Existing law authorizes a cemetery authority that maintains a private cemetery to place its cemetery under endowment care and to operate an endowment care fund. Existing law requires the principal of all funds for endowment care to be invested, and only the income to be used for the care of the cemetery. The term "income," for these purposes, means the distribution under either the net income distribution method or the unitrust distribution method. Existing law requires an endowment fund to be subject to a net income distribution method, and authorizes, on or after January 1, 2020, a cemetery authority to apply to the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to convert its fund to a unitrust distribution method. The board is required to approve an application to convert a fund if certain conditions are met, including, the compensation to the trustee of the fund is limited to 0.1 % of the net fair market value of the assets as of the last trading day for each of the 3 preceding fiscal years. This bill would instead authorize a cemetery authority to convert to a unitrust distribution method on or after January 1, 2021. The bill would additionally modify the requirements to convert an endowment care fund from a net income distribution method to a unitrust distribution method by requiring the compensation of the trustee, as defined, to be reasonable and meet specified requirements based on the net fair market value, as defined, of the endowment care fund. The bill would additionally prohibit the principal and income of the trust fund of a cemetery from being seized in any proceeding by any private entity, and would limit the use of the principal and income of the trust fund if it is seized by a public entity. The bill would additionally limit the use of the principal and income of the trust fund if ownership of the cemetery authority is transferred, as specified.
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(1) Existing law, the Apiary Protection Act, provides for the regulation and management of apiaries. Existing law requires that registration of an apiary be filed with the agricultural commissioner of the county in which the apiary is located, or with the Secretary of Food and Agriculture if there is no agricultural commissioner in the county. Existing law requires any person relocating a bee colony from a registered apiary in one county to another county where the apiary is not registered to notify the county agricultural commissioner within 72 hours of the first movement. Existing law conditions the availability of certain protections under the Apiary Protection Act on a beekeeper's compliance with this requirement. Existing law exempts information provided pursuant to this requirement from disclosure pursuant to the California Public Records Act. Existing law also requires any apiary operator, or the apiary operator's designated representative, to notify a county agricultural commissioner when relocating a bee colony within the county, but does not impose a 72-hour deadline for providing notice or include other provisions relating to this requirement that are consistent with the above-described provisions regarding notice of a relocation to another county. Existing law makes it an infraction for any person to fail to comply with specified requirements of the Apiary Protection Act, including the above-described notification requirements. This bill would recast provisions regarding notice of relocation within a county to be consistent with those regarding notice of relocation to another county, including, among other things, by imposing a 72-hour deadline for providing notice of relocation within a county or subsequent movement within the destination county, and by exempting information provided pursuant to that notification requirement from disclosure pursuant to the California Public Records Act. By imposing a notification requirement of shorter duration, the violation of which is a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law that becomes operative on and after January 1, 2020, authorizes the secretary or a county agricultural commissioner, in lieu of prosecution, and in addition to any other penalty that is provided in the Apiary Protection Act, to impose an administrative civil penalty for a violation of certain requirements of the Apiary Protection Act regulating the registration and identification of apiaries and the relocation of bee colonies, pursuant to a prescribed hearing and appeals process. This bill would further delay the operative date of these provisions until January 1, 2021. (3) Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. (4) 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, 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.
This measure would recognize August 15, 2019, as India's Independence Day, and urge all Californians to join in celebrating India's independence.
This measure would call for continued support and recognition of the many benefits provided by Special Olympics.
This measure would declare August 2019 as Valley Fever Awareness Month.