(1) The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of blight, as defined, in blighted areas in those communities known as project areas. Existing law requires redevelopment agencies in specified years to remit to the county auditor an amount of revenue, determined in accordance with specified calculations made by the Director of Finance and based on a specified report of the Controller, for deposit in the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund or Supplemental Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in each county for allocation to school entities, as prescribed. This bill would authorize a redevelopment agency to make a voluntary payment to local educational agencies, as defined, from property tax revenues allocated pursuant to a specified provision of existing law for the 2011–12 fiscal year, in an amount as prescribed. The bill would authorize an agency electing to make the voluntary payment to amend and extend specified redevelopment plan time limitations, as prescribed. The bill would also authorize certain joint powers authorities to issue bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness and loan the net proceeds to an agency, as prescribed, for purposes of making certain of the above-described voluntary payments to local educational agencies, as specified. The bill would require that a first lien be placed upon the property tax revenues allocated to the legislative body that established the agency, which, in the event that the agency fails to timely repay the loan, the county auditor would be required to reallocate for the payment of any past due amount of the agency's loan. (2) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion to each school district in the county a revenue amount each fiscal year less a sum that includes amounts received under specified provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law. The bill would include in the above-described sum the amount of voluntary agency payments by the agencies to the local educational agencies, as specified. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. (4) 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.
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This measure would proclaim October 22 to October 30, 2011, as including Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.
Existing law authorizes the juvenile court, if a minor is found to be within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court by reason of the commission of a gang-related offense, and the court finds that the minor is a first-time offender and orders that a parent or guardian retain custody of that minor, to order the parent or guardian to attend antigang violence parenting classes. Under existing law, the father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of the minor, the estate of that person, and the estate of the minor are liable for the cost of the classes, unless the court finds that the person or estate does not have the financial ability to pay. This bill would expand the authority of the juvenile court to order the parent or guardian of a minor to attend antigang violence parenting classes to additionally apply to a minor who is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court for habitual disobedience, a curfew violation, truancy, or an offense that is not gang-related if the court finds the presence of significant risk factors for gang involvement on the part of the minor.
This measure would recognize March 31, 2011, as the anniversary of the birth of César Chávez, and would call upon all Californians to participate in appropriate observances to remember César Chávez as a symbol of hope and justice to all persons.
This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to continue to provide resources to increase the supply of physicians in California and to consider solutions that would increase the number of graduate medical education residency positions.
This measure would continue designation and observance of the month of October as Italian American Heritage Month. This measure would also encourage the Legislature to continue the Italian American Legislator Project and welcome the exhibit "The Italian American Legislator Project of 2011: A Legacy of Service to the California Legislature" to the State Capitol Building in October 2011 and encourage all Californians, through the K–12 curriculum and otherwise, to learn about the history, role, and contributions of Italian Americans to the State of California.
This measure would proclaim May 2011 as Buy California Small Business First Month.
Existing law provides for statewide election of a slate of electors to vote in the electoral college for President and Vice President of the United States. Under existing law, each political party selects its slate of presidential electors in accordance with statutory procedures that differ by party. This bill would ratify a specified interstate compact that requires the chief election official of each signatory state to appoint the slate of presidential electors that was nominated in association with the presidential ticket that received the largest national popular vote total. This compact would only become effective if states cumulatively possessing a majority of the total electoral votes have ratified the compact.