Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law provides that if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school has been materially decreased during any fiscal year because of specified emergencies, that fact shall be established to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Public Instruction by affidavits of the members of the governing board or body of the school district, county office of education, or charter school and the county superintendent of schools. Existing law provides that in the event of a state of emergency declared by the Governor in a county, which causes a decrease in the average daily attendance in the county for a school district, county office of education, or charter school, the Superintendent shall determine the length of the period during which average daily attendance has been reduced by the state of emergency. Existing law requires the Superintendent to estimate the average daily attendance for the fiscal year in a manner that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school, for determining the apportionments to be made to it, the approximate total average daily attendance that would have been credited to the school district, county office of education, or charter school, had the emergency not occurred. This bill would allow the period determined by the Superintendent to be extended to the 2019–20 fiscal year, for a state of emergency declared by the Governor in a county due to the 2017 wildfires, for those wildfires, if a specified showing is made by a school district, county office of education, or charter school, to the satisfaction of the Superintendent. The bill would require the Superintendent to make a supplemental apportionment for the 2019–20 fiscal year to a school district, county office of education, or charter school in an amount that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school 50% of the apportionment the school district, county office of education, or charter school would have received from the State School Fund based on the average daily attendance the school district, county office of education, or charter school lost due to the 2017 wildfires, as determined by the Superintendent.
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This measure would proclaim the month of May 2018, and each May thereafter, as California Zinfandel Month.
Existing law defines the measure of indemnity for a loss under a property insurance policy. Existing law requires an insurer, in the event of a loss under a residential insurance policy for which the insured has made a claim for additional living expenses, to provide the insured with a list of items that the insurer believes may be covered under the policy as additional living expenses. Additionally, existing law provides that, in the case of a loss related to a declared state of emergency, an insurer provide coverage for living expenses for a period of 24 months, subject to the limitations of the policy. This bill would specify that additional living expense coverage shall include all reasonable expenses incurred by the insured in order to maintain a comparable standard of living and would provide a list of expenses that shall be covered. This bill would require, for losses related to a declared state of emergency, that the insurer provide an advance payment for living expenses and an advance payment for contents, the insurer to accept an inventory of contents in any reasonable form permit the grouping of certain items in an inventory of contents, and offer a payment of no less than 80% of the policy limit for contents without an itemized claim. This bill would require an insurer to offer a 30-day grace period, as specified, for payments of premiums for policies on property located within a declared state of emergency for a period of 30 days after the declaration of the emergency. This bill would apply specified provisions retroactively to certain claims for losses incurred on or after July 1, 2017.
Existing law establishes the "Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids" specialized license plate program. Existing law establishes fees for those specialized license plates, including a $50 fee for initial license plates with a character sequence determined by the applicant and a $20 fee for initial license plates with a character sequence determined by the department. Existing law requires those and other fees, less specified expenses, to be deposited in the Child Health and Safety Fund, and makes moneys in the fund available, upon appropriation, for child safety and licensing administration for child day care facilities. This bill would increase the fees for those initial "Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids" license plates to $98 and $50, respectively. Existing law requires that 50% of the funds received from the "Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids" specialized license plate program be expended for licensing administration for child day care facilities. Existing law requires the balance of funds remaining in the fund derived from the license plate program, upon appropriation, to be used for programs that address specified child health and safety concerns. This bill would revise those allocations to instead require, of the moneys in that fund derived from the license plate program that are collected on and after January 1, 2019, that 20% of those funds be used for licensing administration for child day care facilities by the State Department of Social Services, and that 20% of those funds be used by the Emergency Medical Services Authority to support the function of child care licensee primary care and safety training program support. The bill would further require that 25% of the moneys in the fund derived from the license plate program that are collected on and after January 1, 2019, be used by the State Department of Social Services for child abuse prevention, as specified. The bill would require the remaining 35% of those moneys to be used by the State Department of Public Health for other child health and safety concerns. The bill would include in that list of specified child health and safety concerns, among other concerns, pedestrian safety, sleep suffocation, and sports-related concussions. The bill would require the continued allocation of funds collected before January 1, 2019, upon appropriation, for those purposes that existed prior to January 1, 2019, as specified, until those funds are exhausted.
Existing law authorizes a court to sentence a person convicted of an infraction to perform community service in lieu of the total fine, as defined, that would otherwise be imposed, upon a showing that payment of the total fine would pose a hardship on the defendant or his or her family. Existing law requires the defendant to perform community service at the hourly rate applicable to community service work performed by criminal defendants. This bill would authorize a person convicted of an infraction, a misdemeanor for failure to appear or pay bail for specified violations, or who has suffered a civil assessment for failure to appear, to perform community service in the defendant's county of residence in lieu of part or all of the fine or assessment imposed by participating in specified educational programs. The bill would specify that the court has discretion in determining whether the defendant has successfully completed his or her educational program. To the extent that the bill would expand the scope of persons performing community service and would increase the supervisory duties of county officials, the 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing federal law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, provides for the negotiation and execution of tribal-state gaming compacts for the purpose of authorizing certain types of gaming on Indian lands within a state. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to negotiate and conclude tribal-state gaming compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law expressly ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts, and amendments of tribal-state gaming compacts, between the State of California and specified Indian tribes. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would ratify the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the Elk Valley Rancheria, California, executed on August 31, 2017. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions related to that compact are not projects for purposes of CEQA. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would designate Monday, May 7, 2018, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day, urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers, and recognize specified California peace officers who were killed in defense of their communities.
This measure would proclaim the month of April 2018 as California Wines: Down to Earth Month, to celebrate the sustainable leadership of California wineries and winegrape growers throughout the month of April.
This measure would proclaim March 22, 2018, as Lynch Syndrome Hereditary Cancer Awareness Day.