(1) Existing law, the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, approved by the voters as Proposition 1A at the November 4, 2008, general election, provides for the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $9 billion for high-speed rail purposes and $950 million for other related rail purposes. Article XVI of the California Constitution requires measures authorizing general obligation bonds to specify the single object or work to be funded by the bonds and further requires a bond act to be approved by a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature and a majority of the voters. This bill would provide that no further bonds shall be sold for high-speed rail purposes pursuant to the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, except as specifically provided with respect to an existing appropriation for high-speed rail purposes for early improvement projects in the Phase 1 blended system. The bill, subject to the above exception, would require redirection of the unspent proceeds received from outstanding bonds issued and sold for other high-speed rail purposes prior to the effective date of these provisions, upon appropriation, for distribution as refunds to California taxpayers in the manner prescribed at the time the appropriation is made. The bill would make no changes to the authorization under the bond act for the issuance of $950 million in bonds for rail purposes other than high-speed rail. These provisions would become effective only upon approval by the voters at the next statewide election. (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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This measure would recognize Nowrūz, the Persian New Year celebration.
This measure would declare the Legislature's support for the creation of a California Institute for Aerospace in southern California's Antelope Valley.
This bill would designate March 2018 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in California.
Under existing law, each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempt is subject to compulsory full-time education. Existing law requires each person subject to compulsory full-time education to attend the public full-time day school in which the residency of either the parent or legal guardian is located, except as specified. Existing law authorizes a school district, county office of education, or charter school to offer independent study courses to pupils in accordance with prescribed conditions, including, among others, that the courses are annually certified to be of the same rigor and educational quality as equivalent classroom-based courses. Existing law prohibits the governing authority of a private or public elementary or secondary school, child care center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or development center from unconditionally admitting any person as a pupil of one of those institutions, unless, before his or her admission to that institution, he or she has been fully immunized against various diseases. Existing law exempts pupils in a home-based private school and pupils enrolled in an independent study program and who do not receive classroom-based instruction from that prohibition. This bill would delete private institutions, including private elementary and secondary schools, child care centers, day nurseries, nursery schools, family day care homes, and development centers, from these immunization requirements, thereby allowing pupils who do not meet those immunization requirements to enroll in those institutions. The bill would require the State Department of Education to award a grant, as prescribed, to a parent or guardian of a child who would otherwise be eligible to attend a public elementary or secondary school, child care center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or development center, except for the child not meeting those immunization requirements, to fund the child's attendance at a private elementary or secondary school, child care center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or development center. The bill would continuously appropriate from the General Fund to the department the amount required to award those grants. This bill would authorize a pupil who does not meet those immunization requirements to enroll in an independent study program that does not require classroom-based instruction and that is outside of the geographic boundaries of the school district or county in which the pupil resides if the school district or county office of education of residence, or a charter school within the geographic boundaries of the school district or county of residence, does not offer an independent study program that does not require classroom-based instruction. Existing law provides that community school and independent study average daily attendance shall be claimed by school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools only for pupils who are residents of the county in which the apportionment claim is reported, or who are residents of a county immediately adjacent to the county in which the apportionment claim is reported. This bill would additionally authorize independent study average daily attendance to be claimed for pupils who do not meet those residency requirements and who are enrolled in the school district, county office of education, or charter school pursuant to the bill's authorization for a pupil who is not fully immunized to enroll in an independent study program that is outside of the geographic boundaries of the pupil's school district or county of residence. This bill would provide that its provisions are severable.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (Knox-Keene) , provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer that covers outpatient prescription drug benefits to provide coverage for specified prescription drugs and to post its drug formularies on its Internet Web site. This bill would require a specified health care service plan contract or individual or small group health insurance policy that covers outpatient prescription drug benefits with coverage for naltrexone or acamprosate to provide coverage for those 2 drugs if prescribed by a licensed health care professional. Because a willful violation of the bill's requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
This measure would proclaim February 28, 2018, as Rare Disease Day in California.
This bill would recognize February 16, 2018, as National Caregivers Day.
This measure would proclaim the week of February 26, 2018, to March 4, 2018, inclusive, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.