The Outdoor Advertising Act provides for the regulation by the Department of Transportation of advertising displays, as defined, within view of public highways. With the exception of products, goods, or services directed at an adult population, the act exempts from its provisions certain advertising displays in existence before January 1, 2009, at an arena located on public land with a capacity of 5,000 seats or more that provides a permanent venue for professional sports, and that advertises products, goods, or services that are or will be sold on the premise of the arena on a regular basis pursuant to an agreement of at least one year duration between the vendor or business and the property owner, facility owner, or facility operator. This bill would authorize the advertising displays at the arena to advertise certain food and beverage products directed at an adult population if they are consumed on the premises and the products were advertised prior to July 1, 2008, as specified.
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(1) Existing law establishes the Multifamily Housing Program under the administration of the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide assistance to housing projects in the form of a deferred payment loan to pay for the eligible costs of specified developments. Existing law includes as eligible costs, the cost of developing dwelling units, transitional housing, and child care, and after school care and social service facilities integrally linked to the assisted dwelling units. This bill would include as an eligible cost the cost of supportive service facilities integrally linked to homeless veteran dwelling units assisted pursuant to the Homeless Veterans Housing and Supportive Services Act of 2010. (2) Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, multifamily housing, emergency housing, farmworker housing, home ownership for very low and low-income households, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. This bill would enact the Homeless Veterans Housing and Supportive Services Act of 2010, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $1,500,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance supportive housing projects for homeless veterans, or veterans at risk of homelessness, with incomes below limits determined by the Department of Housing and Community Development. The bill would provide for submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 2, 2010, statewide general election in accordance with specified law. (3) Existing law defines "veteran" for the purposes of the various programs bestowing benefits upon veterans. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that definition. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law establishes the public school system in this state and, among other things, provides for the establishment of school districts throughout the state and for their provision of instruction at the public elementary and secondary schools they operate and maintain. Existing law authorizes school districts to establish and maintain a paper recycling program in all classrooms, administrative offices, and other areas owned or leased by the school district where a significant quality of wastepaper is generated or may be collected. Existing law requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to develop and implement a source reduction and recycling program for schools in which schools are encouraged, but not required, to participate. This bill would express findings and declarations of the Legislature with respect to the potential benefits of school recycling programs. The bill would, until January 1, 2012, require each school district to establish a beverage container recycling program at each school campus and public office of that school district, but only to the extent that the district does not incur costs. Under the bill, a school district would be authorized to choose whether to operate its own beverage container recycling program, to contact its local Community Conservation Corps or another recycler to collect the beverage containers, to provide a beverage container collection program as a fundraising activity for the school district, or to continue a recycling program in existence on January 1, 2010. Because the bill would impose new duties on school districts, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the California Integrated Waste Management Board and the Department of Conservation to provide specified recycling supplies and materials to a school district to which the bill is applicable upon request of that district. The bill would authorize school districts to enter into an agreement or partnership with a public agency or private sector or nonprofit entity to obtain all or part of the supplies and information necessary for participation in the beverage container recycling program and to use the proceeds from the program for specified purposes. (2) 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Under existing law, prosecution for specified felony sex offenses, including rape, sodomy, lewd or lascivious acts, oral copulation, continuous sexual abuse of a child, and acts of sexual penetration that are alleged to have been committed when the victim was under the age of 18 years, may be commenced at any time prior to the victim's 28th birthday. Existing law also allows a complaint alleging one or more of these offenses to be filed beyond this time limitation in certain specified instances if the crimes involve substantial sexual conduct and there is independent corroborating evidence of the allegations. This bill would allow the prosecution of the felony sex offenses specified above to be commenced at any time if the crime is alleged to have been committed when the victim was under the age of 14.
Existing law, the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Act, establishes the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards, the Cal Grant C Awards, and the Cal Grant T Awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions. With respect to the Cal Grant A Entitlement Awards, the act requires that they be used only for tuition or student fees, or both, in a for-credit instructional program with a length of not less than 2 academic years. This bill would authorize a student whose tuition or fees, or both, are paid in full by a grant-in-aid, including, but not limited to, veterans' educational benefits received pursuant to the federal Post 9/11 Veterans Education Assistance Act of 2008 or the Montgomery GI Bill to use a Cal Grant A Entitlement Award for access costs, as defined to mean living expenses and expenses for transportation, supplies, and books, not to exceed that student's financial need or the amount to which access costs awarded under the Cal Grant B Program are limited, whichever is less.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to establish programs for gifted and talented pupils and requires an applicant school district to submit an application for approval for a proposed program to the State Board of Education. The state board is required to review the criteria for program approval at least once every 4 years. The review is required to address, among other program elements, the identification of gifted and talented pupils. This bill would require the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to review its criteria for the approval of teacher and administrator preparation programs to include training on the identification and appropriate instruction of gifted and talented pupils. The bill would require the State Department of Education to ensure that each staff person providing or receiving services through the pupil retention block grant program, the professional development block grant, the beginning teacher support and assessment system, the administrator training program, the high priority schools grant program, and the mathematics and reading professional development program be provided training to allow and encourage the identification of gifted and talented pupils from traditionally underrepresented populations.
The Real Estate Law provides for the licensing and regulation of real estate salespersons and real estate brokers by the Real Estate Commissioner, and authorizes the commissioner to deny, revoke, or suspend a license for specified reasons. Existing law requires persons convicted of certain sex offenses to register as sex offenders, as specified. A violation of various provisions of the Real Estate Law is a crime. This bill would, with regard to an individual who is required to register as a sex offender, require the commissioner to deny an application for licensure, renewal, or reinstatement of, or to revoke, a license under the Real Estate Law, with specified exceptions. The bill would require an individual who is convicted of an offense that requires registration as a sex offender to notify the commissioner within 5 days of the imposition of sentence, with specified exceptions. The bill would allow an individual, under specified circumstances, to petition the superior court to hold a hearing in order for the court to determine whether the individual no longer poses a possible risk to the public, and would provide for the court to order the commissioner to restore the individual's license if it so finds. Because a failure to comply with this requirement would be a crime, the bill would thereby 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.
(1) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to adopt a local plan individually, in conjunction with one or more school districts, or by joining with the county office of education. Existing law requires that a local plan adopted by a school district in conjunction with one or more school districts include joint powers agreements or other contractual agreements that, among other things, provide for a governance structure and any necessary administrative support to implement the plan. This bill would require that the governance structure for such an arrangement include one member of the governing board of each participating local educational agency selected by a majority vote of each respective governing board. The bill would authorize the governance structure to include a county superintendent of schools to serve in lieu of a governing board member for a county office of education included in the plan. By requiring school districts and county offices of education to perform additional duties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Existing law specifies certain documents as allowable forms of identification for a credible witness, who, by oath or affirmation, attests to the identity of an individual executing a written instrument in the presence of, and acknowledged by, a notary public. This bill would add a Matricula Consular, issued through a consulate office of the Mexican Government, as an allowable form of identification for a credible witness to prove the identity of an individual who executes a written instrument.
Under existing law, the Barbering and Cosmetology Act, the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology licenses and regulates persons engaged in the practice of barbering and cosmetology. Existing law also requires an establishment in which barbering and cosmetology is practiced to be licensed by the board. This bill would authorize applicants for a license issued by the board, and board licensees to report gender, language preference, and ethnicity information, as specified, in initial applications for licensure and in license renewal forms. The bill would also authorize applicants for an establishment license and establishment licensees to report this same information in the same manner. The bill would further require the board to compile this information quarterly and, subject to specified limitations, to post it on the board's Internet Web site. The bill would require the initial application and license renewal forms to state, among other things, that reporting this information is voluntary and no adverse action shall be taken against an applicant or licensee that does not report this information. The bill would declare the intent of the Legislature in this regard.