(1) Existing law requires the governing board of each school district or community college district in which trustee areas have been established, and in which each trustee is elected by the residents of the area the trustee represents, to adjust the trustee area boundaries following the decennial census. This bill would require the governing board of a community college district to make a proposed boundary adjustment public, and to elicit and consider public comment prior to a proposal's adoption, as prescribed, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law requires members of the governing board of the Los Angeles Community College District to be elected at large in odd-numbered years in a specified manner, except as specified commencing with the 2013 election. This bill, instead, would require the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District to establish 7 trustee areas in the district by July 1, 2014, and would require members of the board of trustees to be elected by trustee area, as specified. By increasing the responsibilities of the county and the community college district when they conduct elections, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles Community College District. (4) 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.
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The State Contract Act generally sets forth the authority and duties of a state agency for bidding and awarding public works contracts. Existing law also sets forth requirements for the procurement of materials, supplies, equipment, and services, and the acquisition of information technology goods and services by state agencies. This bill would prohibit the state from contracting with a person or entity that asks an applicant for employment who will assist the person or entity in fulfilling the contract with the state to disclose information concerning the conviction history of the applicant, unless the employer has determined that the applicant meets the minimum employment qualifications as stated in any notice issued for the position. The bill would not apply to a position for which an employer is otherwise required by state or federal law to conduct a conviction or criminal history background check or to any contract position with a criminal justice agency, as specified.
Existing law requires each state agency to review all proprietary state lands and make a list of excess state lands and to report the list to the Department of General Services. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
Existing law provides for the content that is to be printed on a partisan election ballot to be used in a direct primary election. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Existing law establishes the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund to be used to enhance the capacity of various county departments to provide rehabilitative and supervision services to youthful offenders. Existing law requires a county to annually prepare and submit to the Board of State and Community Corrections a Juvenile Justice Development Plan on its proposed expenditures for the next fiscal year from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund, as well as an annual report regarding its utilization of the block grant funds in the preceding fiscal year, as specified. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require a county, as a condition of receipt of funds from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund, to collect and report countywide performance outcomes and expenditures related to juvenile justice, and to require the Board of State and Community Corrections to collect and report this data in its annual reports.
The Gambling Control Act provides for the licensure and regulation of various legalized gambling activities and establishments by the California Gambling Control Commission and the investigation and enforcement of those activities and establishments by the Department of Justice. The act requires an application for a license or a determination of suitability to be accompanied by the deposit of a sum of money that will be adequate to pay the anticipated costs and charges incurred in the investigation and processing of the application. The designated chief at the department is required to adopt a schedule of costs and charges of investigation for use as guidelines in fixing the amount of the required deposit. This bill would require the department and the commission to establish an enhanced fee schedule for applicants who wish to have their applications processed and background investigations conducted in an expedited manner.
The Medi-Cal Act establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, Medi-Cal provider payments to be reduced by 1% or 5%, and provider payments for specified non-Medi-Cal programs to be reduced by 1%, for dates of service on and after March 1, 2009, and until June 1, 2011. Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, Medi-Cal provider payments and payments for specified non-Medi-Cal programs to be reduced by 10% for dates of service on and after June 1, 2011. This bill would instead require that, to the extent permitted by federal law, this payment reduction not apply to skilled nursing facilities or subacute care units that are a distinct part of a general acute care hospital, intermediate care or other specified facilities serving developmentally disabled individuals, or specified Medi-Cal provider payments for fee-for-service benefits, including payments to pharmacies, for dates of service on or after June 1, 2011. The bill would also provide that this payment reduction shall not apply to managed health care plans for dates of service after the effective date of the bill. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund to be used to enhance the capacity of county probation, mental health, drug and alcohol, and other departments to provide appropriate rehabilitative and supervision services to specified youthful offenders. This bill, the Youth Community Incentives Act of 2013, would permit each county to establish in each county treasury a Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund Part B account. The bill would require the Department of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Board of State and Community Corrections, and the Chief Probation Officers of California, to calculate the cost to the state of housing and supervising youth offenders who have committed certain specified offenses for the fiscal year 2012–13 and every year thereafter and, would annually allocate 75% the savings realized to the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund Part B account, which would be created by this bill, for the purposes specified in this bill, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require, in any fiscal year for which a county receives money pursuant to these provisions, the funds to be made available to the chief probation officer to be utilized to improve local probation supervision practices and capacities serving juvenile offenders. The bill would require that 40% of the funds be allocated proportionally and directly to those counties with net decreases in new admissions of youth offenders to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice, 40% to be available to fund a block grant program, as specified, and 20% to be available to fund technical assistance for counties in the ongoing implementation of best practices for serving certain specified juvenile offenders. The bill would require county probation departments receiving funds pursuant to the bill to develop and submit a youth supervision and rehabilitation plan to the Board of State and Community Corrections. The bill would require the chief probation officer to prepare and submit a report on the use of the funds to the Board of State and Community Corrections after approval by the juvenile justice coordinating counsel for that county. By imposing new duties on local officials, 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, 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.
This measure would designate that January 20, 2014, be observed as the official memorial of the late 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.