Existing law regulates sellers of travel, as defined, and requires their registration with the Attorney General. Existing law requires a seller of travel to deposit all sums received from any person or entity for air or sea transportation, or for any travel services offered by the seller of travel, and any refunds made by carries or providers of travel services, into a trust account, as specified. Existing law requires the seller of travel to file with the Attorney General an agreement allowing the Attorney General, a district attorney, or their representative to examine and obtain copies of all business records, including, but not limited to, those related to the trust account. This bill would require the seller of travel to maintain all business records for a minimum period of 3 years. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to maintain an action for recovery of examination costs and expenses in any court of competent jurisdiction, as specified. The bill would require the seller of travel to pay for costs and expenses for any examination if the Attorney General bills the seller of travel, provided that the examination shows that the seller of travel has failed to comply with certain requirements. Existing law creates the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation, which assesses each registered seller of travel for both its operations and restitution funds. Existing law requires certain assessments to be due 45 days from the date the bill for that assessment is mailed. This bill would instead require those assessments to be due 45 days from the date the bill for that assessment is sent to the seller of travel.
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This measure would declare the importance of the arts to the state and the essential role of the Arts Council in promoting the arts throughout the state, and urge a unified effort between the Legislature and the Governor to provide a substantial increase in the General Fund appropriation to the California Arts Council in the 2015–16 Budget Act.
This measure would designate the bicycle-pedestrian path constructed as part of the project to widen State Highway Route 101 in the County of Ventura as the Ralph Fertig Memorial Bicycle-Pedestrian Path and the pedestrian undercrossing of State Highway Route 101 in the community of La Conchita in the County of Ventura as the Peter Douglas Coastal Access Way. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing each of these special designations and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost of the signs for which the donations were made, to erect those signs.
This measure would recognize that every child who needs comprehensive health and early intervention services and supports in order to achieve his or her developmental potential should have those services easily accessible, sufficient, responsive, timely, and of high quality. The measure would further urge the Legislature to leverage existing efforts and statutes to ensure an accountable, results-oriented, and coordinated network of resources in order to provide multidisciplinary early identification and intervention services and supports to California infants and toddlers.
This measure would designate the interchange at the junction of State Routes 99 and 166 in the County of Kern as the CHP Officer Gerald E. Dormaier Memorial Interchange. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
This measure would proclaim October 17, 2015, as Firefighters Memorial Day.
This measure would designate November 2015 as a month to raise awareness about the issue of medically fragile foster care children and adoptive placement children and the actions that every Californian can take to make a positive difference in these children's lives.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law authorizes the establishment of community college districts under the administration of community college governing boards, and authorizes these districts to provide instruction at community college campuses throughout the state. Existing law establishes a financial and professional development grant funding program, which authorizes the governing board of a community college district to apply to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges for, and requires the chancellor to distribute, multiyear financial and professional development grant funding to community colleges within the district. Existing law requires colleges receiving these funds to adopt or expand the use of evidence-based models of academic assessment and placement, remediation, and student support that accelerate the progress of underprepared students toward achieving postsecondary educational and career goals, as specified. Existing law requires recipient community colleges to report specified information to the chancellor's office on program outcomes. Existing law makes the chancellor's office responsible for administering the grant program and distributing and monitoring awards to recipient community college districts, developing application criteria, administrative guidelines, and other requirements for purposes of administering the grant program, and providing the information submitted by community college districts to the Legislative Analyst's Office. Existing law requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to report to the Legislature on the progress of the grant program in achieving its prescribed purpose, as specified. This bill would require a community college district, in order to receive grant funding, to submit a plan to the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges that details the strategy of a college or colleges within the district for achieving the goals of the program. The bill would require a district to specify in the plan, at a minimum, the number of students to be served, strategies to be employed, and projected results for the plan's implementation. The bill would also require the chancellor's office to determine levels of funding to be awarded to grant recipients, and would authorize the chancellor's office to contract with technical assistance providers to assist applicant and recipient colleges in developing and implementing these evidence-based models of academic assessment and placement, remediation, and student support, as specified.