(1) Upon a breach of the obligation of a mortgage or transfer of an interest in property, existing law requires the trustee, mortgagee, or beneficiary to record in the office of the county recorder wherein the mortgaged or trust property is situated, a notice of default, and to mail the notice of default to the borrower named on the mortgage instrument. Existing law requires the notice to contain specified statements, including, but not limited to, those related to the borrower's legal rights, as specified. This bill would establish the Monitored Mortgage Workout (MMW) Program that would be offered to all borrowers to provide them with an opportunity to explore options to avoid foreclosure. This bill would require that any notice of default of a residential real property, as defined, sent to a borrower include a notice of the borrower's right to participate in the MMW Program as well as the documents that authorize the borrower to elect to participate in the MMW Program. This bill would provide for the appointment, by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate, of an administrator to implement the MMW Program. This bill would require the administrator of the MMW Program to provide quarterly reports to the Legislature with specified information regarding the performance of the MMW Program. This bill would provide that, if a borrower elects to participate in the MMW Program, no further action to foreclose upon the property may be instituted until the completion of the borrower's participation in the MMW Program. (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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This measure would proclaim January 13, 2010, as Korean-American Day.
Existing law provides for sentencing enhancements on the basis of prior felony convictions, which are defined to include certain offenses adjudicated before the juvenile court. However, existing law generally provides for the confidentiality of juvenile records, reports, and related information. Those records may be sealed and eventually destroyed, unless the subject of the record was found to be a ward of the court because of the commission of specified felony offenses committed when he or she was 14 years of age or older. Certain persons, including law enforcement personnel who are actively participating in criminal or juvenile proceedings involving a minor, may inspect those records and reports concerning that minor, but those persons may not disseminate the records or reports, or related information, without the prior approval of the presiding judge of the juvenile court, except as specified. Existing sexually violent predator laws set forth procedures under which a person under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may be referred for evaluation at least 6 months prior to the person's scheduled date for release from prison if the director determines that the person may be a sexually violent predator, as defined. The sexually violent predator laws provide, under certain circumstances, that this person may be required to stand trial, be found beyond a reasonable doubt to be a sexually violent predator, and be committed for an indeterminate term to the custody of the State Department of Mental Health for appropriate treatment and confinement in a secure facility until his or her diagnosed mental disorder has so changed that he or she is not likely to engage in sexually violent criminal behavior if discharged, as specified. This bill would authorize, in any investigation, action, or proceeding based on the sexually violent predator laws, a court, upon a showing of good cause, to permit the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the State Department of Mental Health, and the attorney petitioning for commitment, or their agents, to obtain and use records that have been sealed, that are relevant to the civil commitment proceeding as determined by the court, in camera, and pertaining to sustained petitions for specified sexually violent offenses that were committed when the person had attained 14 years of age or older. The bill also would authorize, in any civil commitment proceeding based on the sexually violent predator laws, the court, counsel for the parties, any jury, and any other person authorized by the court, to obtain and use the records. The bill would provide that the records would remain confidential, as specified.
Existing law establishes various programs relating to perinatal health, including a comprehensive perinatal outreach program targeting the health effects of drugs and alcohol, the development of regionalized perinatal health systems, and the development of a model needs assessment protocol for pregnant and postpartum substance abusing women. This bill would permit the State Department of Public Health, in conjunction with the State Department of Mental Health, to establish a task force, as prescribed, to develop recommendations and educational materials for the department's perinatal health programs. This bill would permit the State Department of Public Health to use nonpublic contributions to carry out the purposes of this bill. This bill would, if the department creates the task force, create the California Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Awareness Fund and permit voluntary contributions to be deposited into the fund. This bill would continuously appropriate the money in the fund to the department to carry out the purposes of this bill.
Existing law requires an operator of a store, as defined, to establish an at-store recycling program that provides to customers the opportunity to return clean plastic carryout bags to that store. Existing law imposes various requirements on at-store recycling programs, including requiring a store to maintain records describing the collection, transport, and recycling of plastic carryout bags collected by the store. Under existing law, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (department) administers laws related to waste management. This bill would, on and after July 1, 2011, prohibit a store, as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag to a customer unless the store charges a fee of not less than $0.25 per bag at the point of sale. The bill would exempt certain customers from paying the fee. The bill would establish the Bag Pollution Fund in the State Treasury and would require a store to remit the single-use carryout bag fees, less a specified amount, to the State Board of Equalization for deposit in that fund. The bill would prohibit a store from distributing a single-use carryout bag that is not a plastic or compostable carryout bag that meets specific requirements. The bill would require the department to administer and enforce the single-use carryout bag provisions and would require the State Board of Equalization to administer the collection of the fees imposed on those bags. The moneys in the fund would be required to be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in a specified order of priority, by the department for grants to cities and counties for programs related to single-use carryout bags and reusable bag giveaway programs, by the State Board of Equalization to reimburse its costs associated with collecting the fees, by the department for purposes of implementing the above provisions, and by the department, in consultation with specified state agencies, to develop and implement specified programs related to single-use carryout bags. The bill would expressly prohibit the expenditure of revenues from the fund for activities unrelated to the prevention or reduction of single-use bag pollution. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2014, to submit to the Legislature a report regarding the effectiveness of the above provisions and recommendations to further encourage the use of reusable bags.
Existing law establishes a process for the identification of excess state lands and for their transfer to the Department of General Services for sale or other disposition. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that, for any sale, lease, or exchange of state-owned property, the Department of General Services make every effort to maximize revenue to the state.
Existing law requires, until January 1, 2013, an operator of a store, as defined, to establish an at-store recycling program that provides to customers the opportunity to return clean plastic carryout bags to that store. Existing law imposes various requirements on at-store recycling programs, including requiring a store to maintain records describing the collection, transport, and recycling of plastic carryout bags collected by the store. Existing law also requires, until January 1, 2013, the manufacturer of plastic carryout bags to develop educational materials to encourage the reducing, reusing, and recycling of plastic bags and make those materials available to stores required to comply with the program. This bill would instead prohibit, on and after July 1, 2010, a store, as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag, including a green carryout bag, to a customer unless the store charges a fee of not less than $0.25 per bag at the point of sale. The bill would exempt certain customers from paying the fee. The bill would establish the Bag Pollution Fund in the State Treasury and, by January 31, 2011, would require a store that collects the single-use carryout bag fees to remit the fees, less a specified amount to be used as required, to the State Board of Equalization for deposit in that fund, and do so on a quarterly basis thereafter. This bill would instead require the manufacturer of a single-use carryout bag to develop educational materials to encourage the reducing, reusing, and recycling of single-use bags and make those materials available to stores required to comply with the program. The bill would require moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be expended by the Integrated Waste Management Board (board) as specified, including, but not limited to, for administrative costs, developing and implementing programs to encourage and support mitigating the environmental effects of single-use carryout bags, and payments to cities and counties for activities to reduce and prevent single-use carryout bag litter and the environmental impacts of single-use carryout bags. The bill would require the board to administer and enforce the single-use carryout bag provisions and would require the State Board of Equalization to administer and collect the fees imposed on those bags. The bill would require the board to submit a biennial report to the Legislature, in coordination with other state agencies and stakeholders, on the effectiveness of the program and recommendations to further encourage the use of reusable bags.
Existing law requires the Department of Personnel Administration to establish and adjust salary ranges for each class of position in the state civil service, as specified, except with respect to any employees in an appropriate bargaining unit for which an employee organization has been chosen as the exclusive representative. The California Constitution requires the California Citizens Compensation Commission to establish the annual salary and the medical, dental, insurance, and other similar benefits of certain state officers, including, but not limited to, the Governor, Attorney General, and Controller. This bill would require the California Citizens Compensation Commission, in addition to its constitutional duties, to establish the compensation of attorneys employed by the Department of Justice. The bill would require the commission to consider specified factors in establishing that compensation.
Existing law establishes the California State University and its various campuses under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University. Existing law requires the California State University to offer undergraduate and graduate instruction through the master's degree in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education, including teacher education. This bill would authorize the California State University to award the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. The bill would distinguish the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the doctor of philosophy degree offered at the University of California. The bill would require the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program to be designed to enable professionals to earn the degree while working full time, train nurses for advanced practice, and prepare clinical faculty to teach in postsecondary nursing programs. The bill would require initial funding to come from existing budgets, without diminishing the quality of undergraduate programs or reducing enrollment therein. The bill would require the California State University to annually report on the status of the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program, as specified.