This measure would recognize April 23, 2012, to April 30, 2012, inclusive, as Black April Memorial Week, and April 2012 as Vietnamese American month.
This measure would acknowledge the month of April 2012 as Child Abuse Prevention Month, and encourage the people of the State of California to work together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention activities in their communities and schools.
Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations to establish a process to identify and prioritize chemicals or chemical ingredients in consumer products, to establish a process for evaluating chemicals of concern in consumer products and their potential alternatives for the purposes of limiting exposure or to reduce the level of hazard posed by chemicals of concern, and a range of regulatory responses that the department may take following the evaluation. Existing law requires the department to appoint members to the Green Ribbon Science Panel, which provides advice to the department in the implementation of the above provisions. Existing law requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to evaluate and specify the hazard traits, and environmental and toxicological end-point data. This bill would delete obsolete provisions in the above provisions.
This measure would call upon all Californians to observe César Chávez's birthday, March 31, as a day of public service, to recognize the hard work and self-sacrifice that farmworkers go through to feed all the families in our state, and to learn from César Chávez's life and his mission of nonviolence, social justice, and selfless service to others.
This measure would designate the month of November 2012 as California Runaway and Homeless Youth Month and would recognize the need for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local governments, and the state to take action on behalf of runaway and homeless youth in California.
This measure would proclaim California as a Purple Heart State, honoring the service and sacrifices of our nation's men and women in uniform wounded or killed by the enemy while serving to protect the freedoms enjoyed by all Americans.
This measure would proclaim April 15 through April 22, 2012, as California Holocaust Memorial Week and would urge Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.
Under existing law, in every case where a person is convicted of a crime and whose sentence includes parole, the court is required to assess a parole revocation fine, as specified, for deposit into the Restitution Fund in the State Treasury. This bill would require a person who is subject to postrelease community supervision or mandatory supervision, who violates the terms of his or her postrelease community supervision or mandatory supervision, and who is incarcerated in a county jail for that violation, to pay a fine, for deposit into the Restitution Fund in the State Treasury, a continuously appropriated fund. Because the bill creates a new source of revenue for deposit into the restitution fund, the bill would make an appropriation. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to deduct and retain certain funds from the wages, trust account deposits, or settlement or trial awards of a prisoner for the payment of certain fees and fines, including restitution orders, restitution fines, and specified administrative fees, and also authorizes the department to collect funds from a parolee for the payment of restitution orders and fines, unless prohibited by federal law. Under existing law, these funds are required to be deposited in the Restitution Fund in the State Treasury. This bill would specify that, when a prisoner is punished by imprisonment in a county jail, an agency designated by the county board of supervisors is required to deduct and retain those funds, and would also authorize that agency to collect funds from a parolee. The bill would require these agencies to transfer these funds for deposit in the Restitution Fund. By imposing additional requirements on counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Existing law provides, with exceptions, that any person in the state who manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports, keeps for sale, or offers or exposes for sale, or who gives, lends, or possess any metal knuckles is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. This bill would instead make this crime a felony, punishable in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. By changing the punishment of a crime, and increasing the duties of local prosecutors this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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.
