This measure would proclaim May 2 through May 9, 2011, as Cinco de Mayo Week, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions regulating the application for, the issuance of, the suspension of, and the conditions imposed upon, alcoholic beverage licenses by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Existing law provides for various annual fees for the issuance of alcoholic beverage licenses depending upon the type of license issued. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that a violation of its provisions is a misdemeanor, unless otherwise specified. This bill would authorize the department to issue a limited off-sale retail wine license that would allow the licenseholder to sell wine if certain conditions are met and would grant specified privileges to the licenseholder, as provided. The bill would impose an original fee and an annual renewal fee for the license, which would be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund. Because the violation of a provision of the license is punishable as a misdemeanor, the bill expands the definition of an existing crime, thereby creating 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.
(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. Existing law, enacted as part of electrical restructuring, requires the commission to authorize and facilitate direct transactions between electricity suppliers and retail end-use customers and gives the right to end-use customers to aggregate their electrical loads on a voluntary basis by positive written declaration. Other law, enacted during the energy crisis of 2000–01, authorized the Department of Water Resources, until January 1, 2003, to enter into contracts for the purchase of electricity, and to sell electricity to retail end-use customers at not more than the department's acquisition costs and to recover those costs through the issuance of bonds to be repaid by ratepayers. That law suspended the right of retail end-use customers, other than community choice aggregators and a qualifying direct transaction customer, as defined, to acquire service through a direct transaction until the Department of Water Resources no longer supplies electricity under that law. Existing law continues the suspension of direct transactions except as expressly authorized, until the Legislature, by statute, repeals the suspension or otherwise authorizes direct transactions. Existing law requires the commission to authorize direct transactions subject to a reopening schedule that will phase in over a period of not less than 3 years and not more than 5 years, and is subject to an annual maximum allowable total kilowatthour limit established, as specified, for each electrical corporation. Existing law requires that the commission ensure that any person, corporation, or other entity that is authorized to provide electric service within the service territory of an electrical corporation (other providers) are subject to the same requirements that are applicable to the state's 3 largest electrical corporations under any programs or rules adopted by the commission to implement specified resource adequacy provisions, the California renewables portfolio standard program, and the requirements for the electricity sector adopted by the State Air Resources Board pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. This bill would repeal a requirement, adopted as part of electrical restructuring, that requires the commission to authorize and facilitate direct transactions between electricity suppliers and retail end-use customers and that gives the right to end-use customers to aggregate their electrical loads on a voluntary basis by positive written declaration. The bill would require every other provider of electric service to annually report to the commission a list of each retail end-use customer to whom it provided electric service during the year, along with the address at which electric service was provided. The bill, beginning January 1, 2013, would prohibit other providers from providing electric service to any customer or customer address that was not listed in its annual report for the previous year. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing its requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. (2) Existing law authorizes the commission to consider establishment of a centralized resource adequacy mechanism in establishing resource adequacy requirements applicable to all load-serving entities and places certain conditions upon the establishment of a centralized resource adequacy mechanism if the commission determines to utilize that option. This bill would prohibit the commission from authorizing the establishment of a centralized resource adequacy mechanism and would repeal the conditions placed upon use of that option. (3) Existing law creates the California renewables portfolio standard program (RPS program) to increase the amount of electricity generated per year from eligible renewable energy resources, as defined. The RPS program requires the commission to establish the quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, to be procured by each retail seller, as defined, for specified compliance periods, sufficient to ensure that the procurement of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources achieves 20% of retail sales for the period of January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2013, inclusive, 25% of retail sales by December 31, 2016, and 33% of retail sales by December 31, 2020, and in all subsequent years. Existing law authorizes a retail seller to enter into a combination of long- and short-term contracts for electricity and associated renewable energy credits and authorizes the commission to authorize a retail seller to enter into a contract of less than 10 years' duration if the commission has established, for each retail seller, minimum quantities of eligible renewable energy resources to be procured through those contracts. This bill would require that the minimum quantity of eligible renewable energy resources to be procured through contracts of at least 10 years' duration established by the commission for each retail seller be not less than 50% of the retail sales used to meet that retail seller's renewable energy resources requirements for each compliance period. (4) 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. (5) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution.
This measure would proclaim October 22 to October 30, 2011, as including Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.
Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, which governs local emergency medical service systems. The act establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) , which is responsible for the coordination and integration of all state agencies concerning emergency medical services. Existing law requires all ocean, public beach, and public swimming pool lifeguards and all firefighters in this state, except those whose duties are primarily clerical or administrative, to be trained to administer first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. This training is required to meet standards prescribed by the EMSA. This bill would authorize the EMSA to adopt regulations for the state approval of standards for an emergency medical responder course, as provided. The bill would provide that it would not be construed to prohibit the Department of the California Highway Patrol, Cal-Fire, or any other public safety agency that provides training to its law enforcement or firefighting personnel, from administering training programs pursuant to specified laws and regulations or prohibit personnel of these agencies from providing services that were the subject of these training programs.
Existing law requires, when a school district is reorganized and when the allocation of funds, property, and obligations are not fixed by terms, conditions, or recommendations as provided by law, the funds, property, and obligations of a former district to be allocated in a specified manner. Existing law authorizes any school district to impose qualified special taxes, as defined, within the school district pursuant to specified procedures. This bill would, when any school district in the County of Santa Barbara is in any manner merged with one or more school districts so as to form a single district, as specified, authorize the district so formed to continue to impose any qualified special taxes imposed in any former district, as defined, provided that specified conditions are met. This bill would also authorize the Santa Barbara Unified School District to impose a special tax within boundaries of the former Santa Barbara Elementary School District, provided that specified conditions are met and that certain procedures are complied with. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Santa Barbara.
Existing law authorizes each county to establish an emergency medical services fund, known as a Maddy Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fund, funded by specified revenue penalties, and makes money in the fund available for the reimbursement of physicians and surgeons and hospitals for losses incurred in the provision of emergency medical services when payment is not otherwise made for those services. Existing law requires any county that has established a Maddy EMS Fund to deposit into that fund $2 for every $7 of additional penalties imposed by the courts for criminal offenses. Existing law, until January 1, 2011, authorized Santa Barbara County, for purposes of supporting emergency medical services in Santa Barbara County, to collect a specified penalty assessment on every fine, penalty, or forfeiture collected for all criminal offenses, except as specified, if the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors adopts a resolution stating that implementation of this provision is necessary to the county for purposes of providing payment for emergency medical services. Existing law, until January 1, 2011, provided, upon the establishment of a Maddy EMS Fund in Santa Barbara County, that the amount that would have been collected as penalty assessments pursuant to the above provision shall be deposited in the Maddy EMS Fund established by the county. This bill would reenact those provisions that were repealed on January 1, 2011, until January 1, 2014. The bill would require the Board of Supervisors for Santa Barbara County, if it adopts a resolution to implement these provisions, to report to the Legislature whether, and to the extent that, any actions are taken by Santa Barbara County to implement alternative local sources of funding. The bill would make specified findings and declarations that the special legislation contained in the act is necessarily applicable only to Santa Barbara County.
Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of residential tenancies. Existing law authorizes the creation of antitobacco use programs for school-age populations and prohibits any person from smoking a cigarette, cigar, or other tobacco-related product, or from disposing of cigarette butts, cigar butts, or any other tobacco-related waste, within a playground. This bill would authorize a landlord of a residential dwelling unit to prohibit the smoking of tobacco products on the property, in a dwelling unit, in another interior or exterior area, or on the premises on which the dwelling unit is located. The bill would make certain requirements on notices and leases executed on and after, and on and before, January 1, 2012, in this regard. The bill would require that a landlord who prohibits smoking pursuant to this authority be subject to federal, state, and local requirements governing changes to the terms of a lease or rental agreement for tenants, as specified. The bill would provide that its provisions do not preempt local ordinances in effect on or before January 1, 2012, or a provision of a local ordinance on or after January 1, 2012, that prohibits the smoking of cigarettes or other tobacco products.
This measure would proclaim the month of March of every year as Read Across California Month and request that public and private stakeholders work together to raise awareness of the importance of reading to young children and the importance of independent reading among our pupils and citizens of California by encouraging everyone to read for 30 minutes for 30 days during the month of March of every year, in conjunction with the Read Across America campaign held annually on March 2.
This measure would recognize June 19, 2011, as Veterans of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Day, in memory of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for freedom and democracy and the victims of the Vietnam War, and in honor of the survivors, activists, and freedom fighters of that war.
