Existing law, the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Act, establishes the Cal Grant C Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under this program. The act requires that a Cal Grant C award be used only for occupational or technical training, as defined, in a course of not less than 4 months. The act requires the commission, after consultation with state and federal agencies, to determine the areas of occupational or technical training for which Cal Grant C awards shall be awarded. This bill would require the Student Aid Commission to develop, and regularly review and update at least every 5 years, the areas of occupational or technical training for which students may utilize Cal Grant C awards. The bill would require the commission to give priority in granting the awards to students pursuing occupational or technical training in areas that meet specified criteria. The bill would require a determination by the commission for a subsequent award year that the program under which a Cal Grant C was initially awarded is no longer deemed to receive priority to not affect an award recipient's renewal. The bill would require the commission to publish, and retain, on its Internet Web site, a current list of the areas of occupational or technical training meeting those specified criteria. The bill would require the commission to examine the graduation rates and job placement data of eligible programs and to give priority to students seeking to enroll in programs that rate high in those areas. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to submit a report to the Legislature, containing specified data on the outcomes of the Cal Grant C Program, on or before April 1, 2015, and on or before April 1 of each odd-numbered year thereafter.
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(1) 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. Provisions of the act apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, act to make a provision applicable. Existing law requires that a student, 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 an alien without lawful immigration status, has filed a prescribed affidavit is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University. This bill would amend the Donahoe Higher Education Act, as of January 1, 2013, to require the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and to request the regents, to establish procedures and forms that enable students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under the above-described provision, or who meet equivalent requirements adopted by the regents, to apply for, and participate in, all student aid programs administered by these segments to the full extent permitted by federal law, except as provided. This provision would apply to the University of California only if the regents, by appropriate resolution, act to make it applicable. This bill would provide that students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under the above provision, or who meet equivalent requirements adopted by the regents, are eligible to apply for, and participate in, any student financial aid program administered by the State of California to the full extent permitted by federal law. This bill would require the Student Aid Commission to establish procedures and forms that enable those students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under the above provision to apply for, and participate in, all student financial aid programs administered by the State of California to the full extent permitted by federal law. This bill would prohibit students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under the provision described above from being eligible for Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards unless specified conditions are met. The bill would make these provisions operative as of January 1, 2013. (2) Existing federal law requires that a state may provide that an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States is eligible for any state or local public benefit for which that alien would otherwise be ineligible under a specified federal law only through enactment of a state law that affirmatively provides for that eligibility. This bill would find and declare that the amendments to the Donahoe Higher Education Act described above are state laws within the meaning of this federal provision. (3) Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law authorizes the establishment of community college districts under the administration of community college governing boards, and authorizes these districts to provide instruction, for prescribed fees, at community college campuses throughout the state. Existing law authorizes the waiver of these fees for, among others, students who are eligible under income standards established by the board of governors. This bill, as of January 1, 2013, would require community college districts to waive the fees of students who are exempt from nonresident tuition under the provision described in (1) above, and who otherwise qualify for a waiver under this provision, under regulations and procedures adopted by the board of governors. Because the bill would impose new duties on community college districts with respect to determining eligibility for fee waivers, the bill would constitute a state-mandated local program. (4) 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Existing law provides for the establishment and maintenance of subject matter projects by the Regents of the University of California with the approval of the Concurrence Committee. Existing law provides that these subject matter projects are to create opportunities for researchers, higher education faculty, and elementary and secondary school faculty to work together to identify exemplary teaching practices, examine and develop research on learning, knowledge, and educational materials, and provide support to teachers to develop and enhance content knowledge and pedagogical skills. Existing law requires the Concurrence Committee to provide a final report to the Governor and to appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on or before January 1, 2011, including specified information relating to the subject matter projects. This bill would add 2 areas of emphasis for the subject matter projects. The first would provide teachers with instructional strategies for delivering career-oriented, integrated academic and technical content in a manner that is linked to high-priority industry sectors identified in the California Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards as adopted by the State Board of Education. The Concurrence Committee, in consultation with specified entities, would determine the priority of industry sectors. The 2nd would provide teachers with instructional strategies for ongoing collaboration on the delivery of career-oriented, integrated academic and technical content. The bill would enlarge the Concurrence Committee by adding a representative appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and make other changes. The bill would repeal the requirement of the January 1, 2011, report and, instead, require a report on or before January 1, 2016. This provision would be inoperative on January 1, 2018. This bill would add the goal of providing teachers with support in the implementation of career-oriented, integrated academic and technical courses that meet course requirements for admission to the University of California and the California State University, and align with high-priority industry sectors, as specified. Existing law authorizes 6 topical subject matter projects. This bill would add physical education, arts, and world language, as specified, as topical subject matter areas. Existing law establishes a project advisory board within each subject matter project. This bill would make various changes to the board structure, including decreasing representation of specified groups, and adding a representative selected by the advisory board who is from an industry sector that principally utilizes the discipline addressed by the project. Existing law requires the project advisory board of each statewide subject matter project to use specified criteria in recommending funding for local project sites. This bill would add a criterion for local project sites that serve middle or high school teachers and would require the project advisory board to give special consideration to sites that utilize or are preparing to utilize instructional strategies to deliver career-oriented, integrated academic and technical content. Existing law repeals the article relating to instructional strategies on January 1, 2013, unless a later enacted statute deletes or extends the date on which it becomes inoperative. This bill would extend that date until January 1, 2018. This bill, except for a specified provision, would become operative only if an appropriation is made in the annual Budget Act, or if federal funds are appropriated, or both, for the purposes of this bill.
Existing law states the Legislature's intent that each local educational agency provide each pupil with standards-aligned textbooks or instructional materials from the same adoption, consistent with specified provisions of law. This bill would authorize each school district to purchase the newest adopted instructional materials for pupils in all of the neediest schools in the school district, as defined, without incurring a duty to purchase these materials for pupils in the remaining schools in the district.
Existing law, as added by constitutional initiative, establishes the Citizens Redistricting Commission, and charges it with various duties and responsibilities in connection with redistricting Assembly, Senate, Board of Equalization, and congressional districts, as specified. Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and charges it with various duties and responsibilities in connection with the incarceration and rehabilitation of prisoners, as specified. This bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to furnish to the Citizens Redistricting Commission, not sooner than April 1, 2020, and not later than July 1, 2020, and in each year of the decennial census thereafter, specified information regarding the last known place of residence, as defined, of each inmate incarcerated in a state adult correctional facility, except an inmate whose last known place of residence is outside of California. The bill also would request the Citizens Redistricting Commission to deem each incarcerated person as residing at his or her last known place of residence, rather than at the institution of his or her incarceration, and to utilize the above information in carrying out its redistricting responsibilities.
(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the city or county and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. That law also requires the general plan to contain specified mandatory elements, including a housing element for the preservation, improvement, and development of the community's housing. This bill would require, on or before the next adoption of its housing element, a city or county to review and update the land use element of its general plan to include an analysis of the presence of island, fringe, or legacy unincorporated communities, as defined, and would require the updated general plan to include specified information. This bill would also require the city or county planning agency, after the initial revision and update of the general plan, to review, and if necessary amend, the general plan to update the information, goals, and program of action relating to these communities therein. By adding to the duties of city and county officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Act of 2000 requires a local agency formation commission to develop and determine the sphere of influence of each local governmental agency within the county and to enact policies designed to promote the logical and orderly development of areas within the sphere, and requires the commission, in preparing and updating spheres of influence to conduct a service review of the municipal services provided in the county or other area designated by the commission, and to prepare a written statement of its determinations with respect to the growth and population projections for the affected area, the present and planned capacity of public facilities and adequacy of public services, including infrastructure needs or deficiencies, financial ability of agencies to provide services, status of, and opportunities for, shared facilities, accountability for community service needs, including governmental structure, and operational efficiencies, as specified. This bill would also require the agency to include in its written statement a determination with respect to the location and characteristics and the present and planned capacity of public facilities and adequacy of public services, including sewers, water, and structural fire protection needs or deficiencies, of any disadvantaged unincorporated communities within or adjacent to the sphere of influence, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would also require a commission, upon the review and update of a sphere of influence on or after July 1, 2012, to include in the review or update of each sphere of influence of a city or special district that provides public facilities or services related to sewers, municipal and industrial water, or structural fire protection to include the present and probable need for public facilities and services of disadvantaged unincorporated communities within or adjacent to the sphere of influence, and would authorize the agency to assess the feasibility of governmental reorganization of particular agencies, as specified. (3) Existing law generally grants various powers to cities, counties, and certain special districts, including the power to issue bonds and incur indebtedness for certain purposes and subject to certain restrictions. Existing law continuously appropriates state and federal funds in the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund to the State Water Resources Control Board for loans and other financial assistance for the construction of publicly owned treatment works and other related purposes, to a municipality, intermunicipal agency, interstate agency, or state agency in accordance with the federal Clean Water Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. This bill would authorize those public agencies, including counties, cities, and special districts, subject to applicable constitutional restrictions, to borrow money and incur indebtedness for purposes of the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund. (4) This bill would incorporate changes to Sections 56375 and 56430 of the Government Code proposed by this bill and AB 54, to be operative if both bills are enacted and become operative as specified. (5) 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 authorizes a board to suspend or revoke a license on various grounds, including, but not limited to, conviction of a crime, if the crime is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of the business or profession for which the license was issued. Existing law requires applicants to certain boards to provide a full set of fingerprints for the purpose of conducting criminal history record checks. This bill would make the fingerprinting requirement applicable to the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions to correct references to the names of various boards and would correct references to the name of a specified fund. (2) Existing law authorizes the Department of Consumer Affairs to enter into a contract with a vendor for the licensing and enforcement BreEZe system no sooner than 30 days after written notification to certain committees of the Legislature. Existing law requires the amount of contract funds for the system to be consistent with costs approved by the office of the State Chief Information Officer, based on information provided by the department in a specified manner. Existing law provides that this cost provision is applicable to all Budget Act items for the department that have an appropriation for the BreEZe system. This bill would authorize the Department of Finance to augment the budgets of those boards, bureaus, commissions, committees, programs, and divisions of the Department of Consumer Affairs for expenditure of non-General Fund moneys to pay BreEZe project costs, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. (3) Existing law, the Physical Therapy Practice Act, creates the Physical Therapy Board of California and makes it responsible for the licensure and regulation of physical therapists. Existing law authorizes the board to discipline licensees, including the suspension and revocation of licenses. Existing law regulating professional corporations provides that certain healing arts practitioners may be shareholders, officers, directors, or professional employees of a professional corporation, subject to certain limitations. A violation of these provisions by a licensee constitutes unprofessional conduct under the act. This bill would, until January 1, 2013, prohibit the board from taking disciplinary action against a licensee providing physical therapy services as a professional employee of a medical corporation, podiatric medical corporation, or chiropractic corporation. (4) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various businesses and professions by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs, including the California Board of Accountancy, the California Architects Board, the Landscape Architects Technical Committee, the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau, the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, the Contractors' State License Board, the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind, and the State Athletic Commission. Existing law requires or authorizes these boards and the State Athletic Commission, with certain exceptions, to appoint an executive officer and existing law authorizes the Governor to appoint the chief of the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2012. Under existing law, boards scheduled for repeal are required to be evaluated by the Joint Sunset Review Committee. This bill would extend the operation of these provisions until January 1, 2016, except the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind and the State Athletic Commission, which would be extended until January 1, 2014, and except the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau, which would be extended until January 1, 2015. The bill would instead specify that these boards would be subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature. (5) With respect to accounting firms, existing law, until January 1, 2014, requires a firm, in order to renew its registration, to have a specified peer review report accepted by a California Board of Accountancy-recognized peer review group. Existing law, until January 1, 2014, requires the board to appoint a peer review oversight committee of certified public accountants to provide recommendations to the board relating to the effectiveness of mandatory peer review. Existing law also requires the board, by January 1, 2013, to provide the Legislature and the Governor with a report regarding specified peer review requirements that includes specified information. This bill would extend the operation of the peer review report requirement and the peer review oversight committee indefinitely. The bill would require the report to the Legislature and the Governor to be submitted by January 1, 2015, and would require the report to include certain additional information and recommendations. Existing law requires an accountant licensee to report to the board the occurrence of certain events taking place after January 1, 2003, including any restatement of a financial statement. This bill would exempt any restatement that is included in any report filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from this requirement. (6) Existing law authorizes the California Architects Board to, by regulation, implement an intern development program until July 1, 2012. This bill, by deleting that termination date, would instead authorize the board to, by regulation, implement the intern development program indefinitely. (7) Existing law prohibits a person from holding himself or herself out as a professional fiduciary without a license issued by the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau. Under existing law, a license may be suspended, revoked, denied, or other disciplinary action may be imposed for various reasons. This bill would authorize the bureau, instead of issuing an accusation or statement of issues against a licensee or applicant, to enter into a specified settlement with a licensee or applicant. (8) Existing law authorizes the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind to establish an arbitration panel pilot project, until January 1, 2012, for the purpose of resolving disputes between a guide dog user and a licensed guide dog school, as specified. This bill would instead authorize the arbitration panel pilot project until January 1, 2014. (9) Existing law requires an applicant to use the title "structural engineer" to have successfully passed both a written examination that incorporates a national examination for structural engineers and a supplemental California specific examination, as specified. This bill would instead require these applicants to pass only a written examination for structural engineering that is administered by a nationally recognized entity approved by the board. (10) Existing law establishes the Professional Engineer's and Land Surveyor's Fund, requires all money received by the Department of Consumer Affairs from the operation of the Professional Engineer's Act and the Professional Land Surveyor's Act to be deposited in the fund, and appropriates the moneys in the fund for the purposes of those acts. Existing law establishes the Geology and Geophysics Fund and requires the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists to provide all money received by the board under the Geologists and Geophysicists Act to the State Treasury for credit to the Geology and Geophysics Fund. This bill would abolish the Geology and Geophysics Fund, create the Geology and Geophysics Account within the Professional Engineer's and Land Surveyor's Fund, and require all moneys received by the board under the Geologists and Geophysicists Act to be deposited in that account. The bill would require all moneys paid into the account pursuant to the Geologists and Geophysicists Act to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of the act, thereby making an appropriation. (11) Existing law requires an applicant for registration as a geologist to pay an examination fee fixed by the board at an amount equal to the actual cost to the board to administer the examination, not to exceed $450. This bill would delete the provisions limiting the examination fee to $450. (12) Existing law requires the State Athletic Commission to provide a report to the Governor and the Legislature by July 30, 2010, regarding the condition of the State Athletic Commission Neurological Examination Account and the Boxers' Pension Fund, as specified. This bill would require the commission to provide the report to the Legislature by July 30, 2012. (13) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 205 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 933, to be operative only if SB 933 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective January 1, 2012, and this bill is chaptered last.
Existing law provides that life insurance may be made payable, among other things, on the death of the insured, on his or her surviving for a specified period of time, or periodically as long as he or she lives. This bill would require that all life insurance benefits be paid in the form of a lump-sum payment to the beneficiary or by another settlement option that is clearly described in the claim form. If the beneficiary does not choose one of the available settlement options, a retained-asset account would be authorized to be the default option only if the claim form provides a prominent disclosure, as prescribed, that in the absence of a choice by the beneficiary, payment of policy benefits would be made through establishment of a retained-asset account on the beneficiary's behalf. Any life insurance benefits settlement an insurer offers or recommends, other than for a lump-sum payment, would be required to conform to specified conditions. The bill would authorize the Insurance Commissioner to adopt regulations specifying reasonable requirements for the form of agreements entered into and written disclosures provided by these provisions. The bill would only become operative if SB 713 of the 2011–12 Regular Session is enacted and becomes effective.
Existing law requires every person who manufactures an optical disc, as defined, for commercial purposes to permanently mark the manufactured optical disc with an identification mark or a unique identifying code, as specified. Existing law sets forth various definitions for purposes of these provisions. Existing law makes a manufacturer that violates these provisions guilty of a crime punishable by specified fines. Existing law also makes a person that engages in specified prohibited acts in violation of these provisions guilty of a crime punishable by specified fines or imprisonment. This bill would recast the definitions applicable to these provisions. The bill would prohibit a person who manufactures optical discs for commercial purposes from possessing, owning, controlling, or operating manufacturing equipment or any optical disc mold unless it has been adapted to apply the appropriate identification mark or unique identifying code. The bill would prohibit a person who manufactures optical discs for commercial purposes from making, possessing, or adapting any optical disc mold for the purpose of applying a forged, false, or deceptive identification mark or identifying code. The bill would authorize law enforcement officers to perform inspections, as specified, at commercial optical disc manufacturing facilities during regular business hours without a warrant for the purpose of verifying compliance with these provisions and would authorize law enforcement officers, in performing these investigations, to seize any optical disc or production part manufactured in violation of these provisions. The bill would require a person manufacturing optical discs for commercial purposes to maintain specified records. The bill would also increase the fines applicable to a manufacturer or person that violates the provisions regulating manufactured optical discs. Because a violation of the bill's provisions by a person who manufactures optical discs would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
(1) Existing law, until January 1, 2012, provides for the Dental Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires the membership of the board to consist of 8 practicing dentists, a registered dental hygienist, a registered dental assistant, and 4 public members. Existing law requires the Governor to appoint all of the members of the board, except that the Senate Committee on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly each appoint a public member. Existing law, until January 1, 2012, allows the board, with the approval of the Director of Consumer Affairs, to appoint a person exempt from civil service as the executive officer of the board. Under existing law, boards scheduled for repeal are required to be evaluated by the Joint Sunset Review Committee. This bill would extend the operation of those provisions until January 1, 2016, and instead specify that the board would be subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature. The bill would change the membership of the board to include one additional public member, to be appointed by the Governor. The bill would also create a Dental Assisting Council of the board, to be appointed by the board, to consider matters relating to dental assistants and make recommendations to the board and standing committees of the board, as specified. Existing law makes it unlawful for a healing arts practitioner to disseminate or cause to be disseminated any form of public communication containing a false, fraudulent, misleading, or deceptive statement, claim, or image for the purpose of or likely to induce, directly or indirectly, the rendering of professional services or furnishing of products in connection with the professional practice or business for which he or she is licensed. Existing law prohibits a dentist from making certain advertisements or holding himself or herself out as a specialist unless he or she meets specified criteria. This bill would delete the advertising prohibitions described above that apply only to dentists. Existing law requires every board in the Department of Consumer Affairs to initiate the process of adopting regulations on or before June 30, 1999, to require its licensees to provide notice to their clients or customers that the practitioner is licensed in this state, except as specified. This bill would require the board to comply with that provision by January 1, 2013, and would set forth requirements for the notice to be adopted by the board. Existing law authorizes the board to, upon an applicant's successful completion of the board examination, issue a probationary license to an applicant for licensure as a dentist or dental auxiliary. Existing law authorizes the board to require the applicant to comply with specified terms or conditions of a probationary license. This bill would require the board to adopt written guidelines on how to make probation assignments and to ensure that probationary and evaluation reports are conducted consistently and regularly. Existing law requires an applicant for licensure as a dentist to successfully complete an examination in California law and ethics developed and administered by the board. This bill would require the board to ensure that the law and ethics examination reflects current law and regulations and that the examinations are randomized. Existing law requires the board to establish criteria for the acceptance, denial, or termination of licentiates in a diversion program for the rehabilitation of licensees. This bill would make changes to the provisions that apply to a licensee who withdraws or terminates from the diversion program. The bill would provide that all diversion records for that licensee shall be provided to the board's enforcement program and may be used in any disciplinary proceeding, including if the licensee tests positive for banned substances, as specified. Existing law provides that the amount of the fees under the Dental Practice Act that relate to the licensing and permitting of dental assistants shall be established by resolution. This bill would instead require those fees to be established by regulation. Existing law requires the board to extend the California Dental Corps Loan Repayment Program of 2002 and distribute the money remaining in the account only until July 1, 2012. This bill would instead require the moneys to be distributed until all of the moneys are expended. (2) Existing law creates the Dental Hygiene Committee of California within the Dental Board of California. The committee is responsible for the registration and regulation of registered dental hygienists, registered dental hygienists in alternative practice, and registered dental hygienists in extended functions. Under existing law, the committee consists of 9 members appointed by the Governor. Under existing law, members of the committee are appointed to a term of 4 years and the terms for the initial appointments expire on December 31, 2011. Under existing law, boards scheduled for repeal are required to be evaluated by the Joint Sunset Review Committee. This bill would provide for the repeal of the committee on January 1, 2015. The bill would provide for staggered terms for members of the committee beginning January 1, 2012, as specified. The bill would require the committee to be subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature.