This measure would recognize National Flag Day on June 14, 2012, honor the 52nd anniversary of the flying of the current American flag, and encourage all Californians to celebrate the occasion with appropriate activities.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of emissions of greenhouse gases and to monitor and enforce compliance with the reporting and verification program, and requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. The act requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. This bill, if the state board uses its authority to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms, would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2013, to adopt a specified process for the review and consideration of new offset protocols and, commencing in 2013 and continuing annually thereafter, use that process to review and consider new offset protocols. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, an initiative measure approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election makes about $5,400,000,000 in bond funds available for safe drinking water, water quality and supply, flood control, natural resource protection, and park improvements. Existing law establishes the Strategic Growth Council and appropriated $500,000 from the funding provided by the initiative to the Natural Resources Agency to support the council and its activities. The council is required to manage and award grants and loans to a council of governments, metropolitan planning organization, regional transportation planning agency, city, county, or joint powers authority for the purpose of developing, adopting, and implementing a regional plan or other planning instrument to support the planning and development of sustainable communities. This bill would make a local agency formation commission eligible for the award of financial assistance for those planning purposes.
This measure would commemorate the 40th anniversary of Title IX on June 23, 2012, commend the movement toward increased equality and fair treatment of female athletes, and praise the goal of greater opportunities in sports for girls and young women in California.
This measure would proclaim June 2012 as Scleroderma Awareness Month.
Existing law requires every assessor to assess all property subject to general property taxation at its full value on the lien date, as provided, and to prepare an assessment roll in which all property within the county which it is the assessor's duty to assess is required to be listed. Existing law requires a county board of equalization or an assessment appeals board to equalize the valuation of taxable property within the county for the purpose of taxation. Existing law authorizes a taxpayer, with respect to each assessment year, to file an application for a reduction in an assessment, as provided, with the county board, which is the county board of supervisors meeting as a county board of equalization of an assessment appeals board. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2014, require an agent, as defined, representing a taxpayer before the assessor, a county board of equalization, or an assessment appeals board, to register with a registering jurisdiction, as defined, prior to representing a taxpayer before that jurisdiction. This bill would require specified information to be included in the agent registration, and would authorize the registering jurisdiction to prescribe the procedures, forms, and means of filing the agent registration. This bill would require the registering jurisdiction to set, charge, and collect a fee in an amount necessary to recover the costs of registration, including the amendment and renewal of registrations. This bill would impose certain affirmative duties upon each agent, and would prohibit each agent from engaging in certain activities. This bill would authorize the registering jurisdiction to reprimand, suspend, or deregister any agent from representation before that jurisdiction under certain circumstances, and to impose a monetary penalty on any agent who engages in certain prohibited activities, as provided. By imposing new duties upon local county officials with respect to the registration of agents, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law makes it unlawful for a person to, among other things, make any untrue or misleading statements in any manner in connection with the offering or performance of an assessment reduction filing service or to offer to perform an assessment reduction filing service without making a specified disclosure. Existing law defines "assessment reduction filing service" for these purposes to mean any service performed or offered to be performed for compensation in connection with the preparation or completion of an application or request of any kind for reduction in assessment of residential property or in connection with the assistance in any manner of another person to either prepare or complete an application or request of any kind for reduction in assessment of residential property or to provide comparable sales information in connection with an application or request for reduction in assessment of residential property. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2014, require an offeror of an assessment reduction filing service, as described above, to register as an agent prior to the performance of the service. Existing law requires the State Board of Equalization to make surveys in each county and city and county to, among other things, determine the adequacy of the procedures and practices employed by the county assessor in the valuation of property for the purposes of taxation and in the performance generally of the assessor's duties. This bill would expand the requirements of the survey conducted by the State Board of Equalization to include a review of the procedures and practices that regulate the behavior of agents, as defined. 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.
Under existing law, the Board of Behavioral Sciences is responsible for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists, licensed educational psychologists, clinical social workers, and licensed professional clinical counselors. Existing law requires certain healing arts boards to report to the State Department of Health Care Services specified licensure information relating to any person whose license has been revoked, suspended, surrendered, or made inactive by the licensee in order to prevent state reimbursement for services provided after the cancellation of a license. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2015, make that reporting requirement applicable to the Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Existing law, until January 1, 2013, provides that neither a public agency that operates flood control and water conservation facilities nor its employees shall be liable for injuries caused by the condition or use of unlined flood control channels or adjacent groundwater recharge spreading grounds under prescribed conditions, except as specified, and specifies that nothing in that provision exonerates a public agency or public employee subject to that provision from liability for injury proximately caused by a dangerous condition of public property under specified circumstances. This bill would extend the operation of those provisions indefinitely.
Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, prescribes licensure requirements for the operation of child day care facilities, day care centers, and family day care homes. The act exempts specified facilities and arrangements, including public recreation programs that meet certain criteria, from its provisions. Existing law exempts a public recreation program operated as prescribed for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, that operates less than 16 hours per week and for a total of 12 weeks or less during a 12-month period. This bill would exempt from licensure a public recreation program operated as prescribed for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, that operates less than 20 hours per week and for a total of 14 weeks or less during a 12-month period.
Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to place a certificated or classified employee on a compulsory leave of absence in specified circumstances, including, among other circumstances, if the employee is charged by complaint, information, or indictment filed in a court of competent jurisdiction with the commission of a sex offense, as defined. This bill would require the governing board of a school district to develop and adopt a policy relating to the manner in which the parents or guardians of the pupils of the school district may be notified, if at all, if an employee of the school district is alleged to have committed a sex offense, as defined. The bill would require the governing board of the school district to consult with law enforcement agencies in developing this policy and would require the governing board of the school district to make the policy publicly available. By imposing additional duties on the governing board of a school district, the bill would impose 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
