Existing law requires the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to a person, other than himself or herself, or in the death of a person to immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the accident and provide specified personal information to the injured person or the occupants of the other vehicle and to any traffic or police officer at the scene of the accident. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law specifies that if an accident results in death or permanent, serious injury, a person who violates the provisions described above shall be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for two, three, or four years, or in a county jail for not less than 90 days nor more than one year, or by a fine, as specified, or both. Existing law authorizes the court, in the interests of justice and for other reasons stated in the record, to reduce or eliminate the minimum imprisonment or fine requirements. This bill would increase the terms for imprisonment in a state prison to two, four, or six years.
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Existing provisions of federal law regulate immigration. This bill would require the Employment Development Department and the Department of Food and Agriculture to determine the extent of labor shortages in the state agricultural and service industries and provide that information to specified federal government entities. The bill would require those departments to convene a working group to address the issues relating to a work permit program for undocumented persons who are agricultural or service industry employees to work and live in the state, and to serve as liaison to the United States Department of Homeland Security and the United States Department of Justice to ensure that state departments are not taking on responsibilities in matters dealing with immigration policy that are the jurisdiction of the federal government. The bill would require the working group to create and submit to the Legislature and the Governor a report expressing its recommendations, which would be required to incorporate specified provisions describing a model program. The bill would require the Governor, using the report, to make a formal request to the federal government to implement a program to provide undocumented persons who are agricultural or service industry employees with a permit to work and live in California. The bill would require the Governor to issue an explanation if the federal government proposes a program and the Governor disapproves of the proposed program. The bill would make the implementation of these requirements contingent on a determination by the Employment Development Department and the Department of Food and Agriculture that nonstate funds are available for the purposes of the bill. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact necessary implementing legislation if the federal government approves or adopts a program to provide undocumented persons who are agricultural or service industry employees with a permit to work and live in California.
This measure would proclaim the week of March 4, 2018, through March 10, 2018, inclusive, as Women in Construction Week.
Existing law until January 1, 2022, authorizes the governing board of a community college district to enter into a College and Career Access Pathways partnership with the governing board of a school district with the goal of developing seamless pathways from high school to community college for career technical education or preparation for transfer, improving high school graduation rates, or helping high school pupils achieve college and career readiness. Existing law requires each partnership agreement to include a certification by the participating community college district that a community college course that is oversubscribed or has a waiting list will not be offered in the partnership. This bill would establish the Rural Dual Enrollment Teacher Qualifications Pilot Program. Commencing with the 2019–20 school year, the bill would authorize a high school district within Imperial County to allow a high school teacher of that district to teach a college course on the high school campus pursuant to a College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) partnership if the teacher has met specified requirements. The bill would require any course taught by a qualified high school teacher under the bill to be evaluated and approved by the community college, and would only allow pupils enrolled through a CCAP partnership to enroll in these courses. The bill would require a participating high school district to annually report specified data to the Legislative Analyst's Office, commencing at the close of the 2019–20 school year. The bill would also require the Legislative Analyst's Office, on or before January 1, 2024, to submit a report to the Legislature that includes a recommendation as to whether the pilot program should be continued. These provisions would become inoperative on January 1, 2025. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Imperial Valley College and nearby high schools.
This measure would designate March 2018 as Irish American Heritage Month in honor of the multitude of contributions that Irish Americans have made to the country and state.
This measure would recognize the month of March as the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Student Walkouts and would encourage all Californians to join in commemorating this historic event.