(1) Existing law provides for the Insurance Commissioner to issue a communications equipment insurance agent license to a communications equipment vendor, as defined, authorizing the vendor to sell or offer to its customers insurance covering communications equipment and the sale or provision of services for communications equipment. Existing law authorizes employees and franchisees of the vendor to be listed as endorsees on the license for the purpose of selling or offering communications equipment insurance under the authority of the agent's license. Existing law imposes certain requirements on the licensees and endorsees with respect to training and other related matters. Existing law makes it a crime to sell or offer for sale communications equipment insurance without a production agency license. This bill would revise and recast the above provisions by deleting the term communications equipment and replacing it with the term portable electronics, as defined. The bill would authorize endorsees, defined as employees and authorized representatives of the portable electronics vendor, to sell or offer portable electronics insurance pursuant to the authority of the vendor's portable electronics insurance agent license, as provided. The bill would also make changes to vendor reporting, endorsee compensation, and recordkeeping requirements, and would expand the types of products for which a license is required in order to sell portable electronics insurance. Because this bill would expand the scope of a crime by expanding the scope of the products for which portable electronics insurance license is required, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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.
Sponsored bills
This measure would request that the Congress and the President of the United States enact the federal Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act of 2011.
This measure would memorialize the Legislature's support for the school-based health center program authorized by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, an appropriation by the United States Congress to fund this program, policies that include school-based health centers as a partner in creating a medical home for all children, and the inclusion of school-based health centers in the reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Existing law provides, subject to exceptions, that every person who overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, drink, or shelter, cruelly beats, mutilates, or cruelly kills any animal, or causes or procures any animal to be so overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, drink, shelter, or to be cruelly beaten, mutilated, or cruelly killed; and whoever, having the charge or custody of any animal, either as owner or otherwise, subjects any animal to needless suffering, or inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon the animal, or in any manner abuses any animal, or fails to provide the animal with proper food, drink, or shelter or protection from the weather, or who drives, rides, or otherwise uses the animal when unfit for labor, is guilty of a crime punishable as a misdemeanor or as a felony, or alternatively as a misdemeanor or a felony and a fine of not more than $20,000. This bill would revise the punishment for this offense to provide that it is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or in the state prison, or by a fine of not more than $20,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. The bill would make other technical, nonsubstantive changes. By revising the penalty for an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law proscribes animal abuse, as specified, including the failure to maintain and care for the premises and animals at pet shops. Existing law also generally provides that a pet store shall not sell, offer for sale, trade, or barter any dog or cat that is under 8 weeks of age, but may sell, offer for sale, trade, or barter a dog or cat over 8 weeks of age only if the animal is weaned. This bill would provide, in addition and with specified exceptions, that it shall be a crime, punishable as specified, for any person to willfully sell or give away as part of a commercial transaction, a live animal on any street, highway, public right-of-way, parking lot, carnival, or boardwalk, or to display or offer for sale, or display or offer to give away as part of a commercial transaction, a live animal if the act of selling or giving away the live animal is to occur on any street, highway, public right-of-way, parking lot, carnival, or boardwalk. The bill would provide that a notice describing the charge and the penalty for a violation of this bill may be issued by a peace officer, animal control officer, or humane officer. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would incorporate changes to Section 597 of the Penal Code made by AB 109, which has been chaptered but is not operative, to become operative only if AB 109 becomes operative. 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.
(1) Existing law requires the prospective employer of a driver who drives a specified vehicle, including a vehicle for which the driver is required to have a class A or B license, to obtain a report showing the driver's current public record as recorded by the Department of Motor Vehicles, and the employer of the driver to obtain an additional periodic report at least every 12 months. Existing law requires that those reports be presented upon request or upon demand, as applicable, to an authorized representative of the Department of the California Highway Patrol during regular business hours. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. This bill would also require that the prospective employer or employer of a driver of a taxicab engaged in transportation services, as described, to present these reports upon request, during regular business hours, to an authorized representative of the administrative agency responsible for issuing permits to taxicab transportation services, as specified. Since a violation of this requirement would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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 proclaim the month of June to be June Dairy Month in California, in honor of the work of dairy producers in California, and would encourage all Californians to continue to support the American dairy industry by including dairy products as part of a healthy diet.
Existing law limits the ability of a surplus line broker to place any coverage with a nonadmitted insurer, as specified. This bill would revise and recast the provisions governing surplus line brokers and nonadmitted insurers to make them consistent with the federal Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank) , including, but not limited to, the duties, responsibilities, and licensure of surplus line brokers, taxation of surplus line insurance, and the eligibility of nonadmitted insurers to do business in this state. Certain provisions of the act would become operative on July 21, 2011. The bill would require that new or renewal policies, cancellations, or endorsements, and installment premiums be classified as provided for the purposes of addressing the requirements of Dodd-Frank, and these provisions would be inoperative as of October 18, 2012. The bill would also make conforming changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The California Constitution provides that the electors may propose statutes or amendments to the state constitution through the initiative process by presenting to the Secretary of State a petition that sets forth the text of the proposed statute or amendment to the Constitution and is certified to have been signed by a certain number of electors. This measure would require the Legislative Analyst to review an initiative measure not later than 15 days after its qualification for the ballot, and report the results of the review to the Secretary of State. This measure would prohibit an initiative measure that the Legislative Analyst determines would result in a net increase in state or local government costs exceeding $5,000,000, other than costs attributable to the issuance, sale, or repayment of bonds, from being submitted to the electors or having any effect unless the Legislative Analyst determines that the initiative measure provides for additional revenues in an amount that meets or exceeds the net increase in costs. This requirement would provide for an annual adjustment to the amount of that cost threshold, and would not apply to, or have any effect on, an initiative measure that reduces tax revenues or fees.
This measure would recognize May 2011 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.