This measure would recognize the need to pursue avenues to implement proposed reparations for the descendants of African slaves in the United States. The measure would further recognize August 2019 as marking 400 years since Africans were brought to Virginia.
This measure would proclaim September 29, 2019, as Gold Star Mothers' and Families' Day in California.
This measure would welcome refugees and declare its support for the resettlement of refugees in California, no matter their religion, race, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, or country of origin, and calls upon other local governments and communities to join them in supporting a stronger national effort to resettle the world's most vulnerable refugees. This measure would call on the federal government to resettle all 30,000 refugees that the United States has committed to resettle in the fiscal year 2019, and would call on Congress and the presidential administration to raise the Presidential Determination to at least 75,000 refugees for fiscal year 2020.
This measure would designate October 20, 2019, and each 20th day of October thereafter, as Leyte Landing Commemoration Day in recognition of the significance of the Leyte landing in liberating the Philippines from Japanese occupation and would also honor the significant contributions to California made by generations of Filipino Americans since that time.
The Real Estate Law establishes, within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, the Department of Real Estate for the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and salespersons. Existing law requires a licensed real estate broker to retain for 3 years copies of certain documents relating to transactions for which a real estate broker license is required, as specified. Existing civil law provides that a multiple listing service (MLS) , as defined, may be used by real estate agents and appraisers to prepare market evaluations and appraisals of real property and makes an agent or appraiser responsible for the truth of their representations and statements, as specified. This bill would require a multiple listing service to retain and make accessible on its computer system, if any, all listing and other information placed in the multiple listing service by an agent or appraiser for no less than 3 years from the date the listing was placed. The bill would prohibit these provisions relating to multiple listing services from altering the obligations of a licensed real estate broker to retain documents relating to transactions for which a real estate broker license is required, as specified. Existing law imposes certain disclosure requirements on the transferor of single-family residential property, including requiring the transferor to provide a specified real estate transfer disclosure statement and to disclose certain natural hazards. Existing law makes those provisions applicable to, among other transfers, a lease with an option to purchase, any other option to purchase, or a ground lease with improvements. Existing law specifically exempts certain transactions from those disclosure requirements. This bill would revise the form for the real estate transfer disclosure statement to include a check box indicating that there are no substituted disclosures for the transfer. The bill would specifically exempt from the above-described disclosure requirements the sale, creation, or transfer of any lease, except a lease with an option to purchase or a ground lease coupled with improvements. Existing law imposes a duty on a real estate broker or salesperson to a prospective buyer of single-family residential property or a manufactured home to conduct an inspection of the property offered for sale and to disclose to that prospective buyer all facts materially affecting the value or desirability of the property, if the broker has a written contract with the seller to find a buyer or the broker acts in cooperation with that broker. This bill, instead, would impose that duty on a real estate broker or salesperson to a prospective buyer of residential real property improved with one to 4 dwelling units or a manufactured home. Existing law defines various terms for specified provisions affecting the duties of real estate professionals to prospective sellers and buyers of real property. This bill would define the terms "single-family residential property" and "single-family residential real property" for specified provisions. The bill would also make technical and clarifying changes to related provisions affecting residential real property disclosures.
This measure would, among other things, designate the year 2019 as "State of California Year of Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1923," would designate April 24, 2019, as "State of California Day of Commemoration of the 104th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1923," and would call upon the President of the United States and the United States Congress to formally and consistently reaffirm the historical truth that the atrocities committed against the Armenian people constituted genocide.
This measure would request the Trustees of the California State University and the Regents of the University of California to conduct a study on the usefulness, effectiveness, and need for the SAT and ACT to determine student admissions, and would provide that the study should include evaluation of specified admissions eligibility and qualifications measures and testing issues. The measure would also provide that the study should include recommendations and, if determined necessary, a plan for phasing out the use of the SAT and ACT as a basis for admission.
This measure would request the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that would strengthen the communication between federal, state, local, and tribal officials, and that would require the United States Department of Justice, United States Department of the Interior, and United States Department of Health and Human Services to seek recommendations from tribes in enhancing the safety of Native American women and girls. The measure would also request that the Attorney General of the State of California begin the collection of data as it relates to missing and murdered Native American women and girls.
