(1) Existing law, for purposes of a contract pursuant to the Williamson Act, requires the landowner to furnish the city or county with information that the city or county requires to determine the eligibility of the land involved in the contract. This bill would, on either an initial or ongoing basis, instead require the landowner to furnish the city or county with information that is directly related to the landowner's compliance with the act that the city or county requires to determine the eligibility of the land involved in the contract. (2) Existing law requires the legislative body of a city or county to deny approval of a tentative map, or a parcel map for which a tentative map was not required, if it finds that either the resulting parcels following a subdivision of that land would be too small to sustain their agricultural use, or the subdivision will result in residential development not incidental to the commercial agricultural use of the land, where the land is subject to, among others, a contract entered into pursuant to the Williamson Act.This bill would require the legislative body of a city or county to deny approval of a tentative map, or parcel map for which a tentative map is not required, for the proposed subdivision of land that is subject to a contract entered into pursuant to the Williamson Act, unless the legislative body finds, among other things, that each resulting parcel of land will be consistent with the local rules relating to that act, and each resulting parcel of land has an existing commercial agricultural use, an open-space use, or both, the agricultural improvements necessary to sustain a commercial agricultural use, an open-space use, or both, or a feasible plan exists for achieving those improvements, if necessary, as specified. The bill would also authorize the legislative body to impose any reasonable and necessary restrictions on the residential use of any resulting parcel. (3) Under existing law, if a city, county, or nonprofit organization serves written notice of nonrenewal of an open-space easement contract, a Williamson Act contract, or a farmland security zone contract, and the landowner fails to provide written notice of protest, the board of supervisors or the assessor is required to follow specified steps in assessing the annual value of the land immediately. This bill would instead provide that if a city, county, or nonprofit organization serves written notice of nonrenewal for cause, as defined, of an open-space easement contract, a Williamson Act contract, or a farmland security zone contract, or the city or county serves notice of nonrenewal and the landowner fails to provide written notice of protest, the board of supervisors or the assessor is required to follow specified steps in assessing the annual value of the land immediately.
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Existing law requires the collection of fees for issuing marriage licenses and for providing certified copies of vital records, including marriage certificates, birth certificates, fetal death records, and death records. Existing law provides for the establishment of county domestic violence program special funds for the purpose of funding local domestic violence programs. Certain fees payable at the time a marriage license or a certified copy of any of the above vital records is issued may be collected by the county clerks for deposit into these funds. Existing law authorizes the Board of Supervisors of the County of Alameda, and the Board of Supervisors of the County of Solano, until January 1, 2011, and the Board of Supervisors of the County of Sonoma, until January 1, 2015, upon making certain findings and declarations, to authorize an increase in the fees for marriage licenses and confidential marriage licenses, up to a maximum increase of $2. Existing law authorizes those boards of supervisors, and the City Council of the City of Berkeley, upon making certain findings and declarations, to authorize an increase in the fees for certified copies of certain vital records, up to a maximum increase of $2. Existing law authorizes those governmental entities to make further increases in those fees each year, as specified. Existing law requires these fees to be allocated for purposes relating to domestic violence prevention, intervention, and prosecution. This bill, until January 1, 2016, would provide the same authorization to increase fees for certain vital records to the Board of Supervisors of the County of Yolo.
Existing law does not provide a system of universal health care coverage for California residents. Existing law provides for the creation of various programs to provide health care services to persons who have limited incomes and meet various eligibility requirements. These programs include the Healthy Families Program administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, and the Medi‑Cal program administered by the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law provides for the regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and health insurers by the Department of Insurance. This bill would establish the California Healthcare System to be administered by the newly created California Healthcare Agency under the control of a Healthcare Commissioner appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by the Senate. The bill would make all California residents eligible for specified health care benefits under the California Healthcare System, which would, on a single-payer basis, negotiate for or set fees for health care services provided through the system and pay claims for those services. The bill would provide that a resident of the state with a household income, as specified, at or below 200% of the federal poverty level would be eligible for the type of benefits provided under the Medi-Cal program. The bill would require the commissioner to seek all necessary waivers, exemptions, agreements, or legislation to allow various existing federal, state, and local health care payments to be paid to the California Healthcare System, which would then assume responsibility for all benefits and services previously paid for with those funds. The bill would create the Healthcare Policy Board to establish policy on medical issues and various other matters relating to the system. The bill would create the Office of Patient Advocacy within the agency to represent the interests of health care consumers relative to the system. The bill would create within the agency the Office of Health Planning to plan for the health care needs of the population, and the Office of Health Care Quality, headed by a chief medical officer, to support the delivery of high quality care and promote provider and patient satisfaction. The bill would create the Office of Inspector General for the California Healthcare System within the Attorney General's office, which would have various oversight powers. The bill would prohibit health care service plan contracts or health insurance policies from being issued for services covered by the California Healthcare System. The bill would create the Healthcare Fund and the Payments Board to administer the finances of the California Healthcare System. The bill would create the California Healthcare Premium Commission (Premium Commission) to determine the cost of the California Healthcare System and to develop a premium structure for the system that complies with specified standards. The bill would require the Premium Commission to recommend a premium structure to the Governor and the Legislature on or before January 1, 2013, and to make a draft recommendation to the Governor, the Legislature, and the public 90 days before submitting its final premium structure recommendation. The bill would specify that only its provisions relating to the Premium Commission would become operative on January 1, 2011, with its remaining provisions becoming operative on the date the Secretary of California Health and Human Services notifies the Legislature, as specified, that sufficient funding exists to implement the California Healthcare System. The bill would require that system to be operative within 2 years of that date and would provide for various transition processes for that period. The bill would extend the application of certain insurance fraud laws to providers of services and products under the system, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program by revising the definition of a crime. The bill would enact other related provisions relative to budgeting, regional entities, federal preemption, subrogation, collective bargaining agreements, compensation of health care providers, conflict of interest, patient grievances, independent medical review, and associated matters. 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 memorialize the Legislature's support of legislation currently pending in the United States Congress that would protect the Pacific Coast from new offshore oil drilling. This measure would also memorialize the Legislature's opposition to the proposed expansion of oil and gas drilling off the Pacific Coast and any federal energy policies and legislation that would weaken California's role in energy siting decisions due to those policies.
Existing law requires the collection of fees for providing certified copies of vital records, including marriage certificates, birth certificates, fetal death records, and death records. Existing law authorizes the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and the City Council of the City of Berkeley, upon making certain findings and declarations, to authorize an increase in fees for certified copies of certain vital records, up to $2. Existing law, until January 1, 2011, authorizes the Solano County Board of Supervisors, upon making certain findings and declarations, to authorize an increase in fees for certified copies of certain vital records, up to $2. Existing law, until January 1, 2015, authorizes the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, upon making certain findings and declarations, to authorize an increase in fees for certified copies of certain vital records, up to $2. Existing law authorizes the above-described county boards of supervisors and that city council to make further increases in fees each year, as specified. Existing law requires the fees to be allocated for purposes relating to domestic violence prevention, intervention, and prosecution. This bill, until January 1, 2016, would authorize a county board of supervisors, upon making certain findings and declarations, to authorize an increase in fees of up to $4 for certified copies of certain vital records. The bill would require that12 of the fee increase be allocated for purposes relating to domestic violence prevention, intervention, and prosecution and the other12 of the fee increase be allocated for nonprofit, community-based organizations that serve domestic violence victims and their families, as specified. This bill, until January 1, 2016, notwithstanding the above-described authorization, would authorize the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and the City Council of the City of Berkeley, to authorize an increase in fees of up to $2 for certified copies of certain vital records. This bill, until January 1, 2011, notwithstanding the above-described authorization, would authorize the Solano County Board of Supervisors, to authorize an increase in fees of up to $2 for certified copies of certain vital records. This bill, until January 1, 2015, notwithstanding the above-described authorization, would authorize the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, to authorize an increase in fees of up to $2 for certified copies of certain vital records. The bill would require proceeds from the above-described fee increases to be allocated for nonprofit, community-based organizations that serve domestic violence victims and their families, as specified. This bill would provide that when the authorization for the fee increase of up to $2 ends for Solano County and Sonoma County on January 1, 2011, and January 1, 2015, respectively, the above-described provisions authorizing an increase in fees of up to a maximum of $4 shall apply with respect to those counties. This bill would require a county board of supervisors or the City Council of the City of Berkeley to direct, when appropriate, the local registrar, county recorder, and county clerk, to deposit the fees into a special fund, and would authorize a county or the City of Berkeley to retain up to 4% of the special fund for administrative costs, as specified. This bill would require that, prior to using the fee proceeds, a county board of supervisors or the City Council of the City of Berkeley provide for public hearings and comment on the specific manner in which funds are to be used and confer with its local domestic violence shelter or shelters before determining the specific manner in which funds are to be used. The bill would require a county board of supervisors or the City Council of the City of Berkeley to submit to the Assembly and Senate Committees on Judiciary, by February 1, 2015, a report regarding the above fee increases, as specified.
Existing law requires the state or a local public agency that proposes to undertake certain actions within the boundaries of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta or the Suisun Marsh to prepare, and submit to the Delta Stewardship Council, a specified written certification of consistency with a prescribed Delta Plan prior to taking those actions. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this requirement.
This measure would designate the first week of March of each year as Cuss Free Week.
Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits during the period that a person is unemployed. Existing law imposes various requirements on the payments of benefits, including work search requirements. Existing law also establishes retraining programs for unemployed workers. Prior law, enacted in 1994 and repealed in 2005, established the Self-Employment Assistance Program for displaced workers.This bill would reestablish the Self-Employment Assistance Program, to be administered by the Director of the Employment Development Department. The bill would provide for a weekly allowance for participants equal to regular unemployment benefits, subject to various limits, and would waive requirements relating to job search and self-employment, as specified. The bill would impose various eligibility requirements upon participants and would require the director to review the implementation of the program and submit information summarizing its operation and effectiveness to the Assembly Insurance Committee and the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee. The bill would remain effective until January 1, 2017.Since the benefits would be payable from the continuously appropriated Unemployment Fund, the bill would make an appropriation.The self-employment program provisions of the bill would apply to weeks beginning after approval of the United States Department of Labor.
This measure would recognize the Lunar New Year 4708 celebration.
This measure would declare February 23, 2010, to be Spay Day USA 2010 in California, and would request that Californians observe that day by having their dogs and cats spayed or neutered and by providing voluntary services or other support to organizations that provide spay and neuter services.