Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to enforce various provisions of existing law regarding the manufacture, blending, production, and sale of olive oil. Existing law makes the violation of these provisions a crime. Existing law defines olive oil to mean the edible oil obtained solely from the fruit of the olive tree to the exclusion of oils obtained using solvents or reesterification processes and of any mixture with oils derived of other kinds except in the making of flavored olive oil. Existing law also defines olive oil grades and provides that olive oil grades are to be in a specified order. This bill would revise the definitions of olive oil and grades of olive oil and olive-pomace oil, as specified. It would require lampante virgin olive oil and crude olive-pomace oil to be refined before consumption. By changing the definition of a crime, this 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.
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(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.
Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Department of Public Health to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health, including, but not limited to, conducting research, studies, and demonstration programs relating to the provision of a dependable, safe supply of drinking water, enforcing the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, adopting and enforcing regulations, and conducting studies and investigations to assess the quality of water in domestic water supplies. Existing law establishes the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the department for the provision of grants and revolving fund loans to provide for the design and construction of projects for public water systems that will enable suppliers to meet safe drinking water standards. Existing law requires the department to establish criteria for projects to be eligible for the grant and loan program. This bill would authorize the department to take specified actions to improve access to financial assistance for small community water systems and not-for-profit nontransient noncommunity water systems serving severely disadvantaged communities, as defined. Under existing law, not less than 15% of the fund is required to be expended for providing loans and grants to eligible projects by public water systems that regularly serve fewer than 10,000 persons. This bill would require small community water systems or nontransient noncommunity water systems, owned by a public agency or private not-for-profit water company, serving severely disadvantaged communities to be eligible to receive up to 100% of eligible project costs in the form of a grant, to the extent the system cannot afford a loan. By authorizing additional uses for moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 116761.23 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by AB 938, which would become operative only if AB 938 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2012, and this bill is chaptered last.
Existing law gives control of the state park system to the Department of Parks and Recreation. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into agreements with an agency of the United States, a city, county, district, or other public agency or any combination thereof, for the care, maintenance, administration, and control by a party to the agreement of lands under the jurisdiction of a party to the agreement, for the purpose of the state park system. This bill would authorize the department to enter into an operating agreement for the development, improvement, restoration, care, maintenance, administration, or operation of a unit or units, or portion of a unit, of the state park system, as identified by the director, with a qualified nonprofit organization, as provided. This bill would require the operating agreement to include, among other things, a requirement that the nonprofit organization annually submit a report to the department, to be available on the Internet Web site of both the department and the nonprofit organization. The bill would require the nonprofit organization and the district superintendent for the department to hold a joint public meeting for discussion of the report. The bill would require the department to notify a Member of the Legislature of an intention to enter into an operating agreement relating to a park in the member's district, as well as notify specified committees of the Legislature. The bill would also require the department to report to the Legislature, on a biennial basis, the status of any operating agreement. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2019.
Existing law authorizes various state agencies to employ such assistance as may be necessary for the proper discharge of their duties. Existing law prohibits the juvenile court, in certain cases, from terminating jurisdiction over a dependent child until the county welfare department submits a report verifying that certain information has been provided to the minor, including his or her social security card and birth certificate. This bill would require state agencies, when hiring for internships and student assistant positions, to give preference, as defined, to persons who are, or have been, dependent children in foster care. The bill would require the preference to be granted to applicants up to 26 years of age. The bill would also require the county welfare department to provide dependent children with information notifying them that they may be eligible for this preference, as specified. By imposing this additional duty on county welfare departments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 391 of the Welfare and Institutions Code made by AB 212, to become operative if AB 212 and this bill become effective on or before January 1, 2012, and this bill is enacted last. 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 that a pupil is deemed to have complied with the residency requirements for school attendance in a school district if the pupil satisfies one of the specified requirements. Until July 1, 2012, existing law authorizes a school district in which at least one parent or the legal guardian of a pupil is employed to allow that pupil to attend a school in that district through grade 12 if the parent or legal guardian of the pupil so chooses and if the parent or legal guardian of the pupil continues to be employed by an employer situated within the attendance boundaries of the district. This bill would extend the operation of the provision authorizing the school district in which a parent or the legal guardian of the pupil is physically employed to allow the pupil to attend a school in that district, through June 30, 2017, and would repeal the provision on January 1, 2018. The bill additionally would modify this provision by requiring that the parent or legal guardian's employment occur within the boundaries of that school district for a minimum of 10 hours during the school week. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes.
Existing law provides for the confidentiality of financial records but does not prohibit various state and local officers and agencies from requesting information from an office or branch of a financial institution and the office or branch from responding to the request, as to whether a person has an account or accounts at that office or branch and, if so, any identifying numbers of the account or accounts. Existing law provides that a county adult protective services office and a long-term care ombudsman when investigating the financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult is similarly not prohibited from requesting financial information and the office or branch is not prohibited from responding to the request. The Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act establishes procedures for the reporting, investigation, and prosecution of elder and dependent adult abuse. The act requires persons, defined as mandated reporters, to report known or suspected instances of elder or dependent adult abuse. Under the act, care custodians of elder or dependent adults and local law enforcement agencies are mandated reporters. A violation of the reporting requirements by a mandated reporter is a misdemeanor. Existing law, until January 1, 2013, includes within these reporting requirements mandated reporters of suspected financial abuse, as defined, and, with certain exceptions, makes failure to comply with these requirements subject to a civil penalty. This bill would delete the January 1, 2013, repeal date. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 15630.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, proposed by SB 718, to be operative only if SB 718 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2012, and this bill is chaptered last.
Existing law imposes an annual assessment of 1% on the gross sales of all deciduous pome and stone fruit trees, nut trees, and grapevines, including seeds, seedlings, rootstocks, and topstock, including ornamental varieties of apple, apricot, crabapple, cherry, nectarine, peach, pear, and plum, produced and sold within the state or produced within and shipped from the state by any licensed nursery dealer, and provides that for packaged or containerized stock, the assessment shall be levied on the producer's bareroot price of the plants, and specifies the purposes for which the assessment may be used. Existing law provides that the assessment shall be paid into the State Treasury and shall be credited to the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, a continuously appropriated fund for these purposes. This bill would include olive trees within the plants that are subject to the assessment. By depositing additional money into a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. Existing law authorizes the Department of Food and Agriculture to enter into agreements with the University of California, any commissioner, and any qualified research agency, to assist in the development of planting material for pome and stone fruit, nut tree, and grapevine production. Existing law requires the agreements to provide for payment for services rendered from fees collected pursuant to the provisions described above. This bill would additionally authorize the department to enter into agreements to assist in the development of planting material for olive tree production. Because the bill would expand the scope of the services for which payment may be made for services rendered from the fees described above, the bill would deposit additional moneys into, and would expand the scope of the authorization to spend moneys from, a continuously appropriated fund, thereby making an appropriation. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture, upon consultation with the pome and stone fruit tree, nut tree, and grapevine nursery industry, to appoint a board to assist and advise him or her concerning the implementation of the assessment and other related provisions of law. Existing law requires board members to represent all areas of the state involved in the production of pome and stone fruit trees, nut trees, and grapevines. This bill would extend membership on the board to include representatives of licensed olive nursery stock producers, as specified, and require the secretary to additionally consult with the olive industry in appointing the board. The bill would include olive trees among those items of production that are required to be represented by board members.
This measure would designate the month of September of every year as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month throughout the State of California, and would encourage and promote efforts to educate the people and the health care practitioners of the state regarding ovarian cancer and its early detection and prevention, the risk factors involved in its development, and the early warning symptoms and signs.
The Vehicle License Fee Law, in lieu of any ad valorem property tax upon vehicles, imposes an annual license fee on any vehicle subject to registration in this state in the amount, on and after July 1, 2011, of 0.65% of the market value of that vehicle, as provided. For all initial and renewal registrations due on and after May 1, 2009, but before July 1, 2011, existing law also imposes an additional fee equal to 0.15% of the market value of specified vehicles, as determined by the Department of Motor Vehicles, to be deposited in the General Fund and transferred to the Local Safety and Protection Account. Existing law continuously appropriates all moneys in the Local Safety and Protection Account without regard to fiscal year, to the Controller for allocation, as provided. This bill would, for all initial and renewal registrations due on and after January 1, 2012, impose an additional vehicle license fee equal to 0.15% of the market value of the above-described vehicles, as specified. It would also require all revenues from the additional license fee to be deposited in the General Fund. During the 2011–12 fiscal year, the bill would transfer an amount to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, a continuously appropriated fund, for allocation to cities, counties, and cities and counties, as specified. The bill would require a transfer of revenues, during the 2012-13 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter to be allocated according the following order: first to be transferred to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, as specified; and second, a total of $35,000,000 to be transferred to the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement and Bureau of Investigation and Intelligence Fund, which the bill would create as a continuously appropriated fund. Funds not transferred would continue to be General Fund moneys. By depositing moneys into a continuously appropriated fund and by establishing a new, continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. Existing law requires that a specified portion of the motor vehicle license fee revenues deposited to the credit of the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund be allocated or transferred by the Controller with those revenues being allocated on or after July 1, 2004, but before July 1, 2011, first to the County of Orange and next to each city and county meeting specified criteria; and those revenues being allocated on or after July 1, 2011, to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, for allocation to cities, counties, and cities and counties. This bill would instead limit that allocation for the 2011–12 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter to $300,000,000 in monthly installments. The bill would then allocate the moneys to the County of Orange, and to other cities and counties meeting specified criteria in the order specified prior to July 1, 2011, as provided. By authorizing revenues deposited in the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, to be used for a new purpose, the bill would make an appropriation. 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.