Existing law, the Optometry Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of optometry by the State Board of Optometry. A violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires a healing arts board to issue, upon specified application and payment, an inactive license to a current holder of an active license whose license is not suspended, revoked, or otherwise restricted. Existing law prohibits the holder of an inactive license from engaging in any activity requiring a license. This bill would require the board to issue, upon application and payment of a specified fee not to exceed $25, a retired license to an optometrist with a current and active license. The bill would prohibit the holder of a retired license from engaging in the practice of optometry. The bill would authorize the holder of a retired license to use only certain titles and would also authorize the holder of such a license to reactivate the license to active status if certain requirements have been met, including the payment of a reactivation fee to be determined by the board. The bill would also require the board to issue, upon application certifying the completion of specified continuing education hours and the payment of a fee not to exceed $50, a retired license with a volunteer service designation to an optometrist with a retired or current and active license. The bill would make a retired license with a volunteer service designation subject to biennial renewal requirements including the payment of a fee not to exceed $50 and the certification of, among other things, completion of the required continuing education hours. Because the bill would direct the deposit of these fees into the Optometry Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. Existing law authorizes the board to take action against all persons guilty of violating this act and requires the board to enforce and administer specified disciplinary provisions with respect to licenseholders. This bill would specify that, for purposes of the above provisions, licenseholders include those who hold a retired license, a license with a retired volunteer designation, or an inactive license. Under existing law, a licensed optometrist is required to notify the board of, among other things, the address or addresses where he or she is to engage or intends to engage in the practice of optometry. Existing law imposes specified issuance, biennial renewal, and delinquency fees concerning a statement of licensure. Existing law exempts a licensed optometrist from this address notification requirement if he or she engages in the temporary practice of optometry, as defined by the board, in certain specified settings. This bill would eliminate the requirement that a licensed optometrist provide that notification with respect to where he or she intends to engage in the practice of optometry. The bill would also require a licensed optometrist, except as specified, to obtain a statement of licensure from the board to be placed in specified practice locations. The bill would define temporary practice as the practice of optometry at locations other than the optometrist's principal place of practice for limited periods, as specified, and would require a licensed optometrist in temporary practice to submit an application for a statement of licensure if the time period for that practice needs to be extended, as specified. The bill would make other nonsubstantive, technical and conforming changes. Because the bill would specify additional requirements under the Optometry Practice Act, the violation of which would be 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.
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The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. A violation of a regulation adopted by the state board pursuant to the act is subject to specified civil and criminal penalties. Pursuant to the act, the state board adopted a regulation requiring automobile service providers, by September 1, 2010, among other things, to check and inflate vehicle tires to the recommended pressure rating when performing automobile maintenance or repair services. This bill, until January 1, 2018, would require a tire pressure gauge used to meet the requirements of this regulation to be accurate within a range of plus or minus 2 pounds per square inch of pressure (2 psi) . The bill, until January 1, 2018, would authorize automotive service providers to meet the requirements of the regulation without checking and inflating a vehicle's tire if that tire is determined to be an unsafe tire, as defined.
Existing law generally prohibits a vehicle from exceeding a length of 40 feet, and a combination of vehicles from exceeding a total length of 65 feet, with various specific exceptions. Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation or local authorities, with regard to highways under their respective jurisdiction, to issue a special permit authorizing the operation of a combination of vehicles consisting of a truck tractor semitrailer combination with a maximum length from kingpin to rearmost axle measurement of not more than 46 feet, if the trailers are used exclusively or primarily in connection with motorsports, as defined. This bill would instead exempt, until January 1, 2016, a combination of vehicles consisting of a truck tractor semitrailer combination with a kingpin to rearmost axle measurement limit of not more than 46 feet, a trailer length of not more than 56 feet, and used exclusively or primarily in connection with motorsports, as defined, to operate on the National Network, transition routes, as well as on any other routes authorized for that purpose by the Department of Transportation in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol. The bill would require the Department of Transportation to conduct a field test of the truck tractor semitrailer combination authorized under the bill for motorsport trucks with a trailer length of 56 feet to evaluate their performance on various segments of the National Network and transition routes. The bill would also require the Department of Transportation, no later than January 1, 2014, to submit a report to the Legislature that includes the results of the field test and a recommendation, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, as to whether the 56 foot trailer length should be reauthorized.
This measure would (1) designate the bicycle pedestrian path on the replacement Gerald Desmond Bridge on State Highway Route 710, in the County of Los Angeles, as the Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle Pedestrian Path, (2) designate a portion of State Highway Route 129, in the County of Santa Cruz, as the Ohlone Kallentaruk Highway, (3) designate a portion of State Highway Route 5, in the County of San Diego, as the Oceanside Police Officer Daniel S. Bessant Memorial Highway, (4) designate a portion of State Highway Route 101, in the County of Los Angeles, as the Los Angeles Police Officer Ian J. Campbell Memorial Highway, (5) designate a portion of State Highway Route 10, in the City of Alhambra, as the Officer Ryan Stringer Memorial Highway, (6) designate a specified safety roadside rest area on State Highway Route 280, in the County of San Mateo, as the Officer Dale M. Krings Memorial Rest Area, (7) designate the Talmage Road and State Highway Route 222 bridge across the Russian River, in the County of Mendocino, as the Ron Ledford Memorial Bridge, (8) designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 405, in the County of Los Angeles, as the Hawthorne Police Officer Andrew Garton Memorial Highway, (9) designate a portion of State Highway Route 99, in the County of San Joaquin, as the Donald Mark Lichliter Memorial Highway, (10) designate a portion of State Highway Route 101, in the County of San Luis Obispo, as the Christopher Meadows Memorial Highway, (11) designate the interchange of State Highway Route 5 and State Highway Route 50, in the County of Sacramento as the California State Engineer Memorial Interchange, (12) designate a portion of State Highway Route 198, in the County of Kings, as the Christian Vasquez Memorial Highway, (13) designate a portion of State Highway Route 86S, in the County of Riverside, as the CHP Officer Saul Martinez Memorial Highway, (14) designate a portion of State Highway Route 12, in the County of Sacramento, as the CHP Officer Charles "Chuck" Sorenson Memorial Highway, (15) designate a portion of State Highway Route 101, in the County of Santa Clara, as the CHP Officer Charles Lilly Memorial Highway, (16) designate a portion of State Highway Route 1, in the City of Fort Bragg, as Jere Melo Memorial Highway, (17) designate a portion of State Highway Route 680, in the City of Fremont, as the CHP Officers Frederick Wayne Enright and Adolfo Martinez Hernandez Memorial Highway, (18) designate a portion of State Highway Route 74, in the County of Riverside, as the CHP Officer Michael Allen Brandt Memorial Highway, (19) designate a portion of State Highway Route 80, in the County of Yolo, as the CHP Officer William "Ivan" Casselman Memorial Highway, (20) designate the interchange of State Highway Route 154 and State Highway Route 101, in the County of Santa Barbara, as the CHP Officer James C. O'Connor Memorial Interchange, (21) designate a portion of State Highway Route 10, in the unincorporated area of the County of Riverside, as the CHP Officer Ambers O. "Sonny" Shewmaker Memorial Highway, (22) designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 10, in the County of San Bernardino, as the Sergeant Darrell Keith Lee, Sergeant Gary Wayne Wolfley, and Officer Sergio Carrera, Jr., Memorial Highway, (23) designate a portion of State Highway Route 10 and Date Palm Drive Memorial Overcrossing, in the County of Riverside, as the CHP Officer Mark Thomas Taylor Memorial Overcrossing, (24) designate a portion of State Highway Route 40, in the County of San Bernadino, as the CHP Officer John "Jack" Armatoski Memorial Highway, (25) designate a portion of State Highway Route 1, in the County of Santa Cruz, as the CHP Officer A. Donald Hoover Memorial Highway, and (26) designate a portion of State Highway Route 880, in the County of Alameda, as the CHP Officer William P. Sniffen Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing these special designations and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.
This measure would designate the interchange at Hazel Avenue and State Highway Route 50 in the County of Sacramento as the Senator Dave Cox Memorial Interchange. This 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 those costs, to erect those signs.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 1 in the County of Los Angeles as the Honorable Jenny Oropeza Memorial Overcrossing. This 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 those costs, to erect those signs.
(1) The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend. The act authorizes a legislative body to use teleconferencing, subject to specified requirements, including that each teleconference location be accessible to the public and that at least a quorum of the members of the body participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction. Existing law provides that, in counties selected by the Director of Health Care Services with the concurrence of the county, a special county health authority may be established in order to meet the problems of delivery of publicly assisted medical care in each county, and to demonstrate ways of promoting quality care and cost efficiency. This bill, until January 1, 2018, would provide that, notwithstanding the provisions of the act on teleconferencing, with respect to a teleconference meeting of a county health authority established in a county under specified provisions, members of a health authority who are outside the jurisdiction may be counted toward the establishment of a quorum when participating in the teleconference if at least 50% of the number of members that would establish a quorum are present within the jurisdiction and the health authority provides a teleconference number and associated access codes, if any, that allows any person to call in to participate in the meeting, and that number and access codes are identified in the notice and agenda of the meeting. (2) Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Existing law establishes, until January 1, 2013, the Salton Sea Restoration Council as a state agency in the Natural Resources Agency to oversee the restoration of the Salton Sea. This bill would require the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, in consultation and coordination with the Salton Sea Authority, as defined, to lead Salton Sea restoration efforts. This bill would require the secretary, in consultation and coordination with the authority, to form a technical advisory group, as prescribed, to provide guidance about evaluating, developing, or proposing future restoration or economic development activities. This bill would also require the secretary to seek input from the authority with regard to specified components of restoration of the Salton Sea. By imposing duties on a local joint powers authority, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would authorize the authority to lead a restoration funding and feasibility review, as prescribed. If the authority undertakes the study, this bill would require the Department of Fish and Game to enter into a funding agreement with the authority for the purposes of this study. 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 bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is through contracts with various types of managed care plans. Existing law imposes a tax at a specified rate on the gross premiums of an insurer, as defined, and, until July 1, 2012, on the total operating revenue, as specified, of a Medi-Cal managed care plan, as defined. Existing law exempts from that tax the total operating revenue of a Medi-Cal managed care plan, if specified events occur before July, 1, 2012. Existing law continuously appropriates the revenues derived from the tax on Medi-Cal managed care plans for specified purposes. This bill would extend the imposition of the tax on the total operating revenue of Medi-Cal managed care plans until July 1, 2014, and would make other conforming changes. This bill also would authorize the Controller to loan funds in the Children's Health and Human Services Special Fund to the General Fund, as provided, until July 1, 2013. By extending the imposition of a tax whose revenues are continuously appropriated, this bill would make an appropriation. (2) Existing law requires, until July 1, 2012, every return required to be filed with the Insurance Commissioner pursuant to provisions governing taxes on the total operating revenue of Medi-Cal managed care plans to be signed by the insurer or the Medi-Cal managed care plan or an executive officer of the insurer or the plan and to be made under oath or contain a written declaration that is made under penalty of perjury. This bill would instead apply this signature requirement until July 1, 2013. By expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law creates the Healthy Families Program, administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB) , to arrange for the provision of health, vision, and dental benefits to eligible children pursuant to a federal program, the Children's Health Insurance Program. Under existing law, the Director of Health Care Services may contract with any qualified individual, organization, or entity to provide services to, arrange for, or case manage the care of Medi-Cal beneficiaries, subject to specified requirements. Existing law requires a Medi-Cal applicant or beneficiary to be informed of the managed care and fee-for-service options available regarding methods of receiving Medi-Cal benefits. Existing law provides for the transition of specified enrollees of the Healthy Families Program to the Medi-Cal program, to the extent that those individuals are otherwise eligible, no sooner than January 1, 2013. Existing law requires this transition to take place in 4 phases, as prescribed. This bill would repeal the provisions requiring the transfer of Healthy Families Program enrollees into the Medi-Cal program. (4) Section 92 of Chapter 11 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 2011 provides that act becomes inoperative if any of its provisions are amended or repealed. This bill would repeal that provision and would provide that, notwithstanding Section 92 of Chapter 11 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 2011, the provisions of Chapter 11 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 2011 do not become inoperative upon the amendment or repeal of any provision of that chapter made by this bill. (5) This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. (6) 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.
(1) Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is through contracts with various types of managed care plans. Existing law imposes a tax at a specified rate on the gross premiums of an insurer, as defined, and, until July 1, 2012, on the total operating revenue, as specified, of a Medi-Cal managed care plan, as defined. Existing law exempts from that tax the total operating revenue of a Medi-Cal managed care plan, if specified events occur before July, 1, 2012. Existing law continuously appropriates the revenues derived from the tax on Medi-Cal managed care plans for specified purposes. This bill would extend the imposition of the tax on the total operating revenue of Medi-Cal managed care plans until July 1, 2014, and would make other conforming changes. This bill also would authorize the Controller to loan funds in the Children's Health and Human Services Special Fund to the General Fund, as provided, until July 1, 2013. By extending the imposition of a tax whose revenues are continuously appropriated, this bill would make an appropriation. (2) Existing law requires, until July 1, 2012, every return required to be filed with the Insurance Commissioner pursuant to provisions governing taxes on the total operating revenue of Medi-Cal managed care plans to be signed by the insurer or the Medi-Cal managed care plan or an executive officer of the insurer or the plan and to be made under oath or contain a written declaration that is made under penalty of perjury. This bill would instead apply this signature requirement until July 1, 2013. By expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law creates the Healthy Families Program, administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB) , to arrange for the provision of health, vision, and dental benefits to eligible children pursuant to a federal program, the Children's Health Insurance Program. Under existing law, the Director of Health Care Services may contract with any qualified individual, organization, or entity to provide services to, arrange for, or case manage the care of Medi-Cal beneficiaries, subject to specified requirements. Existing law requires a Medi-Cal applicant or beneficiary to be informed of the managed care and fee-for-service options available regarding methods of receiving Medi-Cal benefits. Existing law provides for the transition of specified enrollees of the Healthy Families Program to the Medi-Cal program, to the extent that those individuals are otherwise eligible, no sooner than January 1, 2013. Existing law requires this transition to take place in 4 phases, as prescribed. This bill would repeal the provisions requiring the transfer of Healthy Families Program enrollees into the Medi-Cal program. (4) Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to impose a uniform quality assurance fee on each skilled nursing facility, with certain exceptions, in accordance with a prescribed formula. The formula is based on the determination of the projected net revenues, as defined, of skilled nursing facilities. Under existing law, the charge will cease to be assessed after July 31, 2013, and these provisions will be repealed on January 1, 2014. Existing law, the Medi-Cal Long-Term Care Reimbursement Act, requires the department to implement a facility-specific reimbursement ratesetting system for certain skilled nursing facilities. Reimbursement rates for freestanding skilled nursing facilities are funded by a combination of federal funds and moneys collected pursuant to the skilled nursing uniform quality assurance fee. Existing law also establishes the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality and Accountability Special Fund in the State Treasury, which is a continuously appropriated fund that contains moneys from the assessment of specified administrative penalties and set asides of General Fund moneys, for the purposes of making quality and accountability payments. Existing law provides that this rate methodology shall cease to be implemented after July 31, 2013, and that these provisions shall be repealed on January 1, 2014. This bill would modify the calculation of rates under the above-referenced rate methodology, and would extend the assessment of the charge, implementation of the rate methodology, and implementation of related provisions until July 31, 2015. By extending the period of time during which transfers are made to the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality and Accountability Special Fund, this bill would make an appropriation. This bill would also modify the amount of moneys to be deposited into the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality and Accountability Special Fund, by, among other things, requiring that specified set-asides under the rate methodology remain in the General Fund instead of transferring to the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality and Accountability Special Fund and increasing the amount of certain set-asides to be transferred to the fund. This bill would instead require that the quality and accountability payments be made beginning with the 2013–14 rate year. (5) Existing federal Medicaid law requires nursing facilities, as defined, to perform an assessment of each resident's functional capacity that is based on a uniform minimum data set, as specified. This bill would require nursing facilities, the State Department of Health Care Services, and the State Department of Public Health to perform various duties with respect to the federal government's nursing home quality initiative and this assessment. (6) Section 92 of Chapter 11 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 2011 provides that act becomes inoperative if any of its provisions are amended or repealed. This bill would repeal that provision and would provide that, notwithstanding Section 92 of Chapter 11 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 2011, the provisions of Chapter 11 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 2011 do not become inoperative upon the amendment or repeal of any provision of that chapter made by this bill. (7) 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. (8) This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.