Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, provides, among other things, a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of child care and development services for children from infancy to 13 years of age and their parents, including a full range of supervision, health, and support services through full- and part-time programs. Existing law also provides for the licensure and regulation of various types of child care facilities, including day care centers, by the State Department of Social Services. This bill, until January 1, 2018, would establish the Distinguished After School Health (DASH) Recognition Program, to be administered by the State Department of Education. The bill would require the department to develop a process, administered on the department's Internet Web site, whereby an after school program, as defined, may be recognized as meeting prescribed requirements, including training staff on healthy eating and physical activity, providing healthy food and drinks to program attendees, and providing program attendees with physical activity and limited screen time, as defined. The bill would require the department to include in the process on the Internet Web site an option to create a certificate, using a template designed by the department, that includes specified information, including a document, signed by the after school program director, demonstrating the manner in which the after school program meets the above requirements. The bill would provide that the certificate would be valid for one year and would require the department to post a list of after school programs that have qualified on its Internet Web site. The bill would provide that funding for the DASH Recognition Program is subject to an appropriation being made for these purposes in the annual Budget Act or another statute, or the receipt of funding from nonstate sources.
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This measure would recognize the 150th anniversary of the California State Park System and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating this important anniversary of our state park system.
The California Coastal Sanctuary Act of 1994 authorizes the State Lands Commission to enter into a lease for the extraction of oil or gas from state-owned tide and submerged lands in the California Coastal Sanctuary if the commission determines that the oil or gas deposits are being drained by means of producing wells upon adjacent federal lands and the lease is in the best interest of the state. This bill would delete this authorization.
(1) Existing law prescribes procedures for the formation of harbor districts, and sets forth the powers of a district with regard to the operation, management, and development of harbor facilities in a district. Existing law authorizes the board of a harbor district, among other things, to borrow up to $1,000,000 for the purposes of acquiring land for constructing or operating any work, project, or certain authorized facilities or for the making of improvements or the purchase of equipment for the maintenance of those facilities, as prescribed. This bill would, notwithstanding that borrowing limit, authorize the Oxnard Harbor District to borrow money by issuance of promissory notes, or execute conditional sales contracts to purchase personal property, in an amount or of a value not exceeding in the aggregate at any one time the sum of $10,000,000, for the purposes of acquiring land or constructing or operating any authorized work, project, or facility, or for the making of any improvement, or the purchase of equipment or for the maintenance of that equipment, in accordance with prescribed procedures. (2) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Oxnard Harbor District.
Existing law, known as the Sex Equity in Education Act, declares that it is the policy of the state that elementary and secondary school classes and courses, including nonacademic and elective classes and courses, be conducted without regard to the sex of the pupil enrolled in those classes and courses. The act also prohibits public funds from being used in connection with any athletic program conducted under the auspices of a school district governing board or any student organization within the school district that does not provide equal opportunity to both sexes for participation and for use of facilities. This bill would express legislative findings and declarations relating to the participation of girls and women in competitive athletics. The bill would require, commencing with the 2015–16 school year and every year thereafter, each public elementary and secondary school in the state, including each charter school, that offers competitive athletics, as defined, to make specified data publicly available at the end of the school year, as specified.
Under the Personal Income Tax Law, taxpayers are allowed to contribute amounts in excess of their tax liability for the support of the California Fund for Senior Citizens until the year in which the minimum contribution is not received, or January 1, 2020, whichever occurs first. This bill would repeal these provisions and would instead allow a taxpayer, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, to designate an amount in excess of tax liability to be deposited to the California Senior Legislature Fund, which the bill would create. This bill would require moneys transferred to the California Senior Legislature Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be allocated to the Franchise Tax Board and Controller, as provided, and to the California Senior Legislature for the purpose of funding the activities of the California Senior Legislature, as provided. This bill would repeal these voluntary contribution provisions by a specified date or, if contributions made on returns would be less than a specified amount, by an earlier date as provided.
Existing law ratifies, approves, and sets forth the provisions of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, an interstate agreement that provides for mutual assistance between states responding to emergencies and disasters. The compact becomes inoperative on March 1, 2015, and as of January 1, 2016, is repealed. This bill instead would make the compact inoperative on March 1, 2018, and repeal it on January 1, 2019.
This measure would state the Legislature's support for the memorandum of understanding for establishing strategic partnerships between California and Israel.