Existing law establishes various boards and commissions within state government. Existing law establishes various transit districts and other local entities for development of public transit on a regional basis and makes various state revenues available to those entities for those purposes. Existing law declares that the fostering, continuance, and development of public transportation systems are a matter of statewide concern. The Public Transportation Account is designated as a trust fund and funds in the account shall be available only for specified transportation planning and mass transportation purposes. This bill would establish, until March 30, 2013, the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Public Transportation for the 21st Century. The bill would require the task force to be comprised of 12 members and would require the Senate Committee on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly to each appoint 6 specified members, by January 31, 2012. The bill would require the task force to elect one of its nonlegislative members as chair. The bill would require the task force to issue a written report that contains specified findings and recommendations relating to, among other things, the current state of California's transit system, the estimated cost of creating the needed system over various terms, and potential sources of funding to sustain the transit system's needs, and to submit the report by September 30, 2012, to the Governor, the Legislature, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Senate Committee on Rules, the Speaker of the Assembly, and the transportation committees of the Legislature. The bill would require the task force, for purposes of collecting information for the written report, to consult with appropriate state agencies and departments and would require the task force to contract with consultants for preparation of the report. The bill would require the Department of Transportation to provide administrative staffing to the task force. The bill would appropriate $750,000 from the Public Transportation Account to the department, as specified, to accomplish the purposes of these provisions.
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Existing law generally prohibits a person from possessing, importing, shipping, or transporting in the state, or from placing, planting, or causing to be placed or planted in any water within the state, dreissenid mussels, and authorizes the Director of Fish and Game or his or her designee to engage in various enforcement activities. Existing law provides that a person who violates or resists, delays, obstructs, or interferes with the implementation of these provisions is subject to a penalty, in an amount not to exceed $1,000, that is imposed administratively by the department. Existing law exempts certain entities from enforcement activities, or from civil or criminal liability, under prescribed circumstances. These provisions are repealed on January 1, 2012. This bill would extend that repeal provision from January 1, 2012, to January 1, 2017. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is a crime. By extending the operation of these provisions, 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.
(1) Existing law imposes specified licensing and regulatory requirements on dealers of motor vehicles and requires that specified fees and charges be disclosed in a conditional sales contract for the purchase of a motor vehicle. Existing law also prohibits any person from driving, moving, or leaving upon a highway any motor vehicle subject to registration under the Vehicle Code, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid under that code, and existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish contracts for electronic programs that allow qualified industry partners to join the department in providing services that include processing and payment programs for vehicle registration and titling transactions. Existing law makes it a violation of the Vehicle Code for the holder of any vehicle dealer's license to commit specified actions, including, to advertise the total price of a vehicle without including all costs to the purchaser at the time of sale, except taxes, vehicle registration fees, the California tire fee, as defined, emission testing fees not exceeding $50, actual fees charged for certificates, finance charges, and any dealer document preparation charge, and prohibits the dealer document preparation charge from exceeding $55. This bill would, beginning July 1, 2012, revise and recast these provisions and would require a motor vehicle sold or leased by a new motor vehicle dealer to be registered by the dealer using electronic programs provided by a qualified private industry partner, would require the dealer to disclose any document processing charge or electronic registration or transfer charge, and would establish the charges that a dealer may charge the purchaser or lessee of a vehicle. The bill would, after October 1, 2012, make it a violation of the Vehicle Code for the holder of a dealer's license to sell or lease a new motor vehicle unless the dealer has a contractual agreement with the department to be a private industry partner, except as specified. The bill would make other conforming changes to these provisions. The bill would, beginning July 1, 2012, prohibit a dealer from displaying or offering for sale at retail a used vehicle unless the dealer first obtains a vehicle history report from the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS) . If the NMVTIS report indicates that the vehicle is or has been a junk or salvage automobile, or the vehicle has been reported as such by a junk or a salvage yard, or an insurance carrier, or the certificate of title contains a brand, the bill would require the dealer to post a specified disclosure and provide the retail purchaser with a copy of the report upon request prior to sale. These requirements associated with obtaining a NMVTIS vehicle history report would become inoperative if all NMVTIS data providers cease to make these reports available to the public. (2) Because this bill would create new crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) 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.
(1) Existing law requires the residence address in a record of the Department of Motor Vehicles to be kept confidential, with specified exceptions. One exception applies to a vehicle manufacturer licensed to do business in this state if the manufacturer, or its agent, under penalty of perjury, requests and uses the information only for the purpose of safety, warranty, or product recall if the manufacturer offers to make and makes any changes at no cost to the vehicle owner. Another exception applies to a dealer licensed to do business in this state if the dealer, or its agent, under penalty of perjury, requests and uses the information only for the purpose of completing registration transactions and documents. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. This bill would add an exception for an electrical corporation, as defined, or a local publicly owned electric utility, if the corporation or utility, or its agent, under penalty of perjury, requests and uses the information only for the purposes of identifying where an electric vehicle is registered and if certain conditions are met. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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 designate the month of September of every year as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month throughout the State of California, and would encourage and promote efforts to educate the people and the health care practitioners of the state regarding ovarian cancer and its early detection and prevention, the risk factors involved in its development, and the early warning symptoms and signs.
This measure would proclaim May 2 through May 9, 2011, as Cinco de Mayo Week, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
(1) Existing law, if Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, provides that, except for persons with a prior or current felony conviction for serious or violent felony, persons required to register as sex offenders, or persons convicted of a crime as part of a sentence enhancement, as specified, a felony punishable pursuant to specified provisions where the term is not specified in the underlying offense shall be punishable by a term of imprisonment is a county in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years and a felony punishable by a term of imprisonment described in the underlying offense shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail. Those persons excepted from this requirement are subject to imprisonment in the state prison. This bill would additionally require persons with a current or prior felony conviction in another jurisdiction for an offense that has all of the elements of a serious or violent felony, as specified, to serve the term of imprisonment in the state prison. (2) Existing law provides that certain specified felonies, including agreeing, consenting, or offering to unlawfully sell, furnish, transport, or administer a specified controlled substance, or "gassing" a peace officer are punishable by incarceration in state prison. If Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, certain of those felonies shall instead be punishable by incarceration in county jail. This bill would make various technical and conforming changes to provisions related to the incarceration of persons for felony convictions in county jail. The bill would make certain felonies, including agreeing, consenting, or offering to unlawfully sell, furnish, transport, or administer a specified controlled substance, or "gassing" a peace officer punishable by incarceration in county jail pursuant to Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 instead punishable by incarceration in state prison. (3) Existing law provides for the enhancement of prison terms for new offenses because of prior prison terms, as specified. If Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, a judge, when imposing a sentence pursuant to these provisions, may order the defendant to serve a term in a county jail for a period not to exceed the maximum possible term of confinement or may impose a sentence that includes a period of county jail time and a period of mandatory probation not to exceed the maximum possible sentence. This bill would provide that a term imposed under the above-referenced provision, wherein a portion of the term is suspended by the court to allow postrelease supervision, shall qualify as a prior county jail term for the purposes of a specified enhancement, and make conforming changes. (4) Existing law provides that, except as specified, every felony is punishable by imprisonment in any of the state prisons for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. If Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, a felony punishable pursuant to specified provisions where the term is not specified in the underlying offense shall be punishable by a term of imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years and where the term is specified for the term described in the underlying offense. Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 requires that the punishment for certain felonies be served in state prison. This bill would place specified parameters on the imposition of sentences under the provisions added by Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011. The bill would provide that when imposing a sentence pursuant to the above-referenced provisions, the court may commit the defendant for term served in custody, as specified, or for a term as determined in accordance with the applicable sentencing law but suspend execution of a concluding portion of the term selected in the court's discretion, during which time the defendant shall be supervised by the county probation officer, as specified. (5) Existing law provides that the moneys in the District Attorney and Public Defender Account shall be used exclusively to fund costs associated with revocation proceedings involving persons subject to state parole and the Postrelease Community Supervision Act of 2011. Existing law requires that the moneys be allocated equally by the county or city and county to the district attorney's office and the county public defender's office. This bill would require that where no public defender's office is established, the moneys be allocated to the county for distribution for the same purpose. (6) Existing law, if Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, applies certain provisions relating to the denial of time credits to persons confined in local facilities pursuant to provisions added by Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 providing for the incarceration of felons in local facilities, as specified. This bill would repeal the amendments made by Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011, restore prior law, and instead subject these felons to other credit provisions applicable to persons confined in a county jail, industrial farm, or road camp, or a city jail, industrial farm, or road camp, as specified. The bill would provide that no credits may be earned for periods of flash incarceration, as specified. The bill would provide that any inmate sentenced to county jail assigned to a conservation camp who is eligible to earn one day of credit for every one day of incarceration shall instead earn 2 days of credit for every one day of service and make related changes. (7) Existing law provides that, except as specified, a prisoner sentenced to state prison under specified provisions, for whom the sentence is executed shall have one day deducted from his or her period of confinement for every day he or she served in a county jail, city jail, industrial farm, or road camp from the date of arrest until state prison credits are applicable to the prisoner. This bill would delete the above-referenced provisions, thereby making other time credit provisions applicable to prisoners confined in or committed to specified local facilities applicable to the above-referenced prisoners. (8) Existing law, if Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, provides that, except as specified, when specified persons who were not imprisoned for committing a violent felony, as defined, who have been released on parole from the state prison, and who have been on parole continuously for 6 months since release from confinement, within 30 days, shall be discharged from parole. This bill would additionally make the above provision related to discharge from parole inapplicable to persons who were imprisoned for committing a serious felony or who are required to register as a sex offender, as specified. (9) Existing law, if Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, subjects certain persons released from state prison to the jurisdiction of and parole supervision by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as specified. This bill would provide that persons required to register as sex offenders and persons subject to life-time parole, as specified, who are released from state prison shall be subject to the jurisdiction of, and parole supervision by, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for a period of parole up to 3 years or the parole term the person was subject to at the time of the commission of the offense. The bill would make other conforming and related changes regarding the parole periods, revocations, search and seizure requirements, and the release of high-risk parolees. (10) Existing law, if Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, makes felons subject to postrelease supervision as established by the Postrelease Community Supervision Act of 2011 eligible to participate in reentry court programs, as specified, and would authorize counties to contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in order to obtain day treatment and crisis care services for inmates with mental health problems who are released on postrelease community supervision. This bill would instead authorize counties to contract with the department to obtain correctional clinical services. The bill would make changes to the postrelease community supervision agreement, require persons placed on postrelease supervision to be subject to search and seizure, and make other related changes regarding postrelease supervision sanctions, and revocations. The bill would require a supervising agency, upon determining that a person subject to postrelease supervision no longer permanently resides within its jurisdiction, where a change in residence was either approved or did not violate the terms and conditions of postrelease supervision, to transmit, within 2 weeks, the prison release packet to the designated supervising agency in the county in which the person permanently resides. By imposing additional duties on local agencies, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. (11) Existing law provides that upon agreement with the sheriff or director of the county department of corrections, a board of supervisors may enter into a contract with other public agencies to provide housing for inmates sentenced to county jail in community correction facilities, as specified. This bill would authorize, upon agreement with the sheriff or director of the county department of corrections, a board of supervisors to enter into a contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house inmates who are within 60 days or less of release from the state prison to a county jail facility for the purpose of reentry and community transition purposes. The bill would provide that when housed in county facilities, inmates shall be under the legal custody and jurisdiction of local county facilities and not under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. (12) Existing law provides that, except as specified, an inmate who is released on parole or postrelease supervision shall be returned to the county that was the last legal residence of the inmate prior to his or her incarceration. Existing law requires that specified information be released by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to local law enforcement agencies regarding a paroled inmate or inmate placed on postrelease supervision. Existing law provides that, except as specified, the department shall be the agency primarily responsible for, and shall have control over, the program, resources, and staff implementing the Law Enforcement Automated Data System (LEADS) and, if Chapter 15 of the Statutes of 2011 becomes operative, requires county agencies supervising inmates released to postrelease supervision to provide any information requested by the department to ensure the availability of accurate information regarding inmates released from state prison, as specified. This bill would additionally require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to submit, via electronic transfer, to the Department of Justice data to be included in the supervised released file of the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) so that law enforcement can be advised through CLETS of all persons on postrelease community supervision and the county agency designated to provide supervision. (13) The Budget Act of 2011 reduced the amount appropriated, $95,254,000, for support of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation by $77,406,000 to reflect the portion of realignment savings to be achieved through the reduction or elimination of contracts with private entities for instate housing of state inmates. This bill would instead reduce the amount appropriated by $54,200,000 for those purposes. (14) Existing law requires the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts to make certain calculations, including, among others, the cost to the state to incarcerate in prison and supervise on parole a probationer sent to prison and the statewide probation failure rate. This bill would additionally require, except for the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the above-referenced entities to develop a revised formula for the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009 that takes into consideration the significant changes to the eligibility of some felony probationers for revocation to the state prison resulting from the implementation of the 2011 public safety realignment. (15) This bill would include additional changes proposed by SB 9 and SB 576 contingent on the enactment of those bills. (16) This bill would appropriate $1,000 to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for the purpose of state operations. (17) The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill. (18) 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. (19) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution.
Existing law requires agents and insurers to fulfill certain requirements with regard to the replacement of existing life insurance policies and annuities. This bill would require insurers and insurance producers, as defined, to comply with specified requirements regarding the purchase, exchange, or replacement of an annuity recommended to a consumer, including, but not limited to, having reasonable grounds for the insurance producer believing the annuity transaction would be suitable for the consumer, as provided. The bill would also prohibit an insurance producer from selling annuities unless he or she has received Insurance Commissioner-approved training, and would authorize the commissioner to require certain actions by, and impose sanctions and penalties on, insurers and their agents for a violation of the bill's provisions. The bill would further provide that sales by a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) broker-dealer that comply with the suitability and supervision requirements of FINRA shall be deemed to satisfy the suitability and supervision requirements of this bill, as specified.
Existing law establishes the Local Revenue Fund 2011, a continuously appropriated fund, and creates various accounts and subaccounts within that fund, for purposes of funding Public Safety Services, as defined. Existing law requires counties to create, as specified, a County Local Revenue Fund 2011, and to create within that fund the Trial Court Security Account, the District Attorney and Public Defender Account, the Juvenile Justice Account, the Health and Human Services Account, and the Supplemental Law Enforcement Account. Existing law requires that those moneys in the fund and its accounts be used exclusively for Public Safety Services, as defined, and for other specific services, including funding grants pertaining to county probation, mental health, drug and alcohol, and other county departments to provide rehabilitative, housing, and supervision services to youthful offenders. This bill would create the Undistributed Account, the Foster Care Assistance Subaccount, and the Foster Care Administration Subaccount within the Local Revenue Fund 2011. The bill would allocate funding to those accounts, as specified, and make other conforming changes. The bill would authorize a county or counties to contract directly with the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, the State Department of Health Care Services, and the State Department of Social Services, as applicable and subject to certain conditions, to provide for the provision or administration of specified Medi-Cal drug treatment and agency adoption programs. The bill would require that savings achieved by counties as a result of the shift of residential placement costs for seriously emotionally disturbed youth from the State Department of Social Services to the State Department of Education, as specified, be redirected to supplement foster care, child welfare services, and adoptions program expenditures, as specified. Existing law requires in each county treasury a Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Account (SLESA) , to receive all amounts allocated to a county for purposes of specified law enforcement services. Existing law also requires that in any fiscal year for which a county receives moneys to be expended for those purposes, that the county auditor allocate the moneys in the county's SLESA as specified, including any interest or other return earned on the investment of those moneys. This bill would delete language requiring the allocated funds to include interest or other return earned on the investment of those moneys. Existing law provides that commencing with the 2011–12 fiscal year, the Controller shall allocate 9% of the amount deposited in the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011 to the California Emergency Management Agency, and that these funds shall be allocated by the California Emergency Management Agency according to the agency's existing programmatic guidelines. Existing law also requires that of the amount allocated, the California Emergency Management Agency shall distribute these funds according to specified percentages. Existing law further provides that beginning in the 2009–10 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter the California Emergency Management Agency may retain up to 3% of the funds allocated, as specified, for program administrative costs. This bill would provide that the funds instead be allocated by the Controller pursuant to a schedule provided by the California Emergency Management Agency which shall be developed according to the agency's existing programmatic guidelines and according to specified percentages. This bill would abolish the annual 3% retainer, and instead provide that for the 2011–12 fiscal year, the California Emergency Management Agency be reimbursed up to $511,000, as specified, for program administrative costs. Existing law requires that for the 2010–11 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, a specified amount shall be transferred from the General Fund to the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund. This bill would instead provide that for the 2011–12 fiscal year no money would be transferred from the General Fund to the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund, and that for the 2012–13 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, a specified amount shall be transferred from the General Fund to the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund. Existing law establishes a statewide automated welfare system for specified public assistance programs, and requires the Office of Systems Integration to migrate counties into the system, as specified. Existing law requires the office to produce a related report in 2012. This bill would additionally require the Office of Systems Integration to oversee the migration of 39 counties into a system jointly designed by the 39 counties in addition to the County of Los Angeles under a specified contract, among other requirements for implementation. The bill would also make a related change to the required report. Existing law establishes the Local Revenue Fund, a continuously appropriated fund with specified accounts and subaccounts. Existing law requires each county and city and county receiving funds from the Local Revenue Fund to establish and maintain a local health and welfare trust fund comprised of specified accounts. This bill would create the CalWORKs Maintenance of Effort Subaccount within the Local Revenue Fund, and require creation of a CalWORKs Maintenance of Effort Subaccount within local health and welfare trust funds, as specified. Existing law provides that, as to counties, certain funds that would have otherwise been deposited into the Mental Health Subaccount, as specified, shall instead be deposited in the Social Services Subaccount. This bill would instead provide that those funds be deposited in the CalWORKs Maintenance of Effort Subaccount. The bill would also specify a county's annual contribution towards the cost of CalWORKs grants. Existing law provides that moneys within the Local Revenue Fund 2011 shall, upon order of the Director of Finance, be used to reimburse the General Fund for costs incurred and expenditures made by the state on behalf of any local governmental entity in providing Public Safety Services, as defined. This bill would provide that moneys within the Local Revenue Fund 2011 and the Undistributed Account shall, upon order of the Director of Finance, be used to reimburse the General Fund for costs incurred and expenditures made by the state on behalf of any local governmental entity in providing Public Safety Services, as defined. The bill would require that, for the 2011–12 fiscal year, moneys within the Undistributed Account, upon order of the Director of Finance, be used to reimburse the General Fund for costs incurred and expenditures made by the state on behalf of any local governmental entity in providing Public Safety Services, as defined. This bill would require the Department of Finance to submit a report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee regarding the funding of the Local Revenue Fund 2011, as specified. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that legislation enacted to implement the 2011 Realignment shall address, at a minimum, funding necessary for local public safety to achieve successful outcomes from the implementation of criminal justice realignment provisions and funding for the child welfare services and foster care programs necessary to achieve critical outcomes, including state and federal performance reviews. The bill would appropriate $1,000 from the General Fund to the California Emergency Management Agency for specified program administrative costs. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
The Budget Act of 2011 made appropriations for the support of state government during the 2011–12 fiscal year. This bill would make changes in specified items of appropriation in connection with the Healthy Families Program, as administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board. This bill would become operative only if revenues, net of refunds, derived from an imposition of tax, that is effective on and after July 1, 2011, and before July 1, 2012, on Medi-Cal managed care plans are deposited into the Children's Health and Human Services Special Fund. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.