Existing law establishes the Superintendent of Public Instruction and requires the Superintendent to develop, and submit to the State Board of Education for approval, information to strengthen and promote the opportunities for quality involvement by parents and guardians in schoolsite councils. This bill would require the Superintendent, in collaboration with specified entities, to develop a 5-year plan for expanding cradle-to-career initiatives throughout the state. The bill would require the 5-year plan to include certain things, including a description of the components of effective cradle-to-career initiatives, and recommendations, as specified. The bill would require the Superintendent to submit the plan to the Legislature by December 1, 2016. The bill would make specified findings and declarations.
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Existing law establishes the Education Code, and provides that its provisions are to be liberally construed, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
This measure would designate that January 21, 2013, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, and commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and 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. This measure would also recognize the anniversaries of the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington in connection with the advancement of civil rights.
This measure would recognize February 2013 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.
(1) The California Constitution prohibits the ad valorem tax rate on real property from exceeding 1% of the full cash value of the property, subject to certain exceptions. This measure would create an additional exception to the 1% limit for a rate imposed by a city, county, city and county, or special district, as defined, to service bonded indebtedness incurred to fund specified public improvements and facilities, or buildings used primarily to provide sheriff, police, or fire protection services, that is approved by 55% of the voters of the city, county, city and county, or special district, as applicable. (2) The California Constitution prohibits specified local government agencies from incurring any indebtedness exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided in that year, without the assent of 23 of the voters and subject to other conditions. In the case of a school district, community college district, or county office of education, the California Constitution permits a proposition for the incurrence of indebtedness in the form of general obligation bonds for the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of school facilities, including the furnishing and equipping of school facilities, or the acquisition or lease of real property for school facilities, to be adopted upon the approval of 55% of the voters of the district or county, as appropriate, voting on the proposition at an election. This measure would similarly lower to 55% the voter-approval threshold for a city, county, or city and county to incur bonded indebtedness, exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided in that year, that is in the form of general obligation bonds to fund specified public improvements and facilities, or buildings used primarily to provide sheriff, police, or fire protection services.
(1) Existing law authorizes a person to petition the court for an order sealing the record of conviction and other official records in a case in which that person was under 18 years of age at the time of commission of a misdemeanor and is eligible for, or has previously received, specified relief. Existing law authorizes that person to be required to reimburse the court, the county, or any city for the actual cost of services rendered, as specified. This bill would only make persons 26 years of age or older liable to reimburse the court, the county, or any city for the cost of services. (2) Existing law makes a father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of a minor person, the person himself or herself if he or she is an adult, or the estates of those persons, unless indigent, liable for the cost to the county and court for any investigation related to the sealing and for the sealing of any juvenile court or arrest records pursuant to the above-mentioned provisions. Existing law also authorizes those persons to be required to reimburse the court, county, or a city for the actual cost of services rendered, as specified. This bill would only require persons 26 years of age or older who petitions for an order sealing his or her record, pursuant to specified provisions, to be liable for the investigative costs and to reimburse the costs of services rendered. (3) By permitting certain persons to receive services from local agencies free of charge, the bill would increase the level of service provided by those local agencies, thereby imposing 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, 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.
(1) Existing law establishes the Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Program, which requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to award a grant, for the purpose of purchasing or leasing agricultural career technical education equipment, to an applicant school district that operates an agricultural career technical education program and that meets specified requirements. Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to annually adopt or update a local control and accountability plan that contains specified information. This bill would continuously appropriate the sum of $4,134,000 in each fiscal year beginning with the 2015–16 fiscal year from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for purposes of funding the Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Program. The bill would require the Superintendent to award a grant to a school district that, in addition to meeting the existing requirements, demonstrates how the expenditure of the grant funds will be consistent with its adopted local control and accountability plan. The bill would also express various findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to agricultural career technical education. (2) Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
(1) The Small Business Procurement and Contract Act requires the Director of General Services and the heads of other state agencies that enter into contracts for the provision of goods, services, and information technology and for the construction of state facilities to establish goals for the participation of small businesses in these contracts, to provide for small business preference in the award of these contracts, to give special consideration and special assistance to small businesses, and, whenever possible, to make awards to small businesses, as specified. This bill would require all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions to establish and achieve an annual goal of 25% small business participation in state procurements and contracts, to ensure that the state's procurement and contract processes are administered in order to meet or exceed the goal, and to report to the Director of General Services statistics regarding small business participation in the agency's procurements and contracts. The bill would require the Department of General Services to monitor the progress of the agencies toward meeting the goal and to provide this information to the Office of Small Business Advocate. The bill would also require a state agency, department, board, or commission that has not achieved the goal by the close of the fiscal year to submit a corrective action plan to the Department of General Services within 45 days. The bill would require the department, in collaboration with the Office of Small Business Advocate, to undertake reasonable means to assist agencies in improving small business participation in their contracting. The bill would require all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions to work with the department to help small businesses market their products, goods, and services to the state by providing access to information about current bid opportunities on their Internet Web sites. The bill would also require the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to collaborate with the Department of General Services to cooperatively enhance the state's small business program by helping small businesses access capital and other financial resources necessary to successfully fulfill state contracts. The bill would apply to all state public entities that receive state public funding, including the California State University, the University of California, and the California Community Colleges. In calculating the total amount of contracting covered by this bill, the California State University, the University of California, and the California Community Colleges would only be required to meet the 25% goal for state funding used in contracting. (2) Existing law requires a state agency, department, officer, or other state governmental entity, to meet an annual statewide participation goal of not less than 3% for disabled veteran business enterprises for specified contracts entered into by the awarding department during the year. The bill would gradually increase that participation goal to 5% by the 2017–18 fiscal year. The bill would require contracts awarded by any state agency, department, officer, or other state governmental entity for goods, services, or information technology for which the expected bid could be over $100,000,000 to have this participation goal, unless the Department of General Services certifies, prior to the issuance of bid requests, that the state agency, department, officer, or other state governmental entity met its disabled veteran business enterprise goal in prior fiscal years, as specified, and will likely meet its disabled veteran business enterprise goal in the current fiscal year. (3) Existing law requires the Director of General Services to adopt written policies and guidelines for state contracting that would provide a disabled veteran business enterprise participation incentive to bidders. The bill would require the incentive provided to a disabled veteran business enterprise prime contractor to be higher than the incentive provided to a prime contractor that is not a disabled veteran business enterprise but that has agreed to use a disabled veteran business enterprise subcontractor. (4) Existing law specifies the duties of the Department of Veterans Affairs with respect to the implementation of the Disabled Veteran Enterprise Program, including, among other things, a requirement to establish a system to track the effectiveness of its efforts to promote the program. The bill would require the department to include in the tracking system a record of those businesses that became certified disabled veteran business enterprises and participated in a state contract within 2 years following the date of a promotional effort. (5) Existing law requires the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs to appoint a California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocate, and each awarding department to appoint an agency Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocate, and requires each advocate to perform certain duties relating to the implementation of the of the Disabled Veteran Enterprise Program. This bill would require the California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program advocate to perform additional duties, including meeting regularly with, and assisting, agency Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocates, serving as an advocate for the disabled veteran business enterprises, and reporting to the Office of Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Services, as specified. This bill would also require each agency Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocate to perform additional duties, including maintaining records of promotional efforts hosted or attended by each agency Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocate, as specified, and indicating which of these businesses became certified disabled veteran business enterprises and participated in a state contract. (6) Existing law requires the Department of General Services to make available a report on state agency contracting activity containing certain information. This bill would require the department, for any contracting activity occurring on or after July 1, 2015, to include in that report information of the use of disabled veteran business enterprise utilization plans, as specified. The bill would prohibit the department from approving a vendor's utilization plan unless the vendor agrees to provide the department with any information the department deems necessary to meet these reporting requirements.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to develop an Academic Performance Index (API) to measure the performance of schools and school districts, especially the academic performance of pupils. Existing law also requires the Superintendent, with the approval of the state board, to develop an alternative accountability system for schools under the jurisdiction of a county board of education or a county superintendent of schools, community day schools, nonpublic, nonsectarian schools, and alternative schools serving high-risk pupils, including continuation high schools and opportunity schools. Existing law provides that schools in the alternative accountability system may receive an API score, but shall not be included in the API rankings. This bill would, by July 1, 2016, require the Superintendent, with the approval of the state board, to develop the Student Achievement via Excellence (SAVE) accountability system for the schools under the jurisdiction of a county board of education or a county superintendent of schools, community day schools, certain charter schools, nonpublic, nonsectarian schools, and alternative schools, including continuation high schools and opportunity schools. The bill would require the SAVE accountability system to be designed in conformity with certain requirements, and would provide that its purpose is to annually measure the positive outcome performance of a covered school, as expressed by the school's SAVE score. The bill would, among other things, require a school's SAVE score to be calculated based upon 3 weighted categories: learning readiness, save rate, and academic achievement, and would specify indicators for each of these categories. The bill would require the Superintendent to recommend, and the state board to adopt, weights for each category. The bill would require the SAVE accountability system to be fully implemented beginning with the 2016–17 school year.
Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in establishing rates for water service, to consider separate charges for costs associated with customer service, facilities, variable operating costs, including fixed and variable costs associated with supplying the water, or other components of the water service provided to water users. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision of law.