This measure would designate Friday, May 7, 2010, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day and would urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers.
This bill would recognize the month of June as Portuguese Heritage Month.
This measure would declare May 2010 as "Senior Volunteer Month" to honor the contributions of California's senior volunteers.
Existing law, with certain exceptions, establishes 8 hours as a day's work and a 40-hour workweek, and requires payment of prescribed overtime compensation for additional hours worked. Existing law authorizes the adoption by 23 of employees in a work unit of alternative workweek schedules providing for workdays no longer than 10 hours within a 40-hour workweek. This bill would permit an individual nonexempt employee to request an employee-selected flexible work schedule providing for workdays up to 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek, and would allow an employer to implement this schedule without any obligation to pay overtime compensation. The bill would require the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in the Department of Industrial Relations to enforce this provision and adopt regulations.
This measure would urge the Department of Justice to ensure compliance with a requirement that the department develop a standard format to be used statewide for purposes of reporting secondhand dealer transactions.
Existing law provides for the transfer of inmates to out-of-state institutions pursuant to the Interstate Corrections Compact and the Western Interstate Corrections Compact. Existing law provides that inmates confined in an institution pursuant to the terms of these compacts shall at all times be subject to the jurisdiction of this state and may at any time be removed therefrom for transfer to a prison or other institution within this state or for any other purpose permitted by the laws of this state, as specified. This bill would provide that no inmate sentenced under California law may be committed or transferred outside of this state unless the Governor personally approves the transfer. The bill would place requirements on agreements to transfer inmates outside of this state, including that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ensure that in any agreement to transfer an inmate outside of this state the receiving state or country shall not release the inmate before the inmate serves his or her full sentence. The bill would prohibit any agreement to transfer an inmate outside of this state to be made if a California law enforcement agency from a jurisdiction where the acts leading to the inmate's imprisonment took place issues a public statement opposing the transfer. The bill would provide that it shall not be construed to apply to inmates not sentenced by a court of this state.
Existing law authorizes a county that is responsible for the cost of a trial or trials or any hearing of a person for the offense of homicide to apply to the Controller for reimbursement of a portion of the costs incurred by the county in excess of the amount of money derived by the county from a tax of 0.0125 of 1% of the full value of property assessed for purposes of taxation within the county, if the homicide occurred on or after January 1, 2005. This bill would authorize a county, when the victim of a homicide that occurred on or after January 1, 2005, was a peace officer, as specified, to apply to the Controller for reimbursement of the costs incurred by the county, as specified. This bill would also authorize a city in that county to apply to the Controller for reimbursement of investigative costs incurred by the city that are attributable to that trial, trials, or hearing.
(1) Under existing law, the State Auditor is required to perform financial and performance audits as directed by statute. Existing law also requires the Office of Administrative Law to review existing regulations, at the request of a legislative committee, to determine if they meet specified standards. If the office determines that the regulations do not meet those standards, existing law requires the office to order the repeal of those regulations, pursuant to specified procedures. This bill would require the State Auditor to survey and perform a cost-benefit analysis of specified regulations that impose a cost on private persons or business, publish a catalog of these regulations and other findings related to them in the California Regulatory Notice Register, and consider public comment on them. The bill would require the State Auditor, if he or she determines that any of the regulations yield more costs to private persons or business than benefits, to notify the adopting agency in writing of the reasons for its determination and to publish this determination and the reasons for it in the California Regulatory Notice Register. The bill would require the adopting agency to respond in writing to the State Auditor regarding whether the agency will amend or repeal the regulation or decline to do so. The bill would require the State Auditor to review and consider all information submitted by the agency in this connection and, if the State Auditor confirms that the cost of a regulation to private persons or businesses exceeds its benefits, he or she would be required to prepare a statement specifying the reasons for its determination and to recommend to the Legislature that it enact legislation that will function to amend or repeal the regulation at the current legislative session. The bill would require that this catalog, analysis, and review process be subject to public comment, as specified. This bill would also require that all regulations adopted after January 1, 2011, be repealed 10 years after their effective date unless the State Auditor determines, as specified, that the benefits of the regulation to private persons or businesses exceed its costs. (2) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on January 8, 2010. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 8, 2010, pursuant to the California Constitution.
(1) Existing law imposes various functions and duties on the State Air Resources Board relating to reducing emissions of air pollutants. Existing law authorizes the state board to adopt standards, rules, and regulations necessary for the proper execution of those duties. This bill would require the state board to submit a major regulation, as defined, to the Legislative Analyst's Office, as specified. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to prepare an analysis of the major regulation, with prescribed elements, to determine the costs and benefits of the regulation and whether the regulation is technologically feasible, and to submit the analysis to the state board and the Legislature, as specified. (2) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on January 8, 2010. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 8, 2010, pursuant to the California Constitution.
