This measure would urge Congress and the President of the United States to increase funding for specified law enforcement and crime prevention programs and to pay the full costs of incarcerating undocumented criminals, as provided.
This measure would congratulate the California State University system on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, commend the invaluable contributions it has made to the intellectual and social growth of its students, and extend best wishes for its continued success in the future.
This measure would recognize the month of November 2011 as Native American Heritage Month, would encourage Californians to participate in appropriate observances that celebrate and commemorate Native Americans, and would applaud and encourage the observance of California Indian nations for their outstanding contributions to this state.
(1) Existing law imposes specified licensing and regulatory requirements on dealers of motor vehicles and requires that specified fees and charges be disclosed in a conditional sales contract for the purchase of a motor vehicle. Existing law also prohibits any person from driving, moving, or leaving upon a highway any motor vehicle subject to registration under the Vehicle Code, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid under that code, and existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish contracts for electronic programs that allow qualified industry partners to join the department in providing services that include processing and payment programs for vehicle registration and titling transactions. Existing law makes it a violation of the Vehicle Code for the holder of any vehicle dealer's license to commit specified actions, including, to advertise the total price of a vehicle without including all costs to the purchaser at the time of sale, except taxes, vehicle registration fees, the California tire fee, as defined, emission testing fees not exceeding $50, actual fees charged for certificates, finance charges, and any dealer document preparation charge, and prohibits the dealer document preparation charge from exceeding $55. This bill would, beginning July 1, 2012, revise and recast these provisions and would require a motor vehicle sold or leased by a new motor vehicle dealer to be registered by the dealer using electronic programs provided by a qualified private industry partner, would require the dealer to disclose any document processing charge or electronic registration or transfer charge, and would establish the charges that a dealer may charge the purchaser or lessee of a vehicle. The bill would, after October 1, 2012, make it a violation of the Vehicle Code for the holder of a dealer's license to sell or lease a new motor vehicle unless the dealer has a contractual agreement with the department to be a private industry partner, except as specified. The bill would make other conforming changes to these provisions. The bill would, beginning July 1, 2012, prohibit a dealer from displaying or offering for sale at retail a used vehicle unless the dealer first obtains a vehicle history report from the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS) . If the NMVTIS report indicates that the vehicle is or has been a junk or salvage automobile, or the vehicle has been reported as such by a junk or a salvage yard, or an insurance carrier, or the certificate of title contains a brand, the bill would require the dealer to post a specified disclosure and provide the retail purchaser with a copy of the report upon request prior to sale. These requirements associated with obtaining a NMVTIS vehicle history report would become inoperative if all NMVTIS data providers cease to make these reports available to the public. (2) Because this bill would create new crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) 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 designate the month of September of every year as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month throughout the State of California, and would encourage and promote efforts to educate the people and the health care practitioners of the state regarding ovarian cancer and its early detection and prevention, the risk factors involved in its development, and the early warning symptoms and signs.
This measure would proclaim May 2 through May 9, 2011, as Cinco de Mayo Week, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
This measure would designate a specified location on State Highway Route 1 in the City of Guadalupe in Santa Barbara County as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway. This measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.
The Vehicle License Fee Law, in lieu of any ad valorem property tax upon vehicles, imposes an annual license fee for any vehicle subject to registration in this state in the amount of 1% of the market value of that vehicle, as provided, for a specified amount of time. Existing law also, until June 30, 2011, imposes an additional tax equal to 0.15% of the market value of specified vehicles, as determined by the Department of Motor Vehicles, to the vehicle license fee, to be deposited in the General Fund and transferred to the Local Safety and Protection Account, a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would repeal the provision relating to the sunset date and repeal of the additional 0.15% tax, thereby depositing additional moneys into a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would constitute a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.
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.
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.
