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.
This measure would declare May 2010 to be American Stroke Month in California and would urge all Californians to familiarize themselves with the risk factors, and to recognize the warning signs and symptoms associated with stroke, to help reduce the devastating effects of stroke on the population.
This measure would encourage public education institutions to designate each campus as a "Discrimination-Free Zone" to provide a safe haven from intolerance or discrimination, to enact appropriate procedures that meaningfully address acts of discrimination that occur on campus, to notify parents and the campus community of existing policies and procedures that encourage tolerance of others, and to use existing resources to identify themselves as "Discrimination-Free Zones" to create a campus climate that welcomes diversity and supports the tolerance of others.
This measure would recognize the month of February 2010 as American Heart Month in California, would recognize February 4, 2010, as Wear Red Day in California, and would urge public support for Go Red for Women events.
Existing law establishes the California State University and its various campuses under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University. Existing law requires the California State University to offer undergraduate and graduate instruction through the master's degree in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education, including teacher education. This bill would authorize the California State University to award the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. The bill would distinguish the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the doctor of philosophy degree offered at the University of California. The bill would require the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program to be designed to enable professionals to earn the degree while working full time, train nurses for advanced practice, and prepare clinical faculty to teach in postsecondary nursing programs. The bill would require initial funding to come from existing budgets, without diminishing the quality of undergraduate programs or reducing enrollment therein. The bill would require the California State University to annually report on the status of the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program, as specified.
(1) Existing law requires every entity offering or conducting private school instruction on the elementary or high school level to annually verify information by filing with the Superintendent of Public Instruction an affidavit or statement under penalty of perjury setting forth specified information relating to the current year. The affidavit or statement must be made available to any parent or guardian whose child is currently enrolled or is considering whether to enroll his or her child in the school. If the employees of any entities that have a contract with a private school to provide specified services may have any contact with pupils, those employees are required to submit their fingerprints to the Department of Justice for a background check. The Department of Justice is authorized to notify the private school when the employee has a pending criminal case, or a criminal conviction, of specified crimes. Private schools contracting with an entity for construction or other related services where employees of the entity will have other than limited contact with pupils, are required to ensure the safety of the pupils by utilizing one or more methods. This bill would apply a substantially identical verification requirement to heritage schools, which is a school for children that serves children who are at least 4 years and 9 months of age to 18 years of age and who attend a public or private full-time school, and which offers foreign language education or tutoring and cultural education relating to a foreign country. The heritage school would also be required to maintain membership in a state or national cultural or language association, comply with relevant applicable local regulations, and not operate out of a residential home. (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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. The act applies to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, act to make the act applicable. Existing law requires that a person, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as defined, who has attended high school in California for 3 or more years, who has graduated from a California high school or attained the equivalent thereof, who has registered at or attends an accredited institution of higher education in California not earlier than the fall semester or quarter of the 2001–02 academic year, and who, if he or she is a person without lawful immigration status, has filed a prescribed affidavit relating to obtaining lawful immigration status, is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University. Existing law also requires the waiver of student fees charged by community college districts for students who demonstrate financial need or are otherwise eligible for the waiver. Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to allocate, to community college districts for determining financial need and delivering student financial aid services, an amount based on the amount of fees waived. This bill would amend the Donahoe Higher Education Act to require the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and to request the Regents of the University of California, to establish procedures and forms that enable persons who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under that provision, or who meet equivalent requirements adopted by the regents, to be eligible to receive institutional financial aid awards. The bill would define institutional financial aid as financial assistance offered by a campus of the California Community Colleges, California State University, or University of California, including grant, scholarship, workstudy, and loan programs. The bill would specify that institutional financial aid does not include a specified board of governors fee waiver. The bill would declare that it is a state law within the meaning of a federal statute that permits a state to provide an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States with eligibility for a state or local public benefit only through the enactment of a state law affirmatively providing for that eligibility. The bill would apply to the University of California only if the regents, by appropriate resolution, act to make it applicable.
Existing law provides for special business regulations for certain businesses. This bill would make legislative findings regarding the rate of crime at economy hotels. The bill would require any person operating one or more economy hotels in California to post, on the Internet Web site operated by that person for the purpose of taking reservations for the hotel, the total number of calls for police service and the ratio of calls for police service per guest room during the most recent calendar year. The bill would require that the information be posted at the front desk of each economy hotel in a conspicuous location for public inspection. The bill would also require an online travel company, as defined, doing business in California to obtain that information from an economy hotel in California and to post the information on its Internet Web site listing for the economy hotel.
(1) Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide that, whenever the Legislature or any state agency mandates a new program or higher level of service on any local government, the state is required to provide a subvention of funds to reimburse that local government for the costs of the program or increased level of service, except as specified. Existing statutory provisions establish procedures for local government entities to apply for, and receive, reimbursements for expenses that are within the scope of the constitutional requirement for reimbursement. This bill would express findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to the operation of the statutory procedures for reimbursement of these mandates with respect to school districts. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to repeal or amend statutory provisions that impose reimbursable state mandates on school districts, contingent on an evaluation of each mandate based on prescribed factors. (2) Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature that school district governing boards establish a uniform system of evaluation and assessment of the performance of all certificated personnel within each school district of the state. Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to evaluate and assess certificated employee performance as it reasonably relates to all of the following: (A) the progress of pupils toward expected pupil achievement at their respective grade levels; (B) the progress of pupils toward state-adopted academic content standards as measured by state-adopted criterion referenced assessments; (C) the instructional techniques and strategies used by the employee; (D) the employee's adherence to curricular objectives; and (E) the establishment and maintenance of a suitable learning environment, within the scope of the employee's responsibilities. This bill would instead make the school district's evaluation and assessment of certificated employee performance as it relates to the categories listed in (B) , (C) , and (D) above optional rather than mandatory. (3) Existing law requires school districts to perform the evaluation and assessment of the performance of each certificated employee on a continuing basis in accordance with a prescribed schedule. Under existing law, if any permanent certificated employee has received an unsatisfactory evaluation, the employing authority is required to annually evaluate the employee until the employee achieves a positive evaluation or is separated from the school district. This bill would instead make the annual evaluation of a permanent certificated employee who has received an unsatisfactory evaluation optional rather than mandatory. (4) Existing law requires school districts to notify a pupil's parent or guardian, by first-class mail or other reasonable means, that the pupil is truant and to communicate additional information relating to truancy, as prescribed. This bill would instead make this notification optional, but would encourage school districts to make the notification if the district determines that the notification achieves the goal of preventing truancy. (5) Existing law requires, the 3rd time that a truancy report is required about a pupil in the same school year, that pupil is to be classified as a habitual truant, and the 4th time that a truancy report is required about a pupil in the same school year, that pupil is to be within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge the pupil to be a ward of the court. This bill would make the classification of a pupil who has been the subject of a 3rd truancy report in the same school year, and the placement of a pupil who has been the subject of a 4th truancy report in the same school year within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, optional rather than mandatory. (6) Existing law requires, commencing with the Budget Act for the 2006–07 fiscal year and concluding with the Budget Act for the 2020–21 fiscal year, the total amount due to each city, county, city and county, and special district, for which the state has determined that reimbursement is required pursuant to the constitutional requirement referenced in (1) above to be paid to those entities over a period of not more than 15 years. This bill, commencing with the Budget Act for the 2010–11 fiscal year, would require that the total amount that is due to school districts for which the state has determined that reimbursement is required pursuant to the constitutional requirement referenced in (1) above to be paid to those entities over a period of not more than an unspecified number of fiscal years.
