This measure would memorialize the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation that would add comprehensive, preventative dental care coverage to Medicare benefits.
This measure would recognize September 2012 as Recovery Month in California, in order to raise awareness of the importance of substance use disorders treatment and to help people living with substance use disorders and their families to receive treatment.
This measure would recognize the 45th anniversary of Kwanzaa and proclaim December 26 through January 1 each year as Kwanzaa Week.
This measure would recognize the 25th anniversary of the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial on November 23, 2013, and encourage all Californians to take part in ceremonies, organized by the California State Council of Vietnam Veterans of America along with assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs and other veterans service organizations. This measure would call upon the state archives to display memorabilia in a special display on the Vietnam War, as provided, the California State Military Museum to prepare and display exhibits on the Vietnam War, as provided, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to add names to the memorial, as provided.
This measure encourages the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California to consider and adopt the American Council on Education credit recommendations to give veterans due credit for their military experience.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts, administered by a governing board, throughout the state, and authorizes these districts to provide instruction to students at the community college campuses maintained by the districts. This bill would authorize the board of governors, once sufficient funding becomes available, to establish a competitive grant pilot program to evaluate a public-private partnership model designed to accomplish specified objectives relating to business development and job creation. The bill would require the board of governors to select partnering community college districts and private entities to participate in the pilot program that best demonstrate the ability to fulfill those objectives and specified agreement requirements that the bill would impose. Upon completion of the pilot program, the bill would require specified entities to prepare a written summary that would be posted on the community college district's Internet Web site, as specified. The bill would provide that the pilot program only would be operative if the Legislature appropriates funds expressly, or if sufficient private funding is received, for purposes of this bill, whichever comes first. The bill would repeal the pilot program on January 1, 2016.
The Passenger Charter-party Carriers' Act, with certain exceptions, prohibits a charter-party carrier of passengers from engaging in transportation services subject to regulation by the Public Utilities Commission without obtaining a specified certificate or permit, as appropriate, from the commission. Existing law requires the commission to ensure that every charter-party carrier of passengers includes on a waybill or trip report certain information, including the name of at least one passenger in the traveling party. This bill, beginning January 1, 2014, would authorize a waybill or trip report to be kept in electronic or hardcopy format and would authorize the charter-party carrier of passengers to provide the waybill or trip report in either electronic or hardcopy format when requested by any commission or airport enforcement officer or any official of a city, county, or city and county authorized to inspect a waybill or trip report. The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2014, a charter-party carrier of passengers to produce in its office a hardcopy of any waybill or trip report when requested by the commission or one of its authorized representatives.
Existing law, the California Cigarette and Tobacco Licensing Act of 2003, requires a retailer to obtain a license from the State Board of Equalization to engage in the sale of cigarette and tobacco products in California. Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement Act, or STAKE Act, establishes various requirements for retailers relating to tobacco sales to minors. Existing law also makes it a misdemeanor for a retailer to knowingly or under circumstances in which it has knowledge, or should otherwise have grounds for knowledge, sell, give, or in any way furnish a minor with tobacco products or paraphernalia. Under existing law, violations of the STAKE Act or the above-described misdemeanor provision result in board action, on a set schedule, relating to the licensure of the retailer when the youth purchase survey finds that 13% or more of youth are able to purchase cigarettes. Existing law makes the board's authority inoperative when a youth purchase survey shows less than 13% of youth were able to purchase cigarettes. Under existing law, enforcing agencies assess civil penalties in prescribed amounts against a person, firm, or corporation that sells, gives, or in any way furnishes to a person under 18 years of age specified tobacco products. Moneys from these penalties are deposited in the Sale of Tobacco to Minors Control Account in the State Treasury. This bill would remove the schedule for board action in response to the occurrence of a violation, as defined, of the STAKE Act or the misdemeanor provision. The bill would declare that these changes would not result in the limitation or termination of specified board investigations and actions. The bill would require the board to assess a civil penalty and to suspend or revoke a retailer's license, as specified, for the 3rd, 4th, or 5th violation. The bill would require the assessment of an additional civil penalty, as specified, to be deposited in the existing Cigarette and Tobacco Products Compliance Fund, which would be made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to fund these suspension and revocation activities.
Existing law establishes the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) with specified powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the authority to coordinate the emergency activities of all water transportation and related facilities within the bay area region, as defined. Existing law provides for a board of directors who serve 6-year terms, 3 members of which are appointed by the Governor and one each by the Senate Committee on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly. This bill would change the terms of directors appointed by the Governor and the Legislature, with respect to the appointments next following the expiration of the initial terms, to between 2 and 6 years, as specified, in order to stagger the expiration dates. Directors appointed to the board thereafter would serve 6-year terms.
Under existing law, the City and County of San Francisco operates the Hetch Hetchy Project as a regional water delivery system, supplying water to persons and entities in San Francisco and the Counties of Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara. Existing law, the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency Act, governs the formation and operation of the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA) by 24 public entities that purchase water from San Francisco. The act authorizes the agency to borrow money, incur indebtedness, and issue notes and bonds, including revenue bonds, as specified. The act authorizes the agency to make proceeds of bonds authorized by the act available to other local public agencies on mutually satisfactory terms and conditions to assist in the construction, reconstruction, or improvement of works designed and intended in whole or in part to furnish water to the members of the agency, whether those works are carried out jointly by the agency and other local public agencies, or solely by those other public agencies. The act further authorizes the agency to impose reasonable rates, fees, and charges on specified entities that are sufficient to generate revenue to pay the principal and interest on any bonds issued by the agency. This bill would authorize the agency to prepay the unpaid principal balance relating to existing capital assets as of June 30, 2009, on behalf of BAWSCA members, as defined, as provided in a prescribed water supply agreement. This bill would authorize the agency to acquire from the City and County of San Francisco the right to receive all or a portion of the amounts payable by BAWSCA members under that water supply agreement and authorize the City and County of San Francisco to sell to the agency its right to receive these amounts. This bill would authorize the agency to request that the City and County of San Francisco continue to collect amounts in accordance with the water supply agreement and to transfer these amounts to the agency on a periodic basis. This bill would require the agency to use these amounts to pay debt service on prescribed bonds issued by the agency for specified uses authorized by this bill and to satisfy all other obligations of the agency related to those bonds. This bill would also authorize the agency to impose rates, fees, and charges as prescribed to pay debt service on bonds issued for the specified uses authorized by this bill and to satisfy all other obligations of the agency related to those bonds and would require that the City and County of San Francisco collect any of those rates, fees, and charges, as specified, if requested by the agency. This bill would also permit the agency to distribute any of these amounts not needed for the purposes of those bonds to BAWSCA members, as prescribed.
