Asm. Diane L Harkey

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 15 in the County of San Diego as the Tuskegee Airmen Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation 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 authorizes a county correctional administrator, as defined, to offer a program under which specified offenders committed to a county jail or other county correctional facility may voluntarily participate, or involuntarily be placed, in a home detention program, including electronic monitoring, in lieu of confinement in the county jail or other county correctional facility under the auspices of the probation officer. Existing law authorizes the correctional administrator, with the approval of the board of supervisors of the county, to administer the home detention program pursuant to written contracts with appropriate public or private agencies or entities. This bill would authorize a court to place a person in an electronic monitoring program that is operated by a private vendor only if that program is operated pursuant to a contract and standards that complies with specified provisions, including requiring the private vendor to demonstrate evidence of financial responsibility. The bill would provide that it is not intended to limit or restrict the use of electronic monitoring.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 1 in the County of Los Angeles as the Honorable Jenny Oropeza Memorial Overcrossing. This 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 those costs, to erect those signs.

The Sales and Use Tax Law generally provides, for a transaction not subject to sales tax, that every person storing, using, or otherwise consuming in this state tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state is liable for use tax, and must pay the use tax to the State Board of Equalization, unless that person has paid the use tax to a retailer registered to collect the tax. Existing law authorizes an eligible person to make an irrevocable election to report qualified use tax, as defined, on that person's income tax return. This bill, for reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2012, would specify that the qualified use tax of an eligible purchaser is due and payable to the board on or before April 15 following the close of the calendar year in which the liability for use tax was incurred.

This measure would recognize June 12, 2012, as the 114th Anniversary of Philippine Independence, and would call upon the people of the state to observe the month of June with appropriate ceremonies, programs, and activities.

This measure would commemorate and honor the service and sacrifice of the members of the United States Armed Forces who supported the operations in Iraq, and their families, as the official combat mission in Iraq draws to a close. This measure would encourage mayors and communities across the State of California to honor veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan on November 11, 2012, in Veterans Day parades, ceremonies, and other displays of our state's gratitude for their service and sacrifice. This measure would also request that the Department of General Services work with appropriate 3rd parties to advise and oversee the creation of a memorial for the California veterans who fought and served in Iraq and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the design, construction, and maintenance costs and ensuring that the memorial is in the best interest of the State Capitol Park, erect that memorial, in accordance with California law, in the State Capitol Park. This measure would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation authorizing the creation of a larger memorial commemorating and thanking those who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

This measure would proclaim February 29, 2012, as Rare Disease Day in California.