This measure would recognize the 45th anniversary of Kwanzaa and proclaim December 26 through January 1 each year as Kwanzaa Week.
This measure would recognize the 25th anniversary of the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial on November 23, 2013, and encourage all Californians to take part in ceremonies, organized by the California State Council of Vietnam Veterans of America along with assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs and other veterans service organizations. This measure would call upon the state archives to display memorabilia in a special display on the Vietnam War, as provided, the California State Military Museum to prepare and display exhibits on the Vietnam War, as provided, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to add names to the memorial, as provided.
This measure encourages the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California to consider and adopt the American Council on Education credit recommendations to give veterans due credit for their military experience.
This measure would declare December 12, 2012, as California Bullying Prevention Day, and would recognize the need for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local governments, and the state to take action on behalf of bullying prevention in California.
Existing law prohibits the State Board of Education from adopting instructional materials until the 2015–16 school year. This bill would authorize the state board to consider the adoption of a revised curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for instructional materials in history-social science. The bill would require the State Department of Education to conduct work necessary to revise the curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for instructional materials in history-social science only after it has completed work related to the development of curriculum frameworks for the common core academic content standards as provided by law.
Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination or abridgment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, or sexual orientation. Specifically, an employer or other covered entity is required to reasonably accommodate the religious belief or observance of an individual unless the accommodation would be an undue hardship on the conduct of the business of the employer or other entity. This bill would include a religious dress practice or a religious grooming practice as a belief or observance covered by the protections against religious discrimination, and would specify that an accommodation of an individual's religious dress practice or religious grooming practice that would require that person to be segregated from the public or other employees is not a reasonable accommodation. This bill would further provide that no accommodation is required if an accommodation would result in the violation of specified laws protecting civil rights. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 12926 of the Government Code, proposed by AB 2386, to be operative only if AB 2386 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective January 1, 2013, and this bill is chaptered last.
(1) Existing law requires the sealer of a county to inspect and test weighing and measuring devices, as specified, that are used or sold in the county. Existing law also requires the sealer of a county to weigh or measure packages to determine whether they contain the amount represented, as provided. Existing law, until January 1, 2013, permits the board of supervisors of a county to charge fees, not to exceed the county's total cost of actually inspecting or testing weighing and measuring devices required of the county sealer, to recover the costs of the county sealer to perform these duties. This bill would extend the authority of the board of supervisors of a county to charge fees to recover the costs of the county sealer, as provided, until January 1, 2016. (2) Existing law specifies that the annual registration fee for a business that uses a commercial weighing or measuring device or devices shall consist of a location fee, a Department of Food and Agriculture administrative fee, and a device fee. Existing law defines a single business location as a business location that necessitates not more than one inspection trip by a weights and measures official or as each vehicle containing one or more commercial devices. This bill would provide that the device fee for computing scales, as defined, shall not exceed $20 per device, and that the portion of the annual registration fee consisting of the business location fee and the device fees shall not exceed the sum of $1,000. The bill would provide that the device fee for jewelry or prescription scales, as defined, shall not exceed $80 per device. The bill would provide that for a weighing device with a capacity of at least 100 pounds but less than 2,000 pounds, other than computing, jewelry, or prescription scales, the device fee shall not exceed $50 per device. The bill would, for certain vehicle odometers utilized to charge mileage usage fees in vehicle rental transactions, prohibit the device fee from exceeding $60 per device. The bill would, for nonpassenger vehicles, prohibit the annual registration fee consisting of the business location fee and the device fee from exceeding $340 for each business location, as defined. The bill would exempt odometers in passenger rental vehicles from the fee unless there is a complaint regarding the vehicles's odometer. The bill would, for these purposes, define business location for vehicles employed in vehicle rental transactions. The bill would make a conforming change. (3) Existing law provides that for all other commercial weighing or measuring devices not listed, the device fee shall not exceed $20 per device, and that for purposes of these provisions, the registration fee shall not exceed the sum of $1,000 for each business location. The bill would revise this provision and provide that the portion of the annual registration fee consisting of the business location fee and the device fees shall not exceed $1,000 for each business location. (4) Existing law specifies that the device fee for marinas, mobilehome parks, recreational vehicle parks, and apartment complexes, where the owner is responsible for the utility meters, shall not exceed $2 per device. This bill would instead provide that the device fee shall not exceed $2 per device per space or apartment for water submeters, $3 per device per space or apartment for electric submeters, and $4 per device per space or apartment for vapor submeters. (5) Existing law provides that for liquefied petroleum gas meters the device fee shall not exceed $175 per device. This bill would provide that the device fee shall not exceed $185 per device for liquefied petroleum gas meters. (6) Existing law provides that the device fee for wholesale and vehicle meters shall not exceed $25 per device. This bill would provide that the device fee for wholesale and vehicle meters shall not exceed $75 per device.
This measure would urge the United States Postal Service to end its plan to reduce the frequency of mail delivery from 6 days to 5 days a week, and to take all appropriate measures to ensure the continuation of this 6-day mail delivery service.
This measure would proclaim August 15, 2012, as India's Independence Day, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating India's independence.
This measure would declare that an applicant's immigration status should not be the determining factor in deciding whether to approve a license to practice law, would commend Sergio C. Garcia for his hard work and success, and would also commend the State Bar of California for its efforts to admit Sergio C. Garcia to the State Bar of California.
