This resolution would designate the week beginning on February 26, 2024, and the last week of February hereafter, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Existing law establishes the Department of Justice, and establishes that the department is under the direction and control of the Attorney General. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to perform duties in the investigation, detection, apprehension, prosecution, or suppression of crimes as may be assigned by the Attorney General in the performance of their duties. This bill would make findings and declarations stating that drug cartels, as defined, are foreign terrorist organizations. The bill would require the Attorney General to submit a report to the Legislature with policy recommendations to enhance the ability of the state to prevent criminal activity of drug cartels, as specified.
Existing law requires a judge or magistrate, in setting, reducing, or denying bail, to take into consideration the protection of the public, the seriousness of the offense charged, the previous criminal record of the defendant, and the probability of the defendant appearing at trial or at the hearing of the case. This bill would require a court, as a condition of bail, to require a person who has been arrested for a felony offense to waive extradition if the person fails to appear as required and is apprehended outside the State of California.
This measure would honor the late civil rights pioneer Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Existing law authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to set a maximum gross gasoline refining margin, as provided, and requires the commission, if the commission establishes a maximum gross gasoline refining margin, to establish a penalty for exceeding the maximum gross refining margin, as specified. Existing law establishes the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight in the commission to, among other duties, provide guidance and recommendations to the Governor and the commission on issues related to transportation fuel pricing and transportation decarbonization in California. This bill would require the commission to post and update, on a monthly basis, on its internet website the difference between retail gasoline prices in California and the national average and a calculation of how much that difference has decreased since June 26, 2023, which is the effective date of the above-described provisions, due to the actions taken pursuant to those provisions.
Existing law creates various memorials to veterans of the United States Armed Forces, including, among others, the memorial to California's Vietnam veterans on the grounds of the State Capitol. Existing law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to administer the Capitol Park Veterans Memorial Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for the purpose of the maintenance and rehabilitation of existing memorials in the State Capitol, as specified. This bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs and the California Veterans Board to utilize Capitol Park Veterans Memorial Fund moneys to prioritize adding the flag of the United States Space Force to the Veterans Memorial in Capitol Park. By expanding the purposes for which continuously appropriated fund moneys may be used, the bill would make an appropriation.
