The California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act creates the Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority and requires the authority to establish a renewable energy program to provide financial assistance to specified entities to generate new and renewable energy sources, develop clean and efficient distributed generation, and demonstrate the economic feasibility of new technologies. The act defines "project" for the purposes of the act to include specified property and activities that utilize or are designed to utilize an alternative source, or that are utilized for the design, technology transfer, manufacture, production, assembly, distribution, or service of advanced transportation technologies. This bill would additionally define "project" to apply to specified property and activities that are utilized for the design, technology transfer, manufacture, production, assembly, distribution, or service of renewable energy technologies, renewable energy projects, and renewable energy manufacturing service of renewable energy technologies, renewable energy projects, and renewable energy manufacturing, and would make conforming changes.
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Existing law establishes within the State Nursing Assumption Program of Loans for Education (SNAPLE) , a program under which any person who is enrolled in an eligible institution, and who agrees to work full time as a registered nurse in a state-operated 24-hour facility, including a prison, psychiatric hospital, or veterans home, that employs registered nurses, is eligible to receive a conditional loan assumption agreement, to be redeemed upon becoming employed as a clinical registered nurse in an eligible facility. This bill would establish a program within the SNAPLE, under which a student who is enrolled in an eligible program, and who agrees to be employed as a school nurse in an eligible school or school district, would be eligible to receive a conditional loan assumption agreement, to be redeemed upon becoming employed as a school nurse in an eligible public elementary or secondary school. The bill would provide for a progressive assumption of the amount of a qualifying loan over 4 consecutive years of qualifying employment as a school nurse, up to a total loan assumption of $11,000. The program would be repealed on January 1, 2016.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on a cyclical basis, to coordinate the development of model curriculum standards for the prescribed course of study and of a career technical education course of study necessary to assist school districts with complying with their obligation to offer qualified pupils a course of study that provides an opportunity for pupils to attain entry-level employment skills in business or industry upon graduation from high school. Existing law requires the Superintendent, upon the adoption of these model curriculum standards, to develop a curriculum framework consistent with specified criteria that offers a blueprint for implementation of career and technical education. This bill would require the Superintendent, in coordinating the development of the next revision of this curriculum framework that is submitted to the State Board of Education for approval, to include guidance for adapting work-based learning for individuals with exceptional needs.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the State Department of Public Health of health care facilities, including long-term health care facilities. Existing law, the Long-Term Care, Health Safety, and Security Act of 1973, imposes various requirements on long-term health care facilities. Violation of these provisions is a crime. This bill would prohibit a long-term health care facility from refusing to place a patient based on the fact that the patient has been diagnosed with a health-care-associated infection, or tested positive for the presence of an organism. The bill would require a long-term health care facility to take specified measures for a patient diagnosed with a health-care-associated infection. This bill would also require a long-term health care facility to maintain a record of health-care-associated infections, and would require facility staff to receive education and training regarding the control of health-care-associated infections, as specified. By creating new 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.
Under existing law, various higher education facilities bond acts authorize the sale of bonds for the purpose of funding the construction of facilities for the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, the Hastings College of the Law, and the California Maritime Academy. This bill would enact the Higher Education Facilities Bond Act of 2010, to become operative only if approved by the voters at the November 2, 2010, statewide general election, and would provide for its submission to the voters at that election. The bond act, if approved by the voters, would provide for the issuance of state general obligation bonds in a total amount of $8,630,000,000, to provide aid to the California Community Colleges, the University of California, the Hastings College of the Law, and the California State University to construct and modernize education facilities.
Existing law establishes various public programs to provide health care coverage to eligible children, including the Medi-Cal program administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and county welfare agencies, and the Healthy Families Program administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board. Children through 18 years of age are eligible for health care coverage under these programs if they meet certain household income and other criteria including specified citizenship and immigration status requirements. Under existing law, the applicant's signed statement as to the value or amount of income is accepted for eligibility purposes under the Healthy Families Program if documentation cannot otherwise be provided. This bill would expand eligibility for the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program by modifying the income requirements applicable to those programs, and by making coverage available regardless of citizenship or immigration status, as specified. The bill would require a parent or caretaker relative of a child applying for the Medi-Cal program to sign a specified attestation under penalty of perjury regarding the child's immigration status, as specified, thereby expanding the crime of perjury and imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, by July 1, 2011, to implement a process for an applicant's self-certification of income and income deductions for purposes of establishing eligibility for the Healthy Families Program. The bill would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the State Department of Health Care Services, by July 1, 2011, to simplify the annual renewal forms for children enrolled in the Healthy Families Program or the Medi-Cal program and to establish a process to allow families to renew their child's coverage by telephone. The bill would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the State Department of Health Care Services to make specified technological improvements to the existing eligibility determination and enrollment systems for the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program and to develop a process to transition the enrollment of children from local children's health initiatives into those programs. The bill would also make various related modifications to the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program and would require the State Department of Health Care Services and the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to maximize federal matching funds for the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program. Because the expansion of, and modifications to, the Medi-Cal program would impose certain duties on counties relative to administration of that program, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law establishes the Healthy Families Presumptive Eligibility Program, administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, to provide a child who, among other requirements, has been receiving full-scope Medi-Cal benefits with health care benefits while the board determines the child's eligibility for the Healthy Families Program. Existing law also creates a Medi-Cal presumptive eligibility program to provide a child who, among other requirements, has been receiving benefits under the Healthy Families Program with health care benefits until a Medi-Cal eligibility determination is made. This bill would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the State Department of Health Care Services to monitor those programs to ensure children are timely enrolled in the presumptive eligibility benefits for which they are eligible. Existing law requires the state to administer, to the extent allowed under federal law, and only if federal financial participation is available, the Medi-Cal to Healthy Families Presumptive Eligibility Program to provide a child not receiving no-cost Medi-Cal benefits or Healthy Families benefits who meets specified eligibility requirements, including the income requirements of the Healthy Families Program, with benefits identical to full-scope benefits under the Medi-Cal program with no share of cost for the period during which the child has an application pending for coverage under the Healthy Families Program. This bill would establish, to the extent allowed by federal law and to the extent federal financial participation is available, the Medi-Cal Presumptive Eligibility Program that would provide a child not receiving no-cost Medi-Cal benefits or Healthy Families Program benefits who meets specified eligibility requirements with presumptive eligibility benefits identical to full-scope benefits under the Medi-Cal program with no share of cost until the child's eligibility for the Medi-Cal program is determined, as specified. The bill would require the county to forward the child's application to the Healthy Families Program if it finds the child eligible for the Medi-Cal program with a share of cost. The bill would require this program to be implemented by July 1, 2011. Under existing law, the Robert W. Crown California Children's Services Act, the State Department of Health Care Services and each county administer the California Children Services Program (CCS program) for treatment services for persons under the age of 21 years diagnosed with severe chronic disease or severe physical limitations, as specified. Existing law limits eligibility for those services to persons in families with an annual adjusted gross income of $40,000 or less. This bill would change that eligibility limitation to persons in a family with an annual, or equivalent monthly income, that is equal to or less than $40,000, or that meets the income eligibility requirements for the Healthy Families Program, as specified. The bill would also create the Healthy Families Buy-In Program (buy-in program) and would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to implement that program by July 1, 2011. Under the buy-in program, the coverage provided under the Healthy Families Program would be available to children whose household income exceeds 300% of the federal poverty level and who meet other specified criteria. The bill would specify that coverage under the buy-in program would include services provided under the CCS program for children eligible for the CCS program and would deem the child's family financially eligible for benefits under the CCS program. Because the bill would thereby expand eligibility for the CCS program, which is administered by a county's public health or social welfare department, it would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would specify the family contribution required for children enrolled in the buy-in program. Existing law requires the state to reimburse counties for 50% of the amount required to meet state administrative standards for that portion of the county caseload under the CCS program that is ineligible for Medi-Cal, to the extent funds are available in the state budget. This bill would also require the state to reimburse counties for 100% of the amount required to provide CCS program services to children enrolled in the buy-in program. Existing law, the California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) , authorizes establishment of a statewide program, administered by the State Department of Public Health, for providing nutritional food supplements to low-income pregnant women, low-income postpartum and lactating women, and low-income infants and children under 5 years of age, who have been determined to be at nutritional risk. The program, which implements a program authorized under existing federal law, provides for the redemption of nutrition coupons by recipients at any authorized retail food vendor. Existing law requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the department, in collaboration with WIC program offices and other designated entities, to design, promulgate, and implement policies and procedures for an automated enrollment gateway system to obtain presumptive eligibility for, and to facilitate application for enrollment in, the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program for children applying to the WIC program. Existing law requires the WIC gateway system to be constructed with the capacity to be used by entities operating the WIC program. This bill would require all WIC local agencies that serve large numbers of participants and a high proportion of uninsured participants, as specified, to use the WIC gateway system only to the extent funding is available, as specified, and would permit all other local WIC agencies to use the WIC gateway system at their option. Existing law creates the Healthy Families Fund, and provides that money in the fund is continuously appropriated for purposes of the Healthy Families Program. This bill would provide that the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board may implement the provisions of the bill expanding the Healthy Families Program only to the extent that funds are appropriated for those purposes in the annual Budget Act or in another statute. 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, and provides various exemptions from the taxes imposed by that law. This bill would exempt from a specified portion of those taxes, for calendar years beginning on and after January 1, 2011, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, sustainable development equipment investments of tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person, as specified, and tangible personal property used primarily during the research and development process on qualified research. The bill would also exempt from a specified portion of those taxes, for calendar years beginning on and after January 1, 2013, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person for use primarily in any stage of the manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of property, as specified, and tangible personal property purchased for use by a contractor purchasing that property for use in the performance of a construction contract for the qualified person who will use the property as an integral part of the manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling process, or as a storage facility for use in connection with the manufacturing process. This bill would specify that this exemption does not apply to local sales and use taxes or transactions and use taxes. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
(1) Existing law authorizes the Regents of the University of California, with the approval of the Concurrence Committee, to establish and maintain cooperative endeavors designed to develop and enhance teachers' subject matter and content knowledge in 6 subject matter project areas. Under existing law the Concurrence Committee is composed of representatives selected by the regents, the Board of Trustees of the California State University, the State Board of Education, among others. Existing law provides goals to be accomplished by the subject matter projects. Among these is the goal to provide support to teachers to develop and enhance the content knowledge and pedagogical skills necessary to implement State Board of Education standards. This bill would clarify that this support includes assistance to career technical education teachers. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to select a representative to the Concurrence Committee. The bill would also authorize 3 additional subject matter projects: the California Physical Education-Health Project, the California Arts Project, and the California Foreign Language Project. (2) Existing law establishes a project advisory board in each subject matter project area to set guidelines, make recommendations, and monitor activities for compliance with existing law. Each project advisory board is composed of representatives who are selected, in varying numbers, by various individuals and entities. Some of the representatives, as provided, are required to be classroom teachers in subject areas addressed by the project. This bill would change the composition of each project advisory board to consist of only one representative selected by each appointing entity to the respective board, except that the Superintendent of Public Instruction would select two representatives. The bill would also delete the requirement that certain representatives be classroom teachers and instead require that those representatives be educators with expertise in the subject areas addressed by the project. (3) Under existing law, the above provisions become inoperative on June 30, 2012, and are repealed on January 1, 2013. This bill would delete these inoperative and repeal dates, thereby extending the operation of these provisions indefinitely. (4) Existing law prohibits any of the provisions related to instructional strategies from applying to the University of California unless the Regents of the University of California, by resolution, make those provisions applicable. This bill would apply to the University of California only if the regents, by resolution, make these provisions applicable.
(1) Existing law requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Chancellor of the California State University, the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to enter into interagency agreements in order to encourage greater involvement of educational institutions in planning and developing prison-based educational programs, and to appoint an advisory committee to accomplish various duties. Existing law requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to appoint a Superintendent of Correctional Education to oversee all prison education programs. This bill, the Prison Education Reform Act, would instead require those officers to appoint members to the Correctional Education Committee. The bill would rename the position of the Superintendent of Correctional Education as the Deputy Director of Correctional Education, who would be required to perform specified duties in consultation with the committee, including the adoption and enforcement of all necessary rules and regulations for the management and operation of education programs within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, approval of education programs in correctional institutions, and the adoption of rules and regulations for the admission of inmate students to those education programs. (2) The bill would establish the Correctional Education Committee in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which would be composed of 15 members, as specified. The committee would be required to advise the Deputy Director of Correctional Education regarding various goals and objectives, including the development of a 5-year comprehensive plan for a unified correctional school system by June 1, 2012, and to submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2012, on specified matters relating to correctional education in this state.
Under existing law, prosecution for specified felony sex offenses, including rape, sodomy, lewd or lascivious acts, oral copulation, continuous sexual abuse of a child, and acts of sexual penetration that are alleged to have been committed when the victim was under the age of 18 years, may be commenced at any time prior to the victim's 28th birthday. Existing law also allows a complaint alleging one or more of these offenses to be filed beyond this time limitation in certain specified instances if the crimes involve substantial sexual conduct and there is independent corroborating evidence of the allegations. This bill would allow the prosecution of the felony sex offenses specified above to be commenced at any time if the crime is alleged to have been committed when the victim was under the age of 14.