Existing law requires that regulations adopted by the Department of Housing and Community Development governing conditions relating to the prevention of fire or for the protection of life and property against fire in parks be applicable in all parks, except in a park within a city, county, or city and county that is an enforcement agency, as defined, and has adopted and is enforcing a fire prevention code imposing restrictions equal to, or greater than, the restrictions imposed by building standards published in the California Building Standards Code and the other state regulations adopted by the department. Existing law authorizes, notwithstanding these provisions, a city, county, city and county, or special district to enforce its fire prevention code in mobilehome parks relating to specified fire prevention code subject areas. This bill would also exempt from department regulations a park within a special district or other entity that has been delegated fire code enforcement by the city, county, or city and county that is the enforcement agency, and the special district or entity is enforcing a fire prevention code in accordance with the Mobilehome Parks Act. The bill would make specified additions to the subject areas in which a city, county, city and county, or special district that is not the enforcement agency may enforce its fire prevention code in mobilehome parks.
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Existing law requires a person in a trade or business who negotiates specified contracts or agreements primarily in the languages of Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, or Korean to deliver to the other party, prior to execution of the contract or agreement, a translation of the contract or agreement in the applicable foreign language, except as specified. Under existing law, failure to comply with these provisions entitles the aggrieved party to rescind the contract or agreement. Under existing law, these provisions apply to specified loans or extensions of credit subject to the Industrial Loan Law and the California Finance Lenders Law. This bill would, in the alternative, require a supervised financial organization, as defined, that negotiates primarily in one of those languages in the course of entering into a contract or agreement for a loan or extension of credit secured by residential real property, to deliver, prior to the execution of the contract or agreement, and no later than 3 business days after receiving the written application, a specified form in that language summarizing the terms of the contract or agreement, as specified. The bill would provide that a supervised financial organization that complies with these provisions would be deemed to be in compliance with the translation requirement in existing law described above. The bill would also provide that a supervised financial organization that complies with the translation requirement in existing law would be in compliance with these provisions. The bill would provide for administrative penalties against specified licensed persons for violations of these provisions. The bill would require the Department of Corporations and the Department of Financial Institutions to create a new form for these purposes, as provided, and to make it available in each of the languages described above. The bill would authorize an action against a supervised financial organization for a violation of these provisions to be brought only by a licensing agency or by the Attorney General. These provisions would become operative beginning on July 1, 2010, or 90 days after issuance of a form as provided, whichever occurs later. The provisions of this bill would not affect the obligations of a real estate broker, as specified.
Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim various days as holidays and days of remembrance. Existing law also designates certain days in each year as having special significance for purposes of encouraging schools to observe those days and conduct suitable commemorative exercises. This bill would require the Governor to annually proclaim March 30 of each year as "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day." The bill would additionally encourage schools to conduct exercises on March 30 of each year to recognize the contributions of those involved in the Vietnam conflict.
This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to act to establish a federally controlled Alzheimer's Silver Alert program to locate missing persons with dementia and establish a federal grant program to aid states in establishing local Silver Alert programs.
Existing law provides for the licensure or registration and regulation of marriage and family therapists and interns by the Board of Behavioral Sciences and requires that applicants for licensure or registration, among other requirements, possess a doctor's or master's degree from a specified school, college, or university, containing no less than 48 semester or 72 quarter units of instruction in specified areas. Existing law requires that the doctor's or master's degree program contain no less than 6 semester or 9 quarter units of supervised practicum, as specified, and requires that the practicum include a minimum of 150 hours of face-to-face experience counseling individuals, couples, families, or groups. Existing law also requires the degree program to satisfy certain criteria in order to meet the educational qualifications for licensure. This bill would limit the application of these requirements to applicants for licensure or registration who begin graduate study before August 1, 2012, and would impose additional requirements on applicants who do not complete that study on or before December 31, 2018, on applicants who graduate from a degree program that meets those requirements, and on those who begin graduate study on or after August 1, 2012. The bill would require that these applicants, among other things, possess a doctor's or master's degree containing no less than 60 semester or 90 quarter units of instruction in certain areas, including, but not limited to, co-occurring disorders, multicultural development and cross-cultural interaction, and the effects of socioeconomic status on treatment and available resources, as specified. The bill would require that these units include 6 semester or 9 quarter units of practicum that provides training in specified areas and includes a minimum of 225 hours of face-to-face experience counseling individuals, couples, families, or groups. The bill would additionally, with respect to these applicants, revise the requirements needed for the degree program to meet the educational qualifications for licensure, as specified. The bill would make other conforming changes and enact related provisions. Existing law requires that applicants for licensure have at least 2 years of experience that complies with certain requirements. This experience may consist of, among other things, no more than 1,000 hours of experience in direct supervisor contact and professional enrichment activities, no more than 125 hours of experience providing personal psychotherapy services via telemedicine, and no more than 250 hours of experience providing counseling or crisis counseling on the telephone. This bill would instead limit the applicant to no more than 1,250 hours of experience in direct supervisor contact, client centered advocacy, and professional enrichment activities, as specified, and no more than 375 hours of experience providing personal psychotherapy, crisis counseling, or other counseling services via telemedicine. The bill would also delete the limit on the number of hours of experience in providing counseling or crisis counseling on the telephone and would make other related changes. Existing law requires that all applicants, trainees, and registrants be at all times under the supervision of a supervisor and requires that supervision include at least one hour of direct supervisor contact, as defined, in each week for which experience is credited in each work setting. Existing law requires that supervised experience be gained by interns either as an employee or as a volunteer. This bill would revise the definition of one hour of direct supervisor contact and require that this one hour be conducted within the same week as the hours claimed. The bill would require that group supervision be provided in segments lasting no less than one continuous hour and would authorize an intern working in a governmental entity or a nonprofit and charitable institution, among others, to obtain the required weekly direct supervisor contact via videoconferencing, as specified. The bill would also require that, upon application for licensure, employed interns provide the board with copies of the corresponding W-2 tax forms and that volunteering interns provide the board with a letter verifying that volunteer work, as specified. The bill would make other related changes. Existing law authorizes the board to issue a license to a person who has held for at least 2 years a valid license issued by a board of marriage counselor examiners, or corresponding authority of any state, if, among other requirements, the education and supervised experience requirements are substantially equivalent. Existing law requires the board to accept experience gained outside of California toward the licensure requirements if it is substantially equivalent and the applicant has gained a specified number of hours of supervised experience in direct counseling within California while registered with the board as an intern. Existing law also requires the board to accept education gained outside of California toward the licensure requirements if it is substantially equivalent, as specified, and the applicant completes certain coursework or training. If an applicant's education does not contain the content or units required to obtain a license, existing law authorizes the board to accept the applicant's education as substantially equivalent if, among other requirements, the applicant remediates the deficiency by completing the course content or units required to obtain a license. This bill would instead specify that the applicant remediate the deficiency by completing the content and units required to obtain a license. The bill would also repeal the provisions relating to licenses, experience, and education gained outside California on January 1, 2014, and would revise the requirements applicable to persons applying for a license after that date. Among other things, the bill would revise the requirements needed for a person's education to be substantially equivalent, as specified. Existing law prohibits a person from advertising himself or herself as performing the services of a marriage, family, child, domestic, or marital consultant without a marriage and family therapist license and prohibits licensed psychologists and licensed clinical social workers from advertising that they hold a marriage and family therapist's license. Existing law defines the term "advertise" for purposes of that provision to include, among other things, business solicitations communicated by radio or television broadcasting. This bill would revise the definition of the term "advertise" to include the dissemination of a communication by means of mail, television, radio, motion picture, newspaper, book, list or directory of healing arts practitioners, Internet, or other electronic communication.
Existing law requires the flag of the National League of POW/MIA Families to be flown over specified state buildings where the United States Flag and the California State Flag currently fly on certain dates during business hours, to the extent structurally feasible. This bill would instead require the flag to be flown during business hours at all state-owned buildings and facilities where the United States Flag and the California State Flag fly, as specified.
Existing law allows taxpayers, until January 1, 2010, to contribute amounts in excess of their personal income tax liability for the support of the California Fund for Senior Citizens. Existing law repeals the contribution provisions for this fund either on the September 1 following the calendar year for which the Franchise Tax Board estimates that the minimum contribution amount will be less than a prescribed amount or on January 1, 2010, whichever occurs first. This bill would, under this latter limit, extend the operation of those contribution provisions until January 1, 2015.
The California Constitution prohibits the Legislature from authorizing lotteries, but allows the Legislature to authorize private, nonprofit, eligible organizations to conduct raffles, as specified. Existing statutory law generally regulates raffles conducted by eligible organizations for beneficial or charitable purposes. Existing law prohibits a raffle from being advertised over the Internet. This bill would delete the prohibition on advertising a raffle over the Internet and would set forth specified information regarding a raffle that may be included on an Internet Web site.
This measure would urge the United States government to urge the Mexican government to extend the deadline for Mexican laborers, known as braceros, who worked in the United States beginning in 1942 as part of a labor importation program initiated by the United States to alleviate a labor shortage during World War II, to submit a claim to recover unpaid wages from a specified settlement fund. It would also urge the United States government to urge the Mexican government to accept a variety of documents as proof of a valid claim.
This measure would designate the month of May of each year to be Crohn's and Colitis Awareness Month.