Rep. Danny D Gilmore

The California Constitution prohibits a bill from being passed by the Legislature until the bill with amendments has been printed and distributed to the Members. This measure would prohibit passage of a bill by a house of the Legislature unless, at least 48 hours in advance, the bill is made available to the public on the Internet, except that the house may dispense with this requirement by rollcall vote, 34 of the membership concurring.

Existing law establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs within state government and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, administration of veterans benefits programs. This bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to consult with other state agencies and departments, as specified, for the purpose of coordinating and administering veterans assistance programs in the state. Existing law contains various programs for job training and employment investment, including work incentive and employment training outreach programs. This bill would require the Employment Development Department to submit a report, on or before March 1, 2011, to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature, regarding the department's veteran employment and job training programs and suggested options for a governance and management model to increase program integration and coordination, improve service delivery efficiency, and enhance program performance. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to adopt a policy on parent involvement and to establish a parent involvement program for each school in the district that receives specified federal funds. The program is required to contain, among other things, regular periodic programs throughout the school year that provide for training, instruction, and information for parents on ways to support and enhance the learning of their children. Existing law authorizes a school district, to the extent permitted by federal law, to contract with nonprofit organizations and agencies experienced in administering parent involvement programs to design or implement, or both, the parent involvement program of a school. This bill would encourage school districts to review and, if appropriate, contract with nonprofit community-based organizations that have a proven track record and can demonstrate their success in educating parents and building direct collaboration with school districts, administrators, and educators. A nonprofit community-based organization that contracts with a school district would be required to demonstrate and provide a culturally and linguistically competent parent involvement program using best practices that address the diversity of the school district. A low-performing school district would be encouraged to submit an annual report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction that demonstrates its efforts to promote parent engagement and the outcomes that result from contracting with the nonprofit community-based organization.

Existing law, subject to exceptions, provides that any person who reasonably believes that he or she has observed the commission of a murder, rape, or lewd and lascivious act committed by use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, where the victim of any of these crimes is under 14 years of age, shall notify a peace officer. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,500 or incarceration not exceeding 6 months in a county jail, or both the fine and incarceration. This bill would expand those provisions to apply when the victim of the offense observed is under 18 years of age, and would specify that this obligation to report crimes to a peace officer applies to sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration, as specified, where those crimes are accomplished by use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, and rape in concert. The bill would provide additional exceptions to the reporting requirement for domestic partners, for children under 12 years of age, and for victims of the offenses that are subject to reporting. The bill would provide that a violation of these reporting obligations may also be punished as an infraction by a fine of $250. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

This measure would request that the President and the Congress of the United States pass the H.R. 2474 that would restore funding for California veterans pursuing higher education.

This measure would encourage the President, the Congress, and the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to acknowledge the importance of the dairy industry nationwide as well as the unique aspects of the dairy industry region by region by enacting legislation or regulations that update the federal dairy product price support program to reflect today's cost of production, implement fair tariffs on unregulated imported dairy solids, mandate greater market transparency, and support a milk supply management program.

The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law define gross income as all income from whatever source derived, unless specifically excluded. This bill would, under both laws, exclude from the computation of gross income any voucher issued or specified payment made pursuant to the federal Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009 received as a result of a purchase of a vehicle described in that act. This bill would make a legislative finding and declaration that it serves a public purpose, as specified. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.

This measure would designate that January 18, 2010, 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.

Existing law requires the juvenile court, after finding that a child is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court on the basis of abuse or neglect, to hear evidence on the question of the proper disposition to be made of the child. Before determining the appropriate disposition to be made of the child, the court is required to receive into evidence the social study of the child made by the social worker. Existing law also authorizes the juvenile court, in addition to or in lieu of adjudicating the child a dependent child of the court, to appoint a legal guardian of, or order a legal guardianship for, the child, as specified. Existing law requires the court to read and consider a specified assessment before appointing a legal guardian. Existing law additionally establishes a statewide multipurpose child welfare training program, as specified. This bill would revise the social study and the assessment described above to include information regarding whether the county welfare department has attempted to locate relative and nonrelative, as defined, extended family members of the child and establish permanent familial connections between the child and those persons. The bill would also revise the statewide child welfare training program to include training in making efforts to locate extended family members of dependent children and establish permanent familial connections for those children. By increasing the duties of social workers, 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.

(1) The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity to specified provisions of the federal Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, allows an exclusion from a taxpayer's income for the discharge of qualified principal residence indebtedness, as defined, if that debt is discharged after January 1, 2007, and before January 1, 2009, as provided. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 extended the operation of those federal provisions to debt that is discharged before January 1, 2013. This bill would provide further conformity to those federal acts, including allowance of the exclusion for debt that is discharged before 2013, as provided. (2) This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.