Sen. Jim Beall

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 15 in Temecula as the Deputy Kent Hintergardt Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.

This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to act to establish a federally controlled Alzheimer's Silver Alert program to locate missing persons with dementia and establish a federal grant program to aid states in establishing local Silver Alert programs.

This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to expand federally funded research efforts aimed at developing a reliable means of detecting pancreatic cancer in its early stages.

Existing law, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Act, authorizes the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to acquire and construct transportation facilities necessary or convenient for vehicular and pedestrian transportation, as specified. This bill would also authorize the authority to provide for repair and maintenance of those facilities. The bill would authorize the authority to provide funding, subject to the Department of Transportation's approval, for repair and maintenance of state highways within its boundaries and would prohibit the authority from repairing and maintaining any state highway.

Under existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, the State Department of Developmental Services is authorized to contract with regional centers to provide support and services to individuals with developmental disabilities. Under existing law, the regional centers purchase needed services for individuals with developmental disabilities through approved service providers or arrange for their provision through other publicly funded agencies. This bill would establish procedures for the resolution of disputes between a regional center and a generic agency, as defined, over provision of, or payment for, services that are contained in an individualized family service plan or individual program plan for any child under 6 years of age.

Existing law establishes the State Department of Social Services and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, administration over the California Community Care Facilities Act, which, with certain exceptions, requires community care facilities, as defined, to meet prescribed licensing standards. Existing law exempts housing for elderly or disabled persons that are approved and operated pursuant to prescribed provisions of federal law from licensing requirements applicable to community care facilities, residential care facilities for persons with life-threatening illness, and residential care facilities for the elderly. This bill would, instead, exempt housing occupied by elderly or disabled persons under a regulatory agreement pursuant to these provisions of federal law, and would also exempt housing that qualifies for a low-income housing credit under provisions of the federal Tax Reform Act of 1986 or is subject to the requirements for dwellings for low-income families pursuant to the federal Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, and that is occupied by elderly or disabled persons, or both.

This measure would urge the Congress of the United States and the federal administration to work with the Governor and the Legislature of the State of California to, among other things, provide federal loan guarantees, flexibility with respect to certain programs, and certain funding levels for vital programs, as specified.

This measure would declare the week of June 29 through July 5, 2009, Yellow Ribbon Week to show support for military families and for troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This measure would acknowledge the history of the Chinese in California, recognize the contributions made to the State of California by Chinese Americans and Chinese immigrants, and express regret for past discriminatory laws and constitutional provisions which resulted in the persecution of Chinese living in California.

This measure would proclaim the month of May 2009 as Motorcycle Awareness Month.