Existing law makes it a crime, subject to specified exemptions, for a person to intentionally eavesdrop upon or record a confidential communication by means of an electronic amplifying or recording device without the consent of all parties to the confidential communication. Existing law exempts from the prohibition the recording of a confidential communication made for the purpose of obtaining evidence reasonably believed to relate to the commission by another party to the communication of certain crimes, including any felony involving violence against the person making the recording. Existing law also allows a judge to include a provision in a domestic violence restraining order permitting a victim of domestic violence to record any prohibited communication made to him or her by the perpetrator. This bill would allow a party to a confidential communication to record the communication for the purpose of obtaining evidence reasonably believed to relate to domestic violence, as specified, and the evidence so obtained would not be rendered inadmissible in a prosecution against the perpetrator for domestic violence. The bill would also authorize a victim of domestic violence who is seeking a domestic violence restraining order from a court to record specified communications made by the perpetrator for the exclusive purpose and use of providing the evidence to the court.
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Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue special license plates, including environmental license plates and specified special environmental design license plates. Under existing law, a state agency is authorized to apply to the DMV to sponsor a special license plate program, and the DMV is required to issue those license plates if the agency meets certain requirements. The DMV is required to charge specified fees for certain services related to the issuance of those plates. This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to apply to sponsor a reproductive freedom license plate program, and would require the DMV to issue the license plates if the State Department of Health Care Services meets certain requirements. The bill would authorize the State Department of Health Care Services to accept and use donated artwork from California artists for the license plate. The bill would require the revenue generated from the license plates, as specified, to be deposited in the California Reproductive Freedom Fund, created by the bill, and to be used, upon appropriation, for the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment program (Family PACT) .
Existing law prohibits several forms of sexual battery, including among others, the touching of an intimate part of another person while that person is unlawfully restrained by the accused or an accomplice, if the touching is against the will of the person touched and is for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, or sexual abuse. This bill would establish an additional sexual battery offense when an act of sexual intercourse is accomplished under certain circumstances, including, among others, when a person using a condom intentionally and without consent removes the condom prior to or during the act, when a person using the condom intentionally and without consent tampers with the condom and that condom is used during the act, or when the person intentionally and without consent uses a condom during the act that the person knows has been tampered with. The bill would provide that the offense is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year and a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years, and by a fine not exceeding $10,000. The bill would make additional conforming changes. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated 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.
This measure would express the Legislature's support for, and condemn any government-sanctioned persecution of, Falun Gong practitioners, as specified. The measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to condemn any government-sanctioned persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
Existing law provides for the formation of veterans memorial districts and provides for their powers and functions in constructing, acquiring, and operating halls, buildings, meeting places, and other facilities for the use of veterans and veterans' organizations and by persons and organizations other than veterans when their use does not interfere with the use of the facilities by veterans. Existing law authorizes, under specified conditions and to fund these purposes, the issuance of district bonds and the imposition of a memorial district tax. This bill would additionally authorize a veterans memorial district to provide funding to providers of supportive services that improve the quality of life for veterans and their families, including, but not limited to, counseling, case management, and employment training and placement, as provided.
Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, independent institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary educational institutions as the segments of postsecondary education in this state. This bill would request the University of California to convene a task force, consisting of 3 representatives of the University of California selected by the University of California, 3 representatives of the California State University selected by the California State University, and 3 representatives of the California Community Colleges selected by the California Community Colleges. The bill would require one of the representatives selected by each segment to be a student who is currently enrolled at a campus of that segment. The bill would require the members of the task force to be selected, and the task force to have its first meeting, no later than April 1, 2018. The bill would provide for the task force to be convened by the trustees if the regents decline to participate in the task force. The bill would require the task force to conduct a study to determine the extent, causes, and effects of housing insecurity and homelessness of current postsecondary students in this state and prospective applicants to postsecondary educational institutions in this state. The bill would require the study to be submitted to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2018.
This measure would designate a specified portion of Interstate 605 in the County of Los Angeles as the Officer Keith Boyer Memorial Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and the badge of the Whittier Police Department and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
This measure would designate a specified portion of Interstate 680 in the City of San Ramon in the County of Contra Costa as the Detective Sergeant Thomas A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Highway. The measure would also request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.