This measure would declare February 19, 2014, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
Under existing law, price, fitness, and quality being equal, any body, officer, or other person charged with the purchase, or permitted or authorized to purchase supplies for the use of the state, or of any of its institutions or offices, or for the use of any county or city, is required to always prefer supplies, defined to include produce, that are grown, manufactured, or produced in the state, and is required to next prefer supplies partially manufactured, grown, or produced in the state. This bill would, until January 1, 2017, remove supplies grown or partially grown in the state from this requirement, and produce from the definition of supplies. The bill, the Choose California Act, would until January 1, 2017, require all California state-owned or state-run institutions, except public universities, public schools, and school districts, to purchase agricultural products grown in California to the extent possible from a California company before those that are grown outside of the state, as specified. The bill would, until January 1, 2017, encourage all public universities, public schools, and school districts in California to purchase agricultural products grown in California to the greatest extent possible.
(1) Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2015, the Attorney General, or other specified prosecuting officers at the Department of Justice, or a district attorney, to apply for, and a judge to enter, an ex parte order authorizing interception of wire or electronic communications under certain circumstances. Existing law authorizes a judge to enter an order authorizing the interception of communications initially intercepted within the territorial jurisdiction of the court in which the judge is sitting, if the judge determines that, among other things, there is probable cause to believe that an individual is committing, has committed, or is about to commit one of specified felony offenses, including murder and the illegal possession or sale of controlled substances. Existing law proscribes the crime of human trafficking, as defined to include, among other prohibited acts, depriving or violating the personal liberty of another with the intent to obtain forced labor or services or to effect or maintain a specified criminal offense, or inducing or persuading a minor to engage in a commercial sex act. This bill would expand the provisions described above authorizing interception of wire or electronic communications to apply if a judge determines that, among other things, there is probable cause to believe that an individual is committing, has committed, or is about to commit a violation of the provision described above proscribing human trafficking. (2) Existing law specifies obligations for parties applying for and carrying out orders to intercept communications pursuant to the provision described above, and makes a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor or felony. This bill would broaden the types of communications to which these crimes would apply. By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including credits for taxpayers that employ qualified employees, as defined, in an enterprise zone. This bill would modify the definition of a qualified employee, as specified, and require qualified wages to exceed an average monthly wage of $2,000, as specified. This bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes. This bill would include 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 bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law allows the State Department of Public Health to adopt, amend, or repeal regulations necessary for the administration of clinical laboratories. Existing law makes a violation of the provisions governing clinical laboratories and clinical laboratory personnel a crime. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to promulgate regulations to require hospitals and health care facilities that employ clinical laboratory scientists and medical laboratory technicians to provide training to those individuals and any other employees charged with supervising those individuals on specified subject matters. Since a violation of the provisions governing clinical laboratory technology is a misdemeanor under existing law, this bill would expand the definition of a crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. 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.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical, gas, water, and telephone corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules for all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature. Existing law directs the commission to require every electrical, gas, water, wireless telecommunications service provider, and telephone corporation with annual gross revenues exceeding $25,000,000, and their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to implement a program developed by the commission to encourage, recruit, and utilize minority-, women-, and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises, as defined, in the procurement of contracts from those corporations or from their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, and to require the reporting of certain information. Existing law requires the commission, by rule or order, to adopt criteria for verifying and determining eligibility of women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprises for procurement contracts. The commission, by its rulemaking authority, has adopted General Order 156, applicable to certain electrical, gas, and telephone corporations, to effectuate these requirements. This bill would make findings and declarations regarding women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprises. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to promote diverse lending institutions to increase the availability of access to capital for women, minority, and disabled veteran-owned businesses consistent with the original intent of the supplier diversity program and to continue these efforts in the procurement of legal services and financial services.
Existing law requires the use of average daily attendance to compute revenue limits and school funding apportionments, as specified. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to equitably fund the services provided by each school district, county office of education, and charter school by the enrollment of pupils for which the school district, county office of education, or charter school is required to educate. The bill would replace average daily attendance with average daily enrollment, as defined, and would, commencing with the 2014–15 fiscal year, phase in the replacement of average daily attendance with average daily enrollment over 3 fiscal years, as specified. The bill would, commencing on July 1, 2016, provide that all statutory references to average daily attendance are deemed to refer to average daily enrollment, as defined. By requiring local educational agencies to use average daily enrollment instead of average daily attendance, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law deems a pupil an habitual truant if the pupil has been reported as a truant 3 or more times per school year, except that a pupil may not be deemed an habitual truant unless an appropriate district officer or employee has made a conscientious effort, as defined, to hold at least one conference with the pupil and a parent or guardian of the pupil, as specified. This bill would require the average daily enrollment funding of a pupil deemed a habitual truant, as specified, to be allocated for the sole purposes of securing pupil attendance and success in school by the governing board of a school district or county office of education, or the governing body of a charter school. 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
