Existing law authorizes the creation of retirement systems for public employees by counties, cities, and districts. Existing law creates the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System, which provide a defined benefit to their members based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law establishes the criteria for membership in the various public employee retirement systems and may exclude certain employment classifications from membership. The California Constitution provides for the division of the state into counties and requires that a county have an elected sheriff, elected district attorney, elected assessor, and elected governing body. Existing law provides for the incorporation of cities in various forms and requires that certain city offices be filled pursuant to elections, as prescribed. Existing law provides for the creation of districts, the governing bodies of which may be elected. This bill would prohibit a person who is publicly elected to a local office of any kind, on and after January 1, 2012, from becoming a member of a retirement system by virtue of that service or from acquiring any retirement right or benefit for serving in that elective local office. The bill would also apply these prohibitions to a person who is appointed to fill the term of a person so elected, but would not apply them to a person who obtained membership by virtue of holding an elective local office prior to January 1, 2012, for so long as he or she holds that office or is reelected to that office.
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This bill would urge the United States Patent and Trademark Office to place a satellite office in California.
Existing law, as amended by Proposition 21, adopted March 7, 2000, and by Proposition 83, adopted November 7, 2006, provides for a list of crimes called "violent felonies" and "serious felonies." Other existing law provides specified enhancements to the punishments of certain repeat, state-prison bound offenders with prior violent or serious felony convictions. The initiative statutes provide that any amendment of these provisions by the Legislature shall require a 23 vote of the membership of each house. Existing law defines battery as any willful or unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another. Existing law provides that battery committed against a custodial officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician, lifeguard, process server, traffic officer, or animal control officer engaged in the performance of his or her duties, as specified, is punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. Existing law provides that battery against a peace officer, as specified, is punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. This bill would add felony battery against the above-named persons to the list of "serious felonies" and to the list of "violent felonies." Existing law specifies, for purposes of the sentence enhancements specified above, that the statutes comprising the lists of violent and serious felonies be interpreted as they existed at the time the provisions were enacted, including amendments made to those statutes during the 2005–06 Regular Session of the Legislature, as specified. This bill would likewise require those statutes to be interpreted as they would be amended following the enactment of this bill for purposes of sentence enhancements. By expanding the punishments for existing crimes, 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.
This measure would designate that January 16, 2012, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.
Existing law authorizes a taxpayer who has a tax liability with respect to personal income taxes or bank and corporation taxes, and who is a payee named in a registered warrant to pay the tax liability, in whole or in part, by a check in an amount not to exceed the amount of the registered warrant, and prohibits the check from being drawn until the registered warrant is payable, if the check is accompanied by a copy of the warrant. Existing law requires, when a tax liability is paid with a registered warrant that is redeemable at the time of payment, that interest be credited to the taxpayer's account. This bill would revise and recast these provisions. This bill would permit a taxpayer who has a tax liability, with respect to personal income taxes or bank and corporation taxes required to be remitted to the Franchise Tax Board or a taxpayer, feepayer, or surcharge payer who has a liability for taxes, fees, or surcharges required to be remitted to the State Board of Equalization, and who is a payee named in a registered warrant to pay any tax, fee, or surcharge liability with a registered warrant, subject to certain conditions. The bill would prohibit the taxpayer, feepayer, or surcharge payer submitting a registered warrant from receiving interest on his or her registered warrant, except as a credit to his or her account. This bill would prohibit a taxpayer, feepayer, or surcharge payer from submitting a registered warrant to the State Board of Equalization as payment of any tax, fee, or surcharge liability unless the Controller makes a specified determination.
(1) Existing law establishes the scope of functions and responsibilities of the State Department of Public Health. This bill would additionally require the State Department of Public Health to investigate and apply for federal funding opportunities regarding promoting healthy eating and preventing obesity, as specified, and, upon receipt of that funding, allow the department to award grants and provide in-kind support to support local assistance to local governments, nonprofit organizations, and local education agencies that encourage specified healthy eating programs, as provided. (2) Existing federal law, the Emergency Food Assistance Program, is administered by the State Department of Social Services to provide agricultural commodities to eligible households and recipient agencies for distribution, as prescribed. This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, on and after January 1, 2012, to establish and administer the State Emergency Food Assistance Program (SEFAP) , to provide emergency food and funding for the provision of emergency food to food banks, as provided. This bill would create the State Emergency Food Assistance Program Account and would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, allocate the moneys in the account to SEFAP and require that those moneys be used for the purchase, storage, and transportation of food grown or produced in California, as prescribed, and for the department's administrative costs. (3) The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would, under both laws, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, and before January 1, 2017, allow, without regard to the taxpayer's method of accounting, a credit for qualified taxpayers, as defined, in an amount equal to 10% of the cost that would otherwise be included in inventory costs, as specified, with respect to the donation of fresh fruits or fresh vegetables to food banks located in California.
Existing law requires the California State University and each community college district, and requests the University of California, with respect to each campus in their respective jurisdictions that administers a priority enrollment system, to grant priority for registration for enrollment to any member or former member of the Armed Forces of the United States, as defined, for any academic term attended at one of these institutions within 2 years of leaving active duty. This bill would grant priority enrollment to these members or former members of the Armed Forces of the United States, who are residents of California, within 4 years of leaving active duty. Because the bill would impose additional duties on community college districts, 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.
This measure would recognize October 2011 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month and urge all Californians to take a stand against domestic violence.
This measure would proclaim February 28, 2011, as Rare Disease Day.
This measure would honor and recognize the service and sacrifice made by members of the Armed Forces and their families on the occasion of Armed Forces Day on May 21, 2011.