Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services, with the approval of the Adjutant General, to lease and sell real property held for armory purposes, subject to legislative approval. Existing law establishes the Armory Fund and requires that the net proceeds from the sale or lease of armories be deposited into the fund, for use, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified purposes related to armories. Existing law authorizes the sale of specified armories. This bill would require the Director of General Services, with approval of the Adjutant General, to grant specified cities and school districts, among others, an option to purchase specified armories located within their respective jurisdictions. The bill would additionally require the director, upon expiration of the options, to offer the armories for sale pursuant to existing law. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the entities being granted the options.
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Existing federal law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, provides for the negotiation and execution of tribal-state gaming compacts for the purpose of authorizing certain types of gaming on Indian lands within a state. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to negotiate and conclude compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law expressly ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts, and amendments to tribal-state gaming compacts, between the State of California and specified Indian tribes. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would ratify the tribal-state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, executed on August 16, 2016. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions are not projects for the purposes of CEQA.
This measure would urge the federal government to ensure that immigrant children are afforded due process under the law in removal proceedings by providing government-funded attorneys, trained in immigration law, to all indigent children seeking an immigration remedy. The measure would urge the federal government to first hear cases involving children that have legal counsel and to immediately halt cases brought against unrepresented immigrant children until lawyers are made available to represent them.
Existing law requires the Attorney General, who is the head of the Department of Justice, to report certain claims, settlements, and judgments against the state to the chairperson of the Senate Committee on Appropriations or the Assembly Committee on Appropriations. Existing law requires the chairperson to introduce legislation appropriating funds for the payment of the claims, settlements, and judgments. This bill would appropriate $36,555,686.61 from the General Fund to the Department of Justice to pay the judgment and any applicable interest or settlement in specified cases. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would promote the Los Angeles Basin as a bioscience hub to provide new economic opportunity for the State of California, and would declare the intent of the Legislature to develop and encourage state and local policy proposals that focus on the Los Angeles Basin bioscience industry.
Existing law establishes the South Coast Air Quality Management District vested with the authority to regulate air emissions from stationary sources located in the South Coast Air Basin and establishes a district board, consisting of 13 members. This bill, until January 1, 2025, would add 3 members to the district board, as specified. The bill would make various conforming changes. This bill also would prohibit a member of the south coast district board from being issued a vehicle from the south coast district for greater than 7 days in a 30-day period if the board member is eligible for a vehicle or vehicle allowance from the local government from which he or she is appointed.
Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide that the University of California constitutes a public trust, and require the university to be administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes. Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide that the regents consist of 7 ex officio members, and 18 members appointed by the Governor and approved by the Senate, a majority of the membership concurring, for 12-year terms. The California Constitution authorizes the board of regents to appoint a student or faculty member of the university, or both, to the board, as specified. This measure would reduce the terms of regents appointed by the Governor for terms commencing on or after the effective date of the measure to 10 years, and would prohibit these regents from serving more than 2 terms on the board, as specified. The measure would provide that regents serving on the board on the effective date of the measure who had served more than one term, as specified, could continue to serve until the expiration of their terms, but would not be eligible for reappointment to the board. The measure would also provide that regents serving in their first terms on the board on the effective date of the measure, as specified, would be eligible for reappointment to the board for no more than one additional term. Notwithstanding the provisions of the measure described above, the measure would make a member appointed to fill a vacancy on the board eligible for reappointment to the board for no more than one term.
Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any owner or manager of an elephant to engage in abusive behavior toward the elephant, which includes disciplining an elephant by specified methods. Existing law prohibits the importation, transportation, possession, or live release of specified wild animals, including all species of the order Proboscidea (elephants) into this state, except under a revocable, nontransferable permit, known as a restricted species permit, issued by the Department of Fish and Wildlife, in cooperation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, and only if certain requirements are met. Existing law requires the Fish and Game Commission to revoke a permit under certain circumstances and, in cooperation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, to adopt regulations for the notification of the revocation, termination, or denial of permits, and related appeals. Existing law authorizes specified entities, including the Department of Fish and Wildlife, to enforce these provisions. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is a crime and is subject to specified civil penalties. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2018, prohibit any person who houses, possesses, or is in direct contact with an elephant from using, or authorizing or allowing an employee, agent, or contractor to use, a bullhook, ankus, baseball bat, axe handle, pitchfork, or other device designed to inflict pain for the purpose of training or controlling the behavior of an elephant. A person who violates these provisions would not be subject to criminal penalty but would be subject to civil penalties and the restricted species permit for the elephant would be subject to immediate suspension or revocation by the Department of Fish and Wildlife. The bill would authorize a person whose permit is suspended or revoked to appeal the suspension or revocation to the commission by filing a written request for an appeal within 30 days of the suspension or revocation.
This measure would recognize the year of 2016 as the 50th anniversary of California's community-based developmental services system, and would reaffirm the commitment of the Legislature to support this system. This measure would declare the importance of ensuring a sustainable system that protects the rights of individuals with developmental disabilities.