Existing law authorizes counties to use alternative procedures, known as design-build, for bidding on construction projects in the county in excess of $2,500,000, in accordance with specified procedures. These procedures include a requirement for contracts awarded, as specified, that a county board of supervisors pay a fee into the State Public Works Enforcement Fund, which funds are continuously appropriated for the Department of Industrial Relations' enforcement of prevailing wage requirements on public works projects. Each county that elects to use the design-build method on a public works project is required to submit a report to the Legislative Analyst's Office before December 1, 2009, containing a description of each public works project procured through the design-build process and completed after November 1, 2004, and before November 1, 2009. Existing law also requires the Legislative Analyst, on or before January 1, 2010, to report to the Legislature on the use of the design-build method by counties. This bill would make various changes in the procedures required for the use of design-build by those counties, as specified. The bill would also revise and expand those reporting provisions to require each county electing to use the design-build method on a public works project to submit to the Legislative Analyst's Office before September 1, 2013, a report containing a description, as specified, of each public works project procured through the design-build process and completed after November 1, 2009, and before August 1, 2013. This bill would require the Legislative Analyst, on or before January 1, 2014, to submit a report to the Legislature, as specified. Existing law authorizing design-build contracts for county construction projects repeals these provisions on January 1, 2011. This bill would extend the repeal date until July 1, 2014. By extending the repeal date, the bill would make an appropriation. Existing law also authorizes cities, until January 1, 2016, to use alternative procedures, known as design-build, for bidding on construction projects in the city in excess of $1,000,000. These procedures also require a city council to pay a fee into the State Public Works Fund, a continuously appropriated fund for the Department of Industrial Relation's enforcement of prevailing wage requirements on public works projects. This bill would make various changes in the procedures required for the use of design-build by those cities, as specified.
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Existing law establishes the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection and, until January 1, 2012, requires the committee to hold public hearings at specified times and to evaluate whether a board or regulatory program has demonstrated a need for its continued existence. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that all existing and proposed state boards be subject to review every 4 years to evaluate and determine whether each has demonstrated a public need for its continued existence, as specified. This bill would abolish the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection and make other conforming changes. The bill would instead require the Joint Sunset Review Committee to review all eligible agencies, as specified. The bill would require the committee to evaluate and make a report on whether an agency should be terminated or its functions revised or consolidated. The bill would require that the report shall be available to the public and the Legislature, as specified. The bill would impose a sunset date of January 1, 2013, on the State Race Track Leasing Commission, the Capitol Area Committee, the Continuing Care Advisory Committee, and the California Recreational Trails Committee. The bill would provide that its provisions would not become operative unless AB 1659 of the 2009–10 Regular Session is enacted and establishes the Joint Sunset Review Committee.
(1) Existing law prohibits a person from driving a 2-wheel motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorized scooter, motorized bicycle, moped, or bicycle with an attached motor upon a highway, unless the person holds a valid driver's license or endorsement for that class, with certain exceptions. Existing law allows a person, who is 15 years and 6 months or older who has a valid instruction permit to drive a motor vehicle and who has successfully completed automobile driver education and driver training, and a person who is 17 years and 6 months or older who has a valid instruction permit to drive a motor vehicle, to operate a motorcycle, motorized scooter, or motorized bicycle, with certain exceptions during hours of darkness, on freeways, and for carrying a passenger. Existing law provides that a person under 21 years of age may not be issued a class M1 or M2 license or endorsement to drive a motorcycle, unless he or she provides evidence satisfactory to the Department of Motor Vehicles of completion of a specified motorcycle safety training program. The bill would require a person, depending on his or her age, to meet certain requirements to obtain an instruction permit prior to operating or being issued a class M1 or M2 driver's license to operate a 2-wheel motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorized scooter, motorized bicycle, moped, or bicycle with an attached motor. A person issued an instruction permit pursuant to procedures established under the bill would be restricted from operating those vehicles during hours of darkness, on freeways, and while carrying a passenger. The bill would provide that an instruction permit issued pursuant to these procedures would be valid for a period not exceeding 24 months from the date of application. Because, under existing law, a violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes. (2) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 12509 of the Vehicle Code proposed by AB 2464, to be operative only if AB 2464 and this bill become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is enacted last. (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 prescribes procedures for the issuance of registered warrants and provides that a registered warrant is acceptable and may be used as security for the performance of any public or private trust or obligation. This bill would, if the Controller makes a specified determination, require a state agency to accept, from a person or entity, a registered warrant issued by the Controller and endorsed by that payee, at full face value, for the payment of any obligations owed by that payee to that state agency. The bill would specify that its requirements do not apply to certain obligations and would require the Controller, on or before the September 1 following the conclusion of a fiscal year in which a state agency is required to accept registered warrants pursuant to these provisions, to submit a report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. The bill would make its provisions inoperative on July 1, 2012, and would repeal them on January 1, 2013. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law authorizes the Employment Development Department to administer the disability compensation program. Existing law requires the department, among other duties, to make disability benefit payments by checks drawn on a specified bank, as provided. The bill would remove the requirement to pay by check and thus allow the director to make these payments using electronic technology. Existing law requires a claim for disability benefits to be supported by a certification of a treating physician or practitioner, and defines a practitioner as a person duly licensed or certified in California acting within the scope of his or her license or certification who is a dentist, podiatrist, or as to normal pregnancy or childbirth, a midwife, nurse midwife, or a nurse practitioner. This bill would modify the definition of practitioner, as prescribed. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires Placer County, upon approval of the county, and with the assistance of the appropriate state departments, to implement a pilot program for the funding and delivery of services and benefits through an integrated and comprehensive county health and human services system. Under existing law, these provisions become inoperative on July 1, 2011, and are repealed on January 1, 2012. This bill would extend by 5 years the dates upon which the provisions relating to the Placer County health and human services pilot program would become inoperative and would be repealed.
Existing law, the Administrative Procedure Act, governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. Existing law requires an agency to submit to the office, among other things, an initial statement of reasons for proposing the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation that includes, among other things, a description of reasonable alternatives to the regulation. Existing law requires, for a regulation that would mandate the use of specific technologies or equipment or prescribe specific actions or procedures, that the imposition of performance standards be considered as an alternative and that the initial statement of reasons include a statement of reasons why the agency believes that mandates or prescriptive standards are required. This bill would, from January 1, 2012, until January 1, 2014, recast these provisions and require that the initial statement of reasons also include a description of any performance standard that was considered as an alternative to the proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of the regulation. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires the Employment Development Department to implement and administer the unemployment insurance program in this state, and provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to eligible individuals who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Existing law provides for penalties and interest if any person or employing unit is delinquent in the payment of any contributions for unemployment insurance, and authorizes the Director of Employment Development to collect the delinquency or enforce any state tax liens by levy served personally or by certified mail. Existing law requires that, if the levy is made on a deposit or credits or personal property in the possession or under the control of a bank or savings and loan association, the notice of levy shall be delivered or mailed to the branch or office of the bank or savings and loan association at which the deposit is carried or at which credits or personal property is held. This bill, would authorize the director to serve the levy by first-class mail instead of certified mail. This bill would instead require that, if the levy is made on a deposit or credits or personal property in the possession or under the control of a bank or savings and loan association, the notice of levy shall be delivered or mailed to the centralized processing unit or location designated by that bank or savings and loan association where the credits or other property is held. To implement those provisions, the bill would also authorize the department to serve notice to an address for a bank or savings and loan association by magnetic media, electronic transmission, or other electronic technology. Existing law requires that the place of trial for specified violations of unemployment insurance laws be in the county of residence or principal place of business of the defendant or defendants, except as provided. This bill would also specify that the place of trial for those violations may also be in any county where the defendants were transacting the business that resulted in the alleged violations. Existing law provides for the payment of disability benefits to eligible individuals who are not able to work due to a disability, injury, or illness. Existing law requires that an individual be eligible to receive, for any day, if otherwise eligible, disability benefits reduced by the amount of the maintenance allowance and permanent disability indemnity, if specified conditions are met. Existing law makes an individual ineligible for disability benefits for any day of unemployment and disability for which he or she has received, or is entitled to receive, other benefits, as defined, in the form of cash payments, including a specified maintenance allowance paid for vocational rehabilitation. This bill would instead require that an individual be entitled to receive, for any day, if otherwise eligible, disability benefits reduced by the amount of the permanent disability indemnity if the permanent disability indemnity is less than the amount an individual would otherwise receive as disability under those provisions. The bill would exclude the maintenance allowance paid for vocational rehabilitation from that definition of "other benefits" for purposes of determining eligibility for disability benefits.
Existing law provides that any person who, orally, in writing, or by wearing any military decoration, falsely represents himself or herself to have been awarded any military decoration, as specified, with the intent to defraud, is guilty of an infraction. This bill would instead provide that the offense is a misdemeanor, or in the case where the person committing the offense is a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States, an infraction or a misdemeanor, as specified, and would exempt face-to-face solicitations involving less than $10. The bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 19.8 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 451 and AB 1675, to be operative only if this bill and one or both of the other bills are chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is chaptered last. By increasing the penalty for an existing offense, this 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.
Existing law, until January 1, 2014, allows certain state and local transportation entities, if authorized by the California Transportation Commission, to use a design‑build process for contracting on transportation projects, as specified. This bill would authorize the Riverside County Transportation Commission, if authorized by the commission, to utilize this design-build procurement process for the State Route 91 Corridor Improvements Project on the state highway system. The bill would make the Department of Transportation responsible for the performance of construction inspection services for the project, as specified, and would require the commission to report on the progress of the project and related matters to specified legislative committees. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.