Existing law prohibits a person from intentionally eavesdropping upon or recording a confidential communication by means of any electronic amplifying device or recording device without the consent of all parties to the communication. Under existing law, specified law enforcement agents may make a written application to a judge to authorize the interception of a wire, electronic pager, or electronic cellular telephone communication. In certain instances the application can be made informally and granted orally if an emergency situation exists, as specified. This bill would authorize a peace officer who is authorized by a county district attorney or the Attorney General to authorize the use of an electronic amplifying or recording device to eavesdrop on or record, or both, any oral communication in an emergency situation involving a barricade situation or hostage situation, as defined, if the peace officer reasonably determines that an emergency situation exists, that the emergency situation requires that the eavesdropping occur immediately, and that there are grounds upon which an order could be obtained in regard to certain specified offenses. This bill would require a written application to be made seeking to authorize the eavesdropping within 48 hours.
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The California Alternative and Renewable Fuel, Vehicle Technology, Clean Air, and Carbon Reduction Act of 2007 establishes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, which is administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. The program is required to provide, upon appropriation by the Legislature, competitive grants, revolving loans, loan guarantees, or other appropriate funding measures to public agencies, vehicle and technology entities, businesses and projects, public-private partnerships, workforce training partnerships and collaboratives, fleet owners, consumers, recreational boaters, and academic institutions to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform the state's fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change policies. The commission is authorized, until January 1, 2012, to contract with the Treasurer to expend funds through programs implemented by the Treasurer, if that expenditure is consistent with all of the requirements of the act. This bill would extend this authorization to contract with the Treasurer indefinitely, and would also authorize the commission to contract with small business financial development corporations established by the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to expend funds through the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program, if the expenditure is consistent with all of the requirements of the program. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 44272 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by SB 1340 that would become operative only if SB 1340 is enacted and this bill is enacted after SB 1340. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law adjusts funding for individuals with exceptional needs based on an incidence multiplier, as defined, for each special education local plan area. This bill would continue the current special education incidence factor formula through the 2010–11 fiscal year. The bill would make the adjustment inoperative on July 1, 2011, and repeal it on January 1, 2012. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law authorizes advance deposit wagering to be conducted, with the approval of the California Horse Racing Board. Existing law requires the board to develop and adopt rules to license and regulate all phases of operation of advance deposit wagering for advance deposit wagering providers operating in California. Existing law authorizes a racing association, a fair, or a satellite wagering facility to enter into an agreement with an advance deposit wagering provider to accept and facilitate the placement of any wager at its facility that a California resident could make through that advance deposit wagering provider. This bill would authorize a minisatellite wagering facility to enter into an agreement with an advance deposit wagering provider to accept and facilitate the placement of any wager at its facility that a California resident could make through that advance deposit wagering provider. The bill would specify that the board must develop and adopt rules to license and regulate advance deposit wagering activity that takes place in a minisatellite wagering facility. The bill would authorize the board to recover any costs associated with the licensing or regulation of advance deposit wagering activity in a minisatellite wagering facility, as provided.
(1) Existing law authorizes school districts that maintain high schools to establish work experience programs for the purpose of providing pupils with instruction in skills, attitudes, and understandings necessary for success in employment. This bill would state the findings of the Legislature regarding work-based learning, as defined. This bill would authorize school districts that maintain high schools to establish work-based learning programs, and to purchase liability insurance for pupils enrolled in programs of study involving work-based learning, off school grounds. The bill would authorize partnership academies, regional occupational programs, and local educational agencies to deliver work-based learning opportunities for pupils that may include work experience education, community classrooms, cooperative career technical education programs, and job shadowing experience, as specified. The bill would authorize regional and local business organizations, in conjunction with school districts and community colleges, and any other representatives deemed appropriate, to develop principles and guidelines for the establishment of work-based learning programs. (2) Existing law requires that, in order to be eligible for specified funds, a school district take steps to ensure that each pupil in each school in the district has sufficient textbooks, as defined. This bill would provide that for purposes of these provisions, sufficient textbooks may include digital materials, as long as each pupil has the ability to access the digital material at home and, at a minimum, has the same content in class and to take home as all other pupils in the same class or course in the district. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Existing law authorizes the California Medical Assistance Commission to negotiate selective provider contracts with eligible hospitals to provide inpatient hospital services to Medi‑Cal beneficiaries. Existing law also provides for the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital services under the Medi-Cal program on a fee-for-service basis. Existing law provides for supplemental payments to hospitals providing Medi-Cal services in accordance with prescribed provisions of law. Existing law requires the County of Los Angeles, for the 2007–08, 2008–09, and 2009–10 state fiscal years, to make intergovernmental transfers to fund the nonfederal share of increased Medi-Cal payments to those private hospitals that serve the South Los Angeles population formerly served by Los Angeles County Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital. This bill would enact Medi-Cal funding provisions for a new hospital, as defined, that would be a private nonprofit entity that would serve the population of South Los Angeles formerly served by the Los Angeles County Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital. The bill would authorize the hospital to negotiate an inpatient hospital services contract with the commission, as provided for under existing law, and would contain provisions relating to inpatient hospital services reimbursement if a contract is not negotiated under these provisions. The bill would also contain provisions relating to reimbursement for outpatient hospital services provided by the new hospital and to the making of supplemental payments to the new hospital. The bill would establish various conditions for its implementation, including the receipt of all necessary federal approvals and the receipt of federal financial participation.
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.
(1) Existing law requires the court in a jury trial to admonish the jury that it is their duty not to converse with, or permit themselves to be addressed by, any other person on any subject of the trial. The court is required to provide the admonishment in a civil proceeding when the jurors are permitted to separate during the trial, and when the case is submitted to the jury, and, in a criminal proceeding, after the jury has been sworn and before the people's opening address, at each adjournment of the court, and when the jurors are permitted by the court to separate after the case is submitted to the jury. An officer having the jury under his or her charge shall not permit any communication to be made to them, or make any himself or herself, as specified. This bill would expand those admonishments to include the conduct of research or dissemination of information on any subject of the trial. The bill would require the court, when admonishing the jury against conversation, research, or dissemination of information pursuant to these provisions, to clearly explain, as part of the admonishment, that the prohibition applies to all forms of electronic and wireless communication. The bill would require the officer in charge of a jury to prevent any form of electronic or wireless communication. (2) Existing law provides that certain acts or omissions in respect to a court of justice, or proceedings therein, are civil contempts of the authority of the court, including, among other things, disobedience of any lawful judgment, order, or process of the court. Existing law also specifies certain criminal contempts of court, punishable as a misdemeanor, including, among other things, resistance willfully offered by a person to the lawful order or process of a court. This bill would make the willful disobedience by a juror of a court admonishment related to the prohibition on any form of communication or research about the case, including all forms of electronic or wireless communication or research, punishable as either a civil or criminal contempt of court pursuant to those provisions. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 166 of the Penal Code made by AB 2632 that would become operative if both bills are enacted and this bill is enacted after AB 2632. (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.
This measure would recognize March 31, 2010, 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 recognize the contributions of the automotive aftermarket to the state and consumers and its efforts to educate the motoring public about the benefits of proper vehicle maintenance. The measure also would recognize and support the designation of April as National Car Care Month and encourage all citizens to participate in activities that promote proper vehicle maintenance.