Existing law creates the Monterey-Salinas Transit District to include all of the County of Monterey, with specified powers and duties relative to provision of public transit service. Existing law authorizes the district to issue bonds under the Revenue Bond Law of 1941, payable from revenues of any facility or enterprise to be acquired or constructed by the district. Under that law, issuance of revenue bonds generally requires voter approval, unless an exemption is provided. This bill would revise these provisions. The bill would exempt the district from the requirement to seek voter approval prior to issuing revenue bonds, and would instead authorize those bonds to be issued by a 23 vote of the district's board. The bill would authorize the district to pledge revenues or other moneys available to the district from any source, including a transactions and use tax, to payment of those bonds. The bill would impose a maximum amount of $50,000,000 on revenue bonds that may be issued by the district. The bill would limit use of revenue bonds to a project or projects not located on or adjacent to the former Fort Ord, except as specified, and would require the duration of bonds issued for acquisition of equipment, defined to include vehicles, to not exceed the useful life of the equipment. The bill would make other related changes.
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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.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 68, in the County of Monterey, as the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost for appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
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.
The Subdivision Map Act requires a subdivider, at the time of filing a tentative or parcel map for a subdivision to be created from the conversion of a rental mobilehome park to resident ownership, to avoid the economic displacement of all nonpurchasing residents by following specified requirements relating to the conversion. In this regard, existing law requires that the subdivider obtain a survey of support of residents of the mobilehome park for the proposed conversion, that the results of the survey be submitted to the local agency for consideration, as specified, and that the subdivider be subject to a hearing by a legislative body or advisory agency that is authorized to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map. This bill would specify that the results of the survey are to be considered by the local agency in making its decision to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the map. The bill would authorize the local agency to disapprove the map if it finds that the results of the survey have not demonstrated the support of at least a majority of the park's homeowners. The bill would authorize local legislative bodies to, by ordinance or resolution, implement the survey requirements.
Existing law requires that, on and after January 1, 2008, the minimum wage for all industries be not less than $8.00 per hour. This bill would increase the minimum wage, on and after July 1, 2014, to not less than $9 per hour. The bill would further increase the minimum wage, on and after January 1, 2016, to not less than $10 per hour.
(1) Under existing law, the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources in the Department of Conservation, or the division, regulates the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state. The State Oil and Gas Supervisor, or supervisor, supervises the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of wells and the operation, maintenance, and removal or abandonment of tanks and facilities related to oil and gas production within an oil and gas field regarding safety and environmental damage. Existing law requires an operator of a well, before commencing the work of drilling the well, to obtain approval from the supervisor or district deputy. Existing law requires the owner or operator of a well to keep, or cause to be kept, a careful and accurate log, core record, and history of the drilling of the well. Within 60 days after the date of cessation of drilling, rework, or abandonment operations, the owner or operator is required to file with the district deputy certain information, including the history of work performed. Under existing law, a person who violates any prohibition specific to the regulation of oil or gas operations is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would define, among other things, the terms well stimulation treatment, hydraulic fracturing, and hydraulic fracturing fluid. The bill would require the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, on or before January 1, 2015, to cause to be conducted, and completed, an independent scientific study on well stimulation treatments, including acid well stimulation and hydraulic fracturing treatments. The bill would require an owner or operator of a well to record and include all data on acid treatments and well stimulation treatments, as specified. The bill would require the division, in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the State Air Resources Board, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, and any local air districts and regional water quality control boards in areas where well stimulation treatments may occur, on or before January 1, 2015, to adopt rules and regulations specific to well stimulation, including governing the construction of wells and well casings and full disclosure of the composition and disposition of well stimulation fluids, and would authorize the division to allow well stimulation treatments if specific conditions are met. The bill would require an operator to apply for a permit, as specified, with the supervisor or district deputy, prior to performing a well stimulation treatment of a well and would prohibit the operator from either conducting a new well stimulation treatment or repeating a well stimulation treatment without a valid, approved permit. The bill would prohibit the approval of a permit application that is incomplete. The bill would require the division, within 5 business days of issuing a permit to commence a well stimulation treatment, to provide a copy to specific boards and entities and to post the permit on a publicly accessible portion of its Internet Web site. The bill would provide that the well stimulation treatment permit expires one year from the date that a permit is issued. The bill would require the division to perform random periodic spot check inspections during well stimulation treatments, as specified. The bill would require the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to notify various legislative committees on the progress of the independent scientific study on well stimulation and related activities, as specified, until the study is completed and peer reviewed by independent scientific experts. The bill would require the operator to provide a copy of the approved well stimulation treatment permit to specified tenants and property owners at least 30 days prior to commencing a well stimulation treatment. The bill would require the operator to provide notice to the division at least 72 hours prior to the actual start of a well stimulation treatment in order for the division to witness the treatment. The bill would require the supplier, as defined, of the well stimulation treatment to provide to the operator, within 30 days following the conclusion of the treatment, certain information regarding the well stimulation fluid. The bill would require the operator, within 60 days of the cessation of a well stimulation treatment, to post or cause to have posted on an Internet Web site accessible to the public specified information on the well stimulation fluid, as specified. The bill would require the division to commence a process to develop an Internet Web site for operators to report specific information related to well stimulation treatments and would require the Internet Web site to be operational no later than January 1, 2016. The bill would authorize the division to direct reporting to an alternative Internet Web site, as prescribed, and would require the division to obtain the data reported to the alternative Internet Web site and make it available to the public, as specified. The bill would provide that where the division shares jurisdiction over a well with a federal entity, the division's rules and regulations apply in addition to all applicable federal law and regulations. The bill would require a supplier claiming trade secret protection for the chemical composition of additives used in a well stimulation treatment to disclose the composition to the division, in conjunction with a well stimulation treatment permit application, as specified, but would, with certain exceptions, prohibit those with access to the trade secret from disclosing it. Because this bill would create a new crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Under existing law, a person who violates certain statutes or regulations relating to oil and gas well operations is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $25,000 for each violation. This bill would make persons who violate specified provisions relating to well stimulation treatments subject to a civil penalty of not less than $10,000 and not to exceed $25,000 per day per violation. (3) Existing law imposes an annual charge upon each person operating or owning an interest in an oil or gas well in respect to the production of the well which charge is payable to the Treasurer for deposit into the Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Administrative Fund. Existing law further requires that specific moneys from charges levied, assessed, and collected upon the properties of every person operating or owning an interest in the production of a well to be used exclusively, upon appropriation, for the support and maintenance of the department charged with the supervision of oil and gas operations. This bill would allow the moneys described above to be used for all costs associated with (A) well stimulation treatments, including scientific studies required to evaluate the treatment, inspections, and any air and water quality sampling, monitoring, and testing performed by public entities, and (B) the costs of the State Water Resources Control Board and the regional water quality control boards in carrying out specific responsibilities relating to well stimulation and groundwater monitoring, as specified. This bill would require the supervisor, on or before January 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, to transmit to the Legislature and make available publicly a comprehensive report on well stimulation in the exploration and production of oil and gas resources in the state. (4) Existing law, the Groundwater Quality Monitoring Act of 2001, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to integrate existing monitoring programs and design new program elements, as necessary, to establish a comprehensive monitoring program capable of assessing each groundwater basin in the state through direct and other statistically reliable sampling approaches. This bill would require the state board, on or before July 1, 2015, to develop a groundwater monitoring model criteria, as specified, to be implemented either on a well-by-well basis or on a regional scale, on how to conduct appropriate monitoring on individual oil and gas wells subject to a well stimulation treatment in order to protect all waters designated for beneficial uses and prioritize the monitoring of groundwater that is or has the potential to be a source of drinking water. (5) 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 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.
This measure would memorialize the President and Congress of the United States to support immigration reform efforts that do not hurt families by eliminating or negatively impacting the F3 and F4 visa categories, or that end the discrimination against same-sex couples. The measure would memorialize the President and Congress to take a comprehensive, bipartisan, and well-reasoned approach to immigration issues that maintains the fair and appropriate priority for family reunification, including same-sex partners.