Existing law establishes the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. These segments include the California State University, the campuses of which are administered by the Trustees of the California State University, the University of California, which is administered by the Regents of the University of California, and the California Community Colleges, which are administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state, and authorizes them to provide instruction to students at community college campuses. Existing law, known as the Donahoe Higher Education Act, authorizes the community colleges to grant associate in arts and associate in science degrees. The act also requires the regents, the trustees, and the board of governors to have as a fundamental policy the maintenance of a healthy and expanded program to increase the number of transfer students from community colleges. This bill would enact the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act, which, commencing with the 2011–12 academic year, would require a student that receives an associate degree for transfer to be deemed eligible for transfer into a California State University baccalaureate program when the student meets prescribed requirements. The bill would condition a community college district's receipt of state apportionment funds on its development and granting of associate degrees for transfer, unless each of the state's community college districts waives reimbursement for specified state-mandated costs of implementing the bill in accordance with a prescribed procedure. This bill would prohibit a community college district from imposing any requirements, in addition to these requirements, for a student to be eligible for the associate degree for transfer, and would prohibit remedial noncollegiate level coursework from being counted towards the units required for the associate degree for transfer. This bill would require the California State University to guarantee admission with junior status to any community college student who meets the requirements for the associate degree for transfer. This bill would not guarantee a student admission for specified majors or campuses, but would require the California State University to grant a student priority admission to his or her local California State University campus and to a program or major that is similar to his or her community college major or area of emphasis, as determined by the California State University campus to which the student is admitted. This bill would authorize the California State University to require a transferring student to take additional coursework at the California State University in specified circumstances, and would prohibit the California State University from requiring a transferring student to repeat courses that are similar to those taken at the community college that counted towards the units required for the associate degree for transfer. This bill would also require the Legislative Analyst's Office to review and report to specified legislative committees and subcommittees, within a prescribed time period, on specified outcomes and recommendations related to this act. By requiring a community college district to grant the associate degree for transfer in exchange for receipt of state apportionment funds, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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.
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Existing state constitutional law requires specified revenues from the Highway Users Tax Account to be deposited in various accounts and to be allocated, in part, to cities, counties, or cities and counties, for prescribed purposes. Existing law also requires, for specified periods during the 2009–10 and 2010–11 fiscal years, the borrowing, transfer, or suspension of these allocated revenues, as prescribed. This bill would make several legislative findings and declarations relating to cities that observe the federal fiscal year calendar. The bill would provide that if the Legislature transfers, borrows from, or suspends these allocated revenues, the respective transaction would be suspended during the months of July, August, and September for a city observing the federal fiscal year. The transfer, borrowing, or suspension of revenues would instead commence on October 1 and be completed on or before June 30 of that same state fiscal year.
Existing law provides that it is an infraction, punishable by a fine not to exceed $250 and by specified community service, to evade the payment of any fare of, or to engage in passenger misconduct on or in a facility or vehicle of, a public transportation system. Existing law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to adopt and enforce an ordinance to impose and enforce civil administrative penalties for fare evasion or passenger misconduct, other than by minors, on or in a transit facility or vehicle in lieu of the criminal penalties, with specified administrative adjudication procedures for the imposition and enforcement of the administrative penalties, including an initial review and opportunity for a subsequent administrative hearing. Fare evasion and passenger misconduct violation penalties are deposited in the general fund of the City and County of San Francisco or the County of Los Angeles, as applicable. This bill would authorize the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, the Sacramento Regional Transit District, Long Beach Transit, Foothill Transit, and the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District to adopt and enforce a similar administrative adjudication ordinance. Fare evasion and passenger misconduct violation penalties would be deposited in the general fund of the county in which the citation is administered. This bill would make various other changes to these provisions that would be applicable to all 7 agencies. The bill would limit the amount of the administrative penalty to the maximum fine that may otherwise be imposed if the conduct were to be charged as an infraction and would provide that a person receiving an administrative citation may not also be charged with that infraction. The bill would require an issuing agency to adopt a written procedure for a person receiving a citation to request an administrative hearing without first paying the amount due, upon satisfactory proof of an inability to pay. The bill would expand the notification to be provided to the person by the issuing agency upon denial of an initial review of the citation. This bill would incorporate changes to Section 640 of the Penal Code made by AB 2324, to become operative only if both this bill and AB 2324 are enacted, and this bill is enacted last.
Existing law establishes the California State University and its various campuses under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University. Existing law requires the California State University to offer undergraduate and graduate instruction through the master's degree in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education, including teacher education. This bill, until July 1, 2018, would authorize the California State University to establish a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree pilot program at 3 campuses chosen by the Board of Trustees to award the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. The bill would distinguish the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the doctor of philosophy degree offered at the University of California. The bill would require the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree pilot program to be designed to enable professionals to earn the degree while working full time, train nurses for advanced practice, and prepare clinical faculty to teach in postsecondary nursing programs. The bill would require the California State University to enroll and maintain no more than 90 full-time equivalent students in the degree pilot program at all 3 campuses combined. The bill would require initial funding to come from existing budgets, without diminishing the quality of undergraduate programs or reducing enrollment therein. The bill would require the California State University, the Legislative Analyst's Office, and the Department of Finance to jointly conduct a statewide evaluation of the degree pilot program and report the results to the Legislature and the Governor on or before January 1, 2017.
Existing law generally regulates the granting and conditioning of parole, and places the duty to monitor parolees on the Division of Adult Parole Operations. Existing law, the Victim's Bill of Rights Act of 2008: Marsy's Law, as added by Proposition 9 at the November 4, 2008, statewide general election, provides that the Board of Parole Hearings or its successor in interest shall be the state's parole authority and shall be responsible for protecting victims' rights in the parole process. This bill would provide that, except as specified, any prisoner who the head physician for the institution where the prisoner is located determines, as provided, is permanently medically incapacitated with a medical condition that renders the prisoner permanently unable to perform activities of basic daily living, and results in the prisoner requiring 24-hour care, and that incapacitation did not exist at the time of sentencing, shall be granted medical parole, if the Board of Parole Hearings determines that the conditions under which the prisoner would be released would not reasonably pose a threat to public safety. Those provisions would not apply to any prisoner sentenced to death or life in prison without possibility of parole or to any inmate who is serving a sentence for which parole pursuant to this bill is prohibited by any initiative statute. The bill would provide that these provisions shall not be construed to alter or diminish the rights conferred under the Victim's Bill of Rights Act of 2008: Marsy's Law. The bill would require a physician employed by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who is the primary care provider for a prisoner to recommend that the prisoner be referred to the Board of Parole Hearings for consideration for medical parole if the physician believes the prisoner meets the medical criteria for medical parole. The bill would provide that the Board of Parole Hearings or the Division of Adult Parole Operations shall have the authority to impose any reasonable conditions on prisoners subject to parole pursuant to this bill, including, but not limited to, the requirement that parolees submit to electronic monitoring. Existing law generally provides for the duties and functions of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law provides that the State Department of Health Care Services is designated as the state agency with full power to supervise every phase of the administration of health care services and medical assistance for which grants-in-aid are received from the federal government or made by the state in order to secure full compliance with the applicable provisions of state and federal laws. This bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to, among other things, seek to enter into memoranda of understanding with the Social Security Administration and the State Department of Health Care Services, in addition to certain other entities, to facilitate prerelease agreements to help inmates initiate benefits claims, as specified. The bill would require the department to reimburse county public hospitals on a quarterly basis for the nonfederal share of Medi-Cal costs incurred by the county for individuals who have been granted medical parole and the county costs for providing health care services that are not allowable under Medi-Cal but are required by the state to be furnished to eligible persons who have been granted medical parole, including public guardianship health care services. The bill would require the department to provide, or provide reimbursement for, services associated with public guardianship of medical parolees, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to provide supplemental reimbursements to providers, as specified. The bill would require the department to establish contracts with appropriate medical providers in cases where medical parolees are ineligible for Medi-Cal, as specified.
Existing law requires the State Department of Mental Health, acting through the superintendent of the Langly Porter Clinic, to plan, conduct, and cause to be conducted scientific research into the causes and cures of sexual deviation, including deviations conducive to sex crimes against children, and the causes and cures of homosexuality, and into methods of identifying potential sex offenders. This bill would, instead, require the department to plan, conduct, and cause to be conducted scientific research into sex crimes against children and into methods of identifying those who commit sexual offenses.
Existing law requires the Corrections Standards Authority to establish minimum standards for state and local correctional facilities, including standards restricting the shackling of women in labor, during childbirth, and while in recovery after giving birth, and to review those standards biennially and make any appropriate revisions, as specified. This bill would require that the standards ensure that women who are pregnant shall not be shackled by the wrists, ankles, or both during any transport, during labor, during delivery, and while in recovery after giving birth, except that the least restrictive restraints possible may be used when deemed necessary for the inmate, consistent with the legitimate security needs of the inmate, the staff, and the public. The bill would require the authority to develop these standards regarding the shackling of pregnant women as part of its biennial review of its standards. Under existing law, pregnant inmates of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, wards of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, and wards in the custody of a local juvenile facility, are to be transported in the least restrictive way possible when being taken to a hospital for purposes of childbirth. This bill would prohibit inmates and wards of these facilities who are known to be pregnant from being shackled by the wrists, ankles, or both during any transport, during labor, during delivery, and while in recovery after giving birth, unless deemed necessary for the safety and security of the inmate or ward, the staff, and the public. If restraints are deemed necessary during labor, delivery, recovery after birth, or transport, this bill would allow the person to be restrained in the least restrictive way possible, consistent with the legitimate security needs of each inmate or ward, the staff, and the public.
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 and employment training outreach programs. Existing law, the California Workforce Investment Act, declares the Legislature's intent to deliver comprehensive workforce services to jobseekers, students, and employers through a system of one-stop career centers that, among other things, make job outreach, intake, job search and placement assistance, and other related services available in one location. Existing law also requires each local workforce investment board to establish at least one full service one-stop career center in the local workforce investment area and to provide specified job placement services. This bill would specify that entrance into on-the-job training through an apprenticeship program approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards shall be considered placement into a job. The bill would further require the State Workforce Investment Board and local boards to ensure that programs and services funded by the Workforce Investment Act and directed to apprenticeable occupations, including preapprenticeship training, work in coordination with one or more apprenticeship programs approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, as provided. By imposing new duties on local government with respect to the implementation of these local programs, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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.
Existing law, until January 1, 2014, allows certain state and local transportation entities, if authorized by the California Transportation Commission, to use a design‑build process for contracting on transportation projects, as specified. This bill would authorize the Riverside County Transportation Commission, if authorized by the commission, to utilize this design-build procurement process for the State Route 91 Corridor Improvements Project on the state highway system. The bill would make the Department of Transportation responsible for the performance of construction inspection services for the project, as specified, and would require the commission to report on the progress of the project and related matters to specified legislative committees. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law provides for substance abuse treatment programs, as specified. This bill would establish a limitation on the amount of compensation a director, officer, or employee of a substance abuse treatment facility may receive from public sources, not to exceed a certain federal compensation limitation, and would establish specified compensation requirements for any director, officer, or employee who collects rent from a drug treatment facility. The bill would require these restrictions on compensation to be terms of any contract entered into in the state to provide drug treatment if, under that contract, public funds are to be used to provide the drug treatment.