This measure would urge the President and Congress of the United States of America to repeal the excise tax on medical devices to protect the medical device industry and its consumers.
Existing law requires persons who have been convicted of specified crimes to register as a sex offender. Existing law provides for parole and postrelease community supervision of felons, as provided, including provisions for the revocation of parole or postrelease community supervision by a court or revocation hearing officer. This bill would require a criminal defendant who is released on parole or to postrelease community supervision, who has suffered a prior or current felony requiring registration as a sex offender, and who violates that parole or postrelease community-based supervision by violating the requirement to register as a sex offender to serve any period of incarceration ordered for that violation in the state prison. This bill would also make a conforming change by authorizing the revocation hearing officer to revoke and terminate postrelease community supervision and order the person to confinement in the state prison, upon a finding that the person has violated the conditions of postrelease community supervision.
(1) Existing law declares the intent of the Legislature that the State of California undertake the restoration of the Salton Sea ecosystem and the permanent protection of fish and wildlife dependent on that ecosystem based on a restoration plan that provides for the maximum feasible attainment of fish and wildlife restoration objectives and, to the extent consistent with these objectives, the protection of recreational opportunities and the creation of opportunities for improved local economic conditions. Existing law authorizes the Salton Sea Authority, a joint powers authority formed by the County of Imperial, the County of Riverside, the Coachella Valley Water District, and the Imperial Irrigation District, to form an infrastructure financing district for the purpose of funding the construction of, and purchasing electrical power for, projects for the reclamation and environmental restoration of the Salton Sea. This bill would require the authority, by April 1, 2014, to develop a restoration plan that is financially feasible to accomplish specified goals that include, among other things, the restoration of long-term stable aquatic and shoreline habitat and the mitigation of air quality impacts from restoration projects. Beginning January 1, 2014, the bill would designate the authority as the lead agency for the restoration of the Salton Sea and would require the State Lands Commission and any other state agency to grant to the authority a 99-year lease of all state-owned lands existing within the Salton Sea ecosystem, including all state-owned lands that underlie the navigable and tidal waterways of the Salton Sea. (2) The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 84) , an initiative statute approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, makes approximately $5,388,000,000 in bond funds available for safe drinking water, water quality and supply, flood control, natural resource protection, and park improvements, of which $47,000,000 is available for deposit into the Salton Sea Restoration Fund, which is administered by the Director of the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and requires that the moneys in the fund be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for, among other things, the implementation of conservation measures necessary to protect the fish and wildlife species dependent on the Salton Sea. This bill would require the Salton Sea authority to submit, on or before April 1, 2014, the restoration plan to the Legislative Analyst for review. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst to complete his or her review by June 1, 2014, and if the Legislative Analyst determines that the plan is financially feasible and that the authority is capable of implementing the plan, the bill would continuously appropriate from the Salton Sea Restoration Fund any moneys received under Proposition 84 to the authority to implement the plan. The bill would additionally require the Wildlife Conservation Board to review the restoration plan to determine whether it is eligible for federal matching funds and to seek those funds. The bill would require that these funds be deposited in the Salton Sea Restoration Fund and would continuously appropriate the moneys to the authority to implement the restoration plan.
This measure would designate that January 20, 2014, be observed as the official memorial of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth and commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America. This measure would also recognize the anniversaries of the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington in connection with the advancement of civil rights.
The Corporation Tax Law allows various credits against the tax imposed by that law. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2015, and before January 1, 2020, would allow a credit against the tax imposed under that law for monetary contributions to nonprofit organizations to fund qualified scholarships for specified pupils for transportation costs or to attend private schools, as defined, or to fund grants for K-12 education innovative programs relating to science, technology, engineering, and math literacy, and the arts for private, public, and charter schools, as defined. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law establishes the public elementary and secondary schools and the system of public community colleges in this state, and provides for a system for their funding. Provisions of the California Constitution require that a minimum amount of aggregate funding, calculated as specified, be allocated to school districts and community college districts unless this requirement is suspended, as provided. Pursuant to existing statutes, school districts, community college districts, and other local educational agencies receive a portion of their funding through apportionments of state funds made in accordance with payment schedules. This measure would require that the total amount due for allocation to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts pursuant to the constitutional minimum funding requirement described above for a fiscal year, as estimated at the time of enactment of the annual Budget Act for that fiscal year, be apportioned pursuant to statute during that fiscal year, unless that minimum funding requirement is suspended for that fiscal year. The measure would require this estimate to be set forth in the Budget Bill passed by the Legislature. The measure would require apportionments of state aid to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts to be made no later than the times specified by the statutory payment schedule that was in effect during the 2000–01 fiscal year, except that the Legislature may require by statute that these apportionments be made earlier in the fiscal year.
Existing law requires a local educational agency to implement one of several specified interventions for a school not identified as a persistently lowest-achieving school that, after one full school year, is subject to corrective action, as specified, and fails to meet specified criteria and has a specified percentage of parents and legal guardians of pupils sign a petition requesting the local educational agency to implement at least one of 5 specified interventions. Existing law requires a local educational agency to implement the intervention option requested by the petition unless the agency makes a specified finding in a regularly scheduled public hearing. This bill would delete the provision excluding schools identified as persistently lowest-achieving schools, and would also make the provisions applicable to schools ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the Academic Performance Index. The bill would make technical changes by updating cross-references. By imposing additional duties on school districts, the 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, 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.
Existing law, known as Laura's Law, until January 1, 2017, regulates designated assisted outpatient treatment services, which a county may, by resolution, choose to provide for its residents. In a county where assisted outpatient treatment services are available, a court may order a person to obtain assisted outpatient treatment for an initial period not to exceed 6 months if the court finds the requisite criteria are met, as specified. This bill would authorize the court to order a person to obtain assisted outpatient treatment for an initial period not to exceed 12 months. Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, authorizes the involuntary detention for a period of 72 hours for evaluation of persons who are dangerous to self or others, or gravely disabled, as defined. Existing law provides that if a person is detained for 72 hours or under court order for evaluation and has received an evaluation, he or she may be certified for not more than 14 days of intensive treatment related to the mental disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism if certain conditions are met, as specified. Under existing law, a person may be certified for intensive treatment for an additional period of time if he or she remains gravely disabled or unwilling or unable to accept voluntary treatment or if he or she was suicidal, as specified, or may be confined for postcertification treatment for up to 180 days if he or she has, among other things, attempted or inflicted physical harm upon another person, as specified. This bill would, upon the release of a person from intensive treatment or postcertification treatment described above, authorize the professional staff of the agency or facility that provided the treatment to evaluate whether the person meets the criteria for assisted outpatient treatment. This bill would authorize the professional staff to request the county mental health director to file a petition in the superior court for assisted outpatient treatment if that person meets that criteria. This bill would provide that these provisions apply only in a county that elects to implement Laura's Law.
Existing law requires that all persons released from prison on and after October 1, 2011, after serving a prison term for a felony be subject to postrelease community supervision provided by a county agency for a period of 3 years immediately following release, except for persons released after serving a term for a serious felony, a violent felony, an offense for which the person was sentenced pursuant to the 3 strikes law, a crime where the person is classified as a high risk sex offender, or a crime where the person is required to undergo treatment by the State Department of State Hospitals because the person has a severe mental disorder. Existing law requires these persons to be subject to parole supervision by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the court in the county in which the parolee is released or resides. This bill would require any person who has been released after serving a term for an offense for which the person is required to register as a sex offender to be subject to parole supervision by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The bill would also require that a person released from state prison who has a prior conviction or juvenile adjudication for which the person is required to register as a sex offender to be subject to parole supervision by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the jurisdiction of the court in the county in which the person is released or resides.
