The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 provides for workforce investment activities, including activities in which states may participate. Existing law contains various programs for job training and employment investment, including work incentive programs, as specified. Existing law requires the local chief elected officials in a local workforce development area, to form, pursuant to specified guidelines, a local workforce investment board to plan and oversee the workforce investment system. This bill would transfer $25,000,000 from the General Fund to the Work-Based Learning Fund, which the bill would create in the State Treasury, for the purpose of funding work-based learning programs for out-of-school youth and young adults. This bill would appropriate the moneys in the Work-Based Learning Fund to the California Workforce Investment Board, which would develop a competitive grant program to allocate those moneys to local workforce investment boards and community-based organizations that administer Workforce Investment Act youth programs. This bill would require the local workforce investment boards and the community-based organizations to report specified information to the California Workforce Investment Board, and would require the California Workforce Investment Board to report specified information to the Legislature and the Governor, as provided.
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Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to contract with the owner of a qualified historical property, as defined, to restrict the use of the property for a minimum period of 10 years, and establishes methods for the property tax valuation of any property so restricted during the contract period on a basis that is consistent with its restrictions and uses. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Existing law requires the State Lands Commission to deposit in the General Fund all revenues, moneys, and remittances received by the commission, with certain exceptions. Existing law requires that the moneys be used for specified purposes, including refunds, commission expenses, and specified payments to cities and counties. This bill would appropriate $11,500,000 from the General Fund, from certain oil and gas revenues deposited by the commission, to the Controller for a loan to the City of Hermosa Beach, to be made if the city is obligated to make payment pursuant to a specified settlement agreement. The bill would require the State Board of Equalization, if the city fails to make any payment on the loan when due and upon the order of the Controller, to deduct the amount of the payment from the sales and use taxes to be paid to the city. The bill would also require the Controller to deposit moneys received in repayment of the loan into the General Fund. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would request the Congress of the United States to, among other things, act immediately to avert federal spending cuts known as "sequestration" to protect the California and national economies.
(1) Existing law, the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. Existing law provides for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election. This bill would repeal these provisions. (2) Under existing law, various measures have been approved by the voters to provide funds for water supply and protection facilities and programs. This bill would enact the Clean, Safe, and Reliable Drinking Water Act of 2014, which, if adopted by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $8,200,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a clean, safe, and reliable drinking water program. This bill would provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election.
This measure would declare that the Legislature joins the County of Riverside in opposing base realignment and closure affecting the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, and March Air Reserve Base.
Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University. Existing law authorizes, by the beginning of the 2015–16 academic year, any student enrolled at a campus of the California State University who meets specified requirements to enroll, without formal admission, and without payment of additional tuition or fees, except as provided, in a course provided entirely online, as defined, by another campus of the California State University on a space-available basis. Existing law requires the trustees to establish a series of uniform definitions for online education for the California State University on or before January 1, 2015, as specified. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision requiring the trustees to establish uniform definitions.
Existing law, the Corporate Securities Law of 1968, requires securities offered or sold in this state to be qualified through application filed with the Commissioner of Business Oversight, unless exempt from the qualification requirements. Under existing law, a security issued either by the issuer of a security registered under a designated provision of the federal law or issued by an investment company registered under other specified federal law, and which is not eligible for qualification by coordination under existing law, may be qualified by notification by making a specified application and providing certain documents and additional information. Existing law imposes liability for specified damages on a person who offers or sells a security if the sale is not qualified, violates a condition of qualification under the act, or violates an order suspending trading issued by the commissioner. This bill, in addition, would authorize qualification by notification for any offer or sale of a security if, among other requirements, the offering meets the requirements for a federal exemption for limited offerings and sales of securities not exceeding $1,000,000, and the aggregate amount of securities sold to any investor by the issuer does not exceed certain amounts within a 12-month time period, except as specified. This bill would require a court to award attorney's fees and costs to a prevailing purchaser in an action brought against a person who makes a sale in violation of the qualification provisions prescribed in the bill, and would authorize the court to award treble or punitive damages.
(1) Under existing law, when the Department of Motor Vehicles determines that an applicant is lawfully entitled to a driver's license, the department is required to issue that license to the applicant. Existing law specifies the contents of a driver's license and requires the application for a driver's license or identification card to contain a space for an applicant to indicate whether he or she has served in the Armed Forces of the United States and to give his or her consent to be contacted regarding eligibility to receive state or federal veterans' benefits. This bill would, commencing November 11, 2015, allow an applicant for a driver's license or identification card to allow a person to request the driver's license or identification card be printed with the word "VETERAN." The applicant would be required to present to the Department of Motor Vehicles, on a form developed jointly by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Motor Vehicles, proof of veteran status. The bill would require county veterans service offices to verify an applicant's veteran status for these purposes, as specified. The department would be required to print the word "VETERAN" on the face of a driver's license or identification card issued to a person who makes that request and presents that verification to the department. (2) Existing law establishes certain fee amounts for the applications for, and renewal of, driver's licenses and identification cards. This bill would authorize the department to charge an additional fee in an unspecified amount to a person who requests that the person's driver's license or identification card be designated as provided above.
Existing law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to disburse funds, appropriated to the department for the purpose of supporting county veterans service officers pursuant to the annual Budget Act, on a pro rata basis, to counties that comply with certain conditions. This bill would authorize the department, in conjunction with the California Association of County Veterans Service Officers, no later than July 1, 2015, to develop an allocation formula based upon performance standards that encourage innovation and reward outstanding service by county veterans service officers, and, if that allocation formula is developed, the bill would require those moneys appropriated for support of county veterans service offices in the annual Budget Act to be allocated in accordance with that formula, as specified.