Existing law establishes a program until January 1, 2013, known as "Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence and Stalking." That program authorizes specified persons to complete an application containing specified information in person at a community-based victims' assistance program to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of enabling state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant's residence address. The program also makes the participant's voter registration confidential, and requires the Secretary of State to act as that person's agent for service of process and to designate a substitute mailing address for program participants, as specified. Under existing law, any person who makes a false statement in an application for this program is guilty of a misdemeanor. Under the program any person who is granted confidentiality pursuant to these provisions may file a new affidavit of voter registration or reregistration and be considered an absent voter for subsequent elections until the county elections official is notified otherwise by the Secretary of State or the voter. Existing law provides that any records or documents pertaining to a program participant shall be retained and held confidential for a period of 3 years after termination of certification of participation in the program and then destroyed, as specified. This bill would extend the provisions of the program indefinitely. By extending indefinitely provisions of law, the violation of which is a misdemeanor, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law establishes a program similar to the above-described program, the "Address Confidentiality for Reproductive Health Care Services Providers, Employees, Volunteers, and Patients" program until January 1, 2013, for reproductive health care services providers, employees, volunteers, and patients. The program similarly provides that any person who makes a false statement in an application is guilty of a misdemeanor and any person who is granted confidentiality pursuant to these provisions may file a new affidavit of voter registration or reregistration and be considered an absent voter for subsequent elections until the county elections official is notified otherwise by the Secretary of State or the voter. This bill would extend indefinitely the "Address Confidentiality for Reproductive Health Care Services Providers, Employees, Volunteers, and Patients" program. By extending indefinitely provisions of law, the violation of which is a misdemeanor, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to retain and keep confidential records and documents pertaining to a participant in this address confidentiality program for a period of 3 years after termination of certification of the participant, and then to destroy the records and documents. This bill would provide an exception to those provisions for change of name records, which would be retained permanently. Existing law, until January 1, 2013, provides that any person filing with the county elections official a new affidavit of registration or reregistration who is a participant in certain address confidentiality programs may have the information relating to his or her residence address, telephone number, and e-mail address appearing on the affidavit, or any list or roster or index prepared therefrom, declared confidential, as specified. This bill would extend indefinitely the voter registration confidentiality provisions. 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 Farmland Conservancy Program Act establishes a program for grants from the Department of Conservation for the acquisition of agricultural conservation easements or fee title. The act imposes requirements for the funding of agricultural conservation easements. The act creates the California Farmland Conservancy Program Fund. The moneys in the fund, upon appropriation, are required to be used for the purposes of the program, including the purchase of agricultural conservation easements. The act requires an applicant for an agricultural conservation easement to meet specified eligibility criteria related to commercial agricultural production and agricultural land conservation, and specifies criteria the Director of Conservation is required to consider in evaluating the proposal. This bill, notwithstanding any other provision of the act, would authorize the Director of Conservation to make grants from a source other than the fund, and, upon appropriation by the Legislature from that source, disburse moneys for those grants to an applicant for the acquisition of an agricultural conservation easement, if the director determines that the grant meets the purposes of the act and additional specified requirements, including that the easement does not, and will not, substantially prevent agricultural uses on the easement property and that any restriction on the current or reasonably foreseeable agricultural use of the easement property would only be imposed to restrict those areas of the property that are not in cultivation. Existing law also establishes the Soil Conservation Fund, which provides money, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified land use purposes. This bill would establish the Farm, Ranch, and Watershed Account within the Soil and Conservation Fund from which money would be disbursed to provide the above grants.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains limitations on sales commonly known as "tied-house" restrictions, which generally prohibit a manufacturer, winegrower, manufacturer's agent, California winegrower's agent, rectifier, distiller, bottler, importer, or wholesaler from furnishing, giving, or lending any money or other thing of value to any person engaged in operating, owning, or maintaining any off-sale licensed premises. Existing law provides that, for purposes of these provisions, the listing of the names, addresses, telephone numbers or e-mail addresses, or both, or Internet Web site addresses, of 2 or more unaffiliated on-sale retailers selling wine or brandy, or both, and operating and licensed as bona fide public eating places selling the wine or brandy produced, distributed, or imported by a nonretail industry member in response to a direct inquiry from a consumer received by telephone, by mail, by electronic Internet inquiry or in person does not constitute a thing of value or prohibited inducement to the listed on-sale retailer, if specified conditions are met. This bill would revise the direct inquiry provisions to include any electronic inquiries from consumers, and would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
(1) Existing law provides for the formation of the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan for automobile bodily injury and property damage liability insurance. The Insurance Commissioner, after a public hearing, is required to approve or issue a reasonable plan for the equitable apportionment, among insurers admitted to transact liability insurance, of those applicants for automobile bodily injury and property damage liability insurance who are, in good faith, entitled to but are unable to procure that insurance through ordinary methods. Notice of the public hearing is required to be published at least 60 days prior to the hearing or close of the public comment period on the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation, in 2 newspapers of general circulation, one published in the City and County of San Francisco, and the other published in the City of Los Angeles. This bill would delete the notice requirement, and require that the hearings be conducted in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. Existing law requires the assigned risk plan to provide for effective dates of coverage, consistent with the required elements, including execution of the application forms and an electronic effective date procedure established by the plan. The insurance application form is also required to include a disclosure regarding the effective date of coverage. This bill would modify the notice and the effective dates of coverage requirements, as provided. (2) Existing law establishes, within the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan, a low-cost automobile insurance program. Existing law establishes the low-cost automobile insurance program in several specified counties and makes the expansion to all other counties in California subject to a determination of need made by the commissioner following a public meeting, as specified. Existing law provides for the issuance of automobile liability policies pursuant to this program under specified terms and conditions, and provides that a policy so issued satisfies specified requirements regarding financial responsibility. Existing law provides that the low-cost automobile insurance program shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2011. This bill would provide that the low-cost automobile insurance program would remain in effect until January 1, 2016. Existing law requires the commissioner, on or before March 1 of each year, to prepare and propose a plan to the Senate Committee on Banking, Finance, and Insurance and the Assembly Committee on Insurance setting forth the methods the commissioner intends to implement to inform households eligible for the program about the availability of low-cost automobile insurance. The plan is required to contain specified information, including the most recent annual report to the Legislature on the status of the low-cost automobile insurance program from the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan. This bill would delete the most recent annual report to the Legislature on the status of the low-cost automobile insurance program from the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan from the information required to be contained in the plan. (3) Existing law, on and after January 1, 2011, makes certain automobile insurance proof of financial responsibility requirements no longer applicable to people in the County of Los Angeles and the City and County of San Francisco. This bill would extend the repeal date to January 1, 2016. (4) This bill would make conforming changes and delete obsolete provisions.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages and the granting of licenses for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. The act allows a person who has purchased wine from a licensed winegrower and has taken the wine from the state, to return that wine to the licensed premises of the winegrower from whom the wine was purchased. This bill would also allow for the return of wine taken out of state where the wine was purchased from a holder of a beer and wine wholesaler's license and an off-sale retail license that only sells wine. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act also provides for specified recordkeeping requirements for winegrowers and bottlers of wine within specified counties. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive amendments to this requirement.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides for specified labeling requirements for containers of alcoholic beverages sold within this state. This bill would require any wine bottled on or after January 1, 2014, labeled with an American Viticultural Area established pursuant to federal law that is located entirely within a county of the 19th class, to bear the designation "Sonoma County" on the label in specified type size as determined by the size of the wine container, as prescribed. The bill would authorize the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to suspend or revoke the license of any person who violates those provisions. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that a violation of its provisions is a misdemeanor, unless otherwise specified. This bill, by creating a new crime, imposes 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.
This measure would recognize March 31, 2010, as the anniversary of the birth of César Chávez, and would call upon all Californians to participate in appropriate observances to remember César Chávez as a symbol of hope and justice to all persons.
Existing law creates the Federal Trust Fund in the State Treasury for the deposit of moneys received from the federal government where the expenditure is administered through or under the direction of any state agency. This bill would appropriate $1,201,534,585 from the Federal Trust Fund to the Office of Planning and Research for the 2010–11 fiscal year upon notification to the state of a funding award pursuant to the federal Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act. From that amount, the bill would require the Office of Planning and Research to transfer $1,201,406,585 to the State Department of Education for purposes of implementing that federal act and make $128,000 available to the Office of Planning and Research for the purposes of providing oversight of funds allocated to local educational agencies pursuant to the bill. Of the amount transferred to the department, the bill would require that $1,199,906,585 be allocated to local educational agencies, as specified, and would make $1,500,000 available to the department for administrative purposes related to that allocation. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would proclaim April 12 through April 18, 2010, as California Holocaust Memorial Week and would urge Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.
This measure would designate the month of September 2010 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in the State of California.