Asm. Henry Perea

This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to support H.R. 167, the federal Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, in order to provide a long-term, stable source of funding for federal agencies to conduct the necessary fuels management on national forest lands, while retaining resources to suppress catastrophic wildfires.

This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to enact legislation allowing immigrants to serve in the military if they are eligible under the President's Executive Order for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or Executive Order for Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation and regional transportation agencies, as defined, to enter into comprehensive development lease agreements with public and private entities, or consortia of those entities, for certain transportation projects that may charge certain users of those projects tolls and user fees, subject to various terms and requirements. These arrangements are commonly known as public-private partnerships. Existing law provides that a lease agreement may not be entered into under these provisions on or after January 1, 2017. This bill would extend this authorization indefinitely and would include within the definition of "regional transportation agency" the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, thereby authorizing the authority to enter into public-private partnerships under these provisions. The bill would also delete obsolete cross-references and make technical changes to these provisions.

(1) The General Corporation Law, the Social Purpose Corporations Act, and the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, authorize the Secretary of State, upon payment of a fee by the applicant, to issue a certificate of reservation of any name, not otherwise prohibited. The bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the cross-reference of the requirement to pay a fee by the applicant in these laws. (2) The General Corporation Law and the Social Purpose Corporations Act limit the Secretary of State from issuing a certificate reserving any name that is likely to mislead the public or the same name for 2 or more consecutive 60-day periods to the same applicant or for the use or benefit of the same person, partnership, firm, corporation, or social purpose corporation, as applicable. This bill would specify that the Secretary of State may reserve that name to the use or benefit of a person, as provided. (3) The Social Purpose Corporations Act does not prohibit the Secretary of State from filing articles for a social purpose corporation subject to the Banking Law setting forth a name in which "bank," "trust," "trustee," or related words appear, if the articles are endorsed with the approval of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions. Existing law reorganized the Department of Financial Institutions and the Commissioner of Financial Institutions into the Department of Business Oversight headed by a Commissioner of Business Oversight. This bill would add another basis under which the Secretary of State is not prohibited from filing articles for a social purpose corporation subject to the Banking Law setting forth a name in which "bank," "trust," "trustee," or related words appear, and would change the name of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to the Commissioner of Business Oversight. (4) The General Corporation Law, the Uniform Limited Partnership Act of 2008, and the Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 authorize a business entity formed under its respective provisions to be converted into another business entity under certain conditions, including, among others, that the execution of a statement or certificate of conversion set forth a name and street address, as specified. This bill would specify that the statement or certificate of conversion set forth the name, mailing address, and street address of the converted entity's agent for service of process. (5) The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act requires a record delivered to the Secretary of State for filing under its provisions to be signed by particular individuals, as specified. The act specifically requires the person who filed a certificate of dissolution to sign a certificate of cancellation of the article of organization upon the completion of the winding up of affairs of the limited liability company, except as specified. This bill would revise the general provisions relating to the particular individual required to sign a record, and instead require the managers to sign a certificate of cancellation of the article of organization upon the completion of the winding up of affairs of the limited liability company, except as specified.

This measure would proclaim April 14, 2015, as Equal Pay Day in recognition of the need to eliminate the gender gap in earnings by women and to promote policies to ensure equal pay for all.

This measure would designate a portion of State Highway Route 44 in the City of Redding as the Richard "Dick" Dickerson Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would urge each University of California campus to adopt a resolution condemning all forms of anti-Semitism and racism, and would condemn any act of anti-Semitism at all publicly funded schools in the State of California.

This measure would state the Legislature's support for the memorandum of understanding for strategic partnerships for joint innovation, exchanges, and cooperation between California and Israel.

This measure would proclaim that the Legislature joins Taiwanese communities throughout the state in celebrating Taiwanese American Heritage Week. This measure would declare that warm relations and bilateral exchange between the people of California and Taiwan should grow. This measure would state that the Legislature supports the goals of Taiwanese American Heritage Week and recognizes the profound importance of Taiwanese Americans to California.

This measure would designate the week of June 1 through June 7, 2015, as Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Awareness Week in California.