The Mitigation Fee Act, if a local agency requires the payment of certain fees to provide for an improvement to serve a development project in connection with the approval of that development project, requires the local agency receiving the fee to deposit the fee with the other fees imposed for the improvement in a separate capital facilities account or fund and to expend those fees solely for the purpose for which the fees were collected. The act requires the local agency, within 180 days after the last day of each fiscal year, to make public specified information for the fiscal year about each separate account or fund established, including the amount of fees collected and an identification of each public improvement on which fees were expended. The act authorizes a local agency to retain an independent auditor if requested to conduct an audit to determine whether a fee or charge is reasonable, provided that the person who requests the audit deposits with the local agency the amount of the local agency's reasonable estimate of the cost of that audit. At the conclusion of the audit, the act requires the local agency to reimburse unused sums, if any, but requires the person to pay the local agency the excess of the actual cost of the audit over the sum which was deposited. This bill would prohibit a local agency that does not comply with the requirement to disclose information regarding separate capital facilities funds or accounts following the establishment, increase, or imposition of a certain fee but requires the payment of that fee in connection with a development project for 3 consecutive years, from requiring a deposit for an independent audit, as described above, and instead require the local agency to pay the cost of the audit.
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This measure would declare August 7, 2018, as Purple Heart Day in California.
Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state to have a minimum refund value. Under existing law, a beverage distributor is required to pay a redemption payment to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the state to a dealer, and the department is required to deposit those amounts in the continuously appropriated California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. Existing law requires each glass container manufacturer to use a minimum percentage of 35% of postfilled glass in the manufacturing of its glass food, drink, or beverage containers. Existing law provides that a violation of the act or a regulation adopted pursuant to the act is a crime. This bill would require, commencing January 1, 2020, a beverage container that is a PET plastic container to be constructed with a minimum of 20% postconsumer recycled plastic. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2021, to establish minimum postconsumer recycled content standards for beverage containers that are constructed of plastic, material other than metal, glass, or plastic, or any combination of plastic and material other than metal, glass, or plastic. The bill would authorize the department to adjust the minimum content standards, as specified, but not more frequently than annually. The bill would require a beverage manufacturer to certify with the department, under penalty of perjury, that it is in compliance with the minimum content standards and would provide that failure of a beverage manufacturer to meet the minimum content standards constitutes a separate violation per day. The bill would require a beverage manufacturer to report to the department for each month the amount of beverage containers subject to the minimum content standards sold in California by the beverage manufacturer and the amount of postconsumer recycled content used in the manufacturing of those containers. By expanding the crime of perjury and creating new crimes relating to the regulation of beverage containers, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2020, to evaluate other beverage container redemption programs and to provide to the Legislature a report on aspects of those programs that may be incorporated into California's beverage container redemption program, as specified. 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 authorizes specified counties to develop the Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Program and the Central Coast Rural Crime Prevention Program. Existing law requires the participating counties to form a regional task force to develop crime prevention, problem solving, and crime control techniques, to encourage timely reporting of crimes, and to evaluate the results of these activities. Existing law prescribes the percentage of the funds appropriated for the Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Project that is allocated to each participating county. This bill would authorize the Counties of Riverside and San Bernardino to create the Inland Empire Rural Crime Prevention Program. The bill would require those counties, if they participate, to form a regional task force. The bill would allocate moneys appropriated to the program by the Legislature equally between the counties for these purposes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income persons receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law provides for a schedule of benefits under the Medi-Cal program, which includes pharmacist services, subject to approval by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Under existing law, covered pharmacist services include, but are not limited to, furnishing travel medications, initiating and administering immunizations, providing tobacco cessation counseling, and furnishing nicotine replacement therapy. This bill would include providing specified hypertension medication management services as a covered pharmacist service under the Medi-Cal program.
Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature for all public schools teaching kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, operated by a school district, to develop, in cooperation with specified community partners, a comprehensive school safety plan, as defined. Existing law requires each school district and county office of education to be responsible for the overall development of all comprehensive school safety plans for its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. This bill would establish the County of Riverside school metal detector pilot program, and would authorize, as part of the pilot program, the Riverside County Office of Education to accept donations from private individuals and entities for the purpose of assisting public schools, as defined, located within the County of Riverside to purchase metal detectors through monetary grants. The bill would provide for the application for those grants by public schools located within the County of Riverside and the review of those applications and awarding of those grants to applicant public schools by the Riverside County Office of Education, as specified. If the amount donated under the pilot program reaches $900,000, the bill would appropriate $100,000 from the General Fund to the Riverside County Office of Education for the purpose of awarding those grants. The bill would require the State Department of Education to review the implementation of the pilot program and determine whether the pilot program was successful, and, if the department determines that the pilot program was successful, to submit a recommendation to the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the pilot program to other counties. The bill would repeal its provisions 6 years after the effective date of the bill. Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Riverside. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law enumerates the civil rights that are retained by prisoners, including the right to correspond, confidentially, with any member of the State Bar or holder of public office, except that prison authorities are authorized to open and inspect incoming mail to search for contraband. Existing law also provides that prison authorities may exclude obscene publications or writings and open and inspect any and all packages received by an inmate. Existing law authorizes a court to issue a restraining order or protective order enjoining the restrained party from contacting the protected party, as specified. Under existing law, violation of the terms of a restraining order is punishable as a misdemeanor and subsequent violations are punishable as a misdemeanor or felony. This bill would authorize prison authorities to open and inspect outgoing mail for purposes of enforcing a restraining order or protective order against an inmate, but would prohibit prison authorities from opening or inspecting outgoing confidential correspondence between a prisoner and his or her attorney.
This measure would proclaim the month of May 2018 as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month in California, and would encourage continued research in order to find treatments and eventually a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.