This measure would honor and recognize the service and sacrifice made by members of the Armed Forces and their families on the occasion of Armed Forces Day on May 19, 2012.
This measure would acknowledge the month of April 2012 as Child Abuse Prevention Month, and encourage the people of the State of California to work together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention activities in their communities and schools.
Existing law defines gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and prescribes penalties of imprisonment in the state prison for 4, 6, or 10 years and in a county jail for 16 months, 2 years, or 4 years, respectively, as specified. Vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated is also punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year. This bill would, in addition to the above-specified penalties, impose a fine for gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated of not less than $2,000 and a fine for vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated of not less than $1,000 but not more than $10,000, as specified. Existing law defines vehicular manslaughter and prescribes specified terms in prison. This bill would add to the penalty for vehicular manslaughter a fine of not less than $1,000 but not more than $10,000. Existing law provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that persons sentenced to state prison for a determinate sentence serve the entire sentence imposed by the court, except for a reduction in the time served in the custody of the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as specified. Existing law permits a prisoner to earn one day of credit for each day in custody, up to a maximum of 6 months for every 6 months served, except when the prisoner commits a specified act of misconduct, including murder or manslaughter. Existing law prohibits a person who has committed a violent felony from accruing more than 15% of worktime credit. Existing law allows a prisoner confined to a county jail, industrial farm, road camp, or city jail, for each 4-day period in which a prisoner is confined or committed to the facility, to have 2 days deducted from his or her period of confinement, with specified exceptions. This bill would limit the credits available to a person who is serving a sentence in either state prison or a county jail, industrial farm, road camp, or city jail for specified cases of vehicular manslaughter, including gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, to 15% of the worktime credits. By increasing the time served in county jails, 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.
This measure would call upon all Californians to observe César Chávez's birthday, March 31, as a day of public service, to recognize the hard work and self-sacrifice that farmworkers go through to feed all the families in our state, and to learn from César Chávez's life and his mission of nonviolence, social justice, and selfless service to others.
Existing law authorizes a local authority to regulate mobile billboard advertising displays, including the establishment of penalties. Existing law further authorizes a peace officer, or a regularly employed and salaried public employee who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations to remove a vehicle under specified provisions when the vehicle is a mobile billboard advertising display and is parked or left standing in violation of a local resolution or ordinance, if the registered owner of the vehicle was previously issued a warning citation for the same offense. For purposes of those provisions, existing law defines the term "mobile billboard advertising display" to mean an advertising display that is attached to a mobile, nonmotorized vehicle, device, or bicycle, that carries, pulls, or transports a sign or billboard, and is for the primary purpose of advertising. This bill would, for purposes of those provisions authorizing a local authority to regulate mobile billboard advertising displays, and authorizing the removal of a vehicle when the vehicle is a mobile billboard advertising display and is left standing in violation of a local resolution or ordinance, include within the definition of "mobile billboard advertising display" any advertising display that is attached to any vehicle that is required to be registered under the Vehicle Code that carries, pulls, or transports a sign or billboard, and is for the primary purpose of advertising.
This measure would designate the month of November 2012 as California Runaway and Homeless Youth Month and would recognize the need for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local governments, and the state to take action on behalf of runaway and homeless youth in California.
Existing law prohibits employers from ordering a mass layoff, relocation, or termination, as defined, of an industrial or commercial facility employing a prescribed number of people, without first giving 60 days' notice to affected employees and specified government agencies. This bill would make these provisions applicable to a call center employer that employs, or has employed within the preceding 12 months, 50 or more persons. The bill would require a customer service representative who receives or makes a telephone call to a customer residing in the state to identify to the customer the location of the call center from which the customer service representative is calling. The bill would require the customer service representative to transfer the customer to a call center located within the United States, upon request of the customer.
This measure would proclaim California as a Purple Heart State, honoring the service and sacrifices of our nation's men and women in uniform wounded or killed by the enemy while serving to protect the freedoms enjoyed by all Americans.
This measure would proclaim April 15 through April 22, 2012, as California Holocaust Memorial Week and would urge Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.
