Existing law requires the county recorder in each county to complete a yearly statistical report on a specified form of documents recorded and filed. This bill would require the report to also include information regarding electronically submitted documents, and would require documents to be counted and reported in the same manner without regard to method of transmission. The Electronic Recording Delivery Act of 2004 authorizes a county recorder, upon approval by resolution of the board of supervisors and system certification by the Attorney General, to establish an electronic recording delivery system for the delivery for recording of specified digitized electronic records, subject to specified conditions. The act authorizes a county recorder to enter into a contract with specified entities for the delivery for recording, and return to the party requesting recording, a digitized electronic record that is an instrument affecting a right, title, or interest in real property. This bill, until January 1, 2027, would authorize a county recorder to also enter into a contract with an authorized submitter for the delivery for recording, and return to the party requesting recording, of a digital or digitized electronic record that is an instrument to be recorded consistent with a specified provision. The bill, until January 1, 2027, would require an authorized submitter, as specified, and any agent submitting documents on behalf of an authorized submitter, to provide proof of financial responsibility in the form of general liability coverage, as provided. Existing law requires the Attorney General, in consultation with interested parties, to adopt regulations for the review, approval, and oversight of electronic recording delivery systems. Existing law authorizes the regulations to include specified requirements and procedures. This bill, until January 1, 2027, would additionally authorize the regulations to include requirements for general liability coverage as described above.
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Existing law requires each state agency and certain designated state entities to annually report to the Department of Technology a summary of its actual and projected information technology and telecommunications costs, as specified. This bill would additionally require these state agencies and entities to annually report to the department, beginning on or before January 1, 2018, a summary of its actual and projected information security costs, as specified.
Existing law establishes the California Military Department, which includes the Office of the Adjutant General, the California National Guard, the State Military Reserve, the California Cadet Corps, and the Naval Militia. This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, create the Office of Military Legal Assistance within the Military Department. The bill would require the office to assist current servicemembers in the state who require legal assistance by providing access to educational and informational resources and by providing referral services to available legal assistance programs, including reduced fee services, pro bono services, and self-help services. The bill would, subject to the provisions described above, authorize the office to provide assistance in legal areas including, but not limited to, the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, consumer protection, and landlord-tenant issues. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2022, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2023.
Existing federal law, the Stephen Beck, Jr., Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014 (ABLE Act) , encourages and assists individuals and families to save private funds for the purpose of supporting persons with disabilities to maintain their health, independence, and quality of life by excluding from gross income distributions used for qualified disability expenses by a beneficiary of a qualified ABLE program established and maintained by a state, as specified. Existing law conforms to these federal income tax law provisions relating to the ABLE Act under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, as provided. Existing law defines "eligible individual" for these purposes. Existing law establishes in state government the ABLE program trust for purposes of implementing the federal ABLE Act. Existing law also establishes the ABLE Act Board and authorizes the board to adopt regulations to implement the program. The existing State Contract Act, in connection with contracts entered into by any state agency for services to be rendered to the state, prohibits a person, firm, or subsidiary thereof that has been awarded a consulting services contract from submitting a bid for, or being awarded a contract for, the provision of services, the procurement of goods or supplies, or any other related action that is required, suggested, or otherwise deemed appropriate in the end product of the consulting services contract. A willful violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor, under other provisions. This bill would modify the definition of "eligible individual." The bill would also exempt the ABLE Act Board from the above prohibition in the State Contract Act for a contract with a program consultant for the qualified ABLE program but would require such a contract to be publicly disclosed in a manner specified by the board prior to entering into the contract. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes the California National Guard and adopts the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the Manual for Courts-Martial, as governing and applicable to the active state militia, including the California National Guard. This bill would prohibit a member of the active militia, including the California National Guard, from being prosecuted for a military crime based on an attempt to kill himself or herself. The bill would also require the Adjutant General to ensure that any member of the active militia that attempts to kill himself or herself is referred, as soon as practically possible, to the department's Behavioral Health Liaison Program, or its successor, to receive assistance, counseling, or referral to other appropriate available services.
Existing law establishes the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy in the Natural Resources Agency and prescribes the functions and duties of the conservancy with regard to the preservation, protection, and management of specified lands in the Santa Monica Mountains Zone, as defined. For purposes of providing a recreational trail corridor, the zone includes trails and accessways generally following the Rim of the Valley Trail, as specified. Existing law authorizes the conservancy to revise the boundaries of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor in the vicinity of the City of Santa Clarita if it determines, based on relevant scientific information and land use planning studies and after holding at least one public hearing, that a boundary revision is necessary, and to prepare and file a revised map showing the revised boundaries, as prescribed. This bill would, pursuant to the same process and conditions, also authorize the conservancy to revise the boundaries of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor in the vicinity of the City of Moorpark, and to prepare and file a revised map, as prescribed.
This measure would recognize the week of October 16, 2016, to October 22, 2016, inclusive, as Digital Citizenship Week.
This measure would proclaim September 28, 2016, as Parent Advocacy Day.
This measure would proclaim October 23 to October 29, 2016, inclusive, as Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.
This measure would recognize the month of September 2016 as Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month.