This measure would designate that January 17, 2011, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 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.
The California Constitution prohibits a bill from being passed by the Legislature until the bill with amendments has been printed and distributed to the Members. This measure would prohibit passage of a bill by a house of the Legislature unless, at least 48 hours in advance, the bill is made available to the public on the Internet, except that the house may dispense with this requirement by rollcall vote, 34 of the membership concurring.
Existing law imposes a penalty on a taxpayer subject to the Corporation Tax Law with a specified understatement of tax, as defined, in an amount equal to 20% of that understatement, except as specified. This bill would delete the provisions imposing that penalty.
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services, including nonemergency medical transportation services, are provided to qualified low-income persons. This bill would require the department to establish a 2-year pilot program in at least 3 consenting counties to evaluate a nonemergency medical transportation model in which the state would contract with a broker to manage the provision of nonemergency medical transportation services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries. This bill would require the department to monitor the pilot program, evaluate the outcomes and savings, and provide the fiscal committees of the Legislature with a report on its findings and recommendations. If the department determines the pilot program to be cost effective, the bill would authorize the department to implement the program statewide at any time and continue operation of the program indefinitely.
Existing law establishes the system of public elementary and secondary schools and public institutions of higher education in this state. Under existing law, part of the funding for the public institutions of elementary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions in this state is derived from the sale of bonds whose issuance is approved by voters either statewide or within the jurisdiction of a local educational agency. This bill would authorize a portion of the proceeds of the sale of refunding bonds to be set aside and applied solely to the purposes for which the bonds to be refunded were authorized to be issued by the voters and limits that amount to the net present value if the amount by which the total debt service to maturity on the bonds to be refunded exceeds the total debt service to maturity on the refunding bonds. Existing law authorizes the issuance of school district bonds if the tax rate would not exceed $30 per $100,000, or $60 per $100,000 in the case of a unified school district, of taxable property when the assessed valuation is projected to increase in accordance with specified constitutional provisions. This bill would authorize those bonds at those rates when the assessed valuation of the taxable property is projected to increase, instead, at an annual rate no greater than the average annual rate of growth in assessed value in the issuing district over a 20-year period preceding the issuance.
Existing provisions of the California Constitution prohibit the Legislature from sending to the Governor for consideration, and prohibit the Governor from signing, a budget bill that would appropriate from the General Fund a total amount that, when combined with specified appropriations and transfers, exceeds General Fund revenues for that fiscal year estimated as of the date of the budget bill's passage. This measure would require that the estimate of the General Fund revenues described above be made by the Treasurer. The measure would require the Treasurer, within 3 days after a budget bill is submitted to the Governor, to certify whether the budget bill meets the above requirement regarding appropriations from the General Fund. The Governor would be prohibited from signing a bill that the Treasurer certifies as not meeting that requirement unless the Governor adjusts appropriations in the bill and the Treasurer certifies that the bill, as adjusted, does in fact meet that requirement. This measure would prohibit either house of the Legislature from adjourning for a recess after sending a budget bill to the Governor until the Treasurer has certified that the budget bill meets the above requirement regarding appropriations from the General Fund.
Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide that the University of California constitutes a public trust and requires the university to be administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes. These provisions require that corporation to have all powers necessary or convenient for the effective administration of its trust. This measure would repeal on January 1, 2011, the constitutional provisions relating to the university and the regents and would require the university and the regents to be continued in existence subject to legislative control as may be provided by statute. The measure would require the Legislature to enact legislation to implement these provisions, but would prohibit the Legislature from enacting any law that restrains academic freedom, as defined, or imposes educational or curricular requirements on students enrolled at the University of California.
Existing law prescribes the course of study a pupil is required to complete while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in order to receive a diploma of graduation. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to adopt rules specifying additional coursework requirements. Existing law requires each school district maintaining any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer to all otherwise qualified pupils in those grades a course of study that provides an opportunity for those pupils to attain entry-level employment skills in business or industry upon graduation from high school. This bill would prohibit a school district from adopting a graduation requirement that commences with the 2010–11 school year and requires the completion of additional coursework to meet or exceed the requirements and prerequisites for admission to a 4-year California public university unless the district also requires the completion of a sequence of at least 3 career and technical education courses. However, this provision would not apply to a school district that, by June 30, 2009, has adopted graduation requirements that require the completion of all minimum coursework necessary to meet the requirements and prerequisites for admission to a 4-year California public university. The bill also would make conforming and clarifying changes.
This measure would designate that January 18, 2010, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 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.
The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities in order to address the effects of blight, as defined, in those communities and requires those agencies to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and approve a redevelopment plan for each area. Existing law also requires that not less than 20% of the tax-increment revenue allocated to a redevelopment agency be used to increase, improve, and preserve the supply of the community's low- and moderate-income housing within the territorial jurisdiction of the agency, and for this purpose, the funds are held in a separate Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would redefine the term redevelopment to include improving, increasing, or preserving emergency shelters for homeless persons or households. The bill would authorize donor agencies, as defined, located within the same housing region to create and participate in a joint powers authority and to enter into an interagency agreement for the purpose of pooling a permitted portion of housing funds for emergency shelters for homeless persons or households and transitional housing units. The bill would authorize the agencies to transfer a portion of their housing funds to a joint powers authority or to a receiving agency, as defined, for use by the authority or agency pursuant to these provisions. The bill would require that the emergency shelters assisted with low- and moderate-income housing funds remain available at affordable housing cost to specified persons, families, and households for not less than 55 years, provided that a certain requirement is met.
