Sen. Jerry Hill

This measure would proclaim July 27, 2011, as Korean War Veterans Armistice Day. It would urge Californians to remember the Korean War and those who fought against communism. It would also urge Governor Jerry Brown to proclaim July 27, 2011, as Korean War Armistice Day and instruct all state departments, agencies, interested groups, organizations, and individuals to fly the United States flag at half-mast on July 27, 2011, in memory of the veterans who died as a result of their service in Korea.

This measure would urge Congress to extend the alternative minimum tax holiday for private activity bonds.

Existing law authorizes a local, special, or consolidated election to be conducted wholly by mail if specified conditions are satisfied. This bill would authorize, as a pilot program, until December 31, 2017, elections in Yolo County, other than statewide primary or general elections or special elections to fill a vacancy in a state office, the Legislature, or Congress, to be conducted wholly by mail if specified conditions are satisfied. The county would be required to report on these elections to the Legislature and the Secretary of State, as specified, if an election is conducted wholly by mail pursuant to this authority.

Existing law provides for statewide election of a slate of electors to vote in the electoral college for President and Vice President of the United States. Under existing law, each political party selects its slate of presidential electors in accordance with statutory procedures that differ by party. This bill would ratify a specified interstate compact that requires the chief election official of each signatory state to appoint the slate of presidential electors that was nominated in association with the presidential ticket that received the largest national popular vote total. This compact would only become effective if states cumulatively possessing a majority of the total electoral votes have ratified the compact.

Under existing law, with certain exceptions, a man is conclusively presumed to be the father of a child if he was married to and cohabiting with the child's mother. Existing law also provides that if a man signs a voluntary declaration of paternity, it has the force and effect of a judgment of paternity, subject to certain exceptions. Existing law further provides that a man is rebuttably presumed to be the father if he was married to, or attempted to marry, the mother before or after the birth of the child, or he receives the child as his own and openly holds the child out as his own. Under existing law, the voluntary declaration of paternity may be set aside by the court if genetic evidence establishes the man is not the father of the child, while the latter presumptions are rebutted by a judgment establishing paternity by another man. Existing law provides that if 2 or more presumptions conflict with each other, the presumption which on the facts is founded on the weightier considerations of policy and logic controls. This bill would provide that a voluntary declaration of paternity is invalid if, at the time the declaration was signed, the child already had a presumed parent, as specified, or if the man signing the declaration is a sperm donor. The bill would authorize a person who is rebuttably presumed to be the child's parent under the above-described provisions to bring a motion to set aside a voluntary declaration of paternity, and would require the court to consider specified factors, including the nature, duration, and quality of the petitioning party's relationship with the child in deciding whether to set aside the voluntary declaration of paternity. The bill would include these proceedings among the exceptions to the provision that a voluntary declaration of paternity has the force and effect of a judgment of paternity. The bill would provide that, in the event of a conflict between a rebuttable presumption of paternity and the voluntary declaration of paternity, the weightier considerations of policy and logic control. The bill would make other conforming changes. Under existing law, the donor of semen provided to a licensed physician and surgeon or to a licensed sperm bank for use in artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization of a woman other than the donor's wife is treated as if he were not the natural father of a child thereby conceived. This bill would enable a sperm donor to be treated as a natural father if it is agreed to in a writing signed by the donor and the woman prior to the conception of the child.

This measure would memorialize the Legislature's support for the school-based health center program authorized by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, an appropriation by the United States Congress to fund this program, policies that include school-based health centers as a partner in creating a medical home for all children, and the inclusion of school-based health centers in the reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

(1) Existing law provides for the creation and powers and duties of regional park districts, regional park and open-space districts, and regional open-space districts. Existing law authorizes those districts to acquire all necessary and proper lands and facilities by means of a plan to borrow money or by purchase on contract. Existing law requires indebtedness that is incurred in that manner to bear interest at a rate not exceeding 10% per annum, or if higher, not exceeding the rate provided under provisions governing issuance of local general obligation bonds. Under existing law, indebtedness that is incurred in that manner on or after July 1, 1982, is generally required to be repaid during a period that does not exceed 20 years from the date on which it is incurred. The bill would modify the rate at which any indebtedness incurred by all regional park districts, regional park and open-space districts, and regional open-space districts in that manner is required to bear interest by deleting the requirement that it not exceed 10% per annum, and instead authorizing a rate not exceeding the rate allowable under provisions governing issuance of local general obligation bonds. (2) Existing law requires each indebtedness to be authorized by a resolution of a district board, as provided. This bill would require indebtedness that is incurred in that manner by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, on or after January 1, 2012, to be repaid during a period that does not exceed 30 years. The bill would make conforming changes. This bill would require, with regard to this indebtedness incurred by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, that the resolution specify the revenue pledged by the district to repay the indebtedness, among other things.

This measure would proclaim the month of June to be June Dairy Month in California, in honor of the work of dairy producers in California, and would encourage all Californians to continue to support the American dairy industry by including dairy products as part of a healthy diet.

This measure would recognize May 2011 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.