This measure would proclaim October 2010 as Lupus Awareness Month and would wish Lupus International every success in the future.
Existing law generally prohibits a manufacturer, winegrower, manufacturer's agent, California winegrower's agent, rectifier, distiller, bottler, importer, or wholesaler, or any officer, director, agent, or representative of that person from, among other things, providing a licensee alcoholic beverages as a free good as a part of any sale or transaction involving alcoholic beverages, or furnishing anything of value to a licensee for specified purposes. However, existing law authorizes any winegrower, California winegrower's agent, importer, or any director, partner, officer, agent, or representative of that person, to conduct or participate in an instructional event for consumers held at a retailer's premises featuring wines produced by or for the winegrower or imported by the importer, subject to certain specified conditions. Existing law specifies that alcoholic beverages shall not be given away at these instructional events, but wine may be sampled if it is taken from barrels or tanks in minimal amounts. This bill would revise the sampling provision to additionally allow for wine samples to be provided at the instructional event from bottles, specify how those wine bottles are removed, and would clarify the allowable amount provided as samples. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that a violation of any of its provisions for which another penalty or punishment is not specifically provided is a misdemeanor. This bill would expand existing crimes by imposing additional requirements on a licensee under the act, thus, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 29 in Napa County as Robert Louis Stevenson's Historic Trail to Silverado. 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 that cost, to erect those signs.
(1) Existing law, the Osteopathic Act, requires the Governor to appoint 7 licensee members to the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, including 5 osteopathic physicians and surgeons and 2 naturopathic doctors. This provision is repealed on January 1, 2013, at which time the licensee membership of the board will be reduced to 5 osteopathic physicians and surgeons. Existing law also requires the Governor to appoint 2 public members to the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. This bill would exclude those naturopathic doctors from the membership of the board, thereby reducing the licensee membership of the board to 5 osteopathic physicians and surgeons. The bill would add 2 additional public members to the board and would require the Senate Committee on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly to each appoint one public member. The bill would specify that public members are to receive specified per diem and expenses. (2) Existing law, the Naturopathic Doctors Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of naturopathic doctors by the Naturopathic Medicine Committee within the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. The committee consists of 3 licensed naturopathic doctors, 3 licensed physicians and surgeons, and 3 public members who are appointed by the Governor. Existing law authorizes the committee, with the approval of the board, to appoint an executive officer and authorizes the board to employ other officers and employees as necessary. This bill would change the membership of the committee to 5 licensed naturopathic doctors, 2 licensed physicians and surgeons, and 2 public members. The bill would authorize the committee to appoint an executive officer and other officers and employees as necessary. The bill would make the committee responsible for reviewing the quality of practice by licensed naturopathic doctors and solely responsible for implementing the Naturopathic Doctors Act. The bill would require protection of the public to be the highest priority for the committee.
This bill would declare August 2010 as Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions regulating the application for, the issuance of, the suspension of, and the conditions imposed upon, alcoholic beverage licenses by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Existing law authorizes a licensed winegrower to conduct specified activities, including authorizing a licensed winegrower to sell wine and brandy for consumption to consumers for on-premises consumption. This bill would expand the authorized activities that a licensed winegrower may conduct to include the production of spirits of wine, provided those spirits of wine are either blended into wine produced by the winegrower, sold to an industrial alcohol dealer, or destroyed by the winegrower. This bill would also make conforming changes with regard to a licensed winegrower's authorization to sell wine and brandy for consumption to consumers on the licensed premises.
This measure would urge Congress to defeat H.R. 5034 in order to protect and preserve the ability of California wineries, and all wineries in the United States, to ship wine directly to consumers without discrimination between in-state and out-of-state wine producers.
Existing law prescribes the instruments in, and criteria by, which local agencies, as defined, may invest surplus funds. Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2012, the investment of up to 30% of those funds in certificates of deposit at a commercial bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union that uses a private sector entity that assists in the placement of certificates of deposit under specified conditions. This bill would delete the January 1, 2012, sunset date for these provisions, thereby extending the operation of these provisions indefinitely.
The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 requires a local agency formation commission to approve, without an election, a consolidation or reorganization of 2 or more local agencies, if a majority of the members of each of the legislative bodies of the agencies adopt substantially similar resolutions of application making proposals either for the consolidation of districts or for the reorganization of all or any part of the districts into a single local agency, as specified. The Community Services District Law authorizes the organization of a community services district for various purposes, including, among others, the collection, treatment, or disposal of sewage, wastewater, recycled water, and stormwater, providing fire protection services, and providing public library services. This bill would, until January 1, 2018, authorize the local agency formation commission to approve or conditionally approve an expedited reorganization of specified districts into a community services district, with the same powers, duties, responsibilities, obligations, liabilities, and jurisdiction of the district proposed to be dissolved, unless the governing body of the district proposed to be dissolved files a resolution of objection with the commission, as specified. The bill would also, until January 1, 2018, authorize the El Dorado County Local Agency Formation Commission to approve, disapprove, or conditionally approve an accelerated reorganization of the Tahoe Paradise Resort Improvement District under specified circumstances, and would declare the need for a special statute addressing that reorganization.
This measure would designate Friday, May 7, 2010, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day and would urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers.
