Asm. Mike Davis

This measure would recognize the Lunar New Year 4708 celebration.

This measure would declare February 23, 2010, to be Spay Day USA 2010 in California, and would request that Californians observe that day by having their dogs and cats spayed or neutered and by providing voluntary services or other support to organizations that provide spay and neuter services.

This measure would recognize February 2010 as Black History Month, urge all residents to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.

This resolution would respectfully request that the International Maritime Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, adopt the North American Emission Control Area, as proposed by the United States, Canada, and France at the 60th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee, scheduled for March 2010.

Existing law prohibits a person from operating a talent agency unless the person has obtained a license from the Labor Commissioner. Existing law requires an application for a talent agency license to contain specified information. This bill would require that an application for a talent agency license contain a signature by the applicant attesting that he or she is familiar with the legal standards governing employment inquiries. The bill would allow the Department of Industrial Relations to make the most current information regarding legally permissible inquiries by an employer, as published by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, available to applicants in specified forms.

(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan that includes various elements, including, among others, a safety element for the protection of the community from unreasonable risks associated with, among other things, wildland and urban fires. The safety element includes requirements for state responsibility areas, as defined, and very high fire hazard severity zones, as defined. This bill would revise the safety element requirements for state responsibility areas and very high fire hazard severity zones, as specified, and require the safety element, prior to January 1, 2015, and thereafter upon each revision of the housing element, to be reviewed and updated as necessary to address the risk of fire in state responsibility areas and very high fire hazard severity zones, taking into account specified considerations, including, among others, the most recent version of the Office of Planning and Research's "Fire Hazard Planning" document, which this bill would require the office to update on or before January 1, 2012. By imposing new duties on a city or county with regard to reviewing and updating its general plan, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare 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, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA requires the Office of Planning and Research to prepare and develop guidelines for the implementation of CEQA by public agencies. This bill would require the office, on or after January 1, 2011, at the time of the next update of the guidelines for implementing CEQA, in cooperation with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, to prepare, develop, and transmit to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency recommended proposed changes or amendments to the initial study for the inclusion of questions related to fire hazard impacts for projects in state responsibility areas and high fire hazard severity zones. This bill would also require the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to certify and adopt these recommended proposed changes or amendments. (3) 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.

Existing law requires the California State Lottery Commission to prepare and submit to the Legislature by October 1 of each year a report detailing the lottery's purchase of goods and services through the Department of General Services. Existing law also requires this report to include a listing of contracts awarded for more than $100,000, and to provide specified information in this regard. This bill would require the report described above to be submitted on a biannual basis, and to include a list of each advertising agency from which the commission has purchased services, how much the agency was paid, and what specific services the agency provided. The bill would also reduce the threshold amount of a contract that is required to be listed in the report from $100,000 to $10,000.

This measure would recognize February 2010 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.

(1) Existing law establishes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , to provide to specified entities, upon appropriation by the Legislature, grants, loans, loan guarantees, revolving loans, or other appropriate measures, for the development and deployment of innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change goals. Existing law specifies that only certain projects or programs are eligible for funding. This bill would, additionally, specify projects eligible for funding under the program to include a cost-effective program to provide funding for homeowners who purchase an electric vehicle to offset costs associated with modifying electrical sources to include a residential plug-in electric vehicle charging station. (2) Existing law authorizes a public agency and a property owner to enter into voluntary contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently affixed on real property. This bill would expand the use of the voluntary contractual assessment to finance electric vehicle charging infrastructure affixed on real property. The bill would prohibit a public agency from permitting a property owner to participate in a contractual assessment program if the total amount of assessments and taxes on the property exceeds 5% of the property's market value, as specified. The bill would also require the preliminary report issued in connection with the contractual assessment program to include criteria for determining underwriting requirements, and safeguards to be used to limit the total annual property tax and assessments on the property, as specified. (3) Existing law requires the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to establish a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Reserve program to assist local jurisdictions in financing the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements meeting specified requirements that are permanently affixed on real property through the use of a voluntary contractual assessment. This bill would expand the PACE Reserve program to assist local jurisdictions in financing the installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. (4) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 44272 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by AB 1106, that would become operative only if AB 1106 and this bill are both chaptered and become operative on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is chaptered last.

Existing law requires the written consent of the Labor Commissioner for the employment of a minor, as specified, in entertainment productions or as an advertising or photographic model or as a participant or player in a sport. Under existing law, a minor is required to obtain an entertainment work permit from the Labor Commissioner in order to be employed in those capacities. This bill would require that a fee be submitted at the time the minor applies for the work permit. The bill would specify that the fee be deposited into the Entertainment Work Permit Fund, which would be created by the bill, and would make this fee revenue available to the Labor Commissioner, upon appropriation, for the costs of issuing the permit, enforcing the provisions regulating a minor's employment in fields requiring issuance of an entertainment work permit, and administering the entertainment work permit program. The bill would provide that the fee would be set by the Labor Commissioner in an amount, not to exceed $50, sufficient to pay for the costs set forth above.