This measure would resolve that the Legislature is proud to join the Girl Scouts of the USA in recognizing their 100th anniversary.
This measure would designate March 2012 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
This measure would recognize January 2012 as Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and would encourage prompt access to preventive services and medical care in order to overcome barriers to care and treatment for cervical cancer.
(1) Existing law requires a person who digs, bores, or drills a water well, cathodic protection well, or a monitoring well, or abandons or destroys a well, or deepens or reperforates a well, to file a report of completion with the Department of Water Resources. Existing law prohibits those reports from being made available to the public, except to governmental agencies for use in making studies, to any person who obtains a written authorization from the owner of the well, and to a person performing an environmental cleanup study under certain circumstances. This bill would remove the exception for persons performing an environmental cleanup study, and would additionally authorize the department to make the reports available to academics affiliated with institutions of postsecondary education for specified purposes and to geologists, geophysicists, hydrologists, civil engineers, and persons possessing a specified well contractor's license. The bill would require the department to provide a specified disclaimer when providing the reports to the public. The bill would require the department to require a person seeking a report to identify the intended use of the report. The bill would prohibit specified persons receiving the report pursuant to these provisions from disclosing the exact location of a well in the report; providing the report to other persons or entities not involved in the conduct of a study; and utilizing the report, or information or data in the report, for the sale, resale, solicitation, or advertisement for sales or services. The bill would provide that knowingly violating this prohibition would be a misdemeanor that would be punishable, upon conviction, by a fine, by imprisonment in the county jail, or by both, as specified. By creating a new crime, this bill would establish a state-mandated local program. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law, the Banking Law, regulates the organization and operations of state-organized banks, and the California Credit Union Law regulates the organization and operation of credit unions, the willful violation of which is a crime. Existing law does not regulate the issuance or use of a signature stamp in financial transactions. This bill would define "signature stamp" and regulate the issuance of a signature stamp by a state-organized bank or credit union to an accountholder and the use of the signature stamp by the accountholder in financial transactions with a bank or credit union. The bill would require a stampholder to report a lost or stolen signature stamp to the bank or credit union, as specified. Existing law prohibits various types of elder abuse, punishable by incarceration, fines, or both incarceration and fines, including imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not to exceed $1,000, for specified types of abuse involving theft, embezzlement, forgery, fraud, or identity theft. This bill would increase the amount of each of the fines otherwise imposed for the existing law offenses, and would provide that the additional fine amount be allocated to the adult protective services agency, or equivalent elder abuse prevention agency, of the county prosecuting the offense. The bill would make changes to conform those provisions to changes made in AB 109 of the 2011–12 Regular Session. The bill would provide for restitution for a violation of these provisions committed through use of a signature stamp. The bill would additionally incorporate changes to Section 368 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 332, to be operative if both bills are enacted and become operative, as specified. Because this bill would create new crimes, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law provides for the creation of various programs to provide health care services to persons who have limited incomes and meet various eligibility requirements. These programs include the Healthy Families Program administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, and the Medi‑Cal program administered by the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law provides for the regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Commencing January 1, 2014, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires every individual to be covered under minimum essential coverage, as specified, and requires every health insurance issuer issuing individual or group health insurance coverage to accept every employer and individual who applies for coverage. Existing law establishes the California Health Benefit Exchange to facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans through the Exchange by qualified individuals and small employers by January 1, 2014. This bill would establish the California Healthcare System to be administered by the newly created California Healthcare Agency under the control of a Healthcare Commissioner appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by the Senate. The bill would make all California residents eligible for specified health care benefits under the California Healthcare System, which would, on a single-payer basis, negotiate for or set fees for health care services provided through the system and pay claims for those services. The bill would require the commissioner to seek all necessary waivers, exemptions, agreements, or legislation to allow various existing federal, state, and local health care payments to be paid to the California Healthcare System, which would then assume responsibility for all benefits and services previously paid for with those funds. The bill would create the Healthcare Policy Board to establish policy on medical issues and various other matters relating to the system. The bill would create the Office of Patient Advocacy within the agency to represent the interests of health care consumers relative to the system. The bill would create within the agency the Office of Health Planning to plan for the health care needs of the population, and the Office of Health Care Quality, headed by a chief medical officer, to support the delivery of high-quality care and promote provider and patient satisfaction. The bill would create the Office of Inspector General for the California Healthcare System within the Attorney General's office, which would have various oversight powers. The bill would prohibit health care service plan contracts or health insurance policies from being issued for services covered by the California Healthcare System, subject to appropriation by the Legislature, and would authorize the collection of penalty moneys for deposit into the Healthcare Fund, which the bill would create. The bill would create the Payments Board to administer the finances of the California Healthcare System. The bill would create the California Healthcare Premium Commission (Premium Commission) to determine the cost of the California Healthcare System and to develop a premium structure for the system that complies with specified standards. The bill would require the Premium Commission to recommend a premium structure to the Governor and the Legislature on or before January 1, 2014, and to make a draft recommendation to the Governor, the Legislature, and the public 90 days before submitting its final premium structure recommendation. The bill would specify that only its provisions relating to the Premium Commission would become operative on January 1, 2013, with its remaining provisions becoming operative on the earlier of the date the Secretary of California Health and Human Services notifies the Legislature, as specified, that sufficient funding exists to implement the California Healthcare System and the date the secretary receives the necessary federal waiver under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The bill would extend the application of certain insurance fraud laws to providers of services and products under the system, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program by revising the definition of a crime. The bill would enact other related provisions relative to budgeting, regional entities, federal preemption, subrogation, collective bargaining agreements, compensation of health care providers, conflict of interest, patient grievances, and independent medical review. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law governs the production, inspection, and distribution of food in this state in order to ensure, among other purposes, the safety and quality of food. The Department of Food and Agriculture is required to promote and protect the agricultural industry of the state, and is required to seek, enhance, protect, and perpetuate the ability of the private sector to produce food and fiber in a way that benefits the general welfare and economy of the state. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would establish the California Food Policy Council to develop a strategic planning process to provide information for the implementation of California's food policy and to ensure effective interagency coordination of state policies, programs, and activities regarding California's food system. The bill would also set forth legislative findings and declarations regarding the food supply system.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 regulates mass mailings, known as slate mailers, that support or oppose multiple candidates or ballot measures for an election. The act requires that each slate mailer identify the slate mailer organization or committee primarily formed to support or oppose one or more ballot measures that is sending the slate mailer, and to contain other specified information in specified formatting. The act requires that each candidate and each ballot measure that has paid to appear in the slate mailer be designated by an asterisk. This bill would instead require that a candidate or ballot measure appearing in the slate mailer be designated by an asterisk if the slate mailer organization or committee primarily formed to support or oppose one or more ballot measures that is sending the slate mailer has received payment to include the candidate or ballot measure in the slate mailer. The bill would also recast the language of the prescribed notice to voters that must be included on a slate mailer. The act also regulates advertisements, which are defined as any general or public advertisement that is authorized and paid for by a person or committee for the purpose supporting or opposing a candidate for elective office or a ballot measure or ballot measures. The act places certain disclosure requirements on advertisements for or against any ballot measure, including that the advertisement disclose any person who has made cumulative contributions of $50,000 or more, as prescribed. The act places more specific disclosure requirements on broadcast or mass mailing advertisements that are paid for by independent expenditures that support or oppose a candidate or ballot measure. This bill would repeal provisions relating to disclosures for advertisements paid for by an independent expenditure and required disclosures of persons who have made cumulative contributions of $50,000 or more. This bill would, instead, impose specified disclosure requirements on radio, television, and video advertisements, and certain mass mailing and print advertisements that support or oppose a candidate or ballot measure or solicit contributions in support of those purposes. The bill would require advertisements that are authorized by a candidate or agent of the candidate to include a statement in which the candidate identifies himself or herself and states that he or she approves the message. The bill would require advertisements that are not authorized by a candidate or an agent of the candidate to disclose, in a prescribed format, the 3 largest identifiable contributors, as defined, of the committee that paid for the advertisement. The bill would require mass mailings or print advertisements that are paid for by certain persons who are not committees to disclose the name of that person as the funder of the mass mailing or print advertisement. The bill would also require that certain committees establish and maintain a committee disclosure Internet Web site, as defined, which discloses the top 5 identifiable contributors and provides a link to the Internet Web site maintained by the Secretary of State for campaign finance disclosures of the committee. The bill would require these advertisements to identify the address for the committee disclosure Internet Web site. Existing law makes a knowing or willful violation of the Political Reform Act of 1974 a misdemeanor and subjects offenders to criminal penalties. This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating additional crimes. 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. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
(1) Existing law, the Administrative Procedure Act, governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. Existing law creates the State and Consumer Services; Business, Transportation and Housing; California Emergency Management; California Environmental Protection; California Health and Human Services; Labor and Workforce Development; Natural Resources; and Youth and Adult Correctional Agencies in state government with various duties to oversee the actions of state departments that are within those agencies. This bill would, until January 1, 2013, require each state agency, defined, to mean every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission, except the California State University within 180 days of the effective date of the bill, to undertake specified actions in regards to the regulations that have been adopted by the state agency, including, among others, identifying any regulations that are duplicative, overlapping, inconsistent, or out of date, and adopting, amending, or repealing regulations to reconcile or eliminate any duplication, overlap, inconsistency, or out-of-date provisions, after conducting a publicly noticed hearing, as specified, and using procedures for adopting emergency regulations. The bill would also require each of the overseeing agencies listed above, until January 1, 2013, and within 60 days of the effective date of the bill, to notify any state department, board, or commission within that state agency of any regulations adopted by those entities that the agency has determined may be duplicative, overlapping, or inconsistent with a regulation adopted by another state department, board, or commission within the agency. The bill would also require a state department, board, or commission within an agency to notify that state agency of revisions to regulations that the entity proposes to make at least 60 days prior to the required noticed public hearing and adoption of the emergency regulation, as specified. (2) Existing law sets forth generally the procedures for the review and approval of permits for development projects in the state. This bill would, until January 1, 2013, establish the Streamlined Permit Review Team in state government, consisting of the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing, the Secretary for Environmental Protection, and the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency. The bill would require the team, upon the request of a permit applicant, to convene permitting agencies, as defined, to perform various activities in making the application process more efficient. The bill would require the permitting agencies to determine the completeness of an application complete and act upon the application within specified time periods, subject to certain conditions. This bill would require the team, on or before March 1, 2014, to submit a report to the Governor and to the Legislature with prescribed information relating to the permitting activities of the team. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law authorizes a community college district governing board to enter into a design-build contract, as defined, until January 1, 2014, in which factors in addition to price and cost may be considered in awarding a contract for the design and construction of a community college facility for an amount that exceeds $2,500,000. This bill would establish a design-assist contract pilot program that would authorize the Los Angeles Community College District governing board to enter into a design-assist contract, as defined, for a project with an estimated cost exceeding $2,500,000. The bill would prohibit expenditure of state funds appropriated for a design-assist capital outlay project until the Department of Finance and State Public Works Board have approved performance criteria and concept drawings. The bill would impose various requirements on the governing board related to the design-assist construction process and would prohibit the governing board from entering into more than 8 design-assist contracts under these provisions before January 1, 2017. If the governing board elects to award a design-assist contract for a construction project, the bill would require the governing board to submit a report to the Legislative Analyst's Office in compliance with a specific provision of existing law. The bill would require design-assist entities to verify certain information under oath, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program by expanding the scope of an existing crime. The provisions of the bill would not apply to apply to contracts in effect before the operative date of the bill, and would be repealed on January 1, 2018. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute. 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.
