Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt regulations for special occupancy parks that establish requirements which the department has determined to be reasonable and necessary for the protection of life and property and which take into consideration any special conditions, including location, physical environment, density of usage, type of operation, type of vehicles to be accommodated, and duration of occupancy. Pursuant to these provisions, the department has adopted a regulation that prohibits a truck camper from being occupied if it has been removed from the truck. This bill would supersede that regulation and instead make it a crime for any person to occupy a truck camper, as defined, that has been dismounted from a truck or other vehicle, unless the special occupancy park management approves the truck camper for occupancy if removed from the truck or other vehicle, and other specified requirements are met. By creating a new crime, 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.
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The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection and to make copies available upon request and payment of a fee unless those records are exempt from disclosure. The act defines the terms "local agency" and "state agency" for purposes of the act. This bill would revise the definition of the term "local agency" to additionally include specified auxiliary organizations established for the purpose of providing support services and specialized programs for the general benefit of a community college. This bill would revise the definition of the term "state agency" to additionally include specified auxiliary organizations and other specified entities. The bill would exempt from disclosure under the California Public Records Act the names of individuals who donate to specified entities if those individuals request anonymity. However, the bill would provide that this exemption does not apply if a donor, in a quid pro quo arrangement, receives anything that has more than a nominal value in exchange for the donation. This bill would also provide that it is the intent of the Legislature to reject the court's interpretation of state law regarding the application of the act to auxiliary organizations, such as the CSU Fresno Association, at issue in California State University, Fresno Assn., Inc. v. Superior Court (2001) 90 Cal.App.4th 810. The bill would also provide that it is the intent of the Legislature that specified organizations be included in the definition of "state agency" solely for the purposes of the California Public Records Act.
Existing law provides that criminal trials may only be continued for good cause. Under existing law, good cause is defined to include when a prosecutor assigned to specific types of criminal cases has another trial, preliminary hearing, or motion to suppress in progress in that court or another court. This bill would include, as good cause, a case involving a violent gang felony, as defined, when the assigned prosecutor has another case in progress, as specified. Existing law provides that only one such continuance per case may be granted to the prosecutor for cases involving stalking, hate crimes, or cases handled under the Career Criminal Prosecution Program. This bill would also limit the prosecutor to one such continuance per case in cases involving violent gang felonies.
Existing law establishes the Nurse-Family Partnership program to provide grants for voluntary nurse home visiting programs for expectant first-time mothers, their children, and their families, as specified. Existing law prohibits the use of grant moneys to match other grants administered by the State Department of Public Health. This bill would allow the use of Nurse-Family Partnership program grant moneys as a match for other grants administered by the department. Existing law establishes the California Families and Children Account in the State Treasury to accept private donations to pay for the program. The account is continuously appropriated to the department for this purpose. Existing law only allows grants to be distributed if the Director of Finance determines that there are sufficient funds from private donations available in the account. Additionally, under existing law, if there are not sufficient funds on deposit in the account by January 1, 2009, the account shall cease to exist. This bill would delete the continuous appropriation and would, instead, make those funds available for the program upon appropriation by the Legislature, and would permit the department to accept federal grants for purposes of the program. This bill would revise existing law to require the program to be implemented if the Director of the Department of Finance determines that at least $500,000 is available in the account. If this determination is not made by a specified date, it would require that the account cease to exist and funds in the account immediately be distributed to each contributor. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, regulates the making of anatomical gifts and the disposition of donated bodies and body parts. Existing law authorizes the creation of a nonprofit entity designated as the California Organ and Tissue Donor Registrar, which is required to establish and maintain the California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon issuance of a new driver's license or a renewal of a driver's license or the issuance of an identification card, to provide information on organ and tissue donation, including a standardized form to be filled out by an individual who desires to enroll in the California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry with instructions for mailing the completed form to the California Organ and Tissue Donor Registrar, and including a donor dot that may be affixed to the new driver's license or identification card. Existing law also provides that a person who applies for an original or renewal driver's license or identification card may designate a voluntary contribution of $2 for the purpose of promoting and supporting organ and tissue donation. Existing law authorizes the department to use these contributions to cover its actual administrative costs incurred pursuant to this organ and tissue donor registration program. This bill would authorize the department to use not more than $300,000 of the contributions collected under these mail in enrollment registration provisions per year to cover its related actual administrative costs. This bill would also require the department to add a graphic hyperlink to the confirmation page of vehicle registrations processed online in order to provide the option for drivers to connect to the state-authorized Donate Life California online California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry and would authorize a person, upon renewal of a vehicle registration online to designate a voluntary contribution, as specified, to the registry for the purpose of promoting and supporting organ and tissue donation.
(1) Existing law provides that, if the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy determines, based on relevant scientific information and land use planning studies, that a revision of the boundaries of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor in the vicinity of Placerita Canyon State Park east of Route 14, including Whitney Canyon, is necessary, the executive director of the conservancy is required to prepare and file with the Secretary of State and specified committees of the Legislature, a revised map showing the changes in the boundaries of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor. This bill, instead, would authorize the conservancy to revise the boundaries of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor in the vicinity of the City of Santa Clarita, including Whitney Canyon, Elsmere Canyon, and their adjacent watersheds. An owner of property located in Elsmere Canyon would be authorized to request of the conservancy that his or her property be included within the boundaries of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor. The conservancy, upon receipt of the request, would be authorized, in accordance with specified procedures, to revise the map showing the boundaries of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor to include the property in Elsmere Canyon that is the subject of the request. The bill would provide that the above authorization to the property owner would not affect inclusion of the property in the corridor pursuant to other provisions of law. (2) Existing law prohibits the provision related to the revision of boundaries of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor from being interpreted to affect any portion of Elsmere Canyon, or from affecting the decision of whether to permit Elsmere Canyon as a solid waste facility. The bill would delete that provision. (3) The bill also would make a technical, nonsubstantive change.
(1) The California Retail Food Code provides for the regulation of health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities, including mobile food facilities and satellite food service, as defined, by the State Department of Public Health. Under existing law, local health agencies are primarily responsible for enforcing this code. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor. The code defines an "egg" to mean the shell egg of a domesticated chicken, turkey, duck, goose, or guinea. This bill would revise this definition to include the shell egg of an avian species, as specified, except a balut and an egg product. This bill would define cold water and frozen food for purposes of the code. The code defines a "major violation" to mean a violation of the code that poses an imminent health hazard and warrants immediate closure action. This bill would instead apply this definition to a violation that may pose such a health hazard and warrant these actions. (2) The code exempts from its provisions premises set aside for wine tasting. This bill would revise this exemption, as specified. (3) The code exempts from its provisions child day care facilities, community care facilities, residential care facilities for the chronically ill, and residential care facilities for the elderly. The code requires, if and when a specific appropriation is made available, the State Department of Social Services to develop new regulations regarding food preparation provisions for child day care facilities, community care facilities, and residential care facilities for the elderly. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. (4) The code defines prepackaged food as any properly labeled processed food, prepackaged to prevent direct human contact with the food product upon distribution from the manufacturer and prepared at an approved source. This bill would revise this definition to include distribution from a food facility or other approved source. (5) The code defines a produce stand to mean a permanent food facility that sells, offers for sale, or gives away only produce or shell eggs, or both. This bill would exclude from this definition certain premises operated by a producer. It would also revise the definition of vermin, as specified. This bill would additionally define a "single operating site mobile food facility" for purposes of the California Retail Food Code, and impose various requirements on these facilities. The bill would revise various standards applicable to mobile food facilities and satellite food service, with respect to water storage, contamination prevention, and construction standards. (6) The code requires a local health officer, when notified of an illness that can be transmitted by food or a food employee of a food facility, to inform the local enforcement agency. This bill would instead require the local enforcement agency to be informed when the local health officer is notified of an illness that can be transmitted by any employee of a food facility. By increasing duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (7) The code prohibits food prepared in a private home from being used or offered for sale in a food facility. This bill would also prohibit food stored in a private home from being used or offered for sale in a food facility. (8) The code prohibits toilet rooms from being used for the storage of food, equipment, or supplies. This bill would delete this prohibition. The bill, among other things, would also revise provisions regarding the heating and cooling of food, lighting of specified rooms and areas, and the sanitization of utensils and equipment, and would make various technical, nonsubstantive changes. By imposing new crimes and changing the definitions of existing crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (9) 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. (10) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes the State Board of Education for the purpose of, among other things, studying the educational conditions and needs of the state and making plans for the improvement of the administration and efficiency of the public schools of the state. Existing law requires that the State Board of Education adhere to specified requirements relating to meetings and hearings. Existing law establishes the State Allocation Board, consisting of specified members and charged with specified duties, including, but not limited to, determining how bond funds are allocated for public school construction and modernization projects. Existing law requires the State Allocation Board to adhere to specified requirements relating to meetings and hearings. This bill would require the State Board of Education and the State Allocation Board to provide for live video and audio transmission of all meetings and hearings that are open to the public through a technology that is accessible to as large a segment of the public as possible. The technologies to be used would include, but not be limited to, cable, satellite, over-the-air, or any other type of transmission that can be accessed through a television, and Web cast. The State Board of Education and the State Allocation Board would be required to ensure that any Web cast transmission implemented pursuant to these provisions be transmitted over and accessed through the K-12 High-Speed Network. The State Board of Education and the State Allocation Board also would be required to consult with the State Chief Information Officer for the purposes of implementing the provisions of the bill.
Existing law requires the county assessor to assess current fair market valuations to determine the cancellation fee for removing land from a Williamson Act contract. Existing law permits the Department of Conservation or the landowner, if either believes that the current fair market valuations are inaccurate, to request formal review from the county assessor in the county considering the cancellation petition and authorizes the assessor to recover his or her reasonable costs of the formal review from the party requesting the review, as specified. This bill would authorize the assessor to require a deposit from the landowner to cover the contingency that payment of a cancellation fee will not necessarily result from the completion of a formal review, as specified.
Under existing law, the Department of Boating and Waterways regulates, among other things, harbors, ports, boating, and waterways pursuant to the Harbors and Navigation Code. Existing law authorizes the department to acquire, construct, develop, and improve small craft harbors, subject to provisions that require the department to transfer these facilities to a county, city, or district, as specified, that requests that transfer and enters into an agreement to repay the state for acquiring and developing the harbor and that authorize the deferral of a local governing body's repayment of the costs to the state for these activities. This bill would authorize, rather than require, a small craft harbor acquired or developed by the department to be transferred to a county, city, or district under specified circumstances. The bill would eliminate certain authority of the department to defer repayments required of a local governing body or reimburse deficiencies of revenues to allow a facility to meet operation and maintenance costs of a project. Existing law authorizes the department, subject to approval of the Legislature as provided, to make loans to cities, counties, or certain districts for the planning, acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance, or operation of small craft harbors and facilities in connection with the harbors and connecting waterways. The department is required to establish rules and regulations to be followed in making these loans that include certain policies and standards. This bill would also authorize these loans for the design of the harbors and facilities. Existing law authorizes the department to make loans to private marina owners to develop a recreational marina, which may be used for various activities. Existing law limits a loan to a private marina owner to 75% of the funds annually budgeted for recreational marinas. This bill would also authorize these loans for acquisition and would delete the limit on the loan amount. Existing law requires loans under these provisions to include certain minimum terms and conditions, including, for loans for private marinas, a minimum annual rate of interest charged by the department of 1% per annum, as provided. This bill would revise these loan conditions to provide that the annual interest rate charged for a loan shall be set annually by the commission, as described. The bill would authorize the department to restate existing loans, upon written request by the borrower, and upon approval by the commission. Existing law requires a person 11 years of age or younger to wear a United States Coast Guard-approved life vest when aboard a motorboat, sailboat, or vessel that is underway. This bill would apply this requirement instead to a person under 13 years of age. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to moor a vessel or hang on with a vessel to a buoy or beacon. This bill would except from this prohibition designated mooring buoys. Existing law requires the department, upon the request of the Director of Fish and Game, to perform various activities regarding efforts to control and eradicate Caulerpa taxifolia from the Agua Hedionda Lagoon in San Diego County. This bill would delete this provision. Existing law requires a person convicted of certain violations of the Harbors and Navigation Code to complete and pass a boating and safety course approved by the department. It is unlawful to operate a motorized vessel or have the engine of a motorized vessel run idle while an individual is teak surfing, platform dragging, or bodysurfing behind the motorized vessel or while an individual is occupying or holding onto the swim platform, swim deck, swim step, or swim ladder of the vessel. This bill would impose the boating and safety course requirement on a person who violates this provision. Existing law provides that a person who violates various provisions of the Harbors and Navigation Code is guilty of a felony, or is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, for unspecified or specified timeframes. This bill would provide that a person who violates these provisions is guilty of a felony and would establish the same maximum fine and imprisonment for all of these felony violations. Existing law also provides that certain violations of the Harbors and Navigation Code are misdemeanors. This bill would specifically state the penalty for these misdemeanor violations. By increasing certain penalties for misdemeanor violations, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Under existing law, local agencies are required to certify to the Department of Boating and Waterways that, for specified small craft harbor or boating facilities funded by the department, adequate shoreside facilities, as described, are provided or to provide written findings showing why the facility cannot certify to these conditions. This bill would require local agencies to make that certification annually and for additional facilities, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires a city, county, or district that has received funds for the construction or improvement of small craft harbors that provide facilities for commercial fishing vessels to provide alternative equivalent facilities for commercial passenger fishing vessels and private recreational vessels. This bill would require that alternative equivalent facility to additionally provide vessel pumpout facilities, oil recycling facilities, and receptacles for separating, reusing, or recycling solid waste materials, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would also provide that a small craft harbor or boating facility constructed, developed, or improved with specified funds meet, at a minimum, applicable green building standards. The bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to certain provisions of the Harbors and Navigation Code. 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.