The California Constitution provides that a person shall be disqualified from holding office if he or she has been convicted of bribery, and directs the Legislature to enact laws to exclude persons convicted of malfeasance in office or other high crimes from office. Under existing statutory law, a person is disqualified from holding any office upon the conviction of specified crimes designated in the Constitution or statute. Existing law enumerates events causing a vacancy in office, including the conviction of a felony or any offense involving a violation of official duties. This bill would disqualify for 5 years a person who employed at will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer from any public employment, including, but not limited to, employment with a city, county, district, or any other public agency of this state, if he or she is convicted of a felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, any bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of his or her duties as a public employee. That 5-year disqualification period would begin at the later of either the person's final conviction or release from any incarceration.
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Existing law provides for creation of airport districts. Existing law provides for transfer of the San Diego International Airport from the San Diego Unified Port District to the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority. This bill would establish the Ontario International Airport Authority as a local entity of regional government. The bill would establish the membership of the board of directors of the authority and set forth the powers of the authority. The bill would authorize the authority to enter into an agreement with the City of Los Angeles to facilitate the sale of, or the transfer of management and operational control of, the Ontario International Airport to the authority. The bill would require the authority, in cooperation with the City of Los Angeles and the City of Ontario, to develop a transition plan to facilitate the sale of, or the transfer of management and operational control of, the Ontario International Airport to the authority. The bill would also require the authority, the City of Los Angeles, the City of Ontario, the County of San Bernardino, other local and regional agencies, and the Department of Transportation to cooperate to develop effective surface transportation access to the Ontario International Airport. To the extent these provisions would impose additional duties on entities of local government, 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, 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.
The State General Obligation Bond Law provides procedures for use in authorizing the issuance and sale and providing for the repayment of state general obligation bonds. This bill would incorporate into the State General Obligation Bond Law a provision that provides that if the Department of Finance determines that funds from a bond act are expended for a purpose not authorized by the bond act, and the entity that is authorized to allocate funds from the sale of bonds does not take the corrective action or measure prescribed by the department within 60 days of receiving notice of the corrective action or measure from the department, then the Department of Finance may prohibit the entity that was responsible for the unauthorized use from allocating any additional funds from the sale of those bonds. The bill would provide that its provisions apply only to the allocation of funds that are authorized under a bond act that is adopted on or after January 1, 2013.
Existing law, the Chiropractic Act, enacted by initiative act, provides for the licensure and regulation of chiropractors by the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Under the act, a license authorizes its holder to practice chiropractic as taught in chiropractic schools or colleges but does not authorize its holder to practice medicine, surgery, osteopathy, dentistry, or optometry. Existing law prohibits a chiropractor, among other healing arts practitioners, from disseminating any form of public communications containing a false, fraudulent, misleading, or deceptive statement for the purpose of inducing the rendering of professional services, as specified. This bill would specify that the practice of chiropractic does not include the treatment of hypersensitivity to foods, medications, environmental allergens, or venoms, and would prohibit a chiropractor from advertising that he or she provides or is able to provide those services, as specified. The bill would specify that a violation of these provisions constitutes a cause for discipline by the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
Existing law, the Open Enrollment Act, authorizes the parent of a pupil enrolled in a low-achieving school, as defined, to submit an application for the pupil to attend a school in a school district other than the school district in which the parent of the pupil resides. Existing law requires that applications for transfer be submitted by the parent of a pupil to the school district of enrollment prior to January 1 of the school year preceding the school year for which the pupil is requesting to transfer. A school district may adopt specific, written standards for acceptance and rejection of applications made pursuant to the act. The standards may include consideration of the capacity of a program, class, grade level, school building, or adverse financial impact. The standards are prohibited from including consideration of a pupil's previous academic achievement, physical condition, proficiency in the English language, family income, disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified individual characteristics. Existing law encourages school districts to keep an accounting of requests for alternative attendance made pursuant to the act. This bill would redefine a "low-achieving school" as an "enrollment opportunities school." The bill would change the application deadline from January 1 to January 5 of the school year preceding the school year for which the pupil is requesting to transfer.
This measure would urge Congress and the President to restore full funding for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program and to fully reimburse states for the cost of incarcerating undocumented criminals.
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 requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, on or before September 1, 2011, to adopt emergency regulations to establish a fire prevention fee in an amount not to exceed $150 to be charged on each structure on a parcel that is within a state responsibility area, as defined, and requires that the fire prevention fee be adjusted annually using prescribed methods. Existing law requires the State Board of Equalization to collect the fire prevention fees, as prescribed, commencing with the 2011–12 fiscal year. Existing law establishes the State Responsibility Area Fire Prevention Fund and prohibits the collection of fire prevention fees if, commencing with the 2012–13 fiscal year, there are sufficient amounts of moneys in the fund to finance specified fire prevention activities for a fiscal year. Existing law requires that the fire prevention fees collected, except as provided, be deposited into the fund and be made available, to the board and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for certain specified fire protection activities that benefit the owners of structures in state responsibility areas who are required to pay the fee. Existing law further requires the board, on and after January 1, 2013, to submit an annual written report to the Legislature on specified topics. This bill would repeal the above provisions relating to the fire prevention fees.
Existing law requires every schoolbus, while being used for the transportation of school pupils at or below the 12th grade level, to bear upon the front and rear of the bus a plainly visible sign containing the word "schoolbus" in letters not less than 8 inches in height. Existing law requires that the letters on schoolbus signs be of proportionate width. This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, authorize a local school district to approve the placement of commercial advertisements on the exterior of a schoolbus, subject to specified restrictions, that require, among other things, that the district adopt policies and guidelines in connection with the content of the advertising. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol to adopt and enforce rules and regulations relating to the design, placement, and size of the signage on the exterior of the schoolbus. The bill would prohibit a schoolbus from having more than 2 advertisements at a time and would prohibit each advertisement from covering more than 35% of the space available.
This measure would designate the week of May 13 through May 19, 2012, as Food Allergy Awareness Week.