(1) Existing law makes confidential the home address of any of a list of state officers and employees that appear in the Department of Motor Vehicles records, if an officer or employee requests that his or her address be kept confidential, with certain exemptions for information available to specified governmental agencies. Existing law requires the department to inform a person who requests a confidential home address what agency the individual whose address was requested is employed by or the court at which the judge or court commissioner presides. This bill would require a person who requests the confidentiality of his or her home address to provide the department with a current employment address for purposes of processing the service and collection of a traffic, parking, or toll road violation. The bill would require that the applicable statutory time periods for processing the service and collection of traffic, parking, or toll road violations be tolled until the department provides the law enforcement agency, governmental agency, or issuing agency with the person's current employment address. The bill would require a person who has requested the confidentiality of his or her home address to notify the department of any change in his or her employment address within 10 days. The bill would require the department to update the form to request confidentiality of the person's home address to include the requirement that the applicant or an existing enrollee provide a current employment address and would also require the department to distribute and make available copies of the updated form to the human resources office of each agency that employs any of the eligible persons listed pursuant to these provisions. The bill would require the human resources office of an applicant or existing enrollee to make the updated form available to new and current employees and to require, on and after January 1, 2011, that all new applicants and existing enrollees complete and return the form with their current employment address to their human resources office. The bill would also require the human resources office to forward all new application forms to the Confidential Records Unit (CRU) of the department upon receipt from the applicant and forward the updated forms of existing enrollees to the CRU of the department by April 1, 2012. By creating new crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle if the registered owner or lessee has been mailed a notice of delinquent parking violation or a failure to pay a traffic citation and the processing agency has filed or electronically transmitted to the department an itemization of the unpaid parking or traffic citation penalty, including the administrative fee, and the owner or lessee has not paid the penalty and administrative fee. This bill would require the department to refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle if the person who has been served pursuant to the above-described provision has been mailed a notice of delinquent parking violation or a failure to pay a traffic citation and the processing agency has filed or electronically transmitted to the department an itemization of the unpaid parking or traffic citation penalty, including the administrative fee, and the owner or lessee has not paid the penalty and administrative fee. (3) 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.
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This measure would recognize the week of April 18, 2010, through April 24, 2010, as Crime Victims' Rights Week.
(1) Existing law authorizes a county board of supervisors to provide by ordinance for the reassessment of property that is damaged or destroyed, without fault on the part of the assessee, by a major misfortune or calamity, upon the application of the assessee or upon the action of the county assessor with the board's approval. With respect to certain counties that have adopted reassessment ordinances and have been declared by the Governor to be in a state of emergency as a result of certain events, existing law provides for state allocations of the estimated amounts of the reductions in property tax revenues resulting in certain fiscal years from reassessments under those ordinances. Existing law also continuously appropriates, without regard to fiscal years, moneys in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties for purposes of funding these state allocations. This bill would provide for similar state allocations with respect to property tax revenue reductions resulting from a reassessment for damages incurred within the Counties of Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino, which were declared by the Governor to be in a state of emergency due to the wildfires that commenced in November 2008. By requiring moneys continuously appropriated from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to be allocated for the new purpose of reimbursing the Counties of Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino for these property tax revenue reductions, this bill would make an appropriation. (2) Existing property tax law provides, pursuant to a specified provision of the California Constitution, for a homeowners' property tax exemption in the amount of $7,000 of the full value of a "dwelling," as defined. This bill would also provide that any dwelling that qualified for the exemption prior to the commencement dates of the wildfires listed in the Governor's disaster proclamations of November 15, 2008, and November 17, 2008, that was damaged or destroyed by the wildfires in the Counties of Orange and Riverside, as declared by the Governor in November 2008, and that has not changed ownership since the commencement dates of these disasters as listed in the proclamations, may not be denied the exemption solely on the basis that the dwelling was temporarily damaged or destroyed or was being reconstructed by the owner, or was temporarily uninhabited as a result of restricted access to the property due to wildfires. The California Constitution requires the Legislature, in each fiscal year, to reimburse local governments for the revenue losses incurred by those governments in that fiscal year as a result of the homeowners' property tax exemption. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to make this required reimbursement in the annual Budget Act. By requiring local tax officials to implement new exemption criteria, 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. (3) The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law provide for the carryover to specified taxable years of specified losses sustained as a result of certain disasters occurring in California in an area determined by the President of the United States to warrant specified federal assistance, or proclaimed by the Governor to be in a state of emergency. This bill would extend these provisions to losses sustained in the Counties of Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino as a result of the wildfires that commenced in November 2008. This bill would authorize a taxpayer to make an election to claim a deduction for those losses on the tax return for the preceding year. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would proclaim the month of May to be Women Veterans Recognition Month.
Under existing law, to continue a hearing in a criminal proceeding specified procedures must be followed. Existing law requires the court in felony cases to set a trial date within 60 days of the defendant's arraignment in superior court except upon a showing of good cause, and prohibits a court from granting a continuance in a criminal proceeding absent a showing of good cause. Existing law defines "good cause" for the purpose of these provisions to include, but not be limited to, cases involving murder, stalking, domestic violence, or a hate crime when the prosecuting attorney has another trial, hearing or motion to suppress in progress. This bill would provide that the crime of assault with intent to commit a specified sexual offense, in violation of a specified provision, shall be included in the definition of "good cause," a showing of which is a basis for the granting of a continuance in a criminal proceeding when the prosecution is so engaged.
Under existing law, the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau licenses and regulates crematoria and various professions relating to the disposition of human remains. Existing law defines cremation, residue, cemetery, and crematory, and requires a written acknowledgment containing specified information from the person entitled to control the disposition of cremated remains. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. This bill would define "alkaline hydrolysis," as specified, would change the definition of cremation to include alkaline hydrolysis, and would make conforming changes to other definitions. The bill would require a written acknowledgment containing specified information from the person authorized to control the remains to be disposed of through alkaline hydrolysis. The bill would require the bureau, not later than July 1, 2011, to adopt regulations for the safe operation of alkaline hydrolysis chambers. By expanding the definition of a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Toxic Substances Control to impose an annual verification fee upon certain hazardous waste generators, transporters, and facility operators and requires the department to establish an identification number certification system to verify the accuracy of information. Existing law provides for the suspension of an identification number of a generator, transporter, or facility operator who does not comply with certain requirements. This bill would require the department, by July 1, 2011, to revise the identification number certification system to provide a method for an immediate reactivation of a suspended identification number of a hazardous waste generator.
This measure would condemn the Government of Iran for its sponsored persecution of members of the Baha'i faith and would request the Government of Iran to immediately release Baha'i leaders, and all other prisoners in Iran who are held solely on account of their religion.
(1) Existing law classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules, with the most restrictive limitations placed on controlled substances classified in Schedule I, and the least restrictive limitations placed on controlled substances classified in Schedule V. A controlled substance in any of the schedules may be possessed or dispensed only upon a lawful prescription, as specified. Existing law does not classify ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine within any of these 5 schedules, but provides that it is a crime, punishable as specified, for a person in this state who engages in specified transactions involving those drugs to fail to submit a report to the Department of Justice of all of those transactions, or to fail to submit an application to, and obtain a permit for the conduct of that business from, the Department of Justice, as specified. Existing law prohibits the sale of more than 3 packages or 9 grams of a nonprescription product containing ephedrine or the other drugs, as specified. This bill would instead provide that it is a misdemeanor, punishable as specified, for any retail distributor, except pursuant to a valid prescription from a licensed practitioner with prescriptive authority, to sell or distribute to a person specified amounts of nonprescription products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine within specified time limits, to sell or distribute any of those substances to a person whose information has generated an alert, or, except under specified conditions, to sell or distribute to any purchaser a nonprescription product containing any amount of those substances. The bill would contain provisions requiring the secure storage of products containing any amount of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine and providing for the creation of an electronic authorization and monitoring system for the collection of, access to, and sharing of information regarding these transactions, as specified. The bill would provide that the information in the system may not be used for any purpose other than to meet the requirements of, or comply with, this act or a certain federal act, as specified. The bill would specify legislative findings, declarations, and intent. The bill's provisions would remain in effect only until January 1, 2017. By creating a new crime, this 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.
Existing law provides for the resolution of public works construction claims, as defined, arising between a contractor and a local agency. It establishes specified procedures for the resolution of these claims, including civil action, mediation, and arbitration. This bill would allow a public agency and a contractor to mutually agree to resolve a claim through independent arbitration.