Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities, and defines a food facility to mean an operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food for human consumption at the retail level, as specified. Existing law exempts, among others, a private home, including a registered or permitted cottage food operation from the definition of food facility. This bill would additionally exempt from the definition of food facility, a private home that meets specified requirements, including that the private home is not open to the public and the cook directly sells the food to the consumer after fully informing the consumer on all of the cook's methods of food preparation and handling.
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This measure would declare the month of April 2016 as the Month of the Military Child.
This measure would declare the week of March 7, 2016, through March 13, 2016, as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.
Existing law, the Corporate Securities Law of 1968, requires securities offered or sold in this state in an issuer transaction to be qualified through an application filed with the Commissioner of Business Oversight, unless exempt from the qualification requirements, and generally provides that every qualification under these provisions is effective for 12 months from its effective date. This law makes it a crime for a person to willfully violate any of its provisions. This bill would increase that effective period for a qualification eligible for a Small Corporate Offering Registration, as specified, from 12 months to 36 months, unless an issuer makes a change to its board members, directors, officers, partners, members, or trustees, in which case the qualification would become ineffective. The bill would reinstate effectiveness for the remainder of the 36-months qualification period if the offering is requalified, as specified. By modifying the period and conditions under which an offering is effective, this bill would modify the application of criminal provisions in existing law and thereby 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.
This measure would proclaim the month of March 2016 as Grand Jury Awareness Month in California, recognize those who volunteer in a grand jury, and encourage all Californians to learn about its role in the judicial system.
Existing law establishes the Adult Education Block Grant Program under the administration of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Under this program, the chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the Executive Director of the State Board of Education, are required to divide the state into adult education regions and approve one adult education consortium in each adult education region, as specified. Existing law requires the chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, to approve, for each consortium, rules and procedures that adhere to prescribed conditions. Existing law also requires, as a condition for the receipt of an apportionment of funds from this program for a fiscal year, that members of a consortium approve an adult education plan, as specified. This bill would give a consortium member the right to submit an appeal to the Adult Education Block Grant Appeals Board, which the bill would establish and that would consist of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Executive Director of the State Board of Education. The bill would set forth the conditions under which an appeal could be submitted, and would provide for procedures and timeframes in accordance with which the appeals board would be required to schedule a hearing on an appeal and post a decision.
Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, make payments due for enforceable obligations and to perform obligations required pursuant to any enforceable obligation. Existing law defines the term "enforceable obligation" for these purposes to mean, among other things, preexisting obligations to the state or obligations imposed by state law, other than specified passthrough payments that are made by the county auditor-controller. This bill would expressly include federal base reuse obligations for the former Norton Air Force Base pursuant to specified agreements as a preexisting obligation to the state or obligation imposed by state law.