(1) Existing law requires, subject to a specific exception, the annual payments of principal and interest on bonds issued by a local agency, as defined, to be structured to amortize so that the maximum annual debt service payment on the bonds does not exceed the minimum annual debt service payment by more than 10%. This bill would repeal this provision. (2) Existing law authorizes cities, counties, school districts, community college districts, and special districts to issue and refund general obligation bonds secured by a general tax levy and prescribes the procedures for this purpose. Existing law requires that the bonds be sold at a public or private sale. This bill would impose specific duties on a legislative body to disclose information to the public and the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission after it issued bonds under these provisions. This bill would also authorize a local agency, as defined, to issue bonds, without further approval, at a negotiated sale for a price at, above, or below par value, if the legislative body of the local agency adopts a specified resolution that includes certain disclosures before the negotiated sale.
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Existing law provides for the licensure of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and special hospitals, as defined, by the State Department of Public Health. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law requires that, upon the issuance or renewal of a general acute care, acute psychiatric, or special hospital license, the department separately identify on the license each supplemental service, including the address of where each outpatient service is provided and the type of services provided at each outpatient location. Existing law authorizes licensed general acute care hospitals and acute psychiatric hospitals to provide in any alternative setting health care services and programs that may be provided by any other provider of health care outside of a hospital building or which are not otherwise specifically prohibited by provisions of existing law regulating these facilities. It also requires the state department and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to adopt and enforce standards which permit these health facilities to use its space for alternative purposes. This bill would, among other things, require the department to approve a completed application by a licensed general acute care hospital that meets specified requirements to add or modify an outpatient clinic service as a supplemental service, add the outpatient service to the hospital license, and issue a new license, within 100 days of receipt of the completed application, unless the applicant does not meet specified requirements. The bill would limit the outpatient clinic service that is the subject of the application to providing only nonemergency primary health care services in a clinical environment to patients who remain in the outpatient clinic for less than 24 hours. The bill would define "outpatient clinic services" for purposes of the bill. By creating a new crime, this 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.
Existing law prohibits providers of health care, health care service plans, and contractors from releasing medical information to persons authorized by law to receive that information if the information specifically relates to a patient's participation in outpatient treatment with a psychotherapist, unless the requester of the information submits a specified written request for the information to the patient and to the provider of health care, health care service plan, or contractor. However, existing law excepts from those provisions specified disclosures that are made for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment of a patient. This bill would also except from those provisions disclosures that are made to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a reasonably foreseeable victim or victims.
Existing law prohibits designated officers and employees of the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the Teachers' Retirement Board of the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) , who served in those positions for less than 5 years, from taking any specified action on behalf of any person, other than the state, to influence certain actions by the retirement boards or systems within 2 years after leaving that position. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 prohibits a member or employee of a retirement board from becoming an endorser, surety, or obligor on, or from having any personal interest in the making of an investment for the board, or in the gains or profits that accrue from those investments, except as specified. That law also prohibits a member or employee of a retirement board or board of investments from selling or providing any investment product that would be considered an asset of the retirement fund to a retirement system established under that law. This bill would include a member of the board, a deputy executive officer, and an assistant executive officer among those positions subject to the 2-year postemployment restriction, and would delete the qualification that the person have served in that position for less than 5 years. The bill also would make that postemployment restriction applicable to designated officers and employees, board members, and administrators of county retirement systems and specified employees of other public pension and retirement systems. This bill would require the retirement boards of each public pension or retirement system to develop and implement, on or before June 30, 2010, a policy requiring the disclosure of payments to placement agents, as defined, in connection with system investments in or through external managers, as defined. The bill would prohibit an external manager or placement agent that violates that policy from soliciting new investments from the system for 5 years after the violation was committed, but would provide for the reduction of that prohibition as specified. The bill also would prohibit the system from entering into any agreement with an external manager that does not agree in writing to comply with the policy. The bill would require a placement agent, prior to acting as a placement agent in connection with any potential system investment, to disclose to the board all campaign contributions made by the placement agent to any elected member of the board, and all gifts given to any member of the board, during the prior 24-month period, and to disclose any subsequent campaign contribution made by the placement agent to an elected member of the board, or a subsequent gift given to any member of the board, during the time the placement agent is receiving compensation in connection with a system investment. The bill would prohibit a member or employee of the board from, directly or indirectly, by himself or herself, or as an agent, partner, or employee of a person or entity other than the board, selling or providing any investment product that would be considered an asset of the fund to any public retirement system in California. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes various programs for the prevention of disease and the promotion of the public health under the administration of the State Department of Public Health, including, but not limited to, a program for the licensure and regulation of health facilities. Existing law, to become operative January 1, 2011, prohibits certain health facilities from using an intravenous, epidural, or enteral feeding connection that would fit into a connection port other than the type it was intended for, unless an emergency or urgent situation exists and the prohibition impairs the ability to provide health care. This bill would, instead, for epidural connections, make the operative date of this prohibition 36 months after prescribed standards are developed, or January 1, 2014, whichever occurs first, and for intravenous and enteral connections, make the operative date 24 months after prescribed standards are developed, or January 1, 2013, whichever occurs first. The bill would require the Advanced Medical Technology Association to report annually to the Legislature on the progress of the development of those standards. The bill would require measures to prevent adverse effects be included in the health facility patient safety plan, as prescribed.
Existing law, pursuant to the Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act, also known as the Transportation Development Act, provides for allocation by the transportation planning agency of 14% of the sales tax in each county deposited in the local transportation fund to various transportation purposes, including transportation planning and programming, public transit, and, in some cases, local streets and roads. Up to 3% of annual revenues may be allocated to the transportation planning agency, if it is statutorily created, for transportation planning and programming purposes. In the multicounty region that is within the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) , which is also known as the multicounty designated transportation planning agency, specified percentages of annual revenues may be allocated to the statutorily created county transportation commissions in 5 individual counties, and up to 34 of 1% of annual revenues, but not more than $1,000,000, may be allocated by the commissions in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties, proportionately, to SCAG for its transportation planning and programming functions. This bill, effective July 1, 2011, would delete the $1,000,000 limitation on allocations of these funds by the 4 county transportation commissions to SCAG.
Existing law provides that a judgment lien on specified personal property is created by filing a notice of judgment lien in the office of the Secretary of State. Existing law also provides that, unless the money judgment is satisfied or the judgment lien is terminated or released, the judgment lien continues for 5 years from the date of filing. This bill would authorize a continuation statement, as defined, to be filed not more than 6 months before the expiration of the 5-year period of the judgment lien. A continuation statement would extend the effectiveness of the judgment lien for another 5 years commencing on the date the lien would have expired. The bill would authorize the filing of successive continuation statements. The bill would set forth the circumstances under which the lien would be extinguished. In that case, the bill would require the judgment creditor to file a statement of release within 20 days after the judgment creditor receives an authenticated demand from a judgment debtor. The bill would also authorize the person who made the demand to apply for an order releasing the judgment lien, as specified, if the judgment creditor does not file a statement of release pursuant to that provision. The bill would set forth related fees and definitions for these provisions, and provide for attorney's fees in an action or proceeding maintained pursuant to these provisions. The bill would also specify that nothing in those provisions would be in derogation of any other relief to which an aggrieved person may be entitled by law. The bill would provide that a court order to release the judgment lien may be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.
This measure would recognize the pioneering work of promotores and community health workers in delivering vital and cost-effective health care services in communities throughout California and declare October 2009 as California Promotores Month.
This measure would make various statements regarding the importance of New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) to the California economy and would declare the necessity for the Legislature to utilize its vested powers to keep NUMMI in California.
This measure would proclaim October 23 to October 31, 2009, inclusive, as Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.