Existing law makes it unlawful for a person who is required to register as a sex offender to reside within 2,000 feet of a public or private school, or park where children regularly gather. Existing law also provides that any person required to register as a sex offender who comes into any school building or upon any school ground without lawful business and written permission is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would make it a misdemeanor for certain high-risk sex offenders, except in limited instances, to be physically present and delay, linger, or idle about within 100 feet of a sensitive use site, as defined. For purposes of those provisions, a sensitive use site would include specified places where children gather, including bus stops, child care centers, sports centers, and schools. By creating a new 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.
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Existing law creates the Department of Consumer Affairs and establishes the duties of its director, which include the duty to propose and assist in the creation and development of consumer education programs. Existing federal law establishes the Financial Literacy and Education Commission and this commission has promulgated the National Strategy for Financial Literacy. This bill would include in the duties of the Director of Consumer Affairs proposing and assisting in the creation of programs for improving financial literacy. The bill would specifically require that the director participate with the Financial Literacy and Education Commission to implement in California the National Strategy for Financial Literacy, using existing resources. The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations and would state the intent of the Legislature that the State Board of Education, county offices of education, and school districts find ways, within existing resources, to incorporate financial education and literacy into their curriculum offerings and to work with the Director of Consumer Affairs in this regard.
Existing law proscribes various crimes committed against an elder or dependent adult when the person knows or reasonably should know that the victim is an elder or dependent adult related to physical abuse, including causing or permitting an elder or dependent adult to suffer or inflicting thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering and violating. This bill would delete the language requiring that the person either know or reasonably should know that the victim was an elder or dependent adult from the definitions of those crimes. The bill would also expand those crimes to include willfully causing or permitting an elder or dependent adult to sustain any wound or physical or psychological injury. Because this bill would expand the definitions of crimes, 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.
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. Existing law allows the department to contract with one or more prepaid health plans in order to provide Medi-Cal benefits. Existing law allows the Director of Health Care Services to contract with any qualified individual, organization, or entity, including counties, to provide services to, or arrange for or case manage the care of, Medi-Cal beneficiaries. This bill would establish the Medi-Cal Managed Care Pilot Program. Under this program, until July 31, 2016, and subject to the receipt of any necessary federal waivers, the department would be required to provide all seniors and persons with disabilities in the Counties of Riverside and San Bernardino who are not expressly excluded from enrollment with the ability to enroll in a Medi-Cal managed care health plan. The bill would require the department, by July 1, 2010, to complete an implementation plan containing specified elements and prepared in consultation with a health care stakeholder advisory committee, which this bill would require the department to convene in accordance with specified criteria, and to take certain other actions relating to the development of the pilot program. The bill would impose various requirements on managed care plans participating in the program. The bill would require the department to seek federal approval for the program, and to conduct, and, by March 1, 2014, report to the Legislature the results of, an evaluation of the program.
The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various credits against the taxes imposed by that law. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2009, and before January 1, 2012, allow a credit in an amount, not to exceed $3,000, that is otherwise equal to 2%, of the amount paid or incurred for the purchase as a primary residence of a foreclosed dwelling by a taxpayer whose gross income does not exceed a certain threshold. The Personal Income Tax Law allows a deduction for any qualified residence interest. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2010, and before January 1, 2012, allow that deduction only with respect to a qualified residence that is a principal residence, as provided. The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law impose a specified minimum tax on partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2009, and before January 1, 2012, adjust those minimum tax amounts for inflation, as provided. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law creates the California Health and Human Services Agency. Existing law contains various provisions addressing the needs of California's youth and families. This bill would require the Secretary of California Health and Human Services to develop the State Youth and Family Master Plan to achieve specified goals that include setting the general guiding principles the state should follow when developing policies affecting the state's youth and families and identifying all state governmental entities responsible for delivering services to youth and families and bridging the communication gaps between those entities. The bill would require the secretary to schedule meetings, as specified, that seek input from certain government, nonprofit, and private sector stakeholders. The bill would require the secretary to annually report on the progress of the development of the plan to the Legislature and the Governor.
Existing law establishes various housing assistance programs directed by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would establish the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program within the department for the purpose of distributing funds to 2 specified populations of individuals and families facing housing instability, estimated at approximately $44 million, provided by the federal Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program established under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This bill would also establish the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Account within the Federal Trust Fund, a continuously appropriate fund, for the purpose of accepting and distributing these federal funds.
(1) Existing law prohibits a municipally owned or operated public utility (publicly owned utility) furnishing light, water, power, or heat, or an electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation, (corporation) from terminating residential service for nonpayment of a delinquent account in specified situations, including on the certification of a licensed physician and surgeon that to do so will be life threatening to the customer and the customer is financially unable to pay for service within the normal payment period and willing to enter into an amortization agreement with the publicly owned utility or corporation with respect to all charges that the customer is unable to pay prior to delinquency. Existing law permits a customer meeting these requirements to amortize the unpaid balance of a bill over a period not exceeding 12 months. This bill would increase the maximum amortization period to 18 months. (2) Existing law prohibits an electrical, gas, heat, telephone, or water corporation from terminating residential service for nonpayment of any delinquent account or other indebtedness owned by the customer or subscriber to any other person or corporation or when the obligation represented by the delinquent account or other indebtedness was incurred with a person or corporation other than the corporation demanding payment for it. The act exempts from this prohibition a utility that collects sanitation or sewerage charges for a public agency, as specified. This bill would delete that exemption. (3) Existing law requires a decision of an electrical, gas, heat, telephone, or water corporation to require a new residential applicant to deposit a sum of money with that corporation prior to furnishing service to be based solely upon the creditworthiness of the applicant, as determined by the corporation. This bill would prohibit those corporations from seeking to recover charges or penalties, in connection with furnishing services to a tenant of the owner of the residential property to which services were provided, from any subsequent tenant or the property owner. The bill also would prohibit those corporations from demanding or receiving a security deposit in an amount that is more than 2 times the estimated average periodic bill or 3 times the estimated average monthly bill for the provision of services and would prohibit those corporations from imposing a reconnection charge for terminated service if the customer provides that security deposit. (4) Existing law requires the decision of a publicly owned utility to require a new residential applicant to deposit a sum of money with the publicly owned utility prior to furnishing service to be based solely upon the creditworthiness of the applicant, as determined by the public utility. Existing law limits the amount of money that a publicly owned utility may demand or receive from a customer as security for the provision of services. This bill would prohibit a publicly owned utility from demanding or receiving a charge for reconnecting service terminated for nonpayment if the customer posts that security. By imposing new duties on publicly owned utilities, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (5) Under existing law, a violation of any provision of the Public Utilities Act or of any rules or orders issued under the act, is a crime. By imposing new requirements under the act, the violation of which is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (6) 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law provides for the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons receive services enabling them to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing law permits services to be provided under the IHSS program either through the employment of individual providers, a contract between the county and an entity for the provision of services, the creation by the county of a public authority, or a contract between the county and a nonprofit consortium. Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. Under existing law, IHSS recipients who are eligible for the Medi-Cal program are provided with personal care option services, as defined, in lieu of receiving these services under the IHSS program. Existing law, enacted in 2009, makes various statutory changes with respect to the provision of in-home supportive services, relating to matters, including, but not limited to, provider enrollment procedures, criminal background checks, orientation, and duties, as well as eligibility standards for recipients, unannounced home visits, and program integrity and fraud prevention. This bill would make the operation of the statutory changes described above subject to a stakeholder process, to be conducted, as specified, by the State Department of Social Services, prior to the implementation of those changes. The bill would require implementation of any of the statutory changes described in the bill to occur either on the date specified in an applicable statute, or 60 days after the department notifies the Joint Legislative Budget Committee that the changes may be implemented, whichever is later. This bill would prohibit information notices relating to the implementation of these statutory changes from being sent to recipients or providers until the stakeholder process is completed. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes, within the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan, a low-cost automobile insurance program. Existing law establishes the low-cost automobile insurance program in several specified counties and makes the expansion to all other counties in California subject to a determination of need made by the Insurance Commissioner following a public meeting, as specified. Existing law provides for the issuance of automobile liability policies pursuant to this program under specified terms and conditions, and provides that a policy so issued satisfies specified requirements regarding financial responsibility. Existing law provides that the low-cost automobile insurance program shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2011. This bill would name the program the "Martha Escutia and Jackie Speier low-cost automobile insurance program." The bill would also provide that the low-cost automobile insurance program would remain in effect until January 1, 2016.