(1) Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. This bill would rename the bond act as the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, and would make conforming changes. (2) The bond act, among other things, would continuously appropriate $3,000,000,000 to the California Water Commission for specified water projects, including surface storage projects identified in the CALFED Bay-Delta Program Record of Decision, dated August 28, 2000, except as specified. Funds allocated for this purpose are authorized by the bond act to be provided to local joint powers authorities formed by irrigation districts and other local water districts and local governments located within the applicable hydrologic region to design, acquire, and construct those projects. The bond act would also authorize the joint powers authorities to include in their membership governmental and nongovernmental partners that are not located within their respective hydrologic regions in financing the surface storage projects, including, as appropriate, cost share participation or equity participation. This bill would delete the authorization for joint powers authorities to include nongovernmental partners in their membership. The bill would prohibit the joint powers authorities from including in their membership any for-profit corporation, or mutual water company whose shareholders and members include a for-profit corporation or any other private entity. (3) Existing law provides for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 2, 2010, statewide general election. This bill would instead provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election, and would require the Secretary of State to include the changes made by this bill when submitting the bond act to the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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Existing law designates specified days as having special significance, and specifies how the days of special significance should be observed in public elementary and secondary schools and educational institutions. This bill would repeal and recast these provisions. This bill would express findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to Ronald Reagan. This bill would designate February 6 of each year as Ronald Reagan Day, and would encourage public schools and educational institutions to engage in exercises remembering the life of Ronald Reagan, as specified. Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim various days in honor of a person, status, or an event. This bill would require the Governor to annually proclaim February 6 as Ronald Reagan Day.
Existing law provides for the establishment of various commissions within state government. This bill would, until January 1, 2012, establish the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission in state government to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth. The bill would require the commission to recommend appropriate means to allow Californians to celebrate Ronald Reagan's life by honoring, promoting, and remembering his achievements for this state and country. The bill would prohibit the commission from using public funds and would require the commission to be solely supported by private funds. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law prescribes the instruments in, and criteria by, which local agencies, as defined, may invest surplus funds. Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2012, the investment of up to 30% of those funds in certificates of deposit at a commercial bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union that uses a private sector entity that assists in the placement of certificates of deposit under specified conditions. This bill would delete the January 1, 2012, sunset date for these provisions, thereby extending the operation of these provisions indefinitely.
Existing law, the Local Health Care District Law, provides for the formation of hospital districts, provides for appointments of their governing boards, and sets forth their powers and duties. Existing law authorizes a district to enter into a line of credit with a commercial lender that is secured, in whole or in part, by the accounts receivable or other intangible assets of the district, including anticipated tax revenues, and thereafter borrow funds against the line of credit to be used for any district purpose. Existing law requires this line of credit to be repaid within 5 years, except that it permits money borrowed under a line of credit established on or after January 1, 2010, for the sole purpose of consolidating debts incurred by a district prior to January 1, 2010, to be repaid within 20 years. Existing law establishes a maximum of $2,000,000 at any one time under this line of credit. This bill would recast these provisions to apply the $2,000,000 maximum only to the consolidated line of credit incurred after January 1, 2010. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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.
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.
Existing law provides that any person who by promises, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, causes, induces, persuades, or encourages another person to become a prostitute is guilty of pandering, a felony. In this regard, People v. Wagner (2009) 170 Cal.App.4th 499, has held that this provision does not apply to a situation in which a defendant has induced or encouraged a woman currently engaged in prostitution to commence working for him or her. This bill would expand the application of this provision by providing that any person who by promises, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, causes, induces, persuades, or encourages another person to prostitute himself or herself, whether or not he or she has been a prostitute before, is guilty of pandering. The bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature in enacting the bill to abrogate the holding in the case of People v. Wagner, cited above. By revising the definition of an existing crime to expand its application, 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.
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.