Existing law prohibits a person, for amusement or gain, from causing, permitting on his or her premises, or aiding and abetting in the fighting of specified animals, including bears and dogs. A violation of this prohibition is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year, or by a fine not to exceed $5,000, or by both. This bill would raise the fine to $10,000. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly be present as a spectator at any place, building, or tenement for an exhibition of animal fighting or for preparations for that act. A violation of this prohibition is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed 6 months, or by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or by both. This bill would raise the fine to $5,000. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to manufacture, buy, sell, barter, exchange, or for a person to have in his or her possession any of the implements commonly known as gaffs or slashers, or any other sharp implement designed to be attached in place of the natural spur of a gamecock or other fighting bird. A violation of this prohibition is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year, by a fine not to exceed $5,000, or by both, and upon conviction, in addition to any judgment or sentence imposed by the court, forfeiture of possession or ownership of those implements. This bill would raise the fine to $10,000. Existing law prohibits a person from owning, possessing, keeping, or training any bird or other animal with the intent that it be used or engaged by himself or herself, by his or her vendee, or by any other person in an exhibition of fighting. A person who violates this prohibition is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year, by a fine not to exceed $5,000, or by both. This bill would raise the fine to $10,000.
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Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors to adopt, by resolution, a fee of up to $3 for each recording of a real estate instrument, paper, or notice required or permitted by law to be recorded, except as specified. Existing law defines the term "real estate instrument" to mean a deed of trust, an assignment of trust, a reconveyance, a request for notice, a notice of default, a substitution of trustee, a notice of trustee sale, or a notice of rescission of declaration of default. Existing law requires a district attorney in a participating county to annually submit a report to the Legislative Analyst's Office on the effectiveness of deterring, investigating, and prosecuting real estate fraud crimes funded by the recording fee, and requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to report to the Legislature on these efforts, as specified. This bill would increase the highest fee that may be charged to $10 and would also include in the definition of "real estate instrument" an amended deed of trust, an abstract of judgment, an affidavit, an assignment of rents, an assignment of a lease, a construction trust deed, covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&Rs) , a declaration of homestead, an easement, a lease, a lien, a lot line adjustment, a mechanics lien, a modification for deed of trust, a notice of completion, a quitclaim deed, a subordination agreement, a trustee's deed upon sale, and any Uniform Commercial Code amendment, assignment, continuation, statement, or termination. The bill would repeal the specific reporting requirement from county district attorneys to the Legislative Analyst's Office and from the Legislative Analyst's Office to the Legislature.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law specifies the education required for licensure, which includes, for specified applicants, a requirement for a practicum that involves direct client contact and hours of experience relating to client-centered advocacy, as defined. Existing law authorizes trainees to perform activities and services in certain work settings provided that these constitute part of the trainee's supervised course of study and the person is designated as a trainee. Existing law also authorizes trainees to gain hours of experience outside the required practicum under certain conditions, but requires trainees who gain experience outside the required practicum to be enrolled in a practicum in order to counsel clients, except that trainees may counsel clients while not enrolled in a practicum if the period of lapsed enrollment is less than 90 calendar days, and if that period is immediately preceded and immediately followed by enrollment in a practicum course. Existing law specifies requirements of the degree program that an applicant must complete to be eligible for licensure. This bill would revise these provisions to allow trainees who begin graduate study before August 1, 2012, and complete that study on or before December 31, 2018, to gain experience and counsel clients outside of a practicum. The bill, with respect to certain trainees, including trainees who begin graduate study before August 1, 2012, and do not complete that study on or before December 31, 2018, would allow those trainees to gain experience and counsel clients outside of a practicum provided that the period of lapse is immediately preceded by enrollment in a practicum course and immediately followed by enrollment in a practicum course or completion of the degree program. Some of these provisions would operate retroactively from January 1, 2012, and the bill would state the intent of the Legislature in that regard. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, which are administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. The governing board of any community college district is authorized, without approval of the board of trustees, to establish and maintain community service classes in civic, vocational, literacy, health, homemaking, technical, and general education, as specified. This bill would require the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish a voluntary pilot program for purposes of authorizing a community college district to establish and maintain an extension program offering career and workforce training credit courses, as defined. The bill would authorize the governing board of a community college district to apply, and would require the chancellor to select no more than 5 campuses out of 5 separate community college districts, to participate in the pilot program. The bill would require applicant campuses to meet specified requirements to be eligible for selection for participation in the pilot program. The bill would require selected campuses to comply with specified requirements for participation in the pilot program. The bill would authorize the governing board of a community college district participating in the pilot program to establish fees not to exceed the actual cost, as defined, of maintaining the pilot program. The bill would encourage each community college district participating in the pilot program to offer as part of the program one or more courses that lead to a certificate or diploma that is recognized by potential employers as satisfying skill requirements necessary for employment. The bill would require each community college district participating in the pilot program to collect specified information and submit that information, and a schedule of the fees established for the pilot program, to the chancellor by August 1 of each year, and would require the chancellor to forward that information to the Legislative Analyst's Office. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to provide a report that evaluates the pilot program and includes specified information to the Legislature by June 30, 2016. The above provisions would remain in effect only until January 1, 2018. (2) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college district to establish contract education programs to provide specific educational programs or training, as specified. This bill would prohibit this provision from being construed to authorize the implementation of a multitiered fee system, as specified, and would prohibit a community college district from charging a per unit fee for courses that are in excess of fee amounts specifically authorized by law, except as provided for in this bill. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that these provisions are declarative of existing law.
Existing law generally provides that nonviolent and nonserious felonies are punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years, or, where the term is specified, for the term described in the underlying offense. Notwithstanding these provisions, existing law requires that a sentence be served in state prison if the defendant has a prior or current conviction for a serious or violent felony, has a prior felony conviction in another jurisdiction that has all of the elements of a serious or violent felony, is required to register as a sex offender, or has an aggravated white collar crime enhancement imposed as part of the sentence. This bill would specify that no further pleading or proof of an offense, prior conviction, enhancement, or requirement to register as a sex offender that makes a person ineligible to serve a term of imprisonment in a county jail pursuant to those provisions is required. The bill would also require that a person convicted of one or more felonies committed while the person is on mandatory supervision serve the remaining time on the mandatory supervision term, as well as the new term of imprisonment, in state prison. The bill would provide that any person sentenced to mandatory supervision upon suspension of execution of his or her county jail term, and his or her residence and possessions, would be subject to search or seizure at any time, with or without a warrant and with or without cause, by an agent of the supervising county agency or by a peace officer, as specified. Under the Postrelease Community Supervision Act of 2011, certain felons, upon release from prison, are subject to community supervision provided by a county agency designated by the county's board of supervisors, and requires the county agency to maintain postrelease supervision over the person until one of specified listed events occurs, including, but not limited to, if jurisdiction over the person has been terminated by operation of law. This bill would expand the list of events that terminates postrelease supervision to include termination of jurisdiction by a new term of imprisonment for 3 years or longer for a new criminal conviction. The bill would also specify that time during which a person on postrelease supervision is in custody for a custodial sanction of a postrelease supervision condition or a new criminal conviction shall not be credited toward a discretionary 6-month discharge or a mandatory 12-month discharge. Existing law provides for a sentence enhancement of an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment of 3, 4, or 5 years in a county jail for any person who is armed with a firearm in the commission of a violation or attempted violation of certain offenses relating to the sale, manufacture, or possession of controlled substances. This bill would provide for a sentence enhancement of an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment for 3, 4, or 5 years in state prison instead of a county jail.
Existing federal law provides for allocation of federal funds through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program to eligible states, with California's version of this program being known as the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program. Under the CalWORKs program, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families and individuals who meet specified eligibility criteria, including limitations on income and assets generally applicable to public assistance programs. Existing law establishes maximum aid amounts for CalWORKs recipients, with adjustments for cost-of-living, as specified. Under existing law, operative as specified, a parent or caretaker relative is not eligible for CalWORKs aid after he or she has received CalWORKs aid or TANF aid from any state, for a cumulative total of 48 months. However, months during which certain conditions exist are not counted toward a recipient's 48-month aid limit. Under existing law, with certain exceptions, every individual, as a condition of eligibility for aid under the CalWORKs program, is required to participate in welfare-to-work activities. This bill would restructure, revise, and recast various aspects of the law relating to the CalWORKs program, beginning on the later of the first day of the first month following 90 days after the effective date of the bill, or October 1, 2012. The bill would create 3 separate categories of aid under the program. The CalWORKs Basic Program would provide up to 24 months of welfare-to-work and supportive services to eligible families. The CalWORKs Plus Program would provide for a higher grant level for recipients meeting federal work participation requirements. The Child Maintenance Program would apply to an assistance unit that does not include an eligible adult, and would provide specified aid, including cash aid, and an annual well-child medical exam, to the assistance unit. The bill would specify the eligibility requirements and time limits for each aid category. This bill would decrease the amount of CalWORKs maximum aid payments, and would establish maximum aid payment schedules for CalWORKs Basic, CalWORKs Plus, and the Child Maintenance Program. The bill also would revise the schedules pursuant to which an assistance unit's earned income would be exempted for purposes of calculating family income in determining the appropriate maximum aid payment. This bill would eliminate the existing Cal-Learn Program, which is currently suspended under existing law, and would provide instead for a welfare-to-work teen parent program, which would require cash supplements to be paid to the assistance unit of which the teen parent is a member, when the teen parent maintains satisfactory progress in school and satisfactorily completes high school or a California high school equivalency examination. This bill would include within the cumulative 48-month time limit for aid all months of aid received from January 1, 1998, to the operative date of the bill. This bill also would make numerous technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. This bill would authorize the State Department of Social Services to implement and administer the bill through all-county letters or similar instructions from the director until regulations are adopted. The bill would require the department to adopt emergency regulations implementing its provisions no later than July 1, 2014. By imposing new duties on counties in connection with the administration of the CalWORKs program, and by expanding certain circumstances under which an assistance unit would be required to submit documentation signed under penalty of perjury, 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would designate Monday, May 7, 2012, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day, urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers, and recognize specified California peace officers who were killed in defense of their communities.
Existing law provides for the existence of the State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) to be administered by a board of directors for the purpose of transacting workers' compensation insurance, and insurance against the expense of defending any suit for serious and willful misconduct, against an employer or his or her agent, and insurance to employees and other persons of the compensation fixed by the workers' compensation laws for employees and their dependents. Existing law requires the SCIF board of directors to appoint a president, a chief financial officer, a chief operating officer, a chief information technology officer, a chief investment officer, a chief risk officer, and a general counsel. Existing law exempts those positions from provisions of the Government Code and Public Contract Code that are otherwise applicable to state agencies and public entities and for these purposes existing law provides that the SCIF is not considered a state agency or other public entity. This bill would require the SCIF board of directors to appoint additional positions, including a claims medical officer, a chief actuarial officer, a chief of internal affairs, and 3 senior management employees with specialized training and knowledge in infrastructure engineering, data management, and systems engineering or applications.
Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to enter into 5-year contracts with regional centers to render specified services. The act requires an entity receiving payments of $250,000 or more, but not more than $500,000, from a regional center to obtain either an independent audit or independent review report of its financial statements for the period. An entity receiving payments of $500,000 or more is required to obtain an independent audit. Existing law requires a copy of the audit or report to be provided to the vendoring regional center within 30 days of completion of the audit or review. This bill would, until July 1, 2016, authorize exemptions from the above-described independent audit or review requirements of one or 2 years, if specified conditions are met.
Existing law requires that a specified amount of motor vehicle license fees deposited to the credit of the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund be allocated by the Controller, as specified, to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, for allocation to cities, counties, and cities and counties. This bill would instead require, on and after July 1, 2012, that those revenues be distributed first to each city that was incorporated from an unincorporated territory after August 5, 2004, in an amount determined pursuant to a specified formula, second to each city that was incorporated before August 5, 2004, in an amount determined pursuant to a specified formula, and third to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, for allocation to cities, counties, and cities and counties. By authorizing within the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, to be used for a new purpose, the bill would make an appropriation. Existing law requires the Legislature to determine and appropriate annually an amount for the use of the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Franchise Tax Board for the enforcement of the Vehicle License Fee Law. This bill would not allow that amount to be appropriated from the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund.