This measure would declare May 19, 2009, to be Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day in California.
This measure would proclaim April 4, 2009, as DMV/Donate Life California Day and the month of April 2009 as DMV/Donate Life California Month. This measure would encourage all Californians to sign up with the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry.
This measure proclaims the month of May 2009 to be Lyme Disease Awareness Month.
This measure would declare April 1, 2009, to be California Census Awareness Day to promote awareness of the upcoming federal decennial census in order to advance the goal of a complete and accurate count of all Californians.
This measure would declare February 19, 2009, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
This measure would declare February 24, 2009, to be Spay Day USA 2009, and would request that Californians observe that day by having their dogs or cats spayed or neutered and by contributing to organizations that provide spay and neuter services.
This measure would recognize March 2, 2009, as Read Across America Day.
This measure would recognize the Lunar New Year 4707 celebration.
Existing law establishes the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund in the State Treasury to be administered by the State Department of Public Health. Under existing law, the fund is continuously appropriated for the purpose of providing grants or revolving fund loans for the design and construction of projects for public water systems that will enable suppliers to meet safe drinking water standards. This bill would allow the department to expend federal moneys in the fund that are received from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in accordance with the guidelines of that act. The bill would provide that the maximum amount of a grant is $10,000,000 per project. Because this bill would provide for the expenditure of moneys from a continuously appropriated fund it would constitute an appropriation. Existing law requires every urban water supplier to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan, in accordance with specified requirements, for submission to the Department of Water Resources and other entities. Existing law creates a grant and loan program for urban water suppliers, to fund programs or projects for surface water and groundwater storage, recycling, desalination, water conservation, water supply reliability, and water supply augmentation, subject to specified conditions. This bill would exempt projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 from those conditions. Existing law establishes the continuously appropriated State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund, administered by the State Water Resources Control Board, to provide financial assistance, as defined, for various purposes allowed by the federal Clean Water Act. This bill would include specified grants for projects funded by the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in the definition of financial assistance and would allow the funds in the fund to be used for those grants. The bill would also allow for loan forgiveness to the extent authorized by that act. Because the bill would expand the purposes for which continuously appropriated funds may be used, the bill would constitute an appropriation. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 19, 2008. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on December 19, 2008, pursuant to the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law provides that, for purposes of eligibility for federal-state extended benefits, an individual have earnings that exceed either 40 times his or her most recent weekly benefit amount or 1.5 times the highest quarter in the base period, and precludes the implementation of the alternative eligibility requirement for federal-state extended benefits unless the Director of the Employment Development Department determines that these provisions have been approved by the United States Department of Labor. The federal Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2008 created the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) Program on June 30, 2008, which provides for the payment of up to 13 weeks of federally funded emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) benefits to eligible unemployed individuals nationwide who had already collected all regular state benefits for which they were eligible. The federal Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008, which was enacted on November 21, 2008, further expanded the EUC Program to provide for the payment of 20 weeks of benefits nationwide, and provides for the payment of 13 more weeks of benefits to eligible unemployed individuals in states with high unemployment rates, as determined by specified criteria. The federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which was enacted on February 17, 2009, extends to May 31, 2010, the period of time during which claims for EUC benefits can be filed and paid. The bill would provide for the payment of temporary federal-state EUC benefits authorized under the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2008, the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to eligible individuals in this state for weeks of unemployment on or after February 1, 2009, and continuing until the week ending 3 weeks prior to the last week for which specified provisions providing for 100% federal sharing authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, except as provided, if specified economic indicators trigger the payment of those benefits. Because the bill would provide for the payment of additional amounts from the Unemployment Fund, a continuously appropriated special fund, it would make an appropriation. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 19, 2008. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on December 19, 2008, pursuant to the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
