Asm. Mary Salas

This measure would encourage public education institutions to designate each campus as a "Discrimination-Free Zone" to provide a safe haven from intolerance or discrimination, to enact appropriate procedures that meaningfully address acts of discrimination that occur on campus, to notify parents and the campus community of existing policies and procedures that encourage tolerance of others, and to use existing resources to identify themselves as "Discrimination-Free Zones" to create a campus climate that welcomes diversity and supports the tolerance of others.

The California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act established the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority. The authority is authorized to do all things necessary and convenient to carry out the purposes of the act. The authority is also required to establish a renewable energy program to provide financial assistance, as defined, to certain entities for projects to generate new and renewable energy sources, develop clean and efficient distributed generation, and demonstrate the economic feasibility of new technologies. Existing law provides that the transfer of title of tangible personal property constituting a project under the act to the authority by a participating party, or the lease or transfer of tangible personal property constituting a project under the act by the authority to a participating party pursuant to the act is not a "sale" or "purchase" for the purposes of the Sales and Use Tax Law. This bill would, for purposes of the act until January 1, 2021, expand the definition of "alternative sources" and "projects," as specified. The bill would, until January 1, 2021, authorize the authority to evaluate project applications, and to approve projects, as defined, for financial assistance under the existing exclusion from a "sale" or "purchase" subject to sales or use tax, as provided. This bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to submit a report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, as provided. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and districts, as specified, may impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into these laws. Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code provides that the state will reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

This measure would proclaim January 13, 2010, as Korean-American Day.

Existing law authorizes the California Housing Finance Agency to assist first-time homebuyers to utilize existing mortgage financing available to them. This bill would authorize the agency to continue in existence the Community Stabilization Home Loan Program, and would authorize the agency to place specified restrictions on the eligibility of properties, as specified.

Existing law establishes various programs for the prevention of disease and the promotion of health to be administered by the State Department of Public Health, including, but not limited to, a program for the certification and regulation of radiological technologists. Existing law, with certain exceptions, prohibits a person from operating or maintaining any X-ray fluoroscope, or other equipment or apparatus employing roentgen rays, in the fitting of shoes or other footwear or in the viewing of bones in the feet. Violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would, in addition, exempt from this prohibition the use of a mini C-arm digital radiography device in connection with the diagnosis of bone fractures, in a licensed trauma center or an emergency department of a licensed hospital, by an orthopedic resident, an orthopedic nurse practitioner, or a physician assistant, when under the direct or indirect supervision of a certified radiological technologist.

Existing law requires the California Housing Finance Agency to administer the California Homebuyer's Downpayment Assistance Program for the purpose of assisting first-time low- and moderate-income home buyers utilizing existing mortgage financing. Under the program, the amount of the downpayment assistance is due and payable at the end of the term or upon sale of or refinancing of the home. This bill would authorize the agency, in its discretion, to permit the downpayment assistance loan to be subordinated to refinancing if it determines that certain criteria have been met. The bill would authorize the agency to permit subordination on such terms and conditions as it determines are reasonable.

Under existing law, the maternal and child health program includes provisions for pregnancy testing, perinatal health care, child health, and nutrition. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to conduct the Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMAD) Community Awareness Campaign to identify barriers to accessing PMAD treatment and increase awareness and provide education to pregnant women and new mothers on postpartum mood and anxiety disorders. The bill would require the department to convene a workgroup, which would be required, by January 1, 2011, to prepare and submit to the department specified recommendations relating to the implementation of the awareness campaign. It would prohibit public sources of funds from being used to fund the campaign. The bill would authorize the department to use nonpublic sources of funding to support the activities of the workgroup and fund the campaign. The bill would require that voluntary funds received for the purposes of this bill be deposited into the PMAD Community Awareness Campaign Fund, which the bill would create, and would continuously appropriate the moneys in the fund to the department to implement the awareness campaign. The bill would further provide that if the Department of Finance determines that, on January 1, 2011, insufficient voluntary contributions for purposes of implementing these provisions have been deposited with the state the Department of Finance shall notify either the Chief Clerk of the Assembly or the Secretary of the Senate of this fact, in which case these provisions would be repealed on the date of that notification.

Existing law establishes various state conservancies for the protection of natural resources within specified boundaries. This bill would enact the Tijuana River Valley Conservancy Act. The bill would establish in the Natural Resources Agency the Tijuana River Valley Conservancy. The bill would specify the composition of the board of the conservancy. The conservancy would be required to oversee the implementation of a comprehensive Tijuana River Valley cleanup and restoration program. The bill would set forth related findings and declarations.

Under existing law, various measures have been approved by the voters to provide funds for water protection, facilities, and programs. This bill would enact the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010 which, if approved by the voters, would authorize, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,035,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. The act, if approved by the voters, would require the ____ to establish and impose a fee on users of water to be used for the purposes of the act, upon appropriation by the Legislature.

Existing law, the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law, provides for the licensure and regulation by the Commissioner of Corporations of persons engaged in the business of making or negotiating deferred deposit transactions, as defined. A willful violation of the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law is a crime. This bill would authorize the commissioner, by contract with a vendor or service provider or otherwise, to develop and implement a system that enables a licensee to receive specified information regarding a consumer's history with deferred deposit transactions. The bill would authorize the commissioner to adopt rules to establish the system and for the retention, archiving, and deletion of the information entered into, or stored by, the system. The bill would authorize the operator of the system to charge licensees a fee, as specified. The bill would also impose various requirements on licensees relative to information that would be required to be reported to the system, if it is developed and implemented. Because a violation of these requirements by a licensee would be a crime under the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law, 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.