This measure would recognize July 2014 as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month in California.
This measure would urge the federal government to take steps to reform the outdated and inadequate Official Poverty Measure to better reflect poverty and the unmet needs demonstrated by the Supplemental Poverty Measure.
This measure would recognize the 150th anniversary of the California State Park System and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating this important anniversary of our state park system.
Existing federal law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, provides for the negotiation and execution of tribal-state gaming compacts for the purpose of authorizing certain types of gaming on Indian lands within a state. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to negotiate and conclude compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law expressly ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts, and amendments of tribal-state gaming compacts, between the State of California and specified Indian tribes. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would ratify the amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, executed on August 12, 2014. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions related to that amended compact are not projects for purposes of CEQA. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would designate the month of September 2014 as School Attendance Awareness Month, and would encourage public officials, educators, and communities in California to observe the month with appropriate activities and programs.
This measure would declare the week of August 4, 2014, to August 10, 2014, inclusive, as Dropout Recovery Week, and would state that the Legislature intends to encourage the support of dropout recovery high schools with creative teaching strategies, alternative assessments, and adequate resources.
This measure would state that the Legislature supports and encourages the development and expansion of a California health care delivery system that identifies patient centered medical homes and is based upon certain principles of coordination of patient care.
This measure would urge the Governor to identify evidence-based solutions to reduce children's exposure to adverse childhood experiences, address the impacts of those experiences, and invest in preventive health care and mental health and wellness interventions.
This measure would acknowledge the history of the Chinese in California, recognize the contributions made to the State of California by Chinese Americans and Chinese immigrants, and apologize for past discriminatory laws and constitutional provisions that resulted in the persecution of Chinese living in California.
(1) Under the Real Estate Law, the California Bureau of Real Estate, which is headed by the Real Estate Commissioner, issues licenses to and regulates real estate brokers and real estate salespersons. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to prescribe the format and content of the written applications for the real estate broker examination, broker license, and salesperson examination. This bill would authorize the commissioner to additionally prescribe the format and content of the application for the real estate salesperson license, and would require that each of those applications for an examination or license, or both, require the applicant to provide valid contact information at which the bureau may contact the applicant. (2) Existing law requires every licensed real estate broker to have and maintain a definite place of business in the state that serves as his or her office for the transaction of business, displays his or her license, and where he or she holds personal consultations with a client. This bill would require every real estate broker and salesperson licensee to provide the commissioner with his or her current office or mailing address, current telephone number, and current electronic mail address that he or she uses to perform any activity that requires a real estate license, and at which the bureau may contact the licensee, and to update that information no later than 30 days after making a change. The bill would also exempt a violation of this requirement from criminal penalties. This bill would provide that the bureau is not required to post or publish electronic mail addresses or telephone numbers collected pursuant to the above provisions, and if this information is released by the bureau, would require that the information be released in a way that discourages its use in unauthorized or unsolicited commercial electronic mail advertisement programs.
