This measure would declare the week of March 12, 2012, through March 16, 2012, as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.
This measure would declare March 2012 to be Campus Safety Month, and would encourage citizens to visit the Internet Web site of the national nonprofit organization Security On Campus, Inc., to view public safety information about public and private colleges and universities.
This measure would resolve that the Legislature is proud to join the Girl Scouts of the USA in recognizing their 100th anniversary.
Existing law, as part of the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act, establishes the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, under the direction of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, in the California Department of Aging. Existing law provides for the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program under which funds are allocated to local ombudsman programs to assist elderly persons in long-term health care facilities and residential care facilities by, among other things, investigating and seeking to resolve complaints against these facilities. This bill would require the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to perform enumerated duties to provide for the health, safety, welfare, and rights of residents of long-term care facilities as described in the federal Older Americans Act, including, among other things, the duty to respond to complaints, as specified, to provide services and information to residents to help protect their health, safety, welfare, and rights, and to ensure timely access to the services provided by the office.
This measure would recognize the month of February 2012 as American Heart Month in California and recognize February 3, 2012, as Wear Red Day in California.
Existing law prohibits an employer from issuing in payment of wages due certain instruments, including an order, check, draft, note, memorandum, scrip, coupon, card, or other acknowledgment of indebtedness or redeemable instrument, unless specified requirements are satisfied. This bill would authorize an employer to pay an employee's wages by means of a payroll card, as defined, provided that specified requirements are satisfied. In addition, the bill would make a violation of its provisions a misdemeanor and would subject a violator to specified civil penalties. By creating new crimes, 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 requires a local fire enforcing agency or the State Fire Marshal, whichever has jurisdiction, upon receipt of a request from a prospective licensee of a community care facility, residential care facility for the elderly, or child day care facility, to conduct a preinspection of the facility prior to the final fire clearance approval, including consultation and interpretation of fire safety regulations. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing sales and use tax laws exclude from the definition of "storage" and "use" specified actions done with respect to tangible personal property for the purpose of transporting that property outside the state for use solely outside the state. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Existing law, the Street Lighting Act of 1919, provides for an alternative system for making improvements to street lighting systems, as defined. Existing law authorizes a city to consolidate its lighting systems for improvement in one proceeding, by zoning these systems so that systems of the same or similar general type are grouped together. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
