The Public Employees' Retirement Law creates the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, which is a trust fund created and administered solely for the benefit of the members and retired members of this system and their survivors and beneficiaries. The Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System has the exclusive control of the administration and investment of the retirement fund. The Teachers' Retirement Law establishes the State Teachers' Retirement System in order to provide a financially sound plan for the retirement, with adequate retirement allowances, for teachers in public schools of the state, teachers in schools supported by the state, and other persons employed in connection with the schools. The plan and the system are administered by the Teachers' Retirement Board. This bill would require the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the Teachers' Retirement Board, on or before January 1, 2012, until January 1, 2016, to report annually to the Legislature the ethnicity and gender of emerging investment managers, as defined, who participate in managing its portfolio of fund management contracts, as specified. The bill would also require the board to develop and include in the report plans and strategies to increase the participation of emerging investment managers until they manage at least 10% of the board's actively managed portfolio.
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The Public Employees' Retirement Law creates the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, which is a trust fund created and administered solely for the benefit of the members and retired members of this system and their survivors and beneficiaries. The Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System has the exclusive control of the administration and investment of the retirement fund. The Teachers' Retirement Law establishes the State Teachers' Retirement System in order to provide a financially sound plan for the retirement, with adequate retirement allowances, for teachers in public schools of the state, teachers in schools supported by the state, and other persons employed in connection with the schools. The plan and the system are administered by the Teachers' Retirement Board. This bill would require the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the Teachers' Retirement Board to submit a report annually to the Legislature on the ethnicity and gender of the investment managers who participate in managing their portfolios of external fund management contracts, as specified. The bill would also require these boards to report on the ethnicity and gender of the brokerage firms that provide brokerage services to their fund's internally and externally managed investment management firms, as specified. The bill would also require these boards to develop and include in the report plans and strategies to increase the participation of emerging investment managers, as defined, and emerging brokerage firms, as defined. The bill would also make related findings and declarations.
This measure would designate that January 18, 2010, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.
Under existing law, the state is authorized to appropriate funds and resources to various businesses for economic development purposes. This bill would, except in specified circumstances, prohibit a professional sports team or franchise whose home venue is located in this state from being eligible to receive state public financial assistance, as defined, in the fiscal year following any fiscal year in which a broadcast of any home sporting event of that professional team or franchise is blacked out for any reason.
Existing law provides that the author of any original work of authorship that is not fixed in any tangible medium of expression has an exclusive ownership in the representation or expression of that work as against all persons except one who originally and independently creates the same or similar work. Existing law also provides that the inventor or proprietor of any invention or design, with or without delineation, or other graphical representation, has an exclusive ownership in the invention or design, and in the representation or expression thereof, which continues so long as the invention or design and those representations or expressions remain in his or her possession. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would clarify the actionable use of ideas under intellectual property law to include novelty.
Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacies by the California State Board of Pharmacy. Existing law authorizes a pharmacy to furnish dangerous drugs only to, among others, a patient or another pharmacy pursuant to a prescription or as otherwise authorized by law. Existing law requires every pharmacy to establish a quality assurance program to assess errors in dispensing or furnishing prescription drugs. A knowing violation of the Pharmacy Law is a crime unless otherwise specified. This bill would require a pharmacy to report to the board any occurrence known by the pharmacy of a prescription being furnished to a person other than the patient named on the prescription or that patient's representative. The bill would also require the pharmacy to report any adverse reaction that may have occurred as a result of the person to whom the prescription was furnished using the prescribed drug. Because a knowing violation of these requirements would be a crime, the 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 states the intent of the Legislature to establish a California High School Coaching Education and Training Program to be administered by local school districts and to emphasize, among other things, training and certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid. Existing law requires each high school sports coach to complete a coaching education program developed by his or her school district or the California Interscholastic Federation that meets specified guidelines. Existing law makes a high school sports coach responsible for the costs of taking the prescribed course. This bill, commencing December 31, 2011, would require all coaches taking or renewing first aid certification to take training that includes a basic understanding of the signs, symptoms, and appropriate emergency action steps regarding potentially catastrophic injuries, including, but not limited to, head and neck injuries, concussions, 2nd impact syndrome, asthma attacks, heatstroke, and cardiac arrest. By requiring high school coaches to complete this additional training, 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, 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.
Existing law provides for the out-of-home placement of children who are unable to remain in the custody and care of their parent or parents, including providing for a range of child welfare and foster care services, at the state and local levels. Existing law identifies the case plan as the foundation and central unifying tool in child welfare services, and requires various categories of information to be incorporated into a child's case plan. This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to take all necessary steps to establish and implement an Internet Web-based foster care document storage pilot program and authorize the counties of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Bernardino to participate in this pilot program in accordance with the bill. The bill would provide that the pilot program would consist of an interactive, secured Internet Web site designed to give foster youth and former foster youth from 15 to 21 years of age, inclusive, access to designated personal information of the foster youth. The bill would require the department to ensure that the Internet Web site maintains the confidentiality of medical and other records on the Internet Web site, consistent with applicable state and federal law. This bill would require participating counties to report to the Legislature, on or before October 1, 2014, on the effectiveness of the pilot program, as specified. It would authorize the funding of the pilot program through private, public, or nonprofit funding sources. This bill would provide for the repeal of its provisions on January 1, 2016.
This measure would honor Michael Joseph Jackson as one of the greatest American recording artists, entertainers, and humanitarians of all time.
This measure would memorialize the Congress and the President of the United States to uphold protections of women's equality and to encourage all Americans to participate in the celebration of Women's Equality Day on August 26, 2010, the 90th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.