Existing law requires an operator of a commercial Internet Web site or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California who use or visit its site or online service to conspicuously post its privacy policy on its Internet Web site. Existing law also prescribes various prohibitions with regard to disclosures of personal information related to, among other things, driver's licenses, social security numbers, and direct marketing. This bill would prohibit a social networking Internet Web site, as defined, from displaying to the public or other registered users any information about a registered user of that Internet Web site, other than the user's name and city of residence, without the express agreement of the user. The bill would require a social networking Internet Web site to establish a process for new users to set their privacy settings as part of the registration process that explains privacy options in plain language, and to make privacy settings available in an easy-to-use format. The bill would require a social networking Internet Web site to remove the personal identifying information, as defined, of any registered user, and would require removal of that information regarding a user under 18 years of age upon request by the user's parent, within 96 hours upon his or her request. This bill would impose a civil penalty, not to exceed $10,000, for each willful and knowing violation of these provisions.
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This measure would designate March 2011 as Irish American Heritage Month in honor of the multitude of contributions that Irish Americans have made to the country and state.
In honor of the service of Ronald M. George as the Chief Justice of California, this measure designates the Civic Center Complex, comprised of the Earl Warren Building and the Hiram W. Johnson State Office Building, located at the Civic Center Plaza in the City and County of San Francisco, as the Ronald M. George Justice Center.
This measure would designate March 2010 as Irish American Heritage Month in honor of the multitude of contributions that Irish Americans have made to the country and state.
Existing law creates the California Apprenticeship Council within the Division of Apprenticeship Standards for the purpose of issuing rules and regulations governing the administration of apprenticeship programs. The council is composed, in part, of 6 representatives each from employers or employer organizations and employee organizations. This bill would provide that no 2 employee representatives may be from the same national or international labor organization, as defined. Existing law requires the Division of Apprenticeship Standards to randomly audit all apprenticeship programs during each 5-year period commencing January 1, 2000, to ensure compliance with specified requirements, including any industry-specific training criteria established by the California Apprenticeship Council. This bill would eliminate the requirement that the division conduct random audits during 5-year periods and would instead direct the division to conduct audits of apprenticeship programs generally. The bill would further require the division to audit a new or newly expanded building and construction trades apprenticeship program one year after its approval for creation or expansion, and would require the division to immediately conduct an investigation of an apprenticeship program of this type to determine whether an audit is necessary if the division finds evidence that the program has purposely misstated information provided to the division. In addition, the bill would require the division to schedule an audit of a program of this type within 3 months if the program has been the subject of 2 or more meritorious apprentice complaints within a 5-year period or if the program's annual apprentice completion rate is below 50% of the average completion rate for the applicable trade. Existing law authorizes the Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards to approve an apprenticeship program in any trade when specified conditions are met. This bill would prescribe requirements for an application by a building and construction trades program for approval of a new or expanded apprenticeship program. The bill would require the program to submit a written plan to the chief listing the number of apprentices to be enrolled in a new program, occupation, or geographic area during the subsequent 5 years and evidence of sufficient commitments from employers. The bill would also require that an applicant submit to the chief a plan for selection and recruitment of new apprentices, including information on advertising and outreach programs. If the chief does not approve an application, the chief would be required to provide the applicant, within 90 days, a detailed explanation of the deficiencies in the application, and the applicant would be authorized to submit a new application within 90 days. This bill would require that each building and construction trades industry apprenticeship program provide a semiannual statement to the apprentice listing the number of hours of training received and the number of hours remaining for graduation from the program. This bill would also require that every building and construction trades industry apprenticeship program submit monthly specified data relating to apprentices in an electronic format to the Division of Apprenticeship Standards.
Under existing law, the Medical Practice Act, the Medical Board of California is responsible for the certification and regulation of physicians and surgeons. Existing law requires the board, in conjunction with the Health Professions Education Foundation, to study the issue of providing medical malpractice insurance to volunteer physicians and surgeons and to report its findings to the Legislature by January 1, 2008. The bill would create the Volunteer Insured Physicians Program, administered by the board, to provide specified medical malpractice insurance coverage to volunteer physicians providing uncompensated care to patients pursuant to a contract with a qualified health care entity, as defined. The bill would provide funding for the program from the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California for a limited period of time. The bill would require annual reports to the Legislature until January 1, 2015.
This measure would express the California Legislature's strong support for Irish reunification by all peaceful means and would urge the California Congressional delegation to support the final reunification of the island of Ireland by all electoral and diplomatic means necessary.
Existing law requires every contract entered into by a state agency for the procurement of equipment, materials, supplies, apparel, garments, and accessories and the laundering thereof, excluding public works contracts, to require a contractor to certify that no equipment, materials, supplies, apparel, garments, or accessories provided under the contract are produced by sweatshop labor, forced labor, convict labor, indentured labor under penal sanction, abusive forms of child labor, or exploitation of children in sweatshop labor. If a contractor knew or should have known the specified products furnished to the state were laundered or produced by the specified types of prohibited labor, the contractor may be removed from the bidder's list for 360 days. Existing law provides for misdemeanor liability in the case of a knowing false certification. Existing law requires the Department of Industrial Relations to establish a contractor responsibility program, on or before February 1, 2004, including a Sweat Free Code of Conduct. Existing law also requires the appropriate procurement agency, in consultation with the Director of Industrial Relations, to employ an approach to implement the Sweat Free Code of Conduct, as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Industrial Relations to explore mechanisms to ensure that businesses that contract with state agencies are in compliance with those provisions. This bill would rename the code of conduct as the Slave and Sweat Free Code of Conduct and would require every contract entered into by a state agency for the procurement of equipment, materials, supplies, apparel, garments, and accessories and the laundering thereof, excluding public works contracts, to require a contractor to certify that no equipment, materials, supplies, apparel, garments, or accessories provided under the contract are produced by abusive forms of labor performed by all persons, not only abusive forms of child labor, as prescribed. The bill would additionally extend the period that the contractor is removed from the bidder's list to 2 years, if the contractor knew or should have known the specified products were laundered or produced by the specified prohibited labor. This bill would require the Department of Industrial Relations to establish a contractor responsibility program on or before January 1, 2012, and would require specified actions by the Department of Industrial Relations and the Department of General Services with regard to the code of conduct. This bill would additionally require contractors whose manufacturing and assembly locations are outside the United States to comply with international laws or treaties binding on their countries and would require a subcontractor to sign a certification regarding the code of conduct under the penalty of perjury. By changing the definition of 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.
Existing law provides that a gift certificate sold after January 1, 1997, is redeemable in cash or subject to replacement with a new gift certificate. Existing law also provides that a gift certificate with a cash value of less than $10 may be redeemed in cash, as defined, for its cash value. Existing law prohibits the sale of a gift certificate that contains a dormancy fee, subject to specified exceptions. This bill would delete those exceptions and expressly prohibit the sale of a gift certificate that contains a dormancy fee.