later project is not required to examine those effects that the lead agency determines were, among other things, examined at a sufficient level of detail in the prior environmental impact report. This bill, until January 1, 2016, would provide that if a lead agency determines that a cumulative effect has been adequately addressed in a prior environmental impact report, in accordance with a specified procedure, that cumulative effect is not required to be examined in a later environmental impact report, mitigated negative declaration, or negative declaration. (2) CEQA imposes requirements for an attempted settlement upon a public agency that has been served a petition or complaint for noncompliance with CEQA. CEQA provides that the settlement meeting is intended to be conducted concurrently with any judicial proceedings. Existing law also provides that an action brought in a superior court relating to certain subjects, including an act or decision of a public agency made pursuant to CEQA, may be subject to a mediation proceeding. Existing law specifies procedures for bringing an action under CEQA for noncompliance with that act. An organization formed after the approval of a project is allowed to maintain an action for noncompliance if a member of that organization has presented the alleged grounds for noncompliance to the public agency in a specified manner. This bill, until January 1, 2016, would provide that a mediation proceeding also is intended to be conducted concurrently with any judicial proceedings. This bill, until January 1, 2016, would authorize a person wishing to bring an action or proceeding pursuant to CEQA to file with the lead agency and the real party in interest a notice requesting mediation within 5 business days from the date of the filing of a notice of determination occurring on or after July 1, 2011. The bill would provide that the notice for mediation is deemed to be denied if the lead agency fails to respond within 5 business days of receiving the request for mediation. The bill would authorize a court to impose a penalty on a party making a frivolous claim in the course of an action brought under CEQA on or before December 31, 2015. This bill, until January 1, 2016, additionally would require a member of that organization to have objected to the approval of the project orally or in writing. This bill, until January 1, 2016, also would authorize the Attorney General to file a motion with the court seeking an expedited schedule for resolution of an action or proceeding alleging noncompliance. This bill would make conforming changes. (3) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 21094 of the Public Resources Code proposed by this bill and AB 231, to be operative only if this bill and AB 231 are both enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is enacted last. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, an initiative measure, creates in the State Treasury the state's DNA Identification Fund, and makes its revenue, upon appropriation by the Legislature, available to the Attorney General solely to support DNA testing and to offset the impacts of increased testing. That act also provides for an increase in criminal penalties allocated to state and local government to fund the expansion of DNA collection as required by the act. Existing law allocates 70% of the funds, attributable to that increase in fees, to the state within the first 2 years following the approval of the act; 50% of the funds, attributable to the increase in the fees, to the state in the 3rd year; and thereafter, 25% of the funds, attributable to the increase in the fees, to the state, with the remaining funds allocated to local governments. Existing law provides that any funds remaining in a county's share of the increase in fees may be used for specified purposes, including expenditures made in connection with the processing, analysis, tracking, and storage of DNA crime scene samples from cases in which DNA evidence would be useful in identifying or prosecuting suspects, which includes the procurement of equipment and software for the processing, analysis, tracking, and storage of DNA crime scene samples. This bill would specifically provide that a county's remaining share of funds attributable to the increase in fees as required by the act may, if authorized by a resolution of the board of supervisors, be used by a local sheriff, police, district attorney, or regional state crime laboratory for expenditures and administrative costs made or incurred for utilizing an authorized laboratory for the processing and analysis of forensic identification samples and testimony related to that analysis in order to expedite the analysis of crime scene samples in order to expedite and proceed with a pending criminal action or investigation within that county. The DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act specifies that its provisions may be amended by the Legislature if the amendment furthers the act and is consistent with the purpose of the act to enhance the use of DNA identification evidence for the purpose of accurate and expeditious crime solving and for exonerating the innocent. This bill also contains the Legislature's finding that this bill furthers, and is consistent with, the purpose of the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act to enhance the use of DNA identification evidence for the purpose of accurate and expeditious crime solving and for exonerating the innocent by accelerating the testing of DNA samples that cannot be handled in an expeditious manner without the use of an outside laboratory.
(1) Existing law subjects violators of air pollution laws to specified civil and administrative penalties. Existing law imposes various duties on the State Air Resources Board relative to the reduction of air pollution. This bill would require a written communication from the state board alleging that an administrative or civil penalty will be, or could be, imposed either by the state board or another party, including the Attorney General, for a violation of air pollution law, to contain specified information. The bill would require this information and final mutual settlement agreements reached between the state board and a person alleged to have violated air pollution laws to be made available to the public. The bill would require the state board to prepare and submit to the Legislature and the Governor a report summarizing the motor vehicle pollution administrative penalties imposed by the state board for calendar year 2011, and annually thereafter, and would require the state board to publish a penalty policy for motor vehicle pollution laws that is based on specified criteria. (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires Placer County, upon approval of the county, and with the assistance of the appropriate state departments, to implement a pilot program for the funding and delivery of services and benefits through an integrated and comprehensive county health and human services system. Under existing law, these provisions become inoperative on July 1, 2011, and are repealed on January 1, 2012. This bill would extend by 5 years the dates upon which the provisions relating to the Placer County health and human services pilot program would become inoperative and would be repealed.
