This measure would recognize March 31, 2009, 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 request the President and the Congress of the United States to enact the Social Security Fairness Act of 2009, which would repeal the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision from the Social Security Act.
This measure would declare the Legislature's support for a Bill of Rights for the Children and Youth of California that resolves to invest in all children and youth so that certain goals may be achieved.
This measure would make various statements regarding the importance of New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) to the California economy and would declare the necessity for the Legislature to utilize its vested powers to keep NUMMI in California.
This measure requests the United States government to restrict swordfish imports unless and until there is a process by which a nation seeking to export swordfish or swordfish products to the United States provides reasonable proof of the effects on marine mammals of the commercial fishing technology used to obtain the swordfish or swordfish products, and the National Marine Fisheries Service receives that proof and determines that the proof demonstrates that the swordfish or swordfish products to be imported were not caught with commercial fishing technology that results in the incidental kill or incidental serious injury of marine mammals in excess of United States standards.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 15 in Temecula as the Deputy Kent Hintergardt Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.
This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to expand federally funded research efforts aimed at developing a reliable means of detecting pancreatic cancer in its early stages.
Existing law requires secondhand dealers and coin dealers, as defined, to report acquisitions of tangible personal property on a daily basis to local law enforcement authorities, as specified. Existing law requires that report to include the identification of the intended seller or pledger of the property and requires that the person taking the information verify that identification. Existing law provides that this verification is valid if the person taking the information reasonably relies on a specified document that is currently valid or has been issued within 5 years and contains a photograph or description, or both, of the person named on it, is signed by the person, and bears a serial or other identifying number. This bill would remove the signature and serial or identifying number requirements for a document to be reasonably relied upon for verification and would instead provide that a signature or a serial or identifying number is only required for those documents where applicable.
Existing law authorizes the sale of service contracts obligating the service contractor to provide to the buyer of the product, without additional charge, all of the services and functional parts that may be necessary to maintain proper operation of the product and service for the duration of the contract, except as specified. Existing law imposes specified requirements on the terms of a service contract. This bill would require a retailer that sells a service contract, during the period that the service contract is in effect, to (1) maintain contract information that includes a description of the terms and conditions of the service contract, and provide that information to the purchaser of the service contract or other beneficiary upon request, or (2) obtain a copy of the service contract upon request from the purchaser of the service contract or other beneficiary, and provide that copy to the requester within 10 business days after receiving the request. This requirement would not apply to a vehicle service contract, as defined.
Existing law provides that the report of the official reporter or official reporter pro tempore of any court, as specified, when transcribed and certified as being a correct transcript of the testimony and proceedings in a case, is prima facie evidence of that testimony and proceedings. Existing law specifically provides that the report, when prepared as a rough draft transcript, shall not be certified and cannot be used, cited, or transcribed as the official certified transcript of the proceedings. Existing law also provides that the rough draft transcript may not be cited or used to rebut or contradict the official certified transcript and that the production of a rough draft transcript shall not be required. This bill would provide, until January 1, 2017, that the instant visual display of the testimony or proceedings, or both, shall not be certified and cannot be used, cited, distributed, or transcribed as the official certified transcript of the proceedings. The bill also would prohibit the citation or use of the instant visual display of the testimony or proceedings, or both, to rebut or contradict the official certified transcript of the proceedings.
