Existing law requires the State Department of Education, for purposes of complying with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, to establish a statewide system of school support to provide a statewide system of intensive and sustained support and technical assistance for school districts, county offices of education, and schools in need of improvement. Existing law requires the regional consortia comprising the system to work collaboratively with, and provide technical assistance to, school districts and schools in need of improvement by doing specified tasks, including assisting the local educational agency or school in developing recommendations for improving pupil performance and school operations. This bill would additionally require that regional consortia to assist a local educational agency or school in efforts to provide the same course options to English learners enrolled in the school as are available to other pupils at the same school.
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(1) Existing law requires peace officer or custodial officer personnel records and records maintained by a state or local agency, or information obtained from these records, to be confidential and prohibits disclosure in a criminal or civil proceeding except by discovery. Existing law provides that this prohibition does not apply to investigations or proceedings concerning the conduct of peace officers or custodial officers conducted by a grand jury, district attorney's office, or the Attorney General's office. This bill would instead provide that this prohibition does not apply to investigations or proceedings concerning civil rights violations investigated by the Attorney General's office or the criminal misconduct of peace officers or custodial officers conducted by a grand jury, district attorney's office, or the Attorney General's office. (2) Existing law authorizes a department or agency that employs peace or custodial officers to release factual information concerning a disciplinary investigation if the officer who is the subject of the disciplinary investigation, or the officer's agent or representative, publicly makes a statement he or she knows to be false concerning the investigation or the imposition of disciplinary action and the false statement was published by an established medium of communication, such as television, radio, or a newspaper. This bill would authorize disclosure of factual information concerning a disciplinary investigation if the officer who is the subject of the disciplinary investigation, or the officer's agent or representative, makes a false statement that is published by an Internet Web site affiliated with a newspaper.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities administered by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law requires those desiring a license for a health facility, approval for a specified special service, or approval to manage a specified type of licensed health facility, that have not filed an application for a license to operate that facility, to file with the department a verified application on forms prescribed and furnished by the department, containing specified information. Existing law provides that any requirement placed upon, or reference to, a corporation in the provisions regulating health facilities shall also apply to a limited liability company. This bill would require a new license application to be filed for a health facility, as defined, before there is a change of ownership, as defined, or a major change in ownership interest, as defined. This bill would also require a notice to be filed with the department at least 90 days prior to an anticipated change in ownership, a major change in ownership interest, or a change in control interest, as defined, for certain health facilities. This bill would, for a transaction that is a change in control interest, permit the department to require a new license application to be filed or withhold approval of the transaction, as prescribed. Existing law establishes the Internal Departmental Quality Improvement Account within the Special Deposit Fund, available upon appropriation by the Legislature, for internal quality improvement activities in the Licensing and Certification Program. This bill would require the department to assess an administrative penalty in the amount of $25,000 for each violation of these provisions and permit the licensee to request a specified hearing if the licensee disputes a determination by the department of a violation. This bill would provide that penalties collected pursuant to these provisions will be deposited in the Internal Departmental Quality Improvement Account. Because this bill expands the definition of a crime, it 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.
Existing law, the Donahoe Higher Education Act, sets forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California's public and independent segments of higher education, and their respective institutions of higher education. Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, and the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as 2 of the public segments of postsecondary education. Provisions of the Donahoe Higher Education Act apply to the University of California only to the extent that the regents act, by resolution, to make these provisions applicable. A provision of the act expresses legislative intent with respect to the determination of standards and criteria for admission to the University of California and the California State University. This bill would authorize the University of California and the California State University to consider race, gender, ethnicity, and national origin, along with other relevant factors, in undergraduate and graduate admissions, to the maximum extent permitted by the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 31 of Article I of the California Constitution, and relevant case law. The bill would require the trustees, and request the regents, to report in writing to the Legislature and the Governor by November 1, 2013, on the implementation of the bill. The bill would require these reports to include information relative to the number of students admitted, disaggregated by race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, geographic origin, and household income, and compared to the prior 2 years of admissions.
Existing law defines a school district of choice as one in which the governing board of the school district has, by resolution, elected to accept interdistrict transfers and has determined the number of transfers it is willing to accept through a random, unbiased process, as specified. Existing law requires a school district of choice to give priority for attendance to siblings of children already in attendance in that school district. Existing law provides that a school district of choice may give priority for attendance to children of military personnel. Existing law authorizes a school district of choice to reject the transfer of a pupil if the transfer of that pupil would require the school district to create a new program to serve that pupil, except that a school district of choice is prohibited from rejecting the transfer of a special needs pupil, including an individual with exceptional needs and an English learner. This bill would require a school district of choice to give priority for attendance to English learners, pupils who are individuals with exceptional needs, and pupils who are eligible for free and reduced-price meals, as provided. This bill would require that a school district of choice ensure that a pupil who transfers into the school district is enrolled in a school with a higher Academic Performance Index score than the school in which the pupil was previously enrolled.
Existing law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Implementation Act of 2001, provides for the Office of HIPAA Implementation in the California Health and Human Services Agency to assume statewide leadership and perform related activities for the implementation of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) . Under existing law, the director of the office is required to establish an advisory committee to obtain information on statewide activities to implement HIPAA that is required to meet, at a minimum, twice each year. Existing law required that, during 2002, state entities subject to HIPAA assess its impact on their operations and that the office report that information to the Legislature. Under existing law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Implementation Act of 2001 will be repealed on January 1, 2013. This bill would extend the operation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Implementation Act of 2001 to January 1, 2014, and would transfer responsibility for the statewide implementation of HIPAA to the Office of Health Information Integrity in the California Health and Human Services Agency. The bill would delete the requirement of 2 annual meetings for the advisory committee, providing for meetings as required for coordination purposes. The bill would also delete the assessment and reporting requirements for state entities and the office, which were required to be completed in 2002.
The California Constitution requires the Legislature to pass a budget bill by June 15 of each year for the fiscal year commencing on July 1. Existing law provides that no state officer or employee shall be deemed to have a break in service or to have terminated his or her employment, for any purpose, or to have incurred any change in his or her authority, status, or jurisdiction or in his or her salary or other conditions of employment, solely because of the failure to enact a Budget Act for a fiscal year prior to the beginning of that fiscal year. Under the California Constitution, money may be drawn from the State Treasury only through an appropriation made by law and upon a Controller's duly drawn warrant. This bill would continuously appropriate from the General Fund and other specified funds to the Controller an amount necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees, as defined, for work performed on or after July 1 of a fiscal year for which no budget has been enacted. This bill would specify, if a memorandum of understanding is in effect that has been approved by the Legislature, that the compensation and contribution for employee benefits for represented state employees be at a rate consistent with the memorandum of understanding and, for state employees excluded from collective bargaining, at the rate approved by the Department of Personnel Administration prior to the commencement of the fiscal year for which a Budget Act has not been enacted. The bill would require, if a memorandum of understanding is not in effect for represented state employees and the department has not approved a compensation package for state employees excluded from collective bargaining, that the compensation and contribution for employee benefits for represented state employees and state employees excluded from collective bargaining be at the rate in effect at the expiration of the last fiscal year for which a budget was enacted. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law creates the continuously appropriated Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund, for the purposes of paying Medi‑Cal providers, providers of drug treatment services for persons infected with HIV, and providers of services for the developmentally disabled, for services provided on or after July 1 of the fiscal year for which a budget has not yet been enacted, as specified, or if there is a deficiency in the Medi‑Cal budget in any fiscal year. Existing law transfers, for each fiscal year in which these payments are necessary, up to $1,000,000,000 from the General Fund, in the form of loans, and appropriates $1,000,000,000 from the Federal Trust Fund, to the Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund. This bill would, instead, transfer up to $2,000,000,000 from the General Fund, in the form of loans, and appropriate $2,000,000,000 from the Federal Trust Fund, to the Medical Providers Interim Payment Fund for each fiscal year in which these payments are necessary, as specified.
(1) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school or community college district to order an election and submit to the electors of the district the question whether the bonds of the district shall be issued and sold for the purpose of raising money for various facilities purposes, for refunding bonds, or for the purchase of schoolbuses. Existing law limits the total amount of bonds that a school or community college district may issue to 1.25% of the taxable property of the school or community college district. Existing law also authorizes the governing board of a school district or community college district to issue bond anticipation notes. Existing law requires a bond anticipation note to be payable not more than 5 years from the date of the original issuance of the note. Existing law prohibits the maturity date of a renewed note to be later than 5 years from the date of the original issuance of the note. Existing law allows the interest on the notes to be payable from the proceeds of the sale of bonds or from the tax levied to pay principal of and interest on the bonds. This bill would extend the period during which the note is payable from 5 to 10 years and would delete the prohibition against the maturity date of a renewed note being later than 5 years from the date of the original issuance of the note. The bill would authorize the payment of interest and principal on the bond anticipation notes from property taxes levied for that purpose if provided for in the resolution adopted by the governing board in connection with issuance of the bond anticipation notes. The bill would require the notes to be issued without reference to the limitation on indebtedness for bonds noted above if the resolution adopted by the governing board in connection with the bond anticipation notes does not authorize the levy of a tax for payment of the principal of and interest on the notes. The bill would require the governing board of a school district or community college district that issued bond anticipation notes payable from ad valorem taxes to transmit the authorizing resolution and debt service schedule to the county auditor and county treasurer. (2) Existing law authorizes the general obligation bonds of a city, county, city and county, school district, community college district, or special district to be sold at a public sale and authorizes the sale of school district and community college district general obligation bonds at a private sale. This bill would authorize a city, county, city and county, and a special district to sell their bonds at a private sale. (3) Existing law authorizes a city, county, city and county, and special district to sell bonds at a negotiated sale for a price at, above, or below par value, as authorized by the legislative body of the city, county, city and county, or special district, without further approval, if the legislative body adopts a resolution before the negotiated sale that includes specified information. This bill would extend this authorization to a school district and a community college district.
Existing law provides that peace officer or custodial officer personnel records and records maintained by any state or local agency, or information obtained from these records, are confidential and shall not, subject to exception, be disclosed in any criminal or civil proceeding, as specified. Existing law also provides circumstances under which the employing agency may release factual information concerning a disciplinary investigation of the officer. Existing law states that these provisions do not apply to investigations or proceedings concerning the conduct of peace officers or custodial officers, or an agency or department that employs those officers, conducted by a grand jury, a district attorney's office, or the Attorney General's office. This bill would specify that those provisions do not apply to criminal investigations or proceedings concerning the conduct of peace officers, as specified. This bill would make other technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.