This measure would urge the Congress to enact and the President to sign the Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act of 2013.
Existing law regulates the business of insurance, including, but not limited to, requiring that each domestic, foreign, and alien insurer doing business in this state annually, on or before the first day of March of each year, file with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners a copy of its annual statement convention blank, along with any additional filings as prescribed by the Insurance Commissioner for the preceding year. The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection and to make copies available upon request and payment of a fee unless the records are exempt from disclosure. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2015, require an insurer to maintain a risk management framework, to conduct no less than annually an Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) , as specified, and to submit to the commissioner, upon request and no more than once each year, an ORSA Summary Report. The bill would exempt certain insurance companies from these provisions. The bill would provide that the documents, materials, and other information in the possession or control of the Department of Insurance that are obtained by, created by, or disclosed to the commissioner or any other person pursuant to these provisions are confidential, are not subject to disclosure pursuant to the California Public Records Act, and are not subject to subpoena or discovery in a civil action, as specified. The bill would make related findings on the confidentiality of these records. The bill would provide that an insurer who fails, without just cause, to timely file the ORSA Summary Report as required by these provisions would be subject to specified late filing fees.
This measure would proclaim September 23, 2013, as Restless Legs Syndrome/Willis-Ekbom Disease Awareness Day in California.
Existing law requires the governing board of each community college district to order the inclusion within the membership of the governing board of one or more nonvoting students, who are enrolled in a community college of the district, and chosen by students enrolled in the community colleges of the district, in accordance with procedures prescribed by the governing board. This bill would provide that if the seat of a student member becomes vacant during his or her term, the governing board may authorize the officers of student body associations at each community college in the district to appoint a student to serve the remainder of the term in accordance with procedures established by the governing board. This bill would also make nonsubstantive changes.
The California Emergency Services Act sets forth the duties of the Office of Emergency Services with respect to specified emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities within the state. This bill would require the office, on or before July 31, 2015, to update the State Emergency Plan to include proposed best practices for local governments and nongovernmental entities to use to mobilize and evacuate people with disabilities and others with access and functional needs during an emergency or natural disaster.
Existing law establishes the state flag and the state's emblems, including, among other things, the poppy as the official state flower and the California redwood as the official state tree. This bill would establish the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial as the official state Vietnam veterans war memorial.
Under the Financial Integrity and State Manager's Accountability Act of 1983, the Legislature declares it to be the policy of the State of California that, among other things, each state agency must maintain effective systems of internal accounting and administrative control as an integral part of its management practices, and that those systems be evaluated on an ongoing basis through regular and ongoing monitoring processes. This bill would additionally make a legislative declaration of the policy that it be the responsibility of the Department of Finance, in consultation with the Controller and State Auditor, to establish specified guidelines for how the independence and objectivity of the persons tasked with monitoring processes are to be maintained. The act requires that state agency heads are responsible for the establishment and maintenance of a system or systems of internal accounting, administrative control, and effective, independent, and objective ongoing monitoring of the internal accounting and administrative controls within their agencies. This bill would require that it be the responsibility of the Department of Finance, in consultation with the Controller and State Auditor, to establish guidelines to state agencies management on how the role of independent monitor should be staffed, structured, and its reporting function standardized so it fits within an efficient and normalized agency administrative framework.
Existing law requires the Controller to superintend the fiscal concerns of the state, suggest plans for the improvement and management of the public revenues, and at least annually, summon county auditors to discuss problems with, among other things, the reporting of financial transactions of the counties. This bill would require the Controller, on or before January 1, 2015, to develop internal control guidelines applicable to a local agency, as defined, to prevent and detect financial errors and fraud, based on specified standards and with input from any local agency and organizations representing the interests of local agencies. This bill would require the Controller to, by the same date, post the completed internal control guidelines on the Controller's Internet Web site and update them, as he or she deems necessary, as specified.
