Existing law requires that a defendant who is in custody and is arraigned on a complaint alleging an offense that is a misdemeanor be entitled to an own recognizance release, unless the court finds that an own recognizance release will compromise public safety or will not reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant, as specified. This bill would specify that public safety for these purposes includes protection from physical or economic injury.
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This measure would proclaim March 23, 2024, as California Women in STEM Day.
This measure would proclaim the week of March 17, 2024, to March 23, 2024, inclusive as California Down Syndrome Awareness Week and March 21, 2024, as California Down Syndrome Day, and would encourage all Californians to support and participate in related activities.
This measure would designate March 25, 2024, as Greek Independence Day.
This measure would, among other things, recognize the month of March 2024 as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month.
Existing law, the Irrigation District Law, provides for the formation of irrigation districts with prescribed powers. The law authorizes an irrigation district to control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recapture, and salvage any water, as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to give information so far as it may be practicable to persons contemplating the formation of districts. This bill would require the department to respond to a request to enter into a long-term maintenance agreement, as defined, with an irrigation district within 120 days and to prioritize responding to long-term maintenance agreement requests for waterways that already have existing regular-term maintenance agreements, as defined.
This measure would designate March 14 of each year as California Utility Workers Appreciation Day.