(1) Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to take removal actions with respect to a hazardous substance that is an illegal controlled substance, a precursor of a controlled substance, or a material intended to be used in the unlawful manufacture of controlled substances. Existing law requires the department, on or before October 1, 2008, and to the extent funding is available, to develop health-based target remediation standards for iodine, methyl iodide, and phosphine. This bill would delete the date by which the department is required to develop these standards. (2) Existing law states that property contaminated by methamphetamine laboratory activity is safe for human occupancy only if the level of methamphetamine on an indoor surface is less than, or equal to, 0.1 micrograms per 100 square centimeters. Existing law establishes additional requirements for safe human occupancy if this activity included the use of lead or mercury. This bill would increase the methamphetamine level for this purpose from 0.1 micrograms per 100 square centimeters to 1.5 micrograms per 100 square centimeters. This bill would provide that these safety provisions do not preclude the department, in consultation with the Office of Health Hazard Assessment, from adopting stricter standards than the law would otherwise require. This bill would also delete obsolete provisions of law.
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Existing law prescribes the requirements for a pupil to earn a diploma of graduation from high school, including the completion of a specified course of study and passage of the high school exit examination. This bill would provide that a pupil who has fulfilled all of the requirements to receive a diploma of graduation from high school pursuant to state law, is otherwise eligible to participate in the high school graduation ceremony, and has completed the basic training for, and is an active member of, a branch of the United States Armed Forces, has the right to wear the dress uniform issued to him or her by that branch while participating in the graduation ceremony for his or her high school.
Existing law prohibits Members of the Legislature, and state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members. Existing law defines what is a remote interest in a contract that does not present a prohibited conflict of interest under these provisions. This bill would revise the definition of "remote interest" to include the interest of a person who is both a member of a state, county, district, judicial district, or city body or board, and an officer or employee of an investor-owned utility in a contract related to energy efficiency encouragement programs, under specified conditions. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would make various statements regarding the importance of New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) to the California economy and would declare the necessity for the Legislature to utilize its vested powers to keep NUMMI in California.
This measure would proclaim October 23 to October 31, 2009, inclusive, as Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.
This measure would recognize the importance of California Native American Day, celebrated this year on September 25, 2009, and the concurrent California Indian Cultural Awareness Conference to the enhancement of awareness of California Indian culture.
This measure would designate the month of October 2009, and every October thereafter, as Italian American Heritage Month. This measure would encourage public schools to highlight and include Italian American achievements and contributions to the culture of California and to take steps to promote the inclusion of the role and contributions of Italian Americans to the culture and history of California and the United States in elementary and secondary social science textbooks during the revision process for those textbooks.
This measure would urge the State Air Resources Board to meet the statutory requirements of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 by ensuring that its analysis of specified emission reduction measures include prescribed components.
This measure would designate specified portions of State Highway Route 60 and corresponding on ramps and off ramps as the CHP Officer Joseph P. Sanders Memorial Highway.
This measure would designate April 24, 2009, as "California Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1923." It would memorialize the Congress and the President of the United States to act likewise to commemorate the Armenian Genocide.