Existing law, the Marks-Roos Local Bond Pooling Act of 1985, authorizes joint powers authorities, among other powers, to issue bonds and loan the proceeds to local agencies to finance specified types of projects and programs. This bill would authorize specified joint powers authorities, upon the application of a local agency that owns and operates a publicly owned utility, as defined, to issue rate reduction bonds to finance a utility project, as defined, under specified circumstances. The bill would terminate the authority to issue rate reduction bonds pursuant to these provisions after December 31, 2020. The bill would provide that the rate reduction bonds are secured by utility project property, as defined. The bill would authorize the authority to impose on, and collect from, customers of the publicly owned utility a utility project charge, as a separate nonbypassable charge, to finance the rate reduction bond. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to review each issue of rate reduction bonds for financing costs of a utility project and to determine whether the issue is qualified for issuance, as prescribed. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to establish procedures for the expeditious review of a proposed issuance, including, but not limited to, the establishment of reasonable application fees to reimburse the California Pollution Control Financing Authority for costs incurred, as specified. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to submit a prescribed report of its activities for the preceding calendar year to the Legislature no later than March 31 of each year.
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Existing law authorizes the Department of General Services to contract with suppliers to obtain materials, supplies, equipment, and services. This bill would require the director to operate the Natural Gas Services Program, pursuant to which the Director of General Services would make the services of the department with respect to the acquisition of natural gas and related services available, under agreed upon terms and conditions, to any city, county, city and county, district, or other local governmental body, and to nonprofit hospitals and educational institutions that expend public funds, and would enter into interagency agreements for acquisition of natural gas and related services, as defined. The bill would require agencies that are in the executive branch of state government, except the Department of Water Resources, to use the department's Natural Gas Services Program for noncore gas purchases of natural gas. The bill would create the Department of General Services Natural Gas Services Program Fund, and would continuously appropriate that fund to the department for purposes of operating the Natural Gas Services Program. The bill would state that funding for the department's administrative costs in overseeing the program is to be provided for in the annual Budget Act.
Under existing law, a person who, in good faith and not for compensation, renders emergency medical or nonmedical care or assistance at the scene of an emergency is not liable for civil damages resulting from any act or omission, except as specified. Existing law further provides that a person who has completed a basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation course that complies with specified standards, and who in good faith renders emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the scene of an emergency is not liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission, except as specified. Existing law provides that a health care provider, including any licensed clinic, health dispensary, or health facility, is not liable for professional negligence or malpractice for any occurrence or result solely on the basis that the occurrence or result was caused by the natural course of a disease or condition, or was the natural or expected result of reasonable treatment rendered for the disease or condition. This bill would prohibit an employer from having a policy of prohibiting an employee from providing voluntary emergency medical services, including, but not limited to, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, in response to a medical emergency, except as specified. The bill would state that these provisions do not impose any express or implied duty on an employer to train its employees regarding emergency medical services or cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Existing law requires a school district, as part of its adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in specified areas of study, including, among others, social sciences, drawing upon the disciplines of anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. Existing law requires the State Board of Education to ensure that the state curriculum and framework, where appropriate, include instruction on Cesar Chavez, and the history of the farm labor movement in the United States, and that the state criteria for selecting textbooks include information to guide the selection of textbooks that contain sections that highlight the life and contributions of Cesar Chavez, and the history of the farm labor movement in the United States. This bill would additionally require that the state board ensure that the state curriculum and framework, where appropriate, include instruction on the role of immigrants, including Filipino Americans, in the farm labor movement. The bill would provide that it shall not be implemented unless funds are appropriated by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute for its purposes.
Existing law creates various programs to provide health care services to persons who have limited incomes and meet various eligibility requirements. These programs include the Healthy Families Program administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, and the Medi-Cal program administered by the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law provides for a school lunch program under which eligible pupils receive free or reduced-price meals. Existing law authorizes the sharing of the school lunch program application with the county agency administering the Medi-Cal program for use in making an accelerated Medi-Cal eligibility determination for pupils eligible for free meals. Existing law provides for the sending of a Healthy Families Program application to pupils determined to be ineligible for Medi-Cal coverage. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2014, require the notices to include prescribed advisements about the availability of free or reduced-cost comprehensive health care coverage through Medi-Cal or the California Health Benefit Exchange, respectively. The bill would authorize a school district also to include the notices in certain notifications required at the beginning of the first semester or quarter of the regular school term. The bill would require a county that receives the information provided on a school lunch program application, for a pupil who is not already enrolled in a health insurance affordability program, to treat the school lunch program application as an application for a health insurance affordability program, as specified.
This measure would honor the California Council on Science and Technology for 25 years of service and unbiased advice to the State of California.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to enact President Barack Obama's budget proposal to increase funding for preschool and early learning. This measure would also urge the Superintendent of Public Instruction to prepare a plan for making California competitive for future increases in federal funding to preschool and early learning programs.
(1) Existing law prohibits the sale of motor brake friction materials containing specified constituents in excess of specified concentrations. Existing law, however, until December 31, 2023, authorizes motor vehicle manufacturers and distributors, wholesalers, or retailers to sell brake friction materials that are not certified as compliant with that provision solely for the purpose of depletion of inventories. This bill would additionally authorize motor vehicle dealers to continue to sell or offer for sale brake friction material not certified as compliant, as specified, if the brake friction material was installed before the vehicle was acquired by the dealer. (2) Existing law defines tire broker to mean a person that arranges for the shipment of used or waste tires to or from a site located within the state, or through the state, as defined. Existing law requires a tire broker to submit periodic information to the department on the used or waste tires arranged to be shipped to the tire broker to, from, or through the state. This bill would exclude a tire retailer primarily engaged in the retail sale, service, and installation of new tires on customer vehicles, and a vehicle dealer, as defined, from the definition of a tire broker. (3) Existing law establishes the Consumer Motor Vehicle Recovery Corporation (recovery corporation) to provide payments to consumers on eligible claims, including, but not limited to, a claim based on a vehicle dealer or lessor-retailer's failure to remit license or registration fees or failure to pay proceeds of a consignment sale, subject to certain requirements and limitations. Existing law permits a consumer to file an application with the recovery corporation for the payment of the consumer's eligible claim if a dealer or lessor-retailer against whom the claim is asserted has ceased selling and leasing motor vehicles to the general public or has become subject to a petition in bankruptcy. This bill would expand the definition of "eligible claim," for purposes of those provisions, to include a claim based on the failure of a vehicle dealer or lessor-retailer to provide a consumer who purchased a vehicle from the dealer or lessor-retailer with good title to the vehicle, free from any security interest or other lien, encumbrance, or claim, as specified, or pay to a 3rd party any amount received from, or contractually obligated to be paid by, a consumer for insurance, service contracts, or goods or services purchased through the dealer or lessor-retailer and to be provided by the 3rd party. This bill would require the consumer to provide specified information if the eligible claim is based on the failure to provide good title or the failure to pay 3rd parties for insurance, service contracts, or goods or services. (4) Existing law excludes from the definition of commercial motor vehicle, for purposes of certain provisions, specified trucks and truck tractors with a gross vehicle weight rating of less than 26,001 pounds, when used solely to tow specified trailers. Existing law prohibits a motor carrier of property from operating a commercial motor vehicle on any public highway in this state, unless it has, among other things, registered with the department its carrier identification number, as specified, and holds a valid motor carrier permit issued to that motor carrier by the department. This bill would additionally exclude from the definition of commercial motor vehicle specified trucks and truck tractors, with a gross vehicle rating of less than 26,001 pounds, operated solely to tow specified trailers, including trailers designed to transport watercraft. This bill would also exclude from the definition of commercial motor vehicle specified truck and truck tractors, with a gross vehicle weight rating of less than 16,001 pounds, operated singly in noncommercial use. (5) This bill would make other technical, nonsubstantive, conforming, and clarifying changes. (6) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 34601 of the Vehicle Code proposed by AB 529 that would become operative if this bill and AB 529 are both enacted and this bill is enacted last.
This measure would proclaim October 5, 2013, as California Firefighters Memorial Day.
(1) The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act authorizes a licensed beer manufacturer to sell to consumers, at the licensed premises of production, for consumption off the premises, beer that is produced and bottled by, or produced and packaged for, that manufacturer and to sell beer to any person holding a license authorizing the sale of beer. The act provides that a violation of its provisions is a misdemeanor unless otherwise specified. This bill would authorize a licensed beer manufacturer that produces more than 60,000 barrels of beer per year to manufacture cider or perry, as defined, at the licensed premises of production and to sell cider or perry to any licensee authorized to sell wine. By expanding the definition of a crime, this 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.