Asm. Jacqui Irwin

This measure would establish the California Task Force on Family Caregiving, to meet, if a nonstate organization agrees to provide administrative support to the task force, to examine issues relative to the challenges faced by family caregivers and opportunities to improve caregiver support, review the current network and the services and supports available to caregivers, and make policy recommendations to the Legislature. The task force would be required to submit an interim report to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2017, and a final report no later than July 1, 2018.

This measure would recognize the California Association of County Veterans Service Officers for helping veterans secure their federal and state benefits over the past 70 years.

This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to permanently reauthorize and fully fund the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund in order to maintain and preserve land and water resources.

This measure would encourage citizens, businesses, groups, organizations, and public institutions to observe and participate in coastal protection activities, and proclaim September 19, 2015, as the 31st annual Coastal Cleanup Day.

This measure, among other things, would urge both private and public medical training institutions in the state to provide equal access to osteopathic and allopathic students to apply to training programs, would urge osteopathic medical schools, allopathic medical schools, and their training institutions to build on current successes of working toward greater collaboration and coordination of education and training for California's future physicians, and would urge efforts by training institutions and allopathic and osteopathic medical schools to work toward greater acceptance and integration of osteopathic and allopathic students.

This measure would call upon the President of the United States to encourage the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services to adopt policies to repeal the current and upcoming discriminatory donor suitability policies of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding blood donations by men who have had sex with another man and, instead, direct the FDA to develop science-based policies such as criteria based on risky behavior in lieu of sexual orientation.

Existing law requires an individual or entity who for compensation solicits funds or property for charitable purposes to disclose that the solicitation is being conducted by a commercial fundraiser for a charitable purpose and the registered name of the commercial fundraiser. This bill would require the disclosures, if printed or if presented electronically, to be in at least 12-point type, and be clear and conspicuous. Existing law, the Supervision of Trustees and Fundraisers for Charitable Purposes Act, generally regulates charitable corporations, trustees, and other legal entities holding property for charitable purposes, commercial fundraisers for charitable purposes, and fundraising counsel for charitable purposes, among others, over which the state or the Attorney General has enforcement or supervisory powers. Existing law defines a commercial fundraiser for charitable purposes to mean any individual, corporation, unincorporated association, or other legal entity who, for compensation, engages in specified activities, including, among other things, soliciting funds, assets, or property in this state for charitable purposes. Existing law defines a fundraising counsel for charitable purposes to mean any individual, corporation, unincorporated association, or other legal entity who, for compensation, engages in specified activities including, among other things, planning, managing, or preparing material for the solicitation of funds, but who does not engage in specified activities, including, among other things, soliciting funds, assets, or property for charitable purposes. Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain a register of charitable corporations, unincorporated associations, and trustees subject to these provisions and of the particular trust or other relationship under which they hold property for charitable purposes. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to bring any action against trustees or against any charitable corporation or director or officer thereof, to enforce a charitable trust, to impress property with a trust for charitable purposes, or to recover property or the proceeds thereof at any time within 10 years after the cause of action accrued. This bill would expand the definition of a commercial fundraiser for charitable purposes to include any individual, corporation, unincorporated association, or other legal entity that plans, manages, advises, counsels, consults, or prepares material for, or with respect to, the solicitation in this state of funds, assets, or property for charitable purposes, as specified. The bill would exclude from the definition of a commercial fundraiser for charitable purposes, a trustee, a charitable corporation, specified financial institutions, or an escrow agent or caging company, as defined, that receives or controls funds as a result of a solicitation for charitable purposes. The bill would list conditions in which a fundraising counsel for charitable purposes is deemed to receive or control funds, assets, or property. The bill would require an individual, corporation, unincorporated association, or other legal entity that does not meet the qualifications of fundraising counsel for charitable purposes to be deemed a commercial fundraiser for charitable purposes. This bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a violation of these provisions at any time within 10 years after the cause of action accrued. The bill would also authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for civil liability against a person who aids or abets a violation of these provisions at any time within 10 years after the cause of action accrued. Existing law provides that one who wrongfully detains a thing is an involuntary trustee thereof for the benefit of the owner, and that one who gains a thing by fraud, or other wrongful act is an involuntary trustee of the thing gained for the benefit of the owner. This bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a violation of these provisions at any time within 10 years after the cause of action accrued. This bill would also authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for civil liability against a person who aids or abets a violation of these provisions at any time within 10 years after the cause of action accrued. Existing law, the Nonprofit Corporation Law, sets forth standards of conduct for directors and officers of nonprofit public benefit corporations and provides that it is a crime for any director or officer of any corporation among other things, to knowingly engage in specified acts relating to fraud, to make materially false reports, to receive or acquire possession of the property of the corporation, or to falsify the books or accounts of the corporation. This bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a violation of these provisions at any time within 10 years after the cause of action accrued. The bill would also authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for civil liability against a person who aids or abets a violation of the standards of conduct for directors and officers of nonprofit public benefit corporations at any time within 10 years after the cause of action accrued.

This measure would proclaim October 23 to October 31, 2015, 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 commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Watts Revolt.

Existing law establishes the California Military Department, which contains the California National Guard, the State Military Reserve, and other offices. This bill would codify the Governor's Military Council, under the direction of the California Military Department, and would provide for appointment to the council by the Governor. The bill would require that the appointments shall include, but not be limited to, bipartisan representatives from both houses of the Legislature. The provisions of this bill would be repealed on January 1, 2021.