Existing law designates specified days as having special significance, and specifies how the days of special significance should be observed in public elementary and secondary schools and educational institutions. This bill would repeal and recast these provisions. This bill would express findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to Ronald Reagan. This bill would designate February 6 of each year as Ronald Reagan Day, and would encourage public schools and educational institutions to engage in exercises remembering the life of Ronald Reagan, as specified. Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim various days in honor of a person, status, or an event. This bill would require the Governor to annually proclaim February 6 as Ronald Reagan Day.
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Existing law establishes the right to appeal the making or denial of various orders or judgments under probate law. Existing law also provides that when an appeal is taken for the purpose of preventing injury or loss to a person or property the trial court may direct the exercise of the powers of the fiduciary, or may appoint a temporary guardian or conservator of the power, or a special administrator, to exercise the powers, as if no appeal were pending, as provided. This bill would provide that the court may also appoint a temporary trustee to exercise the powers, as if no appeal were pending.
The Mobilehome Residency Law governs the terms and conditions of residency in mobilehome parks. Existing law requires the management of a mobilehome park to provide all homeowners with a copy of the Mobilehome Residency Law by February 1 of each year, if a significant change was made in those provisions by legislation enacted in the prior year. This bill would instead require management to provide all homeowners with a copy of that law or to notify all homeowners that a change has been made in those provisions and provide a copy to the homeowner upon request, as provided.
Existing law requires, for a statutory will to be properly executed that the testator complete the appropriate blanks and sign the will and that 2 witnesses observe the testator's signing and each witness sign his or her name in the presence of the testator. However, the form used for a statutory will also requires the witnesses to sign in each other's presence. This bill would delete this latter requirement from the form. The bill would add to the form a notice that the notarization would not fulfill the witness requirement. The bill would additionally change the form to account for a guardianship of a child born after the date the will is executed. This bill would also make other technical and conforming changes.
This measure would call upon the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to develop common core state standards in the core academic disciplines of English-language arts, mathematics, history-social science, and science, request that they replicate the process used to develop English-language arts and mathematics common core state standards to now develop common core state standards for social studies and science, and examine the viability of developing common standards in foreign language, visual and performing arts, physical education, career technical education, and other subject areas.
This measure would proclaim the 3rd Monday of each September as California Memorial Project Remembrance Day in California, to honor and restore dignity to individuals who lived and died in California institutions.
This measure would recognize May 10, 2010, and each May 10 thereafter, as Asian Pacific American Mental Health Day, and acknowledge the importance of raising awareness about mental health in the Asian Pacific American community.
This measure would continue the existence and set forth the membership of the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness, to perform duties to promote fitness and health in schools and workplaces. It would permit the task force to accept private funds and in-kind donations, require the task force to submit a report on its work to the Legislature on or before June 30, 2012, and provide that the task force would cease to exist on July 1, 2014, unless its existence is extended by a later enacted resolution.
This measure would memorialize Congress and the President of the United States to act to vindicate the sailors unjustly blamed for, and the sailors convicted of mutiny following, the Port Chicago disaster, and to rectify any mistreatment by the military of those sailors, as specified.
This measure would declare April 26 through April 30, 2010, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.