This measure would declare that the Legislature joins the County of Riverside in opposing base realignment and closure affecting the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, and March Air Reserve Base.
Existing law provides that the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank shall not make any financing unless it has determined that the financing or assistance meets specified criteria. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Existing law authorizes a city, city and county, or county to establish, by ordinance, building seismic retrofit standards applicable to the seismic retrofit of any buildings identified, as specified, by the city, city and county, or county as being hazardous to life if an earthquake occurs. Existing law identifies specified types of buildings as potentially hazardous under these provisions, including certain unreinforced masonry buildings and specified woodframe, multiunit residential buildings constructed before January 1, 1978. This bill would additionally authorize each city, city and county, or county to require that owners evaluate the earthquake hazard of soft story residential buildings and older concrete residential buildings, and would include concrete residential buildings that were constructed prior to the adoption of local building codes that ensure ductility, as specified, as potentially hazardous if an earthquake occurs. The bill would authorize a city, city and county, or county to employ seismic evaluation of older concrete residential buildings to address individual seismically hazardous buildings without regard to how the buildings came to the attention of its officials. The bill would require the seismic retrofit of a concrete residential building identified as potentially hazardous to comply with a nationally recognized model code relating to the retrofit of existing buildings, as specified.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to award a State Seal of Biliteracy. Existing law provides that the State Seal of Biliteracy certifies attainment of a high level of proficiency by a graduating high school pupil in one or more languages, in addition to English, and certifies that the graduate meets specified criteria, including, but not limited to, passing the California Standards Test in English language arts administered in grade 11 at the proficient level or above. Existing law also requires a pupil in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, whose primary language is other than English, to meet these same requirements and to also attain the early advanced proficiency level on the English language development test in order to qualify for the State Seal of Biliteracy. This bill, to qualify for the State Seal of Biliteracy, would instead require a graduate to have passed a state-adopted, standards-aligned test in English language arts administered in grade 11 at the proficient level or above, except that for the 2014–15 school year, to have passed the most recently available state-adopted, standards-aligned English language arts test for that graduate at the proficient level or above. This bill also would establish the State Recognition Program of Multiple Pathways to Biliteracy to be administered annually by the State Department of Education beginning January 1, 2016, to recognize school districts and county offices of education that voluntarily demonstrate excellence in providing and supporting multiple opportunities for pupils to attain high achievement and linguistic biliteracy in grades 1 to 12, inclusive, through biliteracy programs, as specified. The bill would require this program to be implemented only to the extent moneys are available to the department for purposes of the program from any source.
(1) Under existing law, when the Department of Motor Vehicles determines that an applicant is lawfully entitled to a driver's license, the department is required to issue that license to the applicant. Existing law specifies the contents of a driver's license and requires the application for a driver's license or identification card to contain a space for an applicant to indicate whether he or she has served in the Armed Forces of the United States and to give his or her consent to be contacted regarding eligibility to receive state or federal veterans' benefits. This bill would, commencing November 11, 2015, allow an applicant for a driver's license or identification card to allow a person to request the driver's license or identification card be printed with the word "VETERAN." The applicant would be required to present to the Department of Motor Vehicles, on a form developed jointly by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Motor Vehicles, proof of veteran status. The bill would require county veterans service offices to verify an applicant's veteran status for these purposes, as specified. The department would be required to print the word "VETERAN" on the face of a driver's license or identification card issued to a person who makes that request and presents that verification to the department. (2) Existing law establishes certain fee amounts for the applications for, and renewal of, driver's licenses and identification cards. This bill would authorize the department to charge an additional fee in an unspecified amount to a person who requests that the person's driver's license or identification card be designated as provided above.
Existing law governing weights and measures provides that there is in each county the office of county sealer, as defined, of weights and measures to administer those provisions, as specified. Existing law requires a county sealer to weigh and measure packages, containers, or amounts of commodities sold, or in the process of delivery, in order to determine whether they contain the quantity or amount represented and whether they are being sold in accordance with law. In order to recover the actual costs of carrying out these provisions, this bill would authorize a county board of supervisors to charge an annual registration fee, not to exceed $640. The bill would require any adopted registration fee to be imposed only on a business location operating in the county that packs, imports, warehouses, or distributes more than 10,000 packages or containers per year that intends to sell or distribute for sale those packages or containers and to exempt any person or entity operating a business location at which both retail sales and commodity packing operations are conducted if the retail sales activities constitute the significant majority of its business operations.
Under the Sales and Use Tax Law, the Use Fuel Tax Law, the Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law, the Energy Resources Surcharge Law, the Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act, the Hazardous Substances Tax Law, the Integrated Waste Management Fee Law, the Oil Spill Response, Prevention, and Administration Fees Law, the Underground Storage Tank Maintenance Fee Law, and the Diesel Fuel Tax Law, the Taxpayers' Rights Advocate is authorized to order, within 90 days of the receipt of funds pursuant to a levy or notice to withhold, the return of any amount not exceeding $1,500, upon a finding that the levy or notice to withhold threatens the health or welfare of the taxpayer, or his or her spouse and dependents or family. This bill would increase the amount the Taxpayers' Rights Advocate is authorized to order returned to $2,300, and would authorize this amount to be adjusted for inflation, as provided. Under the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Law and the Fee Collection Procedures Law, the Taxpayers' Rights Advocate is authorized to order the release of a levy or notice to withhold upon his or her finding that the levy or notice to withhold threatens the health or welfare of the taxpayer, or his or her spouse and dependents or family. This bill would additionally authorize the Taxpayers' Rights Advocate to order, within 90 days of the receipt of funds pursuant to a levy or notice to withhold, the return of any amount not exceeding $2,300, upon a finding that the levy or notice to withhold threatens the health or welfare of the taxpayer, or his or her spouse and dependents or family, and would authorize this amount to be adjusted for inflation, as provided.
The California Constitution provides that during the term for which a judge was selected, he or she is ineligible for public employment or public office other than judicial employment or judicial office, except that he or she may accept a part-time teaching position. The Judges' Retirement Law establishes the judges' Retirement System to provide retirement benefits for retired judges. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II Law for judges elected or appointed on or after November 9, 1994. This bill would prohibit a judge of a court of record, upon retirement from either system, from accepting employment with any individual, or public or private entity, for one year after the date of his or her retirement if the individual, or public or private entity, appeared before the judge in connection with any contested matter within one year prior to the date of the judge's retirement.
This measure would call upon all Californians to observe César Chávez's birthday, March 31, as a day of public service, to recognize the hard work and self-sacrifice that farmworkers go through to feed all the families in our state, and to learn from César Chávez's life and his mission of nonviolence, social justice, and selfless service to others.
Existing law sets forth various provisions for the acquisition and maintenance of property by the state, and authorizes the Director of General Services to dispose of state surplus property by means of sale, lease, exchange, a sale combined with an exchange, or other manner of disposition of property, subject to specified conditions, including authorization by the Legislature. This bill would authorize the Department of General Services to exchange, with the Canyon Vineyard Estates I, LLC, at fair market value and upon terms and conditions the director deems to be in the best interest of the state, certain surplus property under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation, as part of the land-for-land exchange for the Tuna Canyon Property. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute.
