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 requires the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the California Highway Patrol, to establish and administer a "Safe Routes to School" program for construction of bicycle and pedestrian safety and traffic calming projects, and to award grants to local agencies in that regard from available federal and state funds, based on the results of a statewide competition. Existing law requires the department to rate proposals submitted by applicants using specified factors. One of the factors relates to consultation and support for projects by school-based organizations, local traffic engineers, local elected officials, law enforcement agencies, school officials, and other relevant community stakeholders. This bill would delete that factor and instead substitute a factor relating to use of a specified public participation process, with involvement by the public, schools, parents, teachers, local agencies, the business community, key professionals, and others, which process identifies community priorities, ensures those priorities are reflected in the proposal, and secures support for the proposal by relevant community stakeholders. The bill would add another factor relating to benefit of a proposal to a low-income school, as defined, and would make other related changes.
The Planning and Zoning Law requires an owner of an assisted housing development, as defined, to provide specified entities notice of an opportunity to submit an offer to purchase the development, containing specified information, prior to the termination of a subsidy contract applicable to, the prepayment of a mortgage on, the expiration of rental restrictions applicable to, or, under specified circumstances, the sale or disposition of, the development. That law authorizes these requirements to be enforced either in law or in equity by specified entities. This bill would additionally authorize any affected public entity, as defined, or any affected tenant, as defined, to enforce these requirements either in law or in equity. The Planning and Zoning Law requires an owner selling, leasing, or otherwise disposing of an assisted housing development, prior to the close of escrow, to certify that the owner has complied with specified provisions of that law. That law also requires this certification to be recorded, to contain a legal description of the property, and to be indexed, as specified, and authorizes the certification to be relied upon by good faith purchasers and encumbrances for value, as specified. This bill would prohibit a specified provision of that law from affecting the rights of a purchaser or encumbrancer for value who acts in good faith and without notice of a failure to comply with specified provisions of that law, regardless of whether the certification has been recorded.
Existing law requires the court, prior to the acceptance of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, to advise the defendant that if he or she is not a citizen, conviction of the crime charged may result in deportation, exclusion from admission to the United States, or denial of naturalization. This bill would additionally require the court to advise the defendant that, if he or she is deported from the United States and returns illegally, he or she could be charged with a separate federal offense. The bill would make other conforming changes.
Existing law requires the Department of General Services to perform various functions and duties with respect to state property. Existing law authorizes the department to first offer appropriate state surplus personal property to school districts, and authorizes the department to offer it at less than fair market value, prior to offering that property to the public, as specified. This bill would impose additional requirements on the department regarding disposal of state surplus computers, laptops, monitors, and related computer equipment, as provided. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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.
This measure would recognize March 31, 2011, as the anniversary of the birth of César Chávez, and would call upon all Californians to participate in appropriate observances to remember César Chávez as a symbol of hope and justice to all persons.
This measure would continue designation and observance of the month of October as Italian American Heritage Month. This measure would also encourage the Legislature to continue the Italian American Legislator Project and welcome the exhibit "The Italian American Legislator Project of 2011: A Legacy of Service to the California Legislature" to the State Capitol Building in October 2011 and encourage all Californians, through the K–12 curriculum and otherwise, to learn about the history, role, and contributions of Italian Americans to the State of California.
