This measure would recognize each 2nd week of February hereafter as African American Mental Health Awareness Week.
Existing law requires elections officials to provide a registered voter with a sample ballot, voter pamphlet, directions to the nearest polling place, and other ballot materials by mail within designated timeframes before a primary or general election. This bill would authorize county and city elections officials, if specified conditions and deadlines are met, to establish procedures to allow a voter to opt out of receiving his or her sample ballot and other ballot materials by mail and instead obtain them via electronic means such as e-mail or accessing them from a county's or city's Internet Web site.
Existing law generally prohibits the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages at a public schoolhouse or any grounds thereof. Existing law provides that this prohibition does not apply if the alcoholic beverage is possessed, consumed, or sold, pursuant to a license, for special events held at the facilities of a public community college located in a county of the 1st or 4th class. This bill would expand the exception to this prohibition to include special events held at the facilities of a public community college located in a county of the 10th class. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 25608 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 1643 and AB 1860, to be operative only if AB 1643 and this bill, AB 1860 and this bill, or AB 1643, AB 1860, and this bill are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2011, as specified. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for a county of the 10th class.
Existing law, the Interstate Compact for Juveniles, which has been adopted by this state, establishes an interstate commission to oversee, supervise, and coordinate the interstate movement of juveniles. Pursuant to the compact, any state statutory law that conflicts with the rules and regulations adopted by the commissioners is superseded. Existing law generally provides that a minor who is persistently or habitually disobedient or has 4 or more truancies within one school year, as specified, or a person who was a minor when he or she violated a curfew based solely on age, is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. Existing law provides that a minor who comes within that description may not be held for more than 24 hours in order to locate the child's parent or guardian as soon as possible and arrange the return of the minor to his or her parent or guardian. Existing law further provides that a minor whose parent or guardian is a resident outside of the state may not be held in a secure facility for more than 24 hours, or no more than 72 hours under specified circumstances. This bill would delete the provisions of state law regarding a minor whose parent or guardian is a resident outside of the state as described above and would instead exclude an out-of-state minor who is being held pursuant to the Interstate Compact for Juveniles from the provisions authorizing the detention of a minor for no more than 24 hours.
Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act, classifies controlled substances into 5 designated schedules, with the most restrictive limitations generally placed on controlled substances classified in Schedule I, and the least restrictive limitations generally placed on controlled substances classified in Schedule V. Existing law places apomorphine within Schedule II. This bill would remove apomorphine from Schedule II of the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act and make it an unscheduled substance.
Existing law provides for the award of attorney's fees and costs, and damages to a plaintiff when it is proven by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant is liable for financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult. Existing law authorizes the remedy of attachment against a defendant's property to secure the amount of the claimed indebtedness to the plaintiff in connection with cases involving financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult. This bill would require the court to issue an earnings withholding order for elder or dependent adult financial abuse, as defined, for a defendant who has been found liable for financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult, as specified. Existing law provides that, except for earnings assignment orders for support, the provisions governing earnings withholding orders provide the exclusive procedure by which a judgment creditor can execute against the wages of a judgment debtor. Existing law provides that if an employer is served with 2 or more earnings withholding orders, the employer is required to comply with the order issued pursuant to the judgment first entered. This bill would require that earnings withholding orders for elder or dependent adult financial abuse be given priority over any other earnings withholding orders, as provided. The bill would also require, however, that earnings withholding orders for support or for taxes be given priority over earnings withholding orders for elder or dependent adult financial abuse. The bill would require that the application for issuance of an earnings withholding order and the earnings withholding order include how much of the judgment arises from that claim.
This measure would call upon the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to develop common core state standards in the core academic disciplines of English-language arts, mathematics, history-social science, and science, request that they replicate the process used to develop English-language arts and mathematics common core state standards to now develop common core state standards for social studies and science, and examine the viability of developing common standards in foreign language, visual and performing arts, physical education, career technical education, and other subject areas.
This measure would memorialize the United States Senate to ratify, and the President to sign, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and would memorialize the Congress of the United States and the President to enact appropriate legislation that addresses the concerns expressed in this measure.
This measure would specify principles for repairing the nation's broken immigration system and would urge Congress and the President of the United States to take a comprehensive and workable approach to improving the nation's immigration system using those principles.
This measure would proclaim the 3rd Monday of each September as California Memorial Project Remembrance Day in California, to honor and restore dignity to individuals who lived and died in California institutions.
