This measure would commemorate the centennial of the founding of Locke, California, would recognize and honor Locke, California, as the last remaining Chinatown in North America, and would urge all Californians to learn about the important history of Locke, California, and its inhabitants.
This measure would congratulate the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls on the celebration of its 50th anniversary, and recognize and commend the commission for its various contributions and accomplishments.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to support H.R. 167, the federal Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, in order to provide a long-term, stable source of funding for federal agencies to conduct the necessary fuels management on national forest lands, while retaining resources to suppress catastrophic wildfires.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to enact legislation allowing immigrants to serve in the military if they are eligible under the President's Executive Order for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or Executive Order for Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents.
(1) Existing law enumerates the officers of a county, including the office of the auditor, prescribes their duties, and permits a county board of supervisors to consolidate, separate, and reconsolidate their duties, as specified. Existing law requires the board of supervisors, at least biennially, to audit county financial accounts and records of all county officers responsible for the care, management, collection, or disbursement of county money, as specified. Existing law requires the board of supervisors to supervise the official conduct of all county officers, particularly with regard to the functions and duties of these county officers as they relate to the assessing, collecting, safekeeping, management, or disbursement of public funds. This bill would require, in any county with both an elected auditor-controller and a population exceeding 3,000,000 people, that the auditor-controller, and not the board of supervisors, examine and audit, or cause to be audited, the financial accounts and records of all officers having responsibility for the care, management, collection, or disbursement of county money, as described above. The bill would require this audit to be filed with the board of supervisors. The bill would require, in any county with both an elected auditor-controller and a population exceeding 3,000,000 people, that the authority of the board of supervisors to supervise the official conduct of county officers not be construed to affect the independent auditing and accounting functions of the auditor-controller. By increasing the duties of local officials in a county with the above-described characteristics, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law generally prescribes the duties of the county auditor. Existing law requires the county auditor or auditor-controller, as specified, to be the chief accounting officer of the county. Upon order of the board of supervisors, existing law requires the auditor or auditor-controller to prescribe the accounting forms and methods of all offices under the control of the board of supervisors and to supervise generally practices in those offices, which includes the ability to review departmental and countywide internal controls. This bill would require a county auditor or auditor-controller also to be the chief auditor of the county. The bill would grant the auditor or auditor-controller, as part of its supervisory powers, the authority to audit, rather than review, departmental and countywide internal controls. The bill would require, in reference to the duties of auditors, that the term "county auditor" include certain county offices that have been consolidated. The bill would prescribe requirements for the head of a county auditing unit. The bill would prohibit a board of supervisors from creating or operating a separate auditing unit outside of the county auditor, except if the separate auditing unit was established before 1981, and would prohibit the board from transferring any auditing unit away from the county auditor. By increasing the duties of local officials in a county with the above-described characteristics, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law authorizes a county auditor or controller to establish and maintain a whistleblower hotline for receiving information regarding fraud, waste, or abuse by local government employees, subject to certain requirements. This bill would require, in a county with an elected auditor-controller and a population exceeding 3,000,000, that the county auditor-controller be the sole county officer with the authority to maintain a whistleblower hotline, as described above. By increasing the duties of local officials in a county with the above-described characteristics, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) Existing law authorizes tax-defaulted property to be redeemed until the right of redemption terminates. Existing law requires the audit of a tax collector's records and accounts related to redemption of tax-defaulted property at least once every 3 years. This bill would require, in a county with an elected auditor-controller and a population exceeding 3,000,000 people, that the auditor-controller either conduct the audit described above or retain the services of an independent certified public accountant or licensed public accountant to perform the audit, in accordance with specified standards. By increasing the duties of local officials in a county with the above-described characteristics, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (5) 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
(1) Existing law regulates the business of insurance, including, but not limited to, requiring that each domestic, foreign, and alien insurer doing business in this state annually, on or before the first day of March of each year, file with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners a copy of its annual statement convention blank, along with any additional filings as prescribed by the Insurance Commissioner for the preceding year. The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection and to make copies available upon request and payment of a fee unless the records are exempt from disclosure. This bill would encourage an insurer or insurance group of which the insurer is a member, to, no later than June 1 of each calendar year, submit to the commissioner a Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure (CGAD) that contains specified information relating to corporate governance structure, policies, and practices. The bill would provide, with exceptions, that the documents, materials, or other information in the possession or control of the Department of Insurance that are obtained by, created by, or disclosed to the commissioner or any other person pursuant to these provisions are confidential and privileged, are not subject to disclosure by the commissioner pursuant to the California Public Records Act, are not subject to subpoena, and are not subject to discovery from the commissioner or admissible in evidence in any civil action if obtained from the commissioner, as specified. The bill would make related findings on the confidentiality of these records. The bill would provide that an insurer who fails, without just cause, to timely file the CGAD as required by these provisions would be subject to specified late filing fees. (2) The Insurance Holding Company System Regulatory Act, requires each insurer that is authorized to do business in this state and that is a member of an insurance holding company system to register with the commissioner and to file a registration statement containing specified information, including the capital structure and general financial condition of the insurer and specified transactions between the insurer and its affiliates. The act prohibits a person from making a tender offer for, or a request or invitation for tenders of, or from entering into an agreement to exchange securities for or acquire in the open market, any voting security, or any security convertible into a voting security, of a domestic insurer or of any other person controlling a domestic insurer, if the other person is not substantially engaged in any businesses other than insurance, if that would result in the person acquiring control of the insurer. Existing law also prohibits a person from entering into an agreement to merge with or otherwise acquire control of a domestic insurer. These prohibitions do not apply if, at the time copies of the offer, purchase, request, or invitation are first published, sent, or given to security holders or the agreement or transaction is entered into, the person has filed with the commissioner, and has sent to the insurer, a statement containing specified information and any additional information the commissioner prescribes in the public interest or to protect policyholders or shareholders. Under the act, a domestic insurer or commercially domiciled insurer, and a person in its insurance holding company system, may only enter into specified affiliate transactions, including reinsurance or pooling agreements, if the insurer has notified the commissioner in writing of its intent to enter into the transaction with at least 30 days' notice, or a shorter period that the commissioner allows, and the commissioner has not disapproved the transaction within that period. The act provides that any insurer or any director, officer, employee, or agent of the insurer that commits a willful violation of the act is subject to criminal proceedings. This bill would require the tender offer or merger statement and the notification of proposed affiliate transaction filed with the commissioner to be submitted on a form and in a format prescribed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Because a willful violation of this provision would be subject to criminal proceedings, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. This bill would authorize the commissioner to act as groupwide supervisor, as defined, for any internationally active insurance group, as defined, or, alternatively, authorize the commissioner to acknowledge another regulatory official as the groupwide supervisor if the internationally active insurance group meets any specified condition pertaining to its insurance operations in the state. The bill would also authorize the commissioner, as the groupwide supervisor, to engage in specified supervision activities, including, but not limited to: (A) assessing the enterprise risks within the internationally active insurance group; (B) requesting relevant information from any member of that group; and (C) coordinating and compelling development and implementation of reasonable measures designed to ensure that the internationally active insurance group is able to timely recognize and mitigate enterprise risks to its member. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. (3) Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. (4) 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. (5) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law governing common interest developments, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, requires the association of a common interest development, which includes a condominium project, to prepare and distribute to all of its members certain documents, including an annual budget report that includes, among other items of information, a pro forma operating budget. The act requires a notice to be provided if an insurance policy described in the annual budget report lapses, is canceled, or is not immediately renewed, restored, or replaced, or if there is a significant change as to the policy. This bill would, beginning July 1, 2016, require the annual budget report of a condominium project to also include a separate statement describing the status of the common interest development as a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) -approved condominium project and as a federal Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) -approved condominium project.
This measure would proclaim April 14, 2015, as Equal Pay Day in recognition of the need to eliminate the gender gap in earnings by women and to promote policies to ensure equal pay for all.
This measure would designate a portion of State Highway Route 44 in the City of Redding as the Richard "Dick" Dickerson Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
Existing law, until January 1, 2017, authorizes the County of Orange to establish a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) transportation plan for the Ranch Plan Planned Community in that county. Under existing law, operation of a neighborhood electric vehicle in violation of certain provisions is an infraction. This bill would extend the operative period of these provisions until January 1, 2022. By extending the operative period of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires NEV lanes to be classified, as specified, for the purposes of the NEV transportation plan for the Ranch Plan Planned Community. Existing law requires that a lane used by both NEVs and conventional vehicle traffic on a street with a speed limit of 25 miles per hour or less be classified as a Class III NEV route. This bill would, instead, require that a lane used by NEVs and conventional vehicle traffic on a street with a speed limit of 35 miles per hour or less be classified as a Class III NEV route. Existing law requires the county to provide a report to the Legislature, by November 1, 2015, if the county adopts a plan as authorized. This bill would, instead, require the county to provide that report by November 1, 2020. 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.
