Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law, for injuries that cause permanent partial disability and occur on or after January 1, 2004, provides supplemental job displacement benefits in the form of a nontransferable voucher for education-related retraining or skill enhancement for an injured employee who does not return to work for the employer within 60 days of the termination of temporary disability, in accordance with a prescribed schedule based on the percentage of an injured employee's disability. Existing law provides an exception for employers who meet specified criteria. This bill would provide that the above provisions shall apply to injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2004, and before January 1, 2013. The bill would require that within 10 days of the last payment of temporary disability, the employer provide to the employee information that provides notice of rights pursuant to these provisions. This bill would provide, for injuries that cause permanent partial disability and occur on or after January 1, 2013, for a supplemental job displacement benefit in the form of a voucher for up to $6,000 to cover various reeducation and skill enhancement expenses, as specified, which would expire 2 years after the date the voucher is furnished to the employee or 5 years after the date of injury, whichever is later. The bill would exempt employers who make an offer of reemployment or continued employment, as specified, from providing vouchers. The bill would require the administrative director to adopt regulations implementing the program.
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Existing law provides that no exemption shall be allowed for a charitable corporation that fails to file required registration or periodic reports with the Attorney General. Existing law provides that after the Attorney General has notified the Franchise Tax Board in writing that a charitable corporation has failed to file required registration or periodic reports, the exemption will be disallowed and may only be reinstated when the registration or periodic reports are filed. Existing law further provides that a charitable corporation whose exemption is disallowed must pay the minimum tax, as provided, for any year or years its exemption was disallowed. This bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to mail a notice to a charitable corporation that has not filed its required registration or periodic reports with the Attorney General, stating the intent of the Franchise Tax Board to revoke the exemption unless the charitable corporation files all past due and currently due documents, as provided, within a specified applicable period. This bill would remove the requirement that a charitable corporation whose exemption is disallowed pay the minimum tax for any year or years its exemption was disallowed. This bill would allow a charitable corporation whose exemption has been revoked to reestablish its exemption by filing and paying specified applications, fees, returns, statements, and payments.
(1) Existing law requires that, upon a breach of the obligation of a mortgage or transfer of an interest in property, the mortgagee, trustee, or beneficiary record a notice of default in the office of the county recorder where the mortgaged or trust property is situated and mail the notice of default to the mortgagor or trustor. Existing law specifies other requirements and procedures for completion of a foreclosure sale, including recording a notice of sale prior to exercising a power of sale. Existing law requires, under specified circumstances, that a summary of mortgage terms be provided to the borrower in one of 5 specified languages. This bill, with respect to residential real property containing no more than 4 dwelling units, would require a mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent to provide to the mortgagor or trustor attached to a copy of the recorded notice of default and a copy of the notice of sale a summary of the information required to be contained in those notices in English and 5 specified languages. The bill would also require the notice of default and notice of sale to include a statement, in English and 5 specified languages, that a summary of the key provisions of the respective notice in English and 5 specified languages is attached. The bill would provide that the attached summaries are not required to be recorded or published. Those provisions would become operative on April 1, 2013, or 90 days following the issuance of summary translations by the Department of Corporations, whichever occurs later. The bill would also require the Department of Corporations to provide a standard translation of the statement and summaries described above for a notice of default and a notice of sale, respectively, in those languages, and to make those documents available without charge on its Internet Web site. The bill would specify that any mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary, or authorized agent who provides the department's translations, in the manner prescribed, shall be in compliance with that provision. (2) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 2924 of the Civil Code proposed by AB 278, to be operative only if AB 278 and this bill are both enacted, both bills amend Section 2924 of the Civil Code and are effective on or before January 1, 2013, and this bill is enacted last. (3) The bill would repeal duplicate provisions of law.
Existing law requires specified information to be provided to patients regarding their health care. Existing federal law requires a written report of the results of each mammography examination and requires a summary of that report to be sent to the patient within a specified time period. This bill, from April 1, 2013, until January 1, 2019, would require, under specified circumstances, a health facility at which a mammography examination is performed to include in the summary of the written report that is sent to the patient a prescribed notice on breast density.
This measure would recognize September 2012 as Recovery Month in California, in order to raise awareness of the importance of substance use disorders treatment and to help people living with substance use disorders and their families to receive treatment.
This measure would recognize the 45th anniversary of Kwanzaa and proclaim December 26 through January 1 each year as Kwanzaa Week.
This measure encourages the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California to consider and adopt the American Council on Education credit recommendations to give veterans due credit for their military experience.
Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination or abridgment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, or sexual orientation. Specifically, an employer or other covered entity is required to reasonably accommodate the religious belief or observance of an individual unless the accommodation would be an undue hardship on the conduct of the business of the employer or other entity. This bill would include a religious dress practice or a religious grooming practice as a belief or observance covered by the protections against religious discrimination, and would specify that an accommodation of an individual's religious dress practice or religious grooming practice that would require that person to be segregated from the public or other employees is not a reasonable accommodation. This bill would further provide that no accommodation is required if an accommodation would result in the violation of specified laws protecting civil rights. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 12926 of the Government Code, proposed by AB 2386, to be operative only if AB 2386 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective January 1, 2013, and this bill is chaptered last.
This measure would proclaim August 15, 2012, as India's Independence Day, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating India's independence.
This measure would declare that an applicant's immigration status should not be the determining factor in deciding whether to approve a license to practice law, would commend Sergio C. Garcia for his hard work and success, and would also commend the State Bar of California for its efforts to admit Sergio C. Garcia to the State Bar of California.