This bill would urge the President of the United States and the Congress to employ necessary measures to ensure that no terrorist or suspected terrorist detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is permitted to enter California in custody or otherwise.
This measure would recognize February 2010 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents, achievements, and contributions that African Americans make to their communities.
The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) provides a defined benefit to members of the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation, as those terms are defined. The management and control of PERL is vested in the board of administration of PERL, including the calculation of the contribution rates for specified state employees and state employers. Existing law provides that a statute that imposes a requirement that a state agency submit a periodic report to the Legislature is inoperative on a date 4 years after the date the first report is due. This bill would require the board of administration of PERL, notwithstanding that requirement, to submit a report to the Legislature, the Governor, and the Treasurer describing the investment return assumptions, discount rates, and amortization periods utilized by the board in the calculations of the contribution rates and to include recalculations of those rates based on specified adjustments of the investment return assumptions, amortization periods, and discount rates utilized by the board any time it calculates the contribution rates. This bill would require the Treasurer, within 30 days following receipt of the report, to provide each house of the Legislature, at a publicly noticed floor session, with an explanation of the role played by the investment return assumption and amortization period in the calculation of the contribution rates and the consequences for future state budgets if the investment return assumptions are not realized, to report whether the board's amortization period exceeds the estimated average remaining service periods of employees covered by the contributions, and to express his or her opinion of the reasonableness of the board's calculation of the contribution rates. This bill would, notwithstanding the 4-year reporting limitations, also require the board, at any time it forecasts contribution rates, to submit a report to the Legislature with a revised calculation of the forecasted contribution rates utilizing a specified investment rate assumption. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The Enterprise Zone Act provides for the designation of enterprise zones by the Department of Community Housing and Development, based on the department's approval of applications from a city, county, or city and county with a geographic area meeting certain criteria. Certain entities within a designated enterprise zone may receive regulatory, tax, and other incentives for private investment and employment. Existing law provides that no more than 42 enterprise zones be designated at any one time pursuant to the act. Upon the expiration or termination of a designation, existing law authorizes the department to designate another enterprise zone to maintain a total of 42 enterprise zones. This bill would authorize the department to designate one special enterprise zone within the City of Fremont consisting of a geographical area encompassing a facility that manufactures automobiles and to designate, until June 30, 2010, an additional 10 special enterprise zones limited to one nonrenewable 15-year term. The bill would exclude these enterprise zones from the calculation of the overall number of enterprise zones authorized under the act. The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute.
(1) The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) provides a comprehensive set of rights and benefits based upon age, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation variously for different member classifications and bargaining units and, in this regard, defines final compensation for a state member for the purpose of calculating retirement benefits as the highest annual average compensation earnable by the member during a designated 12-month or 36-month period, depending upon the bargaining unit and classification of that employee. Currently the final compensati on for members hired on or after July 1, 2006, who are represented by State Bargaining Units 12, 16, 18, and 19, and for members hired on and after October 31, 2010, who are represented by State Bargaining Units 5 and 8 means the final compensation earnable by the member during a designated 36-month period. This bill would provide that final compensation for a person who becomes a state member, as specified, on or after November 10, 2010, and who is represented by State Bargaining Unit 6, 7, or 9, or who is an excluded employee, legislative employee, judicial branch employee, or an employee of California State University, means the highest annual average compensation earnable by the member during a designated 36-month period. (2) PERL establishes various retirement formulas that apply to specified membership categories. Under PERL, state miscellaneous members are generally subject to a retirement formula commonly known as 2% at 55, which, if the member retires at 55 years of age, yields a benefit equal to 2% of the member's final compensation multiplied by the member's years of service credit, as specified. Under PERL, state miscellaneous members represented by specified bargaining units who are first employed on after September 1, 2010, are subject to a 2% at 60 retirement formula. Under PERL, patrol members and specified state peace officer/firefighter members are subject to a 3% at 50 retirement formula, with the exception of patrol members and firefighters who are members of State Bargaining Units 5 and 8, first employed on and after October 31, 2010, who are subject to a 3% at 55 retirement formula. Under PERL, safety members employed by the state and the California State University are generally subject to a 2.5% at age 55 retirement formula. This bill would provide that all state miscellaneous members, who are first employed on and after November 10, 2010, are subject to a 2% at 60 retirement formula, but would provide that the change would not apply if there is a current memorandum of understanding that provides a different formula only for the period that the memorandum of understanding is in effect. The bill would provide that peace officer/firefighter members of State Bargaining Units 6 and 7 and state, legislative, judicial branch, and California State University peace officers who are first employed on and after November 10, 2010, are subject to a 2.5% at 55 retirement formula, but would provide that the change would not apply if there is a current memorandum of understanding that provides a different formula only for the period that the memorandum of understanding is in effect. This bill would provide that safety members who are first employed by the state and the California State University on and after November 10, 2010, are subject to a 2% at age 55 retirement formula, but would provide that the change would not apply if there is a current memorandum of understanding that provides a different formula only for the period that the memorandum of understanding is in effect. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) provides a comprehensive set of rights and benefits based upon age, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law defines final compensation variously for different member classifications and bargaining units and, in this regard, defines final compensation for a state member for the purpose of calculating retirement benefits as the highest annual average compensation earnable by the member during a designated 12-month or 36-month period, depending upon the bargaining unit and classification of that employee. Currently the final compensation for members hired on or after July 1, 2006, who are represented by State Bargaining Units 12, 16, 18, and 19, and for members hired on and after October 31, 2010, who are represented by State Bargaining Units 5 and 8 means the final compensation earnable by the member during a designated 36-month period. This bill would provide that final compensation for a person who becomes a state member, as specified, on or after November 10, 2010, and who is represented by State Bargaining Unit 6, 7, or 9, or who is an excluded employee, legislative employee, or judicial branch employee, or an employee of California State University, means the highest annual average compensation earnable by the member during a designated 36-month period. (2) PERL establishes various retirement formulas that apply to specified membership categories. Under PERL, state miscellaneous members are generally subject to a retirement formula commonly known as 2% at 55, which, if the member retires at 55 years of age, yields a benefit equal to 2% of the member's final compensation multiplied by the member's years of service credit, as specified. Under PERL, state miscellaneous members represented by specified bargaining units who are first employed on after September 1, 2010, are subject to a 2% at 60 retirement formula. Under PERL, patrol members and specified state peace officer/firefighter members are subject to a 3% at 50 retirement formula, with the exception of patrol members and firefighters who are members of State Bargaining Units 5 and 8, first employed on and after October 31, 2010, who are subject to a 3% at 55 retirement formula. Under PERL, safety members employed by the state and the California State University are generally subject to a 2.5% at age 55 retirement formula. This bill would provide that all state miscellaneous members, who are first employed on and after November 10, 2010, are subject to a 2% at 60 retirement formula, but would provide that the change would not apply if there is a current memorandum of understanding that provides a different formula only for the period that the memorandum of understanding is in effect. The bill would provide that peace officer/firefighter members of State Bargaining Units 6 and 7, state, legislative, judicial branch, and California State University peace officers who are first employed on and after November 10, 2010, are subject to a 2.5% at 55 retirement formula, but would provide that the change would not apply if there is a current memorandum of understanding that provides a different formula only for the period that the memorandum of understanding is in effect. This bill would provide that safety members who are first employed by the state and the California State University on and after November 10, 2010, are subject to a 2% at age 55 retirement formula, but would provide that the change would not apply if there is a current memorandum of understanding that provides a different formula only for the period that the memorandum of understanding is in effect. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law prescribes procedures for the issuance of registered warrants and provides that a registered warrant is acceptable and may be used as security for the performance of any public or private trust or obligation. This bill would, if the Controller makes a specified determination, require a state agency to accept, from a person or entity, a registered warrant issued by the Controller and endorsed by that payee, at full face value, for the payment of any obligations owed by that payee to that state agency. The bill would specify that its requirements do not apply to certain obligations and would require the Controller, on or before the September 1 following the conclusion of a fiscal year in which a state agency is required to accept registered warrants pursuant to these provisions, to submit a report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. The bill would make its provisions inoperative on July 1, 2012, and would repeal them on January 1, 2013. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 (the Greene Act) , requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition. This bill, on and after July 1, 2011, would require all new construction projects submitted to the Division of the State Architect pursuant to the Greene Act to include locks that allow doors to classrooms and rooms with an occupancy of 5 or more persons to be locked from the inside, except as specified.
Existing law, until January 1, 2014, allows certain state and local transportation entities, if authorized by the California Transportation Commission, to use a design‑build process for contracting on transportation projects, as specified. This bill would authorize the Riverside County Transportation Commission, if authorized by the commission, to utilize this design-build procurement process for the State Route 91 Corridor Improvements Project on the state highway system. The bill would make the Department of Transportation responsible for the performance of construction inspection services for the project, as specified, and would require the commission to report on the progress of the project and related matters to specified legislative committees. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would designate the interchange at State Highway Route 60 and State Highway Route 15, in the County of Riverside, as the E. L. Yeager Interchange. 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.
